Tuesday, August 03, 2004

HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook [Slashdot:] 9:33:58 PM      Google It!.

Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released [Slashdot:] for linux systems 9:28:47 AM      Google It!.

The Gorge of Eternal Peril. It's rare for any speaker to draw a standing ovation from the OSCON audience, but that's what David Rumsey did last week. And Rumsey isn't one of the heroes of open source software. He's a philanthropist who collects historical maps, scans them at high resolution, and publishes them on the Internet as open content that anyone can access and repurpose. His motive is partly to connect many people to content that few would be able to view in a museum: I thought about donating it to a university, but their libraries focus on preservation, they'd have put my collection in a vault and there would have been no access. Along comes the Internet, and I found we could do even more with the digital content than with the originals. We serve over 7000 visitors a day. A typical map library will serve 200 visitors a year. But expanding access, while lovingly preserving the feel of the artifacts he has collected, is only the tip of the iceberg. Although you can view these images in the expected ways -- zooming in and out, panning around -- Rumsey wants us to do more. He hopes we'll use the online maps to tell one another stories about history, geography, culture, and the environment. To that end, he's commissioned the development of a family of clients. For starters, there's a browser-based interface that you can use to view, pan, and read about the maps. Then, using an installable Java client, you can add annotations to the maps, crosslink points on different maps, and link from points on maps out to the web. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:42:38 AM      Google It!.

One man and his dog and his laptop. Review Voice recognition in the field [The Register] I will try this with the compaq tablet and see how it works locally.  I have been intending for some time to find a way to work and be active at the same time because the sedentary work is eroding my health.  -- BL 8:41:37 AM      Google It!.

Computers help grade essays - Jay Mathews, NBC. Nadeem Sarwar remembered all the lessons on good writing drummed into him by his ninth-grade teacher at the Newport School in Montgomery County. So last summer when he took the GMAT, the standard entrance exam for business graduate schools, he was care [Online Learning Update] 8:34:46 AM      Google It!.

Wi-Fi 'sniper rifle' debuts at DEFCON. Putting the war back into war driving [The Register] p2p at 16 miles with spotter scope. 8:32:01 AM      Google It!.