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| Episode: 290 Date: 03-18-09 Format: chatlog |
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#290 - 03/18/2009 - total running time 133:50
3:38 - we have a full house tonight, Gorkon and Dave Yates are sitting in, our guest tonight is our good friend Neil "rowinggolfer" Wallace
5:20 - Dann announces the Scott Sigler book winners, RMS was a nobody before coming on TLLTS, Neil is a dentist practicing in Scotland
9:50 - how do F/OSS developers get paid?, Neil is developing openmolar which is a patient management system written in python, commercial dental apps very expensive
21:00 - being familiar with work flow is key to designing an application, some commercial developers don't want constructive feedback
32:00 - Neil's system runs mysql in the background, Neil's is trying to break his contract with his current software provider
35:30 - Pat's dentist just had a new Windows based system setup for $50,000 and has some major issues, vendors listening to their customers
43:00 - having up to date medical information about patients is critical for their care, there is an open source app called OpenDental coded in Mono
51:00 - Neil shares his practice with his wife and sister, opensource tools are great (python, pyqt, mysql) for application development
58:00 - what functions are necessary in dental software?, any feedback from other people?, mysql license costs
78:00 - navigating F/OSS licenses is not easy, the SFLC are very helpful to F/OSS developers, forcing a closed vendor to open up?, tux3 files system
83:00 - rowinggolfer enjoys participating during the live show even though it's very late, rowinggolfer first heard Linux Reality
90:00 - forcing patients to look at WinXP screen is torture, Dann always ogles everyone's wife, Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters resembles Neil a bit
93:00 - Neil's wife is Polish, there's a large Polish community in Inverness, 3:00 AM is DOBA time!, Pat still loves his Dell XPS1330, Linc loves the Woz
102:00 - Dave creates some SELF promos, iPod Shuffle Fail, Sansa Clip is a great device, it plays ogg out of the box for only $29
106:00 - Allan owns 4 iPods, Gorkon has an old Neuros audio player, getting the "lower quality mp3 version of the show", Debian stable can get crusty
111:00 - what Dave does at his job on a daily basis, exploding vitamin enemas, Watchmen had the old Apple commercial playing in the background
118:00 - Rorschach was Kelly from the Bad News Bears, Allan is on furlough from his job for a week, pro M$ articles at ZDnet
122:00 - wrapup (getting certified, Zelda64 prelude, more Doba)
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