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Portrait: Eric von Hippel, user innovation, and FOSS

10-14-2008 01:00 PM
A common charge against free and open source software (FOSS) is that it lacks the ability to innovate. To that charge, the lifelong research of Eric von Hippel, professor and head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers a thorough and scholarly refutation. Having studied the sources of innovation for more than three decades, von Hippel has found in FOSS both a confirmation and an elaboration of his ideas.



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isdnlog(5)						    Linux System Administration 						isdnlog(5)

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/var/log/isdn.log - isdn log file DESCRIPTION
The main purpose of isdnlog is to create a log file with information about all incoming and outgoing calls, namely: this file. The file has 19 fields, separated by pipe characters "|" with fixed length. The fields are: 1 Time of connect 2 Caller's number (if transmitted) 3 Called number 4 Duration of connection in seconds 5 Duration of connection in 1/100 seconds 6 Time of connect (as usual in seconds since 1970) 7 Number of charge signals received (-1 if you don't get charge signals) 8 I = Incoming or O = Outgoing 9 Cause Code if connection was not established 10 Number of bytes transferred (incoming) 11 Number of bytes transferred (outgoing) 12 Version number of isdnlog 13 ISDN Service Code 14 1 = called by isdn user, 0 = called by analog user 15 Costs per charge unit (e.g. 0.062 in Germany) 16 Currency of charge unit (e.g. EUR in most parts of Europe) 17 Total cost of connection 18 Provider 19 Zone FILES
/var/log/isdn.log This file: isdnlog log file. SEE ALSO
isdnlog(8) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>, for Debian GNU/Linux and isdn4linux. Now maintained by Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>. ISDN 4 Linux 3.13 2002/01/31 isdnlog(5)