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Odd, annoying 2008 interview with Nobel-ite Robert Laughlin; no mention of open source - Linux just advertising? http://tinyurl.

mshook — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:04:00 -0500

Worthwhile comments:

... I have decided to just post my nuggets that I have taken away from Robert B. Laughlin's The Crime of Reason.
...
Most entertainment is the celebration of disposable knowledge. In fact, when we are relaxing we avoid useful information. This is why some people do not like my Facebook posts and Twitter updates. They are on these technologies to relax and I am confronting them with potential useful information. (Sorry, but I do not plan to stop. Just unfriend or unfollow me, I am really OK with it.) Let me quote from the book, "Soap operas are enjoyable because their intellectual maintenance costs are low."
All advertising is information you do not want to see. "Advertising is Fun's evil twin brother. The two go everywhere together." If you want to enjoy yourself from free you have to accept advertising.

Tagged by mshook under itconversations, podcast, annoying, interview, book, 2008, moira, cost, economy, information, interesting, advertising, knowledge, spam, tv, comments, listened, nobel, value,

Hooking our Roku up to Pandora was way more fun than hooking up our Grace/Reciva radio to Pandora | http://tinyurl.com/yc5hark

mshook — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:10:00 -0500

According to that discussion, the player is based on the STB225 set-top box platform designed by NXP. At the center is a chip called the Nexperia Multi Format Source decoder PNX8935, which combines a 32-bit MIPS processor and a dedicated video decoder supporting multiple codecs, including H.264. The reference STB225 boards have SATA and USB capabilities. The Wi-Fi daughtercard in the Roku box uses up the USB header, but there are several other headers that have yet to be identified. Roku engineers say that the box uses HDCP on the HDMI connection, which might limit its hackability.
On the software side, Roku has released the source code to all of the free software used inside the box, including the Linux environment and bootloader.

Tagged by mshook under linux, pandora, music, how, roku, stb, mynote, experience,

GSM: building open source: access point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS & receiver http://wiki.thc.org/gsm | http://tinyurl

mshook — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:26:00 -0500

OpenBTS is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
The GSM Software Project: We want to bring together all the folks that are interested in building a gsm receiver.

Tagged by mshook under 1, november, 2009, a, cell, telephone, how, howto, gsm, sdr, cool, interesting, radio, dsp,

Small screen / slow device access to Google Docs | http://docs.google.com/m?dc=gorganic&source=mail&pli=1

mshook — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:30:00 -0400

Tagged by mshook under google, docs, pdafriendly, spreadsheet, presentation, documents,

Arduino autopilot (ArduPilot) theory of operation reference | http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Theory_of_Operation

mshook — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:38:00 -0400

via http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddjmqgw3_43gm6gvggf
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=pid+kalman&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=7d15299a959dbb33

Roll Rate
File: In sw/airborne/fw_h_ctl.c we define the roll rate loop:
float cmd = throttle_dep_pgain * ( err + h_ctl_roll_rate_igain * roll_rate_sum_err / H_CTL_ROLL_RATE_SUM_NB_SAMPLES + h_ctl_roll_rate_dgain * d_err);
Note that the roll Pgain is variable with throttle and multiplies through the entire equation affecting the I and D terms as well for ease of tuning.

Tagged by mshook under arduino, avr, gnc, how, theory, kalman, filter, dsp, flight, aero, via, makemag, make, xbee,

Zigbee/802.15.4 notes | http://www.google.com/notebook/public/17894154587286929730/BDReISgoQ0uGguawk

mshook — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:21:00 -0400

pdafriendly: http://www.google.com/notebook/m/notebook?nbid=BDReISgoQ0uGguawk&listall=1

Sections:

    * Rabbit

    * XBee

    * vs 6LoWPAN

    * 802.15.4

    * Other

    * Google searches

    * Texas Instruments

    * Atmel

    * iDigi

    * Commissioning

    * History

    * FAQ

    * Smart Energy

    * Open Source Code

    * Miscellaneous

    * The End

Tagged by mshook under gnb, pdafriendly, notes, annotation, zigbee, 802.15.4, radio, emon, smartenergy, energy, electricity, pan, smartmeter,

Cool Javascript visiualization library: The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit http://thejit.org/

mshook — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:01:00 -0400

Features: * Multiple Data Representations: Treemaps, Radial Layouts, HyperTrees/Graphs, SpaceTree-like Layouts, and more... * Major Browsers Support: IE6+, Firefox2+, Safari3+, Opera9.5+ * Open Source: Licensed under the BSD License * Library Agnostic: You may use the JIT with your favorite DOM manipulation framework * Extensible: All visualization classes are mutable, so you can easily add/override any method you want. * Composable: Visualizations can be combined in order to create new visualization methods.

Tagged by mshook under cool, javascript, processing, visualization, graph, json, tree, map, demo, source,

A simple drum machine Java applet - alas, no source | http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/

mshook — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:19:00 -0400


>?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?<
>style version="2.0"<
   >bpm<120>/bpm<
   >shuffle<0>/shuffle<
   >patterns<
      >pattern id="0" length="16"<
         >drum id="0"<0000200000002000>/drum<
         >drum id="6"<2000000020000000>/drum<
         >drum id="9"<2020200202020220>/drum<
      >/pattern<
   >/patterns<
>/style<

http://code.google.com/p/tinyprojects/source/browse/trunk/sambingo/monkeymachine/ Tagged by mshook under drum, machine, java, samba, sambingo, rhythm,

Notes on Tim O'Reilly's visit to FLOSS Weekly | http://tinyurl.com/ldrpfs | http://twit.tv/floss73

mshook — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:07:00 -0400

Web 2.0

14:22 After the internet bubble burst, what was the difference between businesses that succeeded and those that failed?
15:00 Hardware, Software and Infoware

Given in 1997 in Wurtzburg at the same conference where Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

The web is what open source ought to be paying attend to, not Linux.

The Open Source Paradigm Shift

How many of you use Linux
How many of you use Google

Dave Stutz
- On Leaving Microsoft
- "There's plenty of money to be made building software above the level of a single device"
- Software commoditization

Bitlash interpreted language shell for the Arduino serial port. Runs on the Arduino; interprets commands you type on tty http://

mshook — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:44:00 -0400

Introducing Bitlash

Bitlash is an open source interpreted language shell for the Arduino serial port. It runs on the Arduino and interprets commands that you type in a terminal window or send programmatically:

bitlash v0.95a here! ... > print "hello, world", analogRead(3) hello, world 552

Bitlash is a development and prototyping tool for those situations where you need to bang some bits on the Arduino but writing a sketch in C is premature. The Bitlash command language is very similar to Arduino C and includes a large repertiore of the familiar Arduino C functions so you can hack your hardware from the serial command line or even over the internet via telnet.

Tagged by mshook under arduino, c, very, cool, free, open, source, interpreter, avr, concise, small, macro,

arduino/avr simple blink programs in c (non-arduino) & assembler | http://code.google.com/p/tinyprojects/source/browse/trunk/av

mshook — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:20:00 -0400

hardware/tools/avrdude -Chardware/tools/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -pm328p -cstk500v1 -P/dev/ttyUSB0 -b57600 -D -Uflash:w:/home/michael/arduino/BlinkArduinoLED.hex:i Tagged by mshook under example, c, blink, asm, assembler, avr, arduino, code, howto, upload,

Only just begun this conversation between Tim O'Reilly, Jono Bacon and the FLOSS weekly guys and it's already great http://twit.

mshook — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:45:00 -0400

June 13th, 2009

FLOSS Weekly 73: Tim O'Reilly

Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Jono Bacon, and Leo Laporte

Tim O'Reilly talks about open source and the future of web technologies.

Guest: Tim O'Reilly.

Tim O'Reillyis the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. He works to spread knowledge on past, present, and future technologies though his company. Beyond publishing is recognized as a leading visionary for future technology trends. He is an advocate of open source, open standards, and is pushing for intellectual property reform.

Tagged by mshook under oreilly, very, good, podcast, web2, value, business, database, future,

PHP functions to create Google Visualization API Data Sources from simple arrays. | http://code.google.com/p/gvisutils/

mshook — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:33:00 -0400

Tagged by mshook under google, gadget, data, source, datasource, javascript, json, php, code, useful,

1) How does a user prefs data source url get read and 2) can I do the same thing with a non-data source url | http://tinyurl.com

mshook — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:08:00 -0400

Answer:

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/reference.html#GadgetHelper
- Method: createQueryFromPrefs(prefs)
- Return Value: google.visualization.Query
- Description: Static. Create a new instance of google.visualization.Query and set its properties according to values from the gadget preferences. The type of parameter prefs is _IG_Prefs
  1. Preference _table_query_url is used to set the Query data source URL.
  2. Preference _table_query_refresh_interval is used to set the Query refresh interval (in seconds).
Don't know

Tagged by mshook under gadget, url, data, source, datasource, javascript, howto, question, anwer,

What you get from a minimal Google Gadget data source url | http://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?key=rYdmpMlO1sGo3OBxv6SusWA&range=

mshook — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:23:00 -0400

google.visualization.Query.setResponse({
    version: '0.6',
    status: 'ok',
    sig: '202289222',
    table: {
        cols: [{
            id: 'A',
            label: 'Name',
            type: 'string',
            pattern: ''
        },
        {
            id: 'B',
            label: 'Value',
            type: 'number',
            pattern: '#0.###############'
        }],
        rows: [{
            c: [{
                v: 'One'
            },
            {
                v: 1.0,
                f: '1'
            }]
        },
        {
            c: [{
                v: 'Ten'
            },
            {
                v: 10.0,
                f: '10'
            }]
        }]
    }
});

( pretty printed by http://jsbeautifier.org/ )

Tagged by mshook under javascript, pp, google, gadget, visualization, api, query, code, how, spreadsheet, data, source, datasource, json,

What is a Google Gadget data source?

mshook — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:05:00 -0400

Here's an example: http://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?key=rYdmpMlO1sGo3OBxv6SusWA&range=A1:B3&gid=0 and the spreadsheet it came from: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rYdmpMlO1sGo3OBxv6SusWA&hl=en

google.visualization.Query

Represents a query that is sent to a data source.

Constructor

google.visualization.Query(dataSourceUrl, opt_options)

Parameters

dataSourceUrl

[Required, String] URL to send the query to. The data source should expose this URL in some way; for example, to get the dataSourceUrl from a Google Spreadsheet, do the following:

In your spreadsheet, select the range of cells.
Select 'Insert' and then 'Gadget' from the menu.
Open the gadget's menu by clicking on the top-right selector.
Select menu option 'Get data source URL'.

Tagged by mshook under google, gadget, spreadsheet, javascript, json, callback, visualization, api, howto, code, data, source, datasource,

New Dirigo Health Funding Plan Draws Fire From Business Leaders | http://tinyurl.com/l25u7y

mshook — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:25:00 -0400

June 9, 2009 Reported By: Josie Huang Governor John Baldacci plans to sign a bill tomorrow that's aimed at giving the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program much-needed financial stability. To pay for Dirigo, the state charges health insurers a fee each year, which invariably leads to fights over how much the fee should be. Dirigo supporters say the bill to keep the fee fixed from year to year will avoid the expensive legal battles and bad blood. "The Number one thing that it does is it makes the funding source predictable and stable," says David Farmer, spokesman for the governor. Farmer tried to reassure the 9,000 people getting insurance through Dirigo, which is priced on ability to pay, and another 5,500 people who get Medicaid through the use of Dirigo dollars.

Tagged by mshook under dirigo, maine, health, medical, healthcare, insurance, june, 2009, law,

Maine health program (Dirigo) funding bill OKd | WBZ & AP | http://tinyurl.com/luqqe7

mshook — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:30:00 -0400

Maine health program funding bill OKd

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) By a vote of 83-53, the Maine House has given its final approval to a bill that would create a new funding source for the state's Dirigo health program.

Representatives on Friday approved legislation to replace the savings offset payment, now assessed at a variable rate of up to 4 percent of paid claims, with a fixed 2.14 percent payment on paid claims paid monthly.

The savings offset payments that have been used to pay for the state-subsidized Dirigo program have been challenged repeatedly by the health insurance industry.

The measure directs Dirigo's board to reach more uninsured and underinsured Mainers through a more affordable product.

It faces a Senate vote before it can be sent to Gov. John Baldacci for his signature.

Tagged by mshook under maine, health, insurance, medical, june, 2009, money, dirigo,

DocBook to LaTeX/ConTeXt Publishing http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/

mshook — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:15:00 -0400

Examples
Here are some PDF output examples that give an idea of what can be done with dblatex and dbcontext.
Dblatex

    * Some examples of the features supported by dblatex:
          o DocBook Examples
          o MathML Examples
          o Sources of the Examples
          o Sources + PDF Examples
    * The dblatex User Manual is a good example of a default DocBook book output rendering.
    * The User Manual in DB2LaTeX style shows the DB2LaTeX style applied to the same document.
    * The User Manual in Simple style shows a quite basic latex layout applied to the same document.
    * A W3C MathML Test Suite 2.0 Excerpt (bzipped) demonstrates the large MathML 2.0 support included by dblatex.
    * The DocBook Definitive Guide (gzipped) compiled with dblatex and the tdg-dblatex.xsl stylesheet.

Dbcontext

    * The dblatex User Manual done by dbcontext can show how dbcontext handles the same manual.

Tagged by mshook under very, cool, docbook, typography, publish, book, markup, xml, latex, tex, example, manual, python, subversion,

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine + LaTeX source http://tinyurl.com/kuxscq

mshook — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:27:00 -0400

About this document ... Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator Version 2002-2-1 (1.70)

The command line arguments were:
latex2html recursive.tex

The translation was initiated by John McCarthy on 2006-08-13

John McCarthy
2006-08-13 Tagged by mshook under classic, lisp, scheme, 1950s, history, latex, source, cool, theory,