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Submission + - Lance Davis Reappears!

str8edge writes: Lance Davis has attended a Centos Developer meeting and most of the outstanding issues have been resolved. From www.centos.org: The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward. The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions. We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues. More information will follow soon.

Comment Tesla Coil Generator (Score 1) 249

In Grade 12 physics, I built a Tesla Coil Generator with a partner. I can't remember how many hours it took, but is was at least 50-60 hours. While a lot of the work is really mundane, the final result is something to see. We has about 12-15" of spark, and had it doing all sorts of things a Grade 12 student wouldn't think possible: lighting florescent tubes, passing through 30 bodies and not hurting anyone, exploding a stripe of caps for a toy gun, the list goes on..

The project will teach your students about high frequency electricity, and induction.

Comment Re:slashdot legal advice? (Score 1) 246

I like the fact that the license Slimdevices/Logitech uses for the Squeezebox products is slightly more restrictive. I like the fact that for my personal use, the software is open source, and I can play around with it to my hearts content. I also like the fact that other corporate entities cannot exploit the code with out Logitech permission. I love open source software, but I can also understand the need to prevent other corporate entities from competing with you by directly copying your work. I am a very happy Slimdevices customer with a Classic, and a duet. I was not a happy Roku customer when I tested their digital Music Player that was powered by the Slimserver software. The Roku was more money for what felt like a cheap knock-off.

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