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Google just announced that you will be able to upload any file to Google Docs.
Looking at the prices of additional storage (your default 7GB from gmail stay free), shows that a Gigabyte costs around 25c (US) per year. When storing 50 TB or less with Amazon S3 you pay 15c (US) per GB per month for the storage only (that is 45 USD for 25GB a year) plus fees for every POST or GET.
Google Code Blog has an article but no API open to everyone yet.
Joi Ito had an interesting talk about the stack the internet is and was built on and why the Creative Commons should be the next building block of this stack.
Mr. Ito also mentioned that one of the reasons he moved to Dubai is that “the Middle East and Africa are areas where we [the creative commons] can get some adoption of the Licenses”. In a completly unrelated event did the wikileaks.org speakers Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt at the 26C3 mention that they are strongly supporting Iceland to become the ‘Switzerland of Bits’ [as in providing a vault for the people's data] – legislative for that is already on the way. As Linux Pro Magazine writes: “As a result, the WikiLeaks team developed the plan to introduce a few bills into the Iceland parliament to make Iceland into a model technical data state”
After a long time of big corporations influencing the directions of countries we are seeing the first signs of the new Netocracy. The Net’s citizens start shaping their environment. And it’l be easier every day: As Mr. Ito says the cost of failure drops. The potential to win grows.
P.S.: I became a paying Premium Member of the Creative Commons a few days back
Door Knocker of S. Gimignano
We were in holiday in Toscany/Italy and visited San Gimignano. We took a lot of nice photos. I thought their focus on nice door knockers seemed interesting so I recommend the slideshow of 22 pictures.
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The Dark Lens – The Dubai Invasion
by Cedric Delsaux
An Exhibition in ‘The Empty Quarter’ in Dubai.
The launch was already canceled because of false readings from the engine cutoff sensor system that measures liquid hydrogen in the external tank when a spider decided to walk over the camera.
NDR (German) offers it’s shows from Zapp and Extra 3 under a by-nc-nd 2.0 CC-license. That means that you are allowed to share the shows (e.g. by uploading it to youtube at. al.) if you attribute the work, do not release it for commercial reasons and do not alter the show.
This is a very strict license, but it is a start and I hope there will be many more shows that will be released under a CC license. Director of NDR Prof. Jobst Plog said: “The content we release on the Internet is already paid for by our customers through the radio & TV licence fee. [...] This way we accomodate the changing pattern of utilization on the internet.”
The content can be viewed using a Realplayer or Windows Mediaplayer or can be downloaded in H264 Format.
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I today finally finished setting up Ubuntu on my Asus R2H. It was quite a challenge since the R2H uses some hardware that is not really mainstream and requires some manual work to set it up. I did not really cover everything: GPS, Webcam and Fingerprint reader are not configured yet (I just did not have the time to do this – I will update this post as soon as I figured out how these work) but WiFi, screen, touchscreen and Bluetooth work like a charm.
This is a HowTo specifically for Ubuntu Gutsy and only tested with this very version. I reference a lot of files that might not exist on your distribution of choice. This is also not a ‘copy&paste’ HowTo, you need a bit experience with linux and with the command line.
I am usually using vim and a lot of code below shows me using sudo vim …. Replace vim with the editor you like best.
Contents
- Basic Installation
- Screen setup
- WiFi
- Touchscreen
- Sound
- Additional Software
- Conclusions
