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Making the Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User 2008-08-20 06:28:18
Length:56:51
ABSTRACT
The Semantic
Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Booleanexpression. So how can we help users to query a web of logic that they do not seem to understand? One frequently proposed solution to address this problem is the use of natural langua Read more:Accessible
, Casual
, Semantic Web
Enhancing Web 2.0 Accessibility Via AxsJAX 2008-08-16 04:14:20
Length: 1:12:17
ABSTRACT
Google is the Web's premier creator of user-friendly Web 2.0 applications, and we have long viewed it as part of our mission to do for users in the long tail (AKA users with special needs) what we've achieved for the mainstream user see this Google I/O talk entitled Design Patterns for Enhanced Accessibility
for background. Accessibility 2.0 is now a hot topic on the
A New Approach to Design of Massively Parallel Systems 2008-08-16 04:04:32
ABSTRACT
Based on insights derived from theory of global optimization, we have made a major breakthrough in physical design of several massively parallel systems. These include:
New design of parallel supercomputers based on massively parallel quantum tunneling, electron optics and finite projective geometry. This approach overcomes the bandwidth and latency obstacle faced by other contempora Read more:Parallel
, Systems
Mounting Remote File Systems Via SSH On Ubuntu 2008-08-16 03:56:28 As a developer a lot of time is spent working with code located on remote servers, downloading files, and re-uploading changes gets tedious using ftp, or standard ssh clients. One solution to this dilemma is sshfs, it allows a remote file system to be mounted locally using the ssh protocol, making editing, creating and deleting files a breeze.
Getting sshfs working is pretty painless and following Read more:Mounting
, Remote
, Systems
, Ubuntu
A discussion on Git by Randal Schwartz 2008-08-08 20:01:36 Length: 59:48Speaker: Randal Schwartz
ABSTRACT When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses "git" for their source code repository management, a homegrown solution that is optimized
IE Browser Testing 2008-09-18 09:28:27 Testing your web site layouts in IE is still unfortunately an essential part of development. Depending on your OS it can be an inconvienance, needed to load a virtual machine or similar running Windows to test in IE and even then you are limited with the versions of IE you can test in.
Enter the IE NetRenderer, simply type in the URL of the site to test and it will show you what it looks like in I Read more:Testing
Getting Baked With CakePHP 2008-09-15 07:46:46 What Is CakePHP?
CakePHP is a PHP open source rapid development framework that was born in 2005, it is distributed under an MIT licence and has a very active community. So of its other features include:
Compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5
Integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries
Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture
Request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs
Built-in Read more:Baked
Teaching Kids Networking 2008-09-10 06:54:01
Whilst browsing an online bookseller today i came across this childrens title, little Billy could be a certified CCNA in no time!
Senator Conroy & Mates Trying To Silence Critics 2008-10-27 00:18:22 The more that is said about the planned ISP level filtering, the worse it seems to sound. The family first nutjob Senator
Steve Fielding has piped up, and said that they would like pornography and fetish material blocked by the planned filter.
This in turn seems to have inspired the South Australian independant Nick Xenophon who said should the plan go ahead he would like to block people from visi
Preventing Ubuntu SSH Sessions From Timing Out 2008-10-22 00:49:40 Have you ever been side tracked whilst logged into a remote server via SSH, only to find when you returned your session had timed out? A one line addition to the ssh_config can prevent this from being an issue.
Simply open a terminal window on your Ubuntu
machine and type:sudo pico /etc/ssh/ssh_config
And add the line:
ServerAliveInterval 60
Then save your changes, this change will send a small "k Read more:Sessions
, Timing
Ruxcon Registration Open 2008-10-21 07:03:07 Registration is open for Ruxcon 2008, Sydney's premier security conference. Which is being held at UTS in the CDB on the Saturday 29th and Sunday the 30th of November. Admission is $60 which going by the site looks like it will be money well spent they have a great line up of talks and presentations. Read more:Registration
Performance Tuning your Drupal Install 2008-10-21 06:19:06 Your site has been skinned, modules are installed for all the required functionality but your site is running slow, this post will run you through some things you can look at to speed up your Drupal
install.
Devel Module
Download the Devel module for your version of Drupal, uncompress and upload to the modules directory of your site. Enable the Devel module in your sites administration section Read more:Performance
, Tuning
Typing Google Into Google Wont Break The Internet But Senator Conroy Sure Will 2008-10-20 03:24:40 Seems the rules of the "Clean Feed" game changed this week when it was revealed although people can opt out of the planned mandatory filtered "child friendly" Internet
. Everyone will still be subject subject to a filtered Internet, which is a very scary prospect indeed the details seem scarce and as proved true this week no one seems to be forthcoming with the truth on this filter and its applicat Read more:Break
, Google
, Senator
, Typing
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