1. 24 January 2006

    1648 days ago

    Richard Stallman | Freedom Fighter

    Profile on FSF crusader, RMS.

    Says Perens, “He’s entirely consistent and uncompromising, and I think the world needs someone like that.”

    Kjell Olsen1648 days ago

  2. 06 December 2005

    1697 days ago

    Intellectual Prosperity

    The consequence of treating ideas and thoughts as if they are tangible property are the very destruction of science and education and the elimination of individual rights and freedoms.

    Kjell Olsen1697 days ago

  3. 18 November 2005

    1715 days ago

    WELCOME

    If you are a young person who insists on reading every bit of text you are faced with until its dire conclusion, you should know that I was very tempted to taper this WELCOME off into an endless stream of random text. But I know that’s what exactly what you want. And what I want. And we can’t have two more plump and satisfied people scrolling in the world. _why

    via Kjell Olsen1715 days ago

  4. 07 September 2005

    1788 days ago

    Reduce the risk, hire from open source (Loud Thinking)

    Who cared about his GPA (or if he even went to college)? Or that he lived in Provo, Utah? Or how many years of experience he had programming? We didn’t. It’s simply unnecessary to rely on secondary factors when the work is available to extract values for the five variables listed above.

    via Kjell Olsen1788 days ago

  5. 08 August 2005

    1817 days ago

    What Business Can Learn from Open Source

    It’s not that Microsoft isn’t trying. They know controlling the browser is one of the keys to retaining their monopoly. The problem is the same they face in operating systems: they can’t pay people enough to build something better than a group of inspired hackers will build for free.

    That is one of the key tenets of professionalism. Work and life are supposed to be separate. But that part, I’m convinced, is a mistake.

    via Kjell Olsen1817 days ago

  6. 19 July 2005

    Agile Web Development With Rails

    Dave Thomas, et al.

    1837 days ago

    I’m a little late catching the bandwagon, but I didn’t buy the (beta)book for a few weeks after it’s release. This is a spectacularly detailed book on the rails framework, capturing the simplicity of setting up a rails application in it’s tutorial followed by quite a dense summary of the different aspects of rails quite in depth.

  7. 23 June 2005

    1863 days ago

    Mike Clark's Weblog

    Rails kicks butt.

    In much the same way that the web took off because of “View Source”, Rails is taking off because it lowers the barrier to entry and holds nothing back.

    Having learned html and css by viewing the source, I can say that rails works much the same. I love open source, and it makes doing things for a kid with little programming experience like myself a piece of cake.

    via Kjell Olsen1863 days ago

  8. 13 May 2005

    1904 days ago

    Plutohome.com

    A real sweet looking framework to automate and monitor your house, really incredible looking. Mostly a wrapper for OSS projects (AsteriskPBX for telephony, Xine for media viewing etc), it ties everything together and even lets you control everything from your bluetooth symbian mobile device (!!). The software is open source, and they also sell hardware thats plug-n-play.

    In many cases, a Pluto DCE device is just a thin wrapper for another open source project. The wrapper’s job is to launch the open source project with the right parameters, forward incoming commands to it, and fire DCE events in response to triggers within it. We added DCE wrappers for the projects Asterisk (pbx telephone switch), Xine (media player), Linphone (SIP software telephone) and Motion (surveillance video capture). In most cases, no modifications to the open source project were needed since the project already contained a mechanism for feeding it commands. cite

    Wonder what kind of overhead it takes? POS out of the basement, or does it need top of the line… This just makes me drool:

    By allowing these various projects to work together seamlessly, many new features and benefits are now possible. For example, if there’s a security breach in your house, the lights and TV’s in the house come on automatically using our home automation DCE device interfaces, and the security pn pad appears on all the Windows webpads and PDA’s. After 30 seconds a menacing video plays for the burglar using Xine, while the surveillance cameras monitored by Motion feed a live video to your mobile phone over GPRS. Hit ‘Talk’ on the phone and Xine suspends, passing control to Linphone which makes a call using Asterisk to your mobile phone with the audio piped through the stereo so you can shout at the intruder and let him know you’re watching him from a remote location and calling. To the end-user, it works seamlessly, like 1 cohesive whole, but in reality, what Pluto did is enable a bunch of existing applications to work together. cite

    Pluto specifically decided to sacrifice revenues from software sales, focusing its sales efforts exclusively on embedded solutions, so that it could work more closely with the open source community and develop a general-purpose platform that makes it very easy for programmers to build upon. cite

    Check out all these sweet looking modules, and the documentation home.

    via Kjell Olsen1904 days ago

  9. 1904 days ago

    MisterHouse

    A nice looking X10 interface in perl, which kind of sucks, but it’s cooler then a GUI based client.

    via Kjell Olsen1904 days ago

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