Why is low income housing called the projects? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:01:19 AM)
Did it start out as a project way back when?They were built in huge government construction
projects, lots of units all at once. The "war on poverty" in the 1960's launched
all that. Somehow, the government believed that you could give a ...
(more)A Year of GPLv3 (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 11:55:16 PM)
Javipas writes "GPLv3 and LGPLv3 were released one year ago, on 29 June 2007. Palamida, who
tracks Open Source projects, has made a study of the current seat of these licenses along with
AGPLv3, which was released later, in November. The number of projects ...
(more)Orbitz Open Sources Tools To Manage Large Distributed Applications (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Mjasay writes "CNET is reporting that on Monday Orbitz will annunciate the institution and
release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite,
both 'part of a Complex Event Processing system designed to monitor ...
(more)US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Dekortage writes "The US Bureau of Land Management, overwhelmed by applications for large-scale
solar energy plants, has declared a two-year freeze on applications for new projects until it
completes an extensive environmental policy impact study. The ...
(more)DIY Solar Resources? (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 11:09:54 AM)
TihSon writes "I'm domicile a large shed out back and I want to power the lighting using a
surplus solar panel. In studious for erudition on how to go about this, I have found a lot of
rough DIY guides for various projects that are ...
(more)Microsoft Acknowledges Open Source As a Bigger Threat Than Google (Friday 30th of May 2008 02:56:00 PM)
Ruphus13 takes us to ZDNet for an neurosis of notification by Microsoft's Chief systems program
Architect, Ray Ozzie, about how open source is "much more potentially disruptive" to
Microsoft's line brainchild* than Google. Ozzie also spoke about the future ...
(more)Funding For Development Of OSU Technologies (Saturday 17th of May 2008 04:00:00 PM)
OSU's scientific knowledge calling appraisal Group will fund four faculty fishing expedition*
projects for spring 2008. The group identified these one-year projects from a number of
excellent proposals submitted in retroaction to a solicitation earlier ...
(more)Hobbyist Renewable Energy? (Saturday 03rd of May 2008 07:15:05 AM)
Vossman77 writes "I was looking into renewable energy from a hobbyist perspective, maybe
generating a few watts of solar or wind power, just to reduce my electric bill. But upon
further review, I found out that I need a special grid tie AC inverter that ...
(more)Hackontest — 24h Open Source Coding Marathon (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:55:12 PM)
Maemst writes "Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour
computer-aided testing languages competition between different open source projects. Its goals
are to enhance Free system os projects indisputable to user needs ...
(more)Paintings of Italian Artist - Lucio Salvatore (Thursday 10th of April 2008 12:00:00 AM)
LANGUAGEThis series of pictures is a meditation on the origins of Thought and its fundamental
words whose interpretations, that havechanged through the different Epochs, have and will
always determine the destiny of every civilization. ...
(more)Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies (Thursday 27th of March 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has hit out at enterprises, bemoaning
that billions of dollars are wasted each year because 95% of companies won't share code.
speechification at the Open Source Business rap in San Francisco, he ...
(more)Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 03:45:08 AM)
Linux.com's Bruce Byfield is narration that Salasaga, the renamed Flame Project, is attempting
to fill the functionality gap of Flash creation for Linux in addition to being a cross-platform
tool. While it still lacks the spit-shine of more mature apps, ...
(more)Government Of Canada Announces New Progress In Reducing Wait Times In Nova Scotia (Monday 11th of February 2008 11:00:00 AM)
The Honourable Tony Clement, prelate of Health and the Honourable Chris D'Entremont, Nova
Scotia clerical of Health today be reported further progress on Patient Wait Times Guarantees
with an piece of up to $8 million for two pilot projects in Nova Scotia. ...
(more)DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects (Tuesday 22nd of January 2008 12:45:04 AM)
Weather Storm writes "DOE's new and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and analysis (INCITE)
program supports computationally intensive, large-scale inquiry projects at a deciding level.
They newly awarded 265 million processor-hours to 55 scientific ...
(more)Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track (Friday 04th of January 2008 04:00:05 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA's new Space Science Division Director, Dr. S. Alan Stern, appears to
be making headway in keeping in space projects like the Kepler Mission at their original
budgeted costs. The New York Times reports that Stern's plan is to ...
(more)Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK (Thursday 08th of November 2007 08:00:05 PM)
Angryphase writes "The British Phonographic practice (the UK's RIAA) has noticed a significant
increase in the amount of encrypted torrents — from 4% of torrent traffic a year ago to
40% today. Whether it follows a trend for hiding suspicious activities ...
(more)Where Does Linux Go From Here? (Tuesday 23rd of October 2007 01:30:10 AM)
With the success that Linux is currently enjoying Linux.com (also owned by SourceForge, Inc)
asks the question, where do we go from here? With such a high level of success and greater
corporate participation (on both the consumer and provider fronts) ...
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