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Tuesday, August 5, 2003
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Where "Think Different" Is Taking Apple: "Rather than accept being a niche PC maker, Steve Jobs is transforming his baby into a high-end consumer-electronics and services company. By Jane Black" (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Purchased EvoCam to be used with iSight -- Comment()
I purchased a copy of Evocam to use with the iSight camera. Works perfectly. I tested the internal web server of EvoCam, and the video capture did indeed stream, even to a Windows machine running Internet Explorer. I had to switch EvoCam to the port 8081, however, because Radio Userland was using 8080. And I had to allow connections to port 8081 throught the build-in firewall of Mac OS X. (I disabled the web server after testing.) There are a lot of interesting possibilites in EvoCam, motion sensors etc., have to test these a bit more. But now I can have a look at my office even when I'm not there.
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Head over to the Scientist: 'A more immediate question for many life scientists is whether they need to hire a bioinformatician. Unless a lab is heavily invested in problems that require intensive use of bioinformatics, the database builders say the answer is, probably not yet. For now, Birney suggests looking for "a geeky graduate student who is up to the job," or three or four labs can get together to share a scientist who has bioinformatics expertise. That person will need to learn Perl, Java, or Python (programming languages that are easier to use than C++) when setting up a lab database or linking lab data to a large database for internal use.' [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog]
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Linux copyright row escalates: "The biggest distributor of the open source computer system is suing a company trying to claim ownership over part of Linux." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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RIAA More Powerful Than Police: "Here's why the record industry is now more powerful than police. [...] police must show probable cause that a crime has been committed before they can get a judge's permission to search your home for evidence, or subpoena you to appear in court. But under the federal Digital Millenium Copyright Act, all the RIAA has to do is file paperwork with a court clerk to get a subpoena [...]" [On Lisa Rein's Radar]
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