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small missing bit of information by Trepidity · 2012-08-06 02:49 · Score: 4, Interesting · on CDE Open Sourced

"CDE was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi" in 1993. It's interesting historically, but even commercial Unices have phased it out. Sun dumped it from Solaris ten years ago.

Open-sourcing Motif at least makes it easier to maintain some legacy apps, though sucks for the LessTif guys that they put so much work into cloning it that could've been avoided if Motif had been open-sourced years ago.

Re:Approach no. 4 - Do nothing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-04 00:16 · Score: 0 · on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand

Except that in my experience Windows 7 is slower on the same hardware versus XP, sleep mode works just fine in XP, I hardly use search because my files are organized and sensibly named (no "Untitled.doc"), and I've been using the ribbon a lot longer than 1 month and it isn't more efficient for me. The malware experience might be correct, but then I haven't seen a worm or virus on any of my machines in 4 years (and that one came from a work machine that was supposedly up-to-date). There are still things in the Windows 7 UI that I don't like and I'm probably going to switch over to Classic Shell as a replacement. Worst of all, on a grossly overpowered machine (quad-core 16GB RAM i7 with an SSD and nvidia gtx 570 graphics), with Aero turned off, I still get weird latencies in the UI. I don't know what's doing it. Graphics drivers? Windows 7 itself? But my XP machine with less powerful hardware (Core 2 and 4GB) has none of that, and it boots in ~30 seconds, comes out of sleep in about 5 or 10.

I don't dispute that Windows 7 might be vastly more efficient for IT people maintaining the systems -- maybe that is so, because I don't do that job -- but as a user experience I don't find it any better than XP, and for Office the ribbon is frustratingly inefficient no matter how I configure it (and I've tried numerous ways). None of my co-workers like it either, and I can't figure out why anybody likes it. I acknowledge that some people do like it, and I acknowledge that (confusingly) some studies apparently show it to be more efficient, but I can't understand why Microsoft didn't deem it necessary to offer a "classic" interface for those people who don't. They obviously didn't care about their pre-existing customers much.

The secureboot fiasco is just another reason to stay away from Windows 8 and avoid whatever other new monstrosities Microsoft has come up with, or at least wait until people have figured out how to kill those monstrosities off (e.g., Classic Shell is already being updated for Windows 8).

Memories of Asylum and other games by davesag · 2012-08-03 19:59 · Score: 1 · on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35

When I was in high school my dad's office had a couple of TRS-80 model 2s (cassette tapes!) and a model 3 (8" floppies!) and after school I'd go to his office and spend ages playing The Asylum (see http://www.trs-80.org/asylum/) It was awesome. Even more so than the school's sole Apple ][, the "trash 80" introduced me to programming and I taught myself z80 assembler in an effort to write my own version of Scramble (see http://www.arcade-gameover.com/scramble.asp) as I quickly realised that BASIC was never going to cut it. I ended up nearly failing year 12 because I spend most of that year writing a text adventure game I called The Cave. I was forced to abandon it eventually and get my grades back up so as to get into university. I also spent a lot of time playing Taipan on the model 3. (see http://cymonsgames.com/taipan/)

I moved on to the Apple ][ after that, and then, at uni, the PDP 11, and then the Mac in 1984. Messed about with BBCs, Acorns, Apricots, and a bunch of other machines I can't even remember the names of but never left the Mac since then. Friends had Vic-20s and Commodore 64s and Ataris but I never really got into those. Nice to see there are TRS-80 emulators for the Mac at http://sdltrs.sourceforge.net/

Re:Your sig... by ceoyoyo · 2012-08-03 09:53 · Score: 1 · on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why

You should google "bootcamp."

A Mac is a PC with an EFI BIOS. To run whatever you want you just need something to deal with EFI. Apple's bootcamp is targeted at Windows, but you can fairly easily install something else, or you can use a third party tool like rEFTIt.

The price of Mac hardware is irrelevant to what OS you can install on it. But there are quite a few developers, including prominent open source ones, who think it's worth it, even though they wipe OS X and install Linux.

Re:WTS 1982 C-64 by LocalH · 2012-08-01 16:15 · Score: 1 · on Commodore 64 turns 30

WAV-PRG and Audiotap. Should convert that .WAV into either a .TAP or .PRG, both of which can be loaded into a modern emulator such as the excellent VICE. Just figured I'd save you the trouble of trying to decode the pulses by hand :P

Re:WTS 1982 C-64 by LocalH · 2012-08-01 16:15 · Score: 1 · on Commodore 64 turns 30

WAV-PRG and Audiotap. Should convert that .WAV into either a .TAP or .PRG, both of which can be loaded into a modern emulator such as the excellent VICE. Just figured I'd save you the trouble of trying to decode the pulses by hand :P

Re:TERRIBLE! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-01 07:26 · Score: 0 · on Windows 8 Is Ready

"The new start menu actually rocks - My start menu use to be a horrid mess where all I did was use the Windows 7 search feature"

Well, my Windows 7 start menu is a mess mainly because unlike Windows XP, I haven't figured out how to set it into a mode where I can re-arrange things the way I like by grouping similar programs together into submenus. Search only works if I remember the spelling of the program names. I think I'm going to have to give up and install Classic Shell. Thankfully it looks like they're working on Windows 8 compatibility, including being able to skip the Metro startup screen entirely.

Re:Awesome! by Wintervenom · 2012-08-01 06:47 · Score: 1 · on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

When you're bored, you might want to give Eagle Mode a try.

Re:I hope Google gets Qt by thatbloke83 · 2012-08-01 05:05 · Score: 2 · on Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets

There is already a community-run project to port Qt to Android. It's called necessitas, and today the Alpha 4 version was released for testing.

I've dabbled a bit with it with previous versions, and it's in a very good state already :)

See here: http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/home/necessitas/ (It seems the website isn't showing alpha 4 yet, but it was announced on the necessitas mailing today that it was available).

Re:I'll be first in line by Sigg3.net · 2012-08-01 00:00 · Score: 1 · on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

It's available for Linux as well under the name File System Visualizer, but you need ancient build versions. Abandoned long ago; http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
Could prolly get it to run on Gentoo though.

Screenshots: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

Where's the open source community when you need'em?! ____ (I kid!!)

Re:I'll be first in line by Sigg3.net · 2012-08-01 00:00 · Score: 1 · on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

It's available for Linux as well under the name File System Visualizer, but you need ancient build versions. Abandoned long ago; http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
Could prolly get it to run on Gentoo though.

Screenshots: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

Where's the open source community when you need'em?! ____ (I kid!!)

Re:if your app screams on Windows Phone 8 by hairyfeet · 2012-07-31 22:55 · Score: 2 · on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8?

Sure you can friend, its called Classic Shell and it kills Metro like Raid kills bugs, dead. I have a feeling that just like when Vista was released and any search for Vista automatically brought up "How to kill UAC" articles by the dozens we'll see "how to kill metro" articles when you type in win 8.

As for programming for winPhone 8? personally I'd wait and see if its a giant flop or not, frankly many of us in the trenches are predicting a Vista style backlash on win 8. Its just not a good UI for non touch devices and once you install more than a handful of programs metro becomes a cluttered mess. If consumers actually embrace it and WinPhone 8? Sure then you can waste some money supporting it but with both Intel and AMD reporting doom and gloom for sales this year i don't think win 8 is really gonna do much, not when the economy is toast. As you pointed out its win 8 integration that supposed to sell WinPhone 8, so if one flops the other doesn't have a real selling point.

Please tell me more by Gazzonyx · 2012-07-31 04:40 · Score: 1 · on How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

Could you point me to those registry changes? I've been fighting with Sickbooks to get limited users (read: users, not super users or admins) to run Quickbooks. I used the settings that Intuit specified, but no go. Then I created a domain group "quickbooks users" and gave them full ownership of all the folders and registry keys that they should need. No joy. Now all "quickbooks users" are super users on their local machine.

Still won't allow them to do the update that it bugs the users about ever couple of weeks when they decide to push a new release that doesn't fix anything you need and breaks more stuff you do need. The installer fails citing that the user isn't an admin (why not check this before you nag them?). It doesn't check the permissions, it just fails when it does the GID check.

Quickbooks is the only software I've ever seen that makes you trash your box just to get it to mostly run. Bonus points for it insisting on installing an old version of Flash. I've been dealing with this stuff since the 2005 or 2003 version. It's maddening and I want to switch to XTuple Postbooks ( xtuple.com). It's open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux ( source forge page). Unfortunately, no one is going to want to make that switch since they know Quickbooks.

Few notes by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-30 20:34 · Score: 0 · on New Moxie Marlinspike Tool Cracks Crypto Passwords

Win2k Pro does have a PPTP client too and AFAIK Win98 too.

This affects also those using poptop (poptop.org seems to be uneachable) with Linux.

Also Cisco PIX did support it.
Cisco ASA (os ver > 7.x) doesn't any more.

PPTP is such a simple protocol, basically just additional tcp port for authentication and then PPP over GRE with PPP compression replaced with encryption hack based on DES.

This is not entirely headache of those who had been using Windows RRAS and haven't upgraded more secure systems yet.

Re:Picnic Basket by Johann+Lau · 2012-07-30 12:21 · Score: 3, Informative · on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/files/scummvm/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes/view

Did you miss that link, or were you looking for something more verbose?

Though I totally agree with the sentiment of your post where it does apply. And what a way to put it! In fact, I'm sticking that in my fav quotes collection, thanks ^^

Re:Why Python? by greg1104 · 2012-07-30 10:22 · Score: 2 · on Book Review: Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Ed.

The gap Perl left Python to successfully fill mainly involves shipping a good enough standard module library. Keeping small scoped library enhancement work moving with the Python Enhancement Process minor version after version is the true reason for the language's success.

CPAN has always been a nightmare of bad version control for non-professional Perl programmers, where it's trivially easy to break things if you try and follow what seems the easiest path for installing things. What Perl should have been doing the last 15 years to reduce that problem, to lower the learning curve, is pruning the need for it. Pull more of the best of them into the library of things guaranteed to ship with the language, the less successful ones should die. Let's consider XML as an example. The Perl-XML FAQ starts with "Where can I find reference documentation for the various XML Modules?"; you already lost a chunk of potential Perl developers right there. A quick count on my Debian laptop shows I have 3 packages for that job that aren't in base Perl: libxml-parser-perl, libxml-twig-perl, and libxml-xpathengine-perl. Why? There seems epic "not invented here" going on whenever I get near CPAN, everybody has their own thing.

Given the same job, Python development shook out one XML implementation to ship as part of its standard library, and for everyone to work on, in version 2.0. Then another one was merged into the standard library for 2.5. The other option on my system is a wrapper around libxml2 and libxslt. That's it. The best of the libraries have made their way into the standard library over time, programs can rely on those, and that's good enough for most jobs. This is why Python has kept advancing year after year, while Perl becomes less relevant. You need to know *less* every year to do things in Python, and that's what people look for--a flattening learning curve.

It didn't help that the transition to Perl 6 has taken 12 years so far, making the core language feel dead too. The similarly disruptive Python 3.0 work took 8 years. I think Python managed the backwards compatibility hurdles better too. That's a very subjective thing though, whereas the scope creep leading to nothing useful shipping for Perl 6 yet is a simple fact.

Method I use by mombodog · 2012-07-27 04:48 · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave?

Short answer, no easy way to do what you suggest. Cleaning personal info from W7 is a manual job that takes time, and no way to guarantee you got it all. Best advice is to use the restore partition (if it has one) or clean Install of W7 and then when it is done restoring or the clean install is done, overwrite all the free space on the drive with "Eraser 5.8.8", this guarantee's all info has been overwritten.

Posting your Make and exact Model may prompt us for more suggestions.

If re-installing is Not an option.

Back up data you want to save, then follow the exact order below.

1. Create a new admin user account.

2. Log into that new account and delete any other user accounts (do not delete the hidden admin or guest accounts)

3. Uninstall any software you don't want to pass on. then search the hard drive for those names of software and remove any folders left behind.

4. Delete any folders on the C drive that may have been created manually by the user.

5. Do a IE7-8 reset, then delete browsing history (select all the boxes)

6. Use index.dat suite to delete any .dat files it finds,(requires selecting them to be deleted on a reboot) http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=index.datsuite

See this link for instructions using index.dat suite on Vista or W7 http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&act=FAQ&p=index.datsuite#193

Or use a linux live disc to delete all the .dat files.

7. At the command prompt type these 3 commands one at a time hitting enter each time, the erase tmp command may take time to complete.

cd\

erase *.tmp /s

erase *.bak /s

8 . Empty the Recycle Bin

9 . Use eraser version 5.8.8 to erase the free space on the hard drive, install eraser, then right click on the C drive and select "erase unused space". (it may take quite some time if the hard drive is large) http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/files/

Re:Nuke it from orbit by djl4570 · 2012-07-27 04:44 · Score: 5, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave?

INAL but a complete wipe could be construed as destruction of employer owned data. I suggest a less invasive approach using Eraser from http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ Uninstall the non standard software, use Eraser to wipe the personal and non business related files. Shrink the paging file to minimum size and run an erase of free space. A single pass should be adequate*. Then go to http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2003011a/warn/ and download the 16,000x16000 pixel image of the Helix nebula. Open multiple copies of this image until the system forces an expansion of the paging file. While this isn't a military grade approach it will leave the system intact. An intact system with business docs isn't suspicious. A freshly wiped system might draw attention.

* Guttman only proposed his thirty-five pass hypothesis; so far as I can tell the hypothesis has never been tested on a real hard drive. The original hypothesis was based on disk drive technology in the mid nineties about the time magneto resistive technology entered the supply chain which suggests Guttman's research was on older disk drive technology. Does anyone know if forensics has ever recovered data from an overwritten hard drive?

Re:Why would anyone ever want to run a Tor exit no by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-25 08:43 · Score: 0 · on Tor Project Experiments With Funding Fast Exit Nodes

There is a tool that does this. I hope you like it:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blackbeltpriv/

Re:3D? Cameras? Microphones? by eriqk · 2012-07-24 02:09 · Score: 1 · on HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards

Cant we just have that back?

Sure you can.

What about this is "in space" ? by Qubit · 2012-07-19 13:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on ESA Summer of Code In Space 2012

ESA Summer of Code in Space 2012 (SOCIS 2012) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers.

Let's see...

Are the students in space? No.

Is someone in space communicating with the students? No.

Is the coding going on in space? No.

Is this just trying to capitalize on Google Summer of Code and tack on "in space"? No....I mean, yes.

Is the code going to end up in space? Not really... -- most of the projects are viewers for data here on earth. I clicked on a bunch of them and I don't think any of them are trying to actually do dev work that will end up "In Space."

How about calling it "ESA Summer of Coding for Space Projects" or "ESA Summer of Code Destined for Space" (actually "Code for analyzing heavenly data" would be more accurate) or even go over the top and sound actually funny with "ESA Summer of Code: To Infinity and Beyond" ?

*shakes head*

Re:Why not an official Wikipedia editing applicati by k(wi)r(kipedia) · 2012-07-15 13:34 · Score: 1 · on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly?

I like Wikipedia the way it is. However, some people (sorry for the weasel words) want to turn it into a WYSIWIG platform that rivals Google Docs. If that's the intention, then I think it would better to leave Wikipedia the web site alone, and dump the WYSIWIG editing onto a standalone application. The standalone app would be capable of reading all official Wikipedia "tags" (if that's what it's called) and have something like the W3 Consortium's Tidy to clean up or beautify (in a structural sense) bad or human unreadable markup.

Re:Flat-Line by hairyfeet · 2012-07-12 12:31 · Score: 1 · on PC Sales Are Flat-Lining

You can also use Kmeleon on win95 or Win98 and have a full graphical browser. mind you it does take awhile to render, i tried it myself with an old 400MHz win95 box i found at the bottom of a pile of donations and fired up for shits and giggles but it did actually load the Google News page.

But for something a little less painful I have a circa 2004 Sempron 1.8Ghz XP box at the shop i use for a nettop and with Comodo Dragon it surfs just fine, i can even watch SD video. I figure I'll keep it until XP is EOLed, hell i might even go ahead and upgrade it to Win 7 as i tried the trial version and with 2gb of RAM it ran fine except for Aero which i don't care about anyway. Hmmm...I wonder if there is a Win 7 driver for this 7600 GS or X1650 i have sitting in the spare cards box?

Speed gains by bradley13 · 2012-07-11 01:12 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard?

For what it's worth, I once spent a good deal of time testing this hypothesis. I spent a lot of time researching optimized layouts, picked one, and used it for a solid year - parallel to the QWERTY layout that I was still using at work. After a year, I was equally proficient with both (I could touch-type either at will, same error-rate, etc.), and I ran a number of tests.

The results were quite consistent: about a 10% speed increase (from 60wpm to 66 wpm), no significant difference in the error rates. For what it's worth, at that point I decided for QWERTY. That's what most keyboards in the West are based on, and for a 10% gain in speed, you have the irritation of switching back-and-forth all the time. If you don't type a lot on both layouts, your speed-gain on one quickly becomes a massive speed-penalty on the other.

Note: there is a nice little open-source application out there that will let you take your personal keyboard layout with you whereever you go. Unfortunately, it currently only supports Windows.

For smart phones, the situation is obviously different. If you want to be able to type quickly, you pretty much need a predictive keyboard (something like SwiftKey, for example). Beyond that, it's simply a matter of being able to find the "keys" quickly. For anyone who also uses a normal keyboard, that means QWERTY.

A Social Semantic Desktop is the future by Paul+Fernhout · 2012-07-08 03:31 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client

I applied for a posted Thunderbird job at the Mozilla Foundation about a year ago, saying that, but I never heard back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_desktop

My own fumbling efforts in that direction (I have some new stuff I've made recently that is not yet up there):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

More comments by me on the idea:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-February/000401.html

Re:CBG by KhabaLox · 2012-07-07 04:59 · Score: 2 · on AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future

Corporate Bullshit Generator

Bookmarked. I'm going to try to use a line from there in my PP presentation to Sales on Monday. Ahh, here we go:

"Market-driven cost efficiencies influence our perspectives."

CBG by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-07 04:30 · Score: 5, Funny · on AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future

envisions a distributed network of these units, allowing it to quickly roll out new IT capacity for hyperlocal news sites and create its own content distribution network

Ahh someone's been visiting the Corporate Bullshit Generator LOL!

Original poster here with thanks and more info by Optic7 · 2012-07-06 09:34 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?

Woo, I finally got a slashdot submission accepted! The eighth time is the charm! /happyoutburst

Ahem. Actually, I wanted to thank all of you very much for your answers. A lot of good examples, insights, and suggestions, just as I had expected from my fellow slashdotters. If I or anyone decides to go down this road, I'm sure that this information will be useful.

If you're curious, the specific game I had in mind was Richard Burns Rally, which is generally considered to be the best rally car (racing) simulation ever released. From what I've read in your replies, it seems like I (or anyone else) may have to wait a bit longer before it may be feasible to pull this off since it may still be too new and active, and still have valuable code for the publishers to consider it.

If I really decide to pursue this, I may start with some even older but still well-regarded rally sims such as some of the titles in the Rally Championship Series or Rally Trophy.

If all else fails, I suppose I can always learn proper game programming and join an existing open source rally game project like Trigger Rally.

Thank you all again!

Re:Just dreaming by eabrek · 2012-07-06 06:28 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?

What do you think of Manic Digger?

Re:the Triplane Turmoil case by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 20:31 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?

get the real thing,
http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/

apt-get install sopwith

Re:the Triplane Turmoil case by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 19:46 · Score: 2, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?

Looks like a clone of the classic Sopwith game from 1984,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_game)

now Free with GPL-goodness!
http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/

apt-get install sopwith (although the original .exe(.com) version run in DOSBox is still more mature)

Re:Jesus, stop being pathetic! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-03 05:11 · Score: 0 · on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers

I know I'm getting OT, but I have a serious question. It looks like I'll need visio for a class and possibly my career, are there any great open source alternatives for visio?

Maybe not; YMMV, but have you taken a look at Umbrello? It runs on KDE desktop.

It's too late by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 20:11 · Score: 0 · on FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot

It's too late for AMD to push Coreboot for Windows 8. If they want to ship Windows systems with Coreboot, they will need to set it up such that Coreboot loads a UEFI foundation like Tiano and use that to boot Windows.

I have no idea whether such a combination would meet WinLogo requirements or not, however. I don't believe Coreboot currently supports the TPM, so AMD would likely have to add the code for it themselves. Coreboot's original target is compute clusters and datacenters where TPM support is not wanted or needed.

Re:They also criticized Fedora.. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 04:37 · Score: 4, Interesting · on FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot

Why CoreBoot? What's wrong with stuff like OpenFirmware, or even just finishing projects to boot properly from EFI machines (which are not "secure"). There's no reason to ask HW manufacturers to adopt some completely new firmware stack when there are already-working ones which are more than "open" enough. The only real problem here is with this new Secure Boot add-on, but there is no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. OpenFirmware / EFI can replace BIOS just fine and not have any restrictions. They already exist and manufacturers already know how to use them.

Re:really?? by Mr+Z · 2012-07-01 16:53 · Score: 1 · on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome?

Who says a single command line utility need to do that? I can do it in a single command line, though.

newspost -s "More pics" -p posting.par $(for I in *.jpg ; do G=upload/${I%.jpg}.gif ; djpeg -pnm $I | pamscale -xsize 320 -ysize 240 | pnmquant 256 | ppmtogif > $G ; echo $G)

And before you call 'BS', note that I habitually type long, involved command-lines like that (not including all the [website.name] crap Slashdot inserted). That particular one above finds all the JPEGs in the current directory, resizes them to 320x240, quantizes them to 256 colors, writes them as GIFs, and uploads them to USENET.

And that's kinda the point of the command line. There doesn't need to be one application that fills whatever baroque need you have at the moment. Instead, you can string a bunch of smaller tools together to get there.