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Opinion time: ads (Update)
After reading about
the guy who buys Google stock with money from Google ads (sorry,
I can't find the link right now), I wondered if I can do a similar
trick and buy all of Wasabi^WNetBSD. ;-)
The problem is getting the necessary cash to do that, and that's
where I've started wondering if adding ads to
my NetBSD blog,
the
short
articles
as well as
the g4u homepage
would bring in enough revenue to do the stunt.
Before forcing this down my users' (your!) throat,
I'd like to hear some feedback from you -- ads on my NetBSD blog and g4u
homepage, good or bad? Tell me!
If I don't get a total uproar I'll probably give it a few months trial period
to evaluate this. If someone feels like sharing their lottery win instead,
or just putting their money where their VERY big mouth is ,
I'll be happy to take donations - let me know!
Update:
Stefan got me a link to the
Google Will Eat Itself project.
[Tags: g4u, hubertf]
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Event: MS Wissenschaft 2006 - Sport und Informatik, Regensburg
[Maybe only of interest to people near Regensburg, Germany, but still
on-topic as I'll present the NetBSD cluster I did some time ago.
Sorry for German language here :-]
``Auch im Informatikjahr 2006 ist das Erlebnisschiff von Wissenschaft im
Dialog wieder auf Tour und legt in zahlreichen Städten entlang der deutschen
Wasserstraßen an. Die Ausstellung an Bord des 105 Meter langen Binnenschiffs
zeigt von Mai bis September, wie Informatik den Sport und seine Geräte
verändert.''
Das Erlebnisschiff wird kommenden Samstag und Sonntag in Regensburg
gastieren und Ausstellungen und Vortraege zu relevanten Themen bieten. Mit
dabei sind fuer den Fachbereich Informatik der Fachhochschule Regensburg
Ingo Frank und meine Wenigkeit, wir werden u.a. eine mit Kuenstlicher
Intelligenz gesteuerte Carrera-Rennbahn, Anwendungen zur Robotik sowie einen
Video-Rendering Cluster vorstellen, der vor ein paar Jahren zum Erstellen
der Zieleinlaufsvideos und -fotos beim Regensburger Stadtmarathon zum
Einsatz kam.
Vielleicht hat ja der/die eine oder andere am kommenden Wochenende noch
nichts vor und mag mal vorbeischau'n!
Wann: Samstag 16.9. und Sonntag 17.9.2006, jeweils 10 bis 19h
Wo: Donaulaende 9, naehe Villapark, Regensburg
Eintritt: Kostenlos
Mehr Infos gibt's unter
hier.
[Tags: Events, hubertf]
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BSDtalk: Interview with Jason Thorpe
Jason Thorpe has been a BSD hacker for quite some time,
and there's a nice
interview
(both mp3 and ogg) with him on
BSDtalk
that talk about his personal history WRT BSD,
work he did previously with lots of details on his
work on the Alpha port architecture,
the bus space and bus DMA framework and the hardware circus
he's using these days to do NetBSD development.
He continues talking about a native NetBSD port to the
Apple MacBooks and what alternatives are there,
his recent work on property lists (proplib) to decouple from
historic data structures, and
the future of the locking facilities inside the kernels for SMP support.
Other topics include the weight of 'old' platforms vs. 'new' ones
(and if one holds back development on the other),
the BSD license and its consequences esp. in commercial environments,
and his preferred working environment and programming language.
[Tags: bsdtalk, thorpej]
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