Archive for December, 2005

I’m excited to have the IBM Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) go open source soon. I have some cool ideas of how I could use it in the short term. One would be using it as a possible interface to the next version of the extractor robot (for thesis design project).

From the November 11th meeting notes, it looks like it might be out sometime in December:

RSE Status:

Making some progress but sill some obstacles; looking better, but not quite there yet, hopefully make it till the next meeting (3 weeks)

That would be perfect, I could play with it over the holidays and see if it would work with the RCX brick.

It blows my mind how crazy some people are for AJAX these days. It’s consistently one of Technorati’s most search terms, and even the Ajax page for Wikipedia has the following:

This article or section has or is prone to spam, that is, HTML links added only to promote a site or product.
Following Wikipedia:External links, please help Wikipedia by removing any commercial links on sight. Please retain this notice if necessary, and report rampant spamming as per instructions at Wikipedia:Spam.

The word/term Ajax could be used for a lot of thing: a marketed cleaning product, a city, a web paradigm.. I wonder how long it will take, till the general public hears the word Ajax and thinks of the web instead of a cleaning product? Probably never, in any case: some people love Web 2.0, some people hate it.