World: r3wp

which, unfortunately, has been discontinued AFAIK  :-(

has it been? The Scratch environment that I mentioned above includes 
an interface to both LEGO WeDo and the arduino I/O board (and clones). 
You might want to take a look.
http://www.legoeducation.us/store/detail.aspx?ID=1573
http://www.arduino.cc/

they are not available in stores anymore... toys are us stopped selling 
them this very christmas.  the clerk told me they coudn't order them 
anymore.

I think the whole system has changed and the boxes have too.  I remember 
older mindstorm boxes and they don't exist in the catalogue... so 
its probably just a repackaging thing.

We still get Lego catalogs in the mail, and the NXT system is still 
in there I believe.

yep its all on line so its just a sales thing... might be just related 
to toys are us... who where just about the only places where you 
could find mindstorm boxes here.

Asterisk on the  Sheeva plug
http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=98.0

I have a complete NXT box for sale. $200 CDN (Girls.. they just aren't 
that into robots :)

is it nxt 2.0?

(I am interested btw)

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/ele/1552373070.html(Posted 
2 days ago) How's that' for coincidence

so what is the box #

#?

what NXT minstorm set is it?  8547, 8527, 9719.  it could be something 
else ...  each box has different parts, sensors, etc.

blue box, orange box?

8527

Hey, can the SheevaPlug take a sata drive?

Hmm, maybe not. .. Too bad, cuz you can pick up this for $80

http://gizmodo.com/5449098/kingston-ssdnow-v-30gb-flash-drive-for-80

http://www.e-x-e.dk/2010/01/16/a-blogpost-about-hacking-google-wave-with-xss-and-xssr/#comments

Some security holes found in Google Wave.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/cpan_testers/2010/01/msnbot-must-die.html

Like Bing? Well, Bing likes your sites a lot.

FireFox 3.6 released - http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/

Doesn't work with my addons - JS Print, S3 Organizer and Logmein 
.. so have to wait

Someone at Mit has obviously too much time and Cpu power..  Wouldn't 
something like Arexx do the same a lot easier :)

http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/

Though I do see point for app like that on testing some apps ..

Graham - use the Nightly Tester Tools extension to override the version 
check on those extensions - I've been using the 3.6 nightlies for 
months and I've never really had any issues with overriding some 
of my extensions (I have a ton). The speed boost in 3.6 is worth 
it.

Sikuli is intersting.... reminds me of a thing on the Amiga called 
Madala... where you could write scripts as I recall that were visual, 
to do actions based on what it found under hot points.

You could for example select a region, it would use a simple OCR 
to read that region, and then, if let's say a word or number was 
reached, like let's say a counter that you knew was sending 10,000 
files reached 9,900, you could have it play a sound, so you could 
know it was done....


Would prefer a better version where you can simply pipe all text 
or widgets to other places.  Wouldn't it be cool if you could "pull" 
like a sticker a widget from one place (an application or even website) 
and "stick it" on some other place, like your dashboard or toolbar 
somewhere else?.


Is there really any reason I should not be able to take some group 
here in AltME, pull it "Tech News" over to my Googl page, which I 
look at a lot, and when somoene posts here, I see it turn red "there".

Adrian .. going to try that now!

Argggg.... S3 Organizer no longer works ... even though I over rode 
the disabling with nightly tools ! :(

I can't right click on a file in S3 to get the context menu anymore

Found this .. http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3fm/index.html

Not as S3 organizer but it will do ...

as good as

you might find that some other extension is messing up S3 organizer 
under 3.6 - try disabling them one by one and see if the organizer 
works

or if you've got too many to do it that way, disable everything but 
S3 organizer and see if it works by itself - if it doesn't then you've 
saved some time testing

It's S3 organizer ...

Joanna, I've always thought (and pestered Carl about it a bit) that 
having something like ARexx (ARebb?) in our apps would be great.

But wouldn't this be possible by provding a generic dialect framework 
that runs over a socket (maybe using R/S)? Apss just need to expose 
the service interface.

Gregg: Hmm.. That could work. Arexx is from the time nothing was 
secure (since security was not needed) but since Rebol has all those 
neat cryp-libs in it (even the Free View version) it should be possible 
to make an port system that would be both easy and secure.. (either 
as a fuction calls like Arexx ort LonWorks stype net-names)

Yes Robert. We just need a standard, so you can do IPC between apps 
and we aren't all rolling our own mechanisms anymore.

And yes, Joanna, we should consider not only ideas from other systems, 
but also interop.

One Czech server reports, that Symbian finished its transition to 
becoming fully open-sourced. Congratulations to Nokia ....

Our fellow Genesi friends introduce ARM based Efika SmartBook - http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2010/02/efika-mx-smartbook.html

And I remember bbrv is interested in getting R3 onboard :-)

Facebook changes its design once again. Can't wait to see tonnes 
of infantile stupid groups requesting return of the old one :-)

This one is at least more usable than the last.  Mine switched a 
couple days ago

http://google.com/buzz

Googles own facebook

Next channel. I'm wondering when we see the first job posting for 
a "personal social network poster and manager".

Before testing Google Buzz:


http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-huge-privacy-flaw-2010-2

Apparently Buzz is excellent tool for Email harvesting.. If you just 
happen to have right client to do it.. 

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1591657/google-buzz-criticised-lack-privacy

I just discovered that Buzz is activated by default for all gmail 
users... !!!   WTF...

If you don't give a shit about BUZZ. .... 


go to the bottom of your gmail account and click on "Turn off BUZZ" 
 (you might have to squint to even find the link) before your private 
data starts being spilled out to the world, whenever google rolls 
out a bug !! 


note that its turned on EVEN IF YOU SAY NO, when you log into gmail 
and it shows you the Buzz splash screen.