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Developers spin City of Vancouverâs open data into maps and VanTrash
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| Developers are already putting the City of
| Vancouverâs new open-data catalogue to good
| use.
|
| [...]
|
| More local open-data projects are listed on the
| Vancouver Open Data Wiki. Thereâs no doubt
| these are just the tip of the iceberg, as more
| projects will sprout up as time goes by and as
| more data is released.
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http://www.straight.com/article-258582/developers-spin-city-vancouvers-open-data-maps-and-vantrash
DS brut Creators Release Their Open Source Nintendo DS Bluetooth Adapter
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| The addition of a touch screen has made the
| Nintendo DS a very popular console for the
| homebrew and âhackingâ community, and the
| creators of the DS brut have made things even
| easier for would be tinkerers with their DS
| Bluetooth Adapter.
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http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/10/20/ds-brut-creators-release-their-open-source-nintendo-ds-bluetooth-adapter/
Putting People Back into Economics
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| Perhaps because she is not an economist, Ostrom
| was able to see that free-market theories fail
| to explain many things of economic importance.
| Perhaps because she is a woman, she was more
| attentive to the relational aspects of economic
| activity â the ways in which people interact
| and negotiate with each other to forge rules
| and informal social understandings. The social,
| moral and political, she realized in the 1960s
| as a graduate student, may hold many important
| clues for how communities can govern themselves
| and manage collective resources. Itâs not all
| about economics (as traditionally construed).
|
| Most of Ostromâs work has focused on the
| governance of common-pool resources â resources
| that are ârivalrous,â as economists like to put
| it. They are finite and can be used up. The
| prevailing wisdom among economists is that
| shared resources â forests, fisheries,
| irrigation waters â will be usually be over-
| exploited and ruined.
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http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2540
Recent:
Nintendo DS Sized Linux PC?
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| Processor: Marvell PXA270 312MHz, 128 MB RAM, 2.8 inch QVGA, TFT, Linux
| 2.4.19, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi 802.11 b/g, QWERTY/AZERTY + numeric keyboard,
| storage is Micro SD (up to 8GB), Dimensions are 95 mm (L) x 65 mm (W) x 15.5
| mm (H) weight is 113 g (with battery).
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http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzU2ODQsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
Related:
New Pint-Sized PC Packs a Punch
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| Although the company is playing close to the chest with its technical
| specifications, I was able to find out that the Xpack operating system is
| Linux-based and built around a fast processor with plenty of RAM and even
| some local flash storage.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3214.html
The hidden world of Linux
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| There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a
| new lease of life. The best is desktop computing with various Linux
| distribution flavours like Mint, PCLinux, Ubuntu and countless others. In
| fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is
| infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old. It is possible,
| of course, to select components based on the degree (and maturity) of the
| specific support under Linux but this has two major drawbacks.
|
| [...]
|
| Not only do such projects look to modify embedded Linux devices, but some
| great projects have sprung up to utilise old PCs every household seems to
| accumulate in order to fulfil a number of key uses. For example,
| comprehensive firewall distributions like IPCop or Smoothwall or NAS
| distributions like FreeNAS (although this is based on BSD.) These are not
| dirty hacked operating systems either but very mature, streamlined, low
| memory footprint distributions which run headlessly. Being totally
| administered through a web browser makes these distributions feel extremely
| professional and polished (even if the archaic hardware they are running on
| doesnât) this being coupled by the extraordinary amount of options present
| really makes these projects an extraordinary example of the flexibility of
| Linux/BSD.
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http://whyamistilltyping.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-hidden-world-of-linux/
Linux everywhere
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| Take yesterday as a case in point. I checked the order status of my Elonex
| One, and sent an email to see if my order for the One can be upgraded to the
| One+ (bluetooth, and bigger internal memory). I then caught the train to the
| Queen Elizabeth hospital, watching the in-train tv which is powered by some
| Linux flavour (given the error message I saw a few weeks back). Visiting my
| friend Simon at the QE, heâs spotted that the tv/phone/internet screens that
| each patient has are powered by Linux. This is of course when heâs not
| tapping away on his Asus EEE, and hopefully writing the next Da Vinci Code
| (only better).
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http://andyhollyhead.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/linux-everywhere/
Linux is truly everywhere
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| I spent a long time smiling about the Linux bootup screen that I had just
| seen. To begin with, it reminded me that Linux, and other open-source
| products, are now everywhere. Linux is no longer for the uber-geeks. It's not
| just for system administrators and programmers, either. Linux is now at the
| core of mainstream appliances, there even when you don't think that a
| computer or operating system might be involved.
|
| [...]
|
| Finally, Moore's Law and the general trend toward cheaper and faster hardware
| means that Linux now fits into even more places than it did before. We
| normally think of Linux as an operating system for servers, or even for
| desktop computers. But we can expect Linux to be at the heart of a growing
| number of appliances, from video-on-demand devices to digital video recorders
| (e.g., TiVo), to cellphones (e.g., Android and OpenMoko). The Linux-powered
| refrigerator, with a built-in bar-code scanner that can tell you how long ago
| you bought milk, isn't far behind.
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http://ostatic.com/158401-blog/linux-is-truly-everywhere
What CANâT Linux do?
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| 1. The story mentioned above. A man installs Linux on sixteen Playstation 3s
| (with zero hardware modifications), clusters them together, and creates a
| system to simulate black holes.
| 2. Installing Linux on a Mac. I was just reading the most recent Wired
| magazine that has a good story on how Apple has created a very closed system
| where only Apple software plays on Apple hardware. Hello Yellow Dog Linux! I
| have run Linux on an iBook - it was sweet.
| 3. Routers. We all know that Linux works well on routers. OpenWRT installs
| well on many Linksys routers.
|
| [...]
|
| 11. Airplane black boxes. Montavista uses a Carrier Grade Linux to power
| in-flight recorders.
| 12. Brain surgery. Yep. This Linux-powered robot helps in brain surgery.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=186
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