Sunday, March 14, 2004

HP Starts Pushing Desktop Linux [Slashdot] 11:12:01 PM      Google It!.

Now, a Robot That Toots Its Own Horn. Toyota has introduced a humanoid robot that walks, waves its arms and bows. It also plays the trumpet. By Todd Zaun. [New York Times: Technology] 9:01:01 PM      Google It!.

Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/ gadd/09gadd.html#Gadd-2003f This interesting paper details the efforts of the RoMEO project to land on, amongst other things, a digital rights schema to enable self-archiving of academic research papers in the U.K. What's interesting is that while they found that either the Creative Commons or ODRL could possibly fit their needs, the problem with the CC solution was that their metadata was expressed in RDF/XML and did not have an associated XML schema—a prerequisite for any metadata disclosed under the OAI-PMH. Their solution was to develop ODRL versions (XML instances) of the CC licences that would conform to the ODRL XML schema, examples of which can be found in the paper. A more detailed accounting of this process can also be found in the related paper, "Rights metadata for open archiving." - SWL [EdTechPost] 3:24:31 PM      Google It!.

First Groove 3.0 review. Stowe Boyd got his hands on a beta of Groove 3.0 and writes an extensive review. I was not really prepared to be surprised so positively by Groove 3.0, but I admit it, I was. The real breakthrough in this... [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] 3:22:59 PM      Google It!.

Instant Web Server. When I need to serve up a few files for friends or try out some CGIs, XML-RPC, etc. I generally just fire up the PythonCard webserver sample. However, I find the following single line at a command prompt to be quite appealing for an instant web server. python -c '__import__("SimpleHTTPServer").test()' It works on any OS where you have Python installed and since you can cd (change directory) to the dir you want to serve files from before running the command you don't have to mess with config files or moving files before serving them up. If you alias the command or make a batch file you won't have to remember the whole line. Here's an example run on my Mac. [solo:~/Documents] altis% python -c '__import__("SimpleHTTPServer").test()' Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... localhost - - [14/Mar/2004 09:27:09] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - localhost - - [14/Mar/2004 09:27:28] "GET /gingerbread.py HTTP/1.1" 200 - [via insom.me.uk] [Kevin Altis' Weblog] 3:07:24 PM      Google It!.