Crowd-Sourcing
Crowd Sourcing the Rally Fighter Car – The future of production
The implications of the crowd sourcing are very interesting. Case in point is the Rally Fighter car that was designed by the crowd sourcing method. Their version of crowd sourcing has some obvious flaws however look to this to see the seeds of a coming revolution.
Software
Motorola RAZR V3 Stopwatch Application
Relevant links Motorola software tools for RAZR phones Java Stopwatch for RAZR phone (and others) Motorola RAZR V3 – How to charge and transfer files to your PC! Motorola V3 – P2K Commander Version List, Complete with Download Locations!
Software
ConfigFree – Toshiba WIFI Configuration Utility
download ConfigFree How to hack it to run with any brand of computer How to hack Toshiba Satellite 2435-s255 laptop when installing miniPCI WIFI card
Software
Stay Away from Adobe PDF reader 9 download as it installs McAfee Security scan without asking
I needed to download a pdf reader for a work computer and when I did on a machine connected to the internet the adobe downloader installed McAfee security scan onto my computer. Not good. I detest any foisting of software upon my beloved mainbox computer. I will have to find Read more…
Computing
Floppy Disk Data recovery Software Tools
I needed to get some data and code off of a 5.25 inch floppy disk. Out of a list of datarecovery software tools I tried FlopShow PCInspector File Recovery – PCInspector File Recovery recovered the data I needed Disk Investigator – good tool and I will see if I need Read more…
Open-Source
MakerBot Video Talk 3D printer – an open source hardware project
Google TechTalk on the 3d printer that works with ABS plastic Presented by Adam Mayer. This talk is about MakerBot, a new low-cost, open-source CNC fabrication robot produced by MakerBot Industries. MakerBot is an evolution of the RepRap project. Adam Mayer, one of the three founders of MakerBot Industries, will Read more…
Drupal
Drupal Reconfigurability
This video does a good job of illustrating the flexibility of Drupal. Database is altered automatically to track how you add new fields.
Linux
How to get paid to write open source software
Val Henson describes her career in open source Linux system programmers are in short supply If you are vaguely competent and get some experience you become employed for life Not all Linux programmers are idealists. Now days it is a for profit motivation. her pay profile progressed very well. Read more…
Economics
Open Source Economics
You can not transmit to another person what you will intuit in a particular situation Social production is not a fad. It is here to stay. It is the long term effect of the internet new social relationships are emerging and this is where the opportunity is. stuff flows Read more…