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Open Royalties for Book Authors
I suppose a lot of us think we'd like to write a book someday. Yes, I have that secret desire also, though realistically I know that I lack the discipline to focus in on one subject. My interests flit around all over the place and could never settle down long enough to grind out a whole book. That's me, just a flighty dilettante. I'd need someone with a whip standing over me to have any chance.
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| A Perl script for tracking nutrition | 2012 08 | 2012/09/11 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - This is a very simple Perl script designed to track nutritional information. I wrote it because I got a very bad cholesterol test result recently. - | |||||
| Google Authorship Links | 2011 10 | ||||
| - If you are an author here, we can now help Google know that. Google recently announced that they can display information about authors in their search results. You may not have seen or noticed these yet because not a lot of people have created the needed links that let Google know who you are. Here's how to link your content here. - | |||||
| Operating System Concepts | 2003 05 | ||||
| - Basic OS concepts. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the heart of any computer, but the operating system is the brain. Unfortunately, understanding exactly how these things really work can be difficult, because it's fairly hard to "play" with the operating system that you are actually using. You can do quite a bit with sophisticated debuggers, but eventually you run into confusion and difficulty. And, as you try more complex tasks, you run the risk of interfering with the real machine's operating system. Finally, modern CPU's are very complex, and that complexity can make it more difficult to understand basic concepts. - | |||||
| A Golf Cart is not a Computer | 2008 05 | 2013/03/05 TonyLawrence | |||
| - You can't let batteries discharge over the winter, so when it got cold I moved it out back near an electrical outlet where I could plug the charger in. - | |||||
| Roku Streaming | 2010 03 | 2012/10/01 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - Roku Streaming:: We ordered a Roku box last week. If you don't know what that is, it's a little Internet connected box that lets you stream content to your TV. The funny thing about that is that if you had asked me if I wanted something like this two years ago, or five years ago, or indeed even twenty or forty years back, I would have said 'No". I would have even been mildly amused by the very idea of it because we hardly ever watched movies - so why would we want something that brought movies to our TV? - | |||||
| Job Satisfaction | 2006 04 | ||||
| - What are the challenges facing a transformed organization? What should companies do to attract and retain "the right people"? The answer might just be giving people what they want. As many studies have shown, satisfied employees tend to be much more productive, creative and committed to their employers. After all, high levels of absenteeism and an increased turnover can profoundly affect a company's bottom line. Jensen (2000) defines job satisfaction as: "a sense of personal growth most often measured by the extent of new challenges and learning situations experienced" (p. 1). Amazingly, only a few organizations have made job satisfaction a top priority in their overall strategy. Perhaps they fail to understand the significant link between job satisfaction and productivity. Transformed organizations must create a positive workplace for their workforce to increase satisfaction on the job (Syptak, Marshland and Ulmer, 1999). This paper describes the challenges that a transformed organization faces in order to keep their people satisfied as well as discusses methods an organizational psychologist would suggest to increase employee satisfaction. Further, it outlines different ways our learning team motivates itself to be more productive. Finally, this paper will focus on things that keep employees satisfied in the workplace. - | |||||
| The Effects of Career Goals on Students | 2007 02 | ||||
| - The value of studying the differences between students with career goals, and students without, will help us learn why students who set goals early have more self-confidence. The purpose of this paper is to analyze, compare, and interpret numerous research studies on the effects of career goals on students. I gathered my data from periodicals, and research studies. Although studies have different methods, modes, and measures, the results are almost unanimous that students, who are certain about their career choices, are more likely to be successful and self-confident than those who are uncertain. - | |||||
| Data Transfer | 1999 05 | ||||
| - You need to transfer data from machine A to machine B. Maybe you are lucky enough to have networking on both machines, but maybe you aren't - | |||||
| Hobby Operating Systems | 2003 10 | 2010/12/03 anonymous | |||
| - With the possible exception of OpenBeOS and Syllable/Atheos, there's nothing there that is particularly different. Where are the real radical ideas, like a pure virtual memory OS that only uses disks as backing store or perhaps a network os where everything is packet based? Oh, well: maybe one of these will ring your chimes: - | |||||
| Preventing Discrimination | 2006 04 | 2011/06/17 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - America is a nation of immigrants. The cultural diversity of America is what makes this country so unique. Recognized worldwide as being the land of opportunities, the United States continues to attract many people from all over the globe. Immigrants come to the United States searching for the American dream. People believe that America is the place that allows them freedom and opportunity for all. In order to prevent discrimination against legal immigrants, the government of the United States created some specific laws. The purpose of this paper is to define laws protecting against national origin discrimination, explain actual court cases, and educate Human Resources managers on how to avoid national origin discrimination. - | |||||
| Translators wanted | 2006 02 | ||||
| - We get a fair amount of visitors from all around the world. Most are from English speaking countries, but there are a fair amount of you from other places, and I'd love to be able to offer you at least some of these articles in other languages. - | |||||
| Configuring SCO's GUI | 1998 04 | ||||
| - This is aboiut old SSCO Unix GUI configuration and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
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| Roomba | 2005 12 | 2010/01/27 TonyLawrence | |||
| - The first thing that bothered me was the paucity of printed material. The Roomba Discovery I bought came with three very small, very terse manuals which really didn't tell me much more than how to charge it up and turn it on. As the initial charge takes several hours, that left me thirsting for more information: how does this thing really work? What do I need to know? Why are these manuals so short? - | |||||
| The Gimp | 2000 03 | ||||
| - Gimp graphics is powerful stuff for no cost. This book is available on line or in printed format; I recommend buying the printed. - | |||||
| Publishing your articles at aplawrence.com | 2003 10 | ||||
| - Publishing at aplawrence.com Please remember to include your email address - I cannot accept any article without that. You can use basic html formattng <p>, <b>, <i>, <ul> and <li>, <h?>. - | |||||
| Facebook Poker | 2010 02 | 2011/08/15 bk | |||
| - Playing poker on Facebook can be fun in spite of the Bingo players - | |||||
| Using Linux to create Photo Galleries | 2003 11 | ||||
| - Linux tools to easily create photo galleries from large sets of digital images. - | |||||
| Maintaining / Phreaking modems lines using ANAC numbers | 2003 09 | ||||
| - I remembered that I talked to one lineman who had a number he called and an electronic voice would repeat back the telephone number that he had called from. After twenty minutes of googling I found that what I wanted was called an ANAC (Automatic Number Announcement Circuit) number. - | |||||
| Motivation Through Job Recognition | 2004 12 | ||||
| - One of the most important requirements of a leader is the need to motivate employees to be more productive and help them achieve their goals. - | |||||
| Geek attitude | 2009 08 | ||||
| - geek personality: There is a certain commonality to be found amongst geeks, nerds or hackers. I know people like to differentiate between these different words but we are talking about really smart programmers and technologists. It could also mean scientists, engineers or individuals who can create great technology. - | |||||
| Update Publishing FAQ | 2009 08 | ||||
| - guest posting at aplawrence.com I hope that this is a sign of good things to come for our U.S. Basically, the deal is this. If you guest post here, you'll always get a (nofollow) link back to your site. - | |||||
| Disqus Comments | 2009 06 | ||||
| - I tried Disqus and found it unsutable for my needs. Your needs might be different, of course. - | |||||
| Beauty Treatments | 2009 02 | ||||
| - Choosing good looking fonts and font sizes is not something I have any clue about. There is a business opportunity here. - | |||||
| Loose Ends | 2009 02 | ||||
| - stuff to know: These are just some random things that came up in the past few weeks email. Some of it surprised me because I thought it would have been easy to find the answer at Help and Resources or my Rates page, but some of it made me groan and think that I have to find a better way for people to find THAT. - | |||||
| How I quit smoking | 2008 12 | ||||
| - I thought my heart had stopped.. and strangely, that was the moment when I actually quit for the very lat time. - | |||||
| Wassup? | 2008 12 | ||||
| - Wassup? Nothing much, you? A little destruction by way of a 'registry cleaner' - when will peope learn? - | |||||
| Why I returned the LG CU515 Cell Phone | 2008 11 | ||||
| - The LG CU515 doesn't work for me - design matters, even for a 'dumb' phone - maybe especially for a dump phone! - | |||||
| Finally, a new phone! | 2008 11 | ||||
| - After doing a Charlie Chaplin routine kicking my phone down Boylston Street, I had to get a new phone. - | |||||
| REM Sleep Behavior Disorder | 2008 11 | 2013/03/03 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - Not so sweet dreams: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder has plaqued me since my teens or before. - | |||||
| Lung Cancer Fears | 2008 11 | ||||
| - My brother-in-law died from lung cancer a few years ago. We shared a cancer related problem: we were both exposed to asbestos. He more than I: I worked in the industrial boiler industry for a few years, he was in it his entire life. - | |||||
| New Phone | 2008 09 | ||||
| - I really need a new cell phone, but I hate the "buying experience" - | |||||
| Bad day all around | 2008 08 | ||||
| - A bad day: I've been having some strange problems with my Mac Book Pro lately. Nothing very serious; it just doesn't always go to sleep when I tell it to. The screen goes blank, and the little "sleep" light comes on, but it doesn't blink, and the hard drive and fans are still running. Sometimes it will complete the transition after a few minutes, but often I've come back after hours to find it still halfway there. - | |||||
| What is this? | 2008 07 | ||||
| - What is this flying around my butterfly bush? They looked like tiny, tiny hummingbirds to me. - | |||||
| Hypermiling | 2008 06 | 2012/07/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Saving money by increasing fuel economy - a mpg display, no matter how accurate, can improve driving habits. - | |||||
| What's your game? | 2008 04 | ||||
| - I don't have a game plan, really, no mission statement, no elevator pitch, no unique selling proposition, no Vision Statement - | |||||
| 3-D Modeling | 2008 02 | ||||
| - I wish my dad could have seen what is possible today in 3D modeling and printing. - | |||||
| Ball Computers | 2008 02 | ||||
| - Computing without electrons - ball computers, wooden computers and other mechanical devices. - | |||||
| Major Site Crash | 2008 02 | ||||
| - site crash: We had a major site crash at 9:15 this morning and were down most of the day. When they brought it back up, two years worth of posts were missing, which shows the folly of depending on anyone's backups but your own. - | |||||
| Reinstating Site Forum | 2008 01 | ||||
| - You can use this for questions and articles. All submissions will be moderated before appearing on the site. If your post is inappropriate but not spam, you will get a response as long as you included your email. ANY POSTS TO THE FORUM WITHOUT A VALID EMAIL WILL BE REJECTED. - | |||||
| New Comments Code | 2008 01 | ||||
| - New comments code at aplawrence.com: Just a quick note: I've updated the "comments" code here to allow you to track new comments. - | |||||
| Recycling | 2007 11 | ||||
| - 100% post consumer content in all our recycled posts - | |||||
| Byte April 1985 | 2007 09 | ||||
| - Boy, it's been a long time since computer magazines were this thick. Not counting the covers and the Reader Service Card, it was 496 pages. The inside front cover and page one were an Apple ad for The Macintosh Office. That ad said that IBM PC's could use their new (just a few months old) LaserWriter printer and promised that "Later this year we'll be introducing the AppleTalk card that fits into an IBM PC, allowng it to trade information with Macintosh and access file servers." - | |||||
| Gambling and Government | 2007 01 | ||||
| - The U.S. Government has recently made online money transfers to and from gambling sites illegal. There are three entirely separate forces driving that: one is the moralists who believe that gambling is evil, period, second are the people concerned about the problems of gambling addiction, and finally we have states who think they are losing money that should be spent at their own gambling venues. - | |||||
| Bear with us while we redecorate | 2006 11 | ||||
| - Changing page layout at aplawrence.com - I'm no artist, no web designer and am no HTML jockey - but I'll try. - | |||||
| The Potential Dance | 2006 08 | ||||
| - Ed and I first worked together at the Tandy Computer Center in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. That would have been around 1981 or early 1982. I was a CSR (Customer Support Rep) and Ed was a salesman. Tandy computers were at their peak of popularity and were not yet threatened by the soon to come IBM PC. Ed did well at Radio Shack, and was soon given his own store in Waltham. It was just a corner in an older Radio Shack store; one so old that "Tandy Leather" was still part of it. The IBM PC had already been introduced, but Tandy sales were still good. That IBM machine didn't kill Tandy's computer business instantly, but it did start to affect sales, and many Tandy salespeople found themselves selling less and less over the next few years. Ed did better than most. - | |||||
| Publishing on demand | 2006 07 | ||||
| - But before that there's getting approved by a publisher. Unless you are already well known, you start by contacting a publisher and submitting a tremendous amount of information that tries to explain why your book is going to be interesting to other people, why you are qualified to write it, what else has been written like it, why you think you have anything more to add, and so on. It's serious stuff and will take a fair amount of work by itself. If you are lucky, whoever reviews your submission will both understand what you are pitching and agree with your analysis. If not.. well, try another publisher. - | |||||
| Terms of Service | 2006 07 | ||||
| - Have you ever read your ISP's terms of service? You might find that you are technically in violation. - | |||||
| Ancient Unix | 2006 07 | 2011/01/02 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Running ancient OSes on Mac OS X simulation - it's fun to go back in time to the beginnings of Unix. - | |||||
| More RAM, please | 2006 05 | ||||
| - Windows XP needs more than 256MB now: Most of the Windows XP machines I see in my travels are fitted with 256MB of RAM. A few have more, and now and then I'll find a very unhappy soul suffering with 128MB, but 256 is the most common. It's not enough anymore. - | |||||
| Old Technology | 2006 04 | ||||
| - Calculators with tapes, asterisk for total - but why? How did '*' and diamond come to mean that? - | |||||
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| VMware Virtual Appliance Challenge | 2006 03 | ||||
| - VMPlayer challenge - win money for creative ideas for virtual appliances. VMware is out for blood! - | |||||
| I'm not retiring | 2005 11 | ||||
| - I'm not retiring, just moving: my wife's joint problems will be helped by single floor living, for one thing. - | |||||
| Notes and comments | 2005 11 | ||||
| - The holidays are rushing toward us, and probably snow, too. Interest rates are up, gas prices are down, and everything costs more than it should. As soon as the sun comes up, I'm going to go rake and forget about computers. - | |||||
| Intellectual property revolution? | 2005 10 | ||||
| - The ridiculous extremes of bad patents, never ending copyrights, and the seeming willingness of courts to grant exclusive use to quite obvious ideas is one of the more disturbing aspects of our current society. - | |||||
| We sell our souls so easily | 2005 10 | ||||
| - With mortgages and other consumer transactions, we usually have at least some protection from laws that try to protect us from outright chicanery. With EULA's, outrageous terms may or may not be enforceable, but we seldom even know what terms are stated at all. - | |||||
| Sony vs. Microsoft - the mighty sword of Unix | 2005 09 | ||||
| - Sony's PS3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox, but that's not the only place the two are bumping heads: 'Showdown In The Digital Rights Corral' explains how Sony is trying to prevent Microsoft from dominating Digital Rights Management. So blowing a raspberry at Bill and the boys with Unix on PS3 is a pretty small part of this sumo wrestling match. - | |||||
| My first venture into Usenet (1991) | 2005 08 | ||||
| - Admit it: you just love Unix. You sit there in Emacs, like a spider in its web, piping your greps out to sed's and expr's, maybe tossing in an awk script now and then.. - | |||||
| Pictures on the wall | 2005 08 | ||||
| - Our oldest daughter was sixteen then, and she painted this on one wall (plagiarized from the Radio Shack Color Computer manual cover). - | |||||
| Computer Fax Software.. circa 1991 | 2005 07 | ||||
| - Patriot combination Fax/Modem : Computer Fax Software.. circa 1991 - | |||||
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