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The BS LUG support project is now underway. (BS = Bahamas)

http://people.lulu.com/blogs/view.php?user_id=101604

http://www.lulu.com/zotz/

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145/view

Other LUG members are interested and there will be a short talk on this at thhe next BS LUG meeting this Saturday.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

drew

Damian and I discussed a way for the bslug ( http://bslug.org ) to earn a little money for lug projects.

In this regard, I need to get moving and start work on ccprocess again. (ccprocess is a little script for preparing images for posting to certain web sites. It changes their sizes, rotates if necessary, and adds copyright or other text to the image metadata.)

I will put a tarball up somewhere and post a link when I get it to a slightly more useful state.

I will post the idea for raising lug money when we roll out in case other lugs or individuals wish to give it a shot.

drew

From here:

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158310&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=160&mode=thread&pid=13263793#13263978

I went here:

http://www.groklaw.net/index.php

and then here:

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=381

Surfing the glass.

I don't think I have an ofb account and I don't feel like signing up for yet another account. I guess I will put this here.

I too am behind the GPL. Recent calls for its end are misguided in my humble opinion. That said, I think there is a different problem with the QT dual license than the one Eric addresses.

The problem I see (it may in fact be solved and I am just ignorant of the solution implemented) is that Q cannot take outside contributions without a problem or implementing a fix. So far, I only see one fix and am unaware of it being implemented.

The problem is that in order to accept outside fixes, the outside party must give them something of value for no charge, or they must pay the outside party or give the outside party an interest. This could lead to less contributions from outside parties and slow progress.

Of course, this issue arises wherever the project requires copyrights be assigned regardless of a dual license or only GPL license. It may just be more obvious or offensive to the third parties in the case of a dual license.

If this is unclear, I will try and refine at a later time.

drew

Well, I have been playing with radio stuff again.

I have rivendell working. With jack. Playing with darkice and ices(2) and streaming to peercast or to icecast and letting peercast rebroadcast that.

Trying to solve the metadata issue. I can get metadata updates if I go to icecast->peercast, but then the player (xmms) closes on each metadata update - ouch.

If I go straight to peercast, I get no metadata for the stream at all.

Too many late nights recently. Shutting down now.

http://wiki.tryphon.org/rivendell/index.php/Main_Page#Welcome_to_the_RivenDell_Wiki

drew

In keeping with my last entry...

Can we find a way to have a similar outcome even under existing laws.

I think the default should perhaps be something like CC BY-SA without the BY. Only for unmarked works mind you.

Had a discussion with someone over on /. as seen here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139237&cid=11655292

Not sure it went anywhere though.

Just had a thought this morning that I want to remember.

I was reading a post somewhere talking of the previous opt-in copyright system (in the US?) versus the current opt-out system and how we need to go back to the opt-in system.

Off the top, I agreed with the sentiments. I mean, if you can't be bothered to put a copyright notice on your work, shouldn't it be public domain?

But, my brain can take some odd twists sometimes. While driving to the supermarket to get some milk (the shelves were bare) I had anotehr idea. What if we keep the present opt-out system with a key modification...

Unless otherwise stated, all works are automatically copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Could be GPL for programs.

How would that change things? Would it be better for the average Joe? Or worse?

I need to think some more on this matter. If it would make things better, how can we move in that direction?

Well,

just finished winning nanowrimo 2004.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/index.php

http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=47354

While doing it, I had the idea of making a specila distro for writing with next year (live cd and hd install)

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=18740&forum=157

The idea seemed to be well received. I have submitted a project request to sourceforge which is in processing now, initially rejected.

Initial boards here:

http://mathiasdm.proboards29.com/ http://www.linuxwriters.tk/

Hopefully to be replaced by boards at sorceforge if approved.

Why do I dream these dreams.

Playing with Asterisk lately. Good progress today. Hooked up to pstn, received calls.

Other * box doing lots more. Need to move configs over to new box.

Hardware research continues...

Not doing enough programming lately.

Just want to put this idea (wish list item) down in case someone with the ability to do something about it happens by.

I would like for my laptop to have inputs to allow it to function as display, mouse, and keyboard to a desktop pc. It could have a button which acts as a kvm switch and switches from the laptop to the external pc.

I want to be able to tote a small form factor server around without needing to carry display, keyboard, and mouse.

I know I could do some sort of remote display (X, vnc, etc.,) but that will not be the best in all situations.

Slightly less cool would be a laptop form factor display, keyboard and mouse to hook up to a desktop.

all the best,

drew

Been working on ways to tie UBS (Unattended Broadcast System) together with peercast via ices, darkice, MuSE, or the like.

Good progress. I want to run more than one radio station from a single box. Experiments continue.

Hope to release code soon. If anyone wants what I have before then, let me know.

Right now, the UBS play command is a custom script which copies existing ogg files over generic named files in a static playlist. This is working and the metadata is showing up when ices streams to peercast.

Other ideas like piping - eg:

ogg123 -d au -f - nevastop.ogg | sox -t au - -t raw - | ices2 ices-stdin.xml

For this to work how I want, I will have to figure some way to put metadata in a file and signal ices.

Links:

UBS http://aboleo.net/software/ubs/

Peercast: http://www.peercast.org/

Icecast/Ices: http://www.icecast.org/download.html

Darkice: http://darkice.sourceforge.net/

MuSE: http://muse.dyne.org/

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