Oxer on HardwareHacking and the Meaning of (Second) Life | Linux Today

Oxer on HardwareHacking and the Meaning of (Second) Life

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 14, 2008

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“Jonathan Oxer is technical director of a Web application
development company called Internet Vision Technologies and for the
past couple of years has been president of the Linux Australia
community group. At January’s Linux.conf.au in Melbourne he
presented a tutorial entitled Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining
Second Life to the Real World. Computerworld recently spoke to Oxer
about how he is knocking down the boundaries between the real and
virtual world. Oxer also sheds light on his how his lifetime
obsession with electronics has transformed his home-life into a
software controlled environment…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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