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http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to
offer, schools themselves must change. ... So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process."

I wrote that essay after working towards some FOSS tools to make it easier for kids to get into programming.

Also related:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/16a.htm
"I'll bring this down to earth. Try to see that an intricately subordinated industrial/commercial system has only limited use for hundreds of millions of self-reliant, resourceful readers and critical thinkers. In an egalitarian, entrepreneurially based economy of confederated families like the one the Amish have or the Mondragon folk in the Basque region of Spain, any number of self-reliant people can be accommodated usefully, but not in a concentrated command-type economy like our own. Where on earth would they fit? In a great fanfare of moral fervor some years back, the Ford Motor Company opened the world's most productive auto engine plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. It insisted on hiring employees with 50 percent more school training than the Mexican norm of six years, but as time passed Ford removed its requirements and began to hire school dropouts, training them quite well in four to twelve weeks. The hype that education is essential to robot-like work was quietly abandoned. Our economy has no adequate outlet of expression for its artists, dancers, poets, painters, farmers, filmmakers, wildcat business people, handcraft workers, whiskey makers, intellectuals, or a thousand other useful human enterprises -- no outlet except corporate work or fringe slots on the periphery of things. Unless you do "creative" work the company way, you run afoul of a host of laws and regulations put on the books to control the dangerous products of imagination which can never be safely tolerated by a centralized command system."

And, speaking as someone who has been using computers for thirty years, and while thinking everyone should ideally have a baisc computer literacy to be an informed citizen, how many programmers does the world really need? Kids are smart. They know there are fewer and fewer "good" jobs in technology for all sorts of reasons.
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
http://community.dice.com/t5/Tech-Market-Conditions/Alice-Dice-s-claim-of-4-Unemployment/td-p/235866

From:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209831/Engineering--The-next-generation
"We often hear from readers who are engineers that they try to dissuade sons and daught

You might get more consistent results if you rip the tracks with paranoia

http://edna.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]

http://edna.sourceforge.net/

Open up a port on your router, say 9040 or something

Set edna to use port 9040

Use ssh (or putty if you must ) on your laptop (or mobile device) to forward port 9040 to wherever you are.

Enjoy your music.

GOOGLE & I ARE WELL KNOWN THEN, lol!

After all - APK's their std. for programming ANDROID (android programming package)!

SO much for this from the "ne'er-do-well" TROLLING likes of YOU, Erroneous!

See here, as I have said in this exchange already? GOOGLE DOESN'T LIE:

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APK (file format) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APK_(file_format)

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* So - After my 1st replies, first 3 already done blowing you away? Again - how STUPID do you feel, ErroneOus?

APK

P.S.=>

"Here he is so infamous that he is registered with an acronym." - by erroneus (253617) on Tuesday June 21, @07:08PM (#36521452) Homepage

Your worst effort yet possibly... heh, GOOGLE & MYSELF in the same letters? Hey - I'll take it (I owned it before they though, lol!)

AND, again:

The day you can show us all that you've done more in the art & science of computing than I have, earlier as well, & to better acclaim than I have (that's just when I was a CSC student too mind you, I moved onto bigger & better things afterwards) from this VERY PARTIAL LIST ONLY of a few of my "favs"? Is the day a trolling "ne'er-do-well" such as yourself can talk:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly:

GOOGLE & I ARE WELL KNOWN THEN, lol!

After all - APK's their std. for programming ANDROID (android programming package)!

SO much for this from the "ne'er-do-well" TROLLING likes of YOU, Erroneous!

See here, as I have said in this exchange already? GOOGLE DOESN'T LIE:

---

APK (file format) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APK_(file_format)

---

* So - After my 1st replies, first 3 already done blowing you away? Again - how STUPID do you feel, ErroneOus?

APK

P.S.=>

"Here he is so infamous that he is registered with an acronym." - by erroneus (253617) on Tuesday June 21, @07:08PM (#36521452) Homepage

Your worst effort yet possibly... heh, GOOGLE & MYSELF in the same letters? Hey - I'll take it (I owned it before they though, lol!)

AND, again:

The day you can show us all that you've done more in the art & science of computing than I have, earlier as well, & to better acclaim than I have (that's just when I was a CSC student too mind you, I moved onto bigger & better things afterwards) from this VERY PARTIAL LIST ONLY of a few of my "favs"? Is the day a trolling "ne'er-do-well" such as yourself can talk:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly:

Where he made mistakes vs. myself http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1681772&cid=32525656 and he's still "stinging" from it.

Get over it erroneus, your "geek angst" is laughable.

In fact, I have found that whenever I've shown that others of "your ilk" make mistakes as you did, they cannot handle it, and post a lot of crap online about it in effete retaliation trying to "smear me".

Just as you are trying to do. Pitiful.

(LMAO - Give us a break!)

"In all those years, you would think that he would have learned from his mistakes along the way as his internet trail indicates that he makes the same mistakes over and over and over again." - by erroneus (253617) on Tuesday June 21, @09:30AM (#36511692) Homepage

See URL above, speak for yourself... lol!

APK

P.S.=> As far as my history? Well... the day you can show anyone here you've done more than this, & better, as well as before I did in the art & science of computing:

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED F

Where he made mistakes vs. myself http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1681772&cid=32525656 and he's still "stinging" from it.

Get over it erroneus, your "geek angst" is laughable.

In fact, I have found that whenever I've shown that others of "your ilk" make mistakes as you did, they cannot handle it, and post a lot of crap online about it in effete retaliation trying to "smear me".

Just as you are trying to do. Pitiful.

(LMAO - Give us a break!)

"In all those years, you would think that he would have learned from his mistakes along the way as his internet trail indicates that he makes the same mistakes over and over and over again." - by erroneus (253617) on Tuesday June 21, @09:30AM (#36511692) Homepage

See URL above, speak for yourself... lol!

APK

P.S.=> As far as my history? Well... the day you can show anyone here you've done more than this, & better, as well as before I did in the art & science of computing:

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED F

I'd rather just see MD5 hashes or something better to verify the data. Paper can be corrupted like anything else.

Parity files? http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

That way you can verify and also repair.

In software? See subject-line above, & this SMALL partial list of my "favorites" only in respected trade shows, magazines in computing & books (newspapers too, but not listed here) as well as RESPECTED trade shows and commercial wares:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labor

In software? See subject-line above, & this SMALL partial list of my "favorites" only in respected trade shows, magazines in computing & books (newspapers too, but not listed here) as well as RESPECTED trade shows and commercial wares:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labor

You will probably get your wish, as there are people working on a secure boot using UEFI (modern replacement for BIOS) and the sort of cryptographic integrity validation you are talking about: https://lwn.net/Articles/447381/ (subscription required, but free from 23 Jun 2011)

This can be used for good (if you own your own keys, you can compile and install your own kernel etc) or bad (if the hardware vendor or OS vendor owns the keys, you have no way to install anything else, i.e. you have a Tivoized system).

Be careful what you wish for... There's a good chance that in a few years' time, new PCs that come with Windows will make it cryptographically impossible to install a new OS. Only if the UEFI allows you to disable this secure boot feature will you be able to do anything beyond Windows.

Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) is a separate project, in kernel 2.6.30+, that does similar things within Linux based on TPM: http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/ - again, the ownership of the keys is critical.

I am correct on that much? See here, where the Senior VP of the Windows Client Performance Division (foredecker/Richard Russell) had to admit I am correct on that much in fact:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1467692&cid=30384918

He has his CSC degree too... do you? Doubt it!

So when YOU have done the likes of that?? Then, you can get back to us, ok??

We'll be waiting (probably until the "12th of never, & when the clock strikes 13" (lol, on a leap year)) in YOUR case, you off-topic "ne'er-do-well" troll!

This?

Ah, I just GOTTA say it, as-per-usual vs. off topic "ne'er-do-well trolls" like yourself: It was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'".

APK

P.S.=> Lastly/in closing/BOTTOM-LINE here:

Oh, on this "note" from you also quoted next below?

Well, when you have done the likes of this VERY partial list only on MY PART, & before I did, to greater acclaim in the art & science of computing?

?

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it,

I am correct on that much? See here, where the Senior VP of the Windows Client Performance Division (foredecker/Richard Russell) had to admit I am correct on that much in fact:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1467692&cid=30384918

He has his CSC degree too... do you? Doubt it!

So when YOU have done the likes of that?? Then, you can get back to us, ok??

We'll be waiting (probably until the "12th of never, & when the clock strikes 13" (lol, on a leap year)) in YOUR case, you off-topic "ne'er-do-well" troll!

This?

Ah, I just GOTTA say it, as-per-usual vs. off topic "ne'er-do-well trolls" like yourself: It was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'".

APK

P.S.=> Lastly/in closing/BOTTOM-LINE here:

Oh, on this "note" from you also quoted next below?

Well, when you have done the likes of this VERY partial list only on MY PART, & before I did, to greater acclaim in the art & science of computing?

?

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it,

It just might - http://macpp.sourceforge.net/
Haven't tried it myself as I rarely have the opportunity to use a Mac

if you actually want to use a modern version of the API, you need to do a lot of faffing about checking for extensions, and get a pointer to a fnction bofre actually using it.

Or you could use GLEW, which does all that for you and works really well under Windows.

allowing developers to create an interface in which a smartphone app could control or collect data from a thermostat, a lawn irrigation system or a group of lighting fixtures.

Welcome to misterhouse from the 90s? Everything old is new again!

http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

I have set this up, I can control my lights and stuff from my ipod touch web browser, and it is in fact a completely useless cool hack.

I DO use misterhouse to automate the heck out of timing and some simple virtual timers (outside light shuts off X minutes after I turn it on) and also some virtual relay logic (basement stairs light controlled by position of basement door using the most hardware and software possible instead of a simple relay). Useful as that has been, "control the lights using the ipod" has been quite useless.

I've always thought something like this(link below) was a good way to keep students engaged, make it fun, and give students a better idea of what programming was really about. The programming is OO so most of the hard work is done by the environment, students just get a simple list of methods to use. And you could have a giant tank robot battle to the death at the end of the semester. was always told it was too complicated for new programmers.

ps. i have no affiliation with the project other than using it in high school. Just thought it was always a great idea and underutilized tool.
http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

Even if it works, still doesn't quite solve the problem that probably only the more knowledgeable part of the users would know about such solutions and know to use them, though...

It's also exactly the reason why you should choose a layered architecture, and preferably MVC/MVP or MVVM. They all make platform switching much easier as the frontend is a very think layer.

Silverlight in particular has a really nice MVVM framework called Caliburn (http://caliburn.codeplex.com/). If you've built your app using that, then it shouldn't be a huge amount of work to switch to html5/js for the frontend.

Hey, you might even be able to use a.net to js compiler to do the body of the work: http://jsc.sourceforge.net/

You seem to have missed Zotero (it's up there in the comments somewhere) which is a FOSS plugin for firefox. It keeps an offline database, and for nearly any site (e.g. journals) you click one button on the URL bar and it downloads the citation including full pdf so you can read it whenever. It will also let you perform full text searches of your database, and can be configured to perform OCR on scanned documents. Best of all, it's trivial to make bibtex (or many other formats) bibliographies.

I use that in combination with TiddlyWiki for personal typed notes not associated with a journal article/textbook, and Xournal for annotating documents and taking notes with my tablet computer. When annotating documents (textbooks, journal articles) just configure xournal as your pdf viewer and you'll be able to save every annotation you make. TiddlyWiki has a ton of plugins to do whatever you need, including a GTD (Getting Things Done -- it's a book) variant that's probably comparable to Emacs Org-mode, LaTeX math (I wrote that one -- use it every day), and many more.

The one drawback to all this is that I have no way to automatically organize my handwritten notes from xournal. Though they're computer files, my organization for them is horrendous. I still fantasize about some kind of hybrid mutant of TiddlyWiki, OCR (that can magically read my handwriting and equations), and xournal that would let me do all this on a pen-based tablet...

You're right, I didn't include Zotero in that comment! Having looked at it before, my impression of Zotero was that it is a (very competent) reference manager / source collection. Is it more than this? TiddlyWiki sounds familiar too - this is a subject I've dallied with before, so perhaps I came across it previously :-). I'll have another look at Zotero and TiddlyWiki and see if I can get it to do the categorisation thing I'm looking for that I mentioned in my other comment. Cheers!

You might also want to look at an xml normalizing tool like Xena - automagically converts all your docs, files, etc into open formats whose content can be searched by open tools.

You seem to have missed Zotero (it's up there in the comments somewhere) which is a FOSS plugin for firefox. It keeps an offline database, and for nearly any site (e.g. journals) you click one button on the URL bar and it downloads the citation including full pdf so you can read it whenever. It will also let you perform full text searches of your database, and can be configured to perform OCR on scanned documents. Best of all, it's trivial to make bibtex (or many other formats) bibliographies.

I use that in combination with TiddlyWiki for personal typed notes not associated with a journal article/textbook, and Xournal for annotating documents and taking notes with my tablet computer. When annotating documents (textbooks, journal articles) just configure xournal as your pdf viewer and you'll be able to save every annotation you make. TiddlyWiki has a ton of plugins to do whatever you need, including a GTD (Getting Things Done -- it's a book) variant that's probably comparable to Emacs Org-mode, LaTeX math (I wrote that one -- use it every day), and many more.

The one drawback to all this is that I have no way to automatically organize my handwritten notes from xournal. Though they're computer files, my organization for them is horrendous. I still fantasize about some kind of hybrid mutant of TiddlyWiki, OCR (that can magically read my handwriting and equations), and xournal that would let me do all this on a pen-based tablet...

Well, you mentioned GUI apps to be fantastic on the Mac. But I don't see any tools on the Mac I would actually want/need to use.

So I was thinking, what would I replace ? dig was just an example.

Well, Mac OS X does come with a 'GUI tool' for ping, whois, nslookup and netstat. But I'm a heavy user of dig and ping, I actually do need all the options for testing. So they don't solve what I need.

From all the tools I use I wouldn't know what to add to my toolbox or what to replace as an improvement.
For example I don't create such effect-heavy websites where I would need something like: http://tumultco.com/hype/features/
While http://meld.sourceforge.net/ is nice, I've hardly ever had a need to use it.
http://cola.tuxfamily.org/screenshots.html is nice, but I don't usually need to split up patches in git.

Thus as I don't need any GUI apps, I thought if the market seems to want to try and move us all into the browser, I might as well try it out. As an experiment.

Id suggest Star Control 2. It has action, adventure, and it teaches a lil about resource managment. I think the ending of that one would be reached.

I wouldn't have thought of it as an adventure game, but I suppose that is as fitting a genre as any. There is even a free remake(?) of it called The Ur-Quan Masters. Definitely worth trying out.

• All passwords are of the form "[prefix][password][postfix]"
• Choose 3 values for each element of the password. e.g. prefix could be "*(", "$^", or "@!", password could be "sparky", "fido", "jomama", and postfix might just be 3 well known 4-6 digit numbers.
• Memorize these nine tokens, and if you need to write down specific passwords you can just put in placeholders for the values. e.g. "$^fido5150" can be written down as power-woof-vanhalen.

Works like a charm for me.

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1881444&cid=34343366

LMAO: In fact, you showed that You're SO STUPID, and so WEAK TECHNICALLY, you didn't even realize HOSTS files get cached into memory by the local diskcache kernel-mode subsystem!

Now: CAN YOU PROVE YOU ACTUALLY ARE IN COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY?

I can, easily (while I played for a National Champ in the Sport of Lacrosse in the mid 1980's):

http://www.lemoynedolphins.com/sports/mlax/history/mlaxletterwinners

(See the letter "K" & the year 1985... the rest is easy enough to figure out!)

So, again - CAN YOU PROVE YOU ARE IN SCHOOL? By the way, you don't make SQUAT on internships... ALL you REALLY ARE, is a tax-break for some company - get over yourself & your illusions (& they pay you squat for those things too, been there, done that, LONG ago!)

APK

P.S.=> By the way - I am LONG done with academia, & I have 2 degrees (1 with major & minor, the other is past credits for an A.A.S. & going for B.S. @ 94/120 credits as I have time to keep @ it!)

Oh, & I actually can SHOW I've accomplished a decent amount in the eyes of others in respected publications in the art & science of computing (books, magazines, newspapers, & more - PLUS, doing well for my ideas & work @ Ms TechEd 2000-2002 in its hardest category with COMMERCIALLY SOLD SOFTWARE CODE TO MY CREDIT TO THIS VERY DAY - Can you show the same? No, obviously, and you NEVER will (and, you KNOW it)):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.ne

Try K-Meleon, it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox.
It is very lightweight.
The 1.6.x betas even support HTML5.

I think the trick would be figuring enough of the protocol out in order to make video workable and also provide people with the means to host their own servers. That could avoid the theft-of-service problem.

There already is VOIP (voice over IP) solutions that are open and work in this way. (From what I understand, they didn't reverse-engineer Skype and are catering to a different audience. A gaming chat like Mumble/Murmur is a good example. Considering what it is, it works surprisingly well.) So the only spot not quite covered yet is the other VIOP (video over IP) which lets people do the webcam thing. I'm sure many computers and their broadband is now up to spec, so now it's just a matter of making it happen.

I'd suggest taking what he knows already, firing some emails to already existing open source chat developers (avoid re-inventing some stuff, etc.), figuring out the best of what's available, and then making it possible and very easy to do all of it without need of any middleman in the process.

"The video amuses me, as it's 10 minutes in, and he's still futzing with DOS, bootable CDs have really changed things."

Indeed. Even when motherboards (supposedly) supported booting from CD, it was useful to have a collection of boot floppies, including one with Smart Boot Manager:

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

I still have my floppy image collection (Winimage was my friend!) on CD. I used that to crank out boot floppies aplenty for self and friends.

All you mostly read about JavaScript is in the browser. There are however project that take JavaScript beyond the browser.
Are there any people who have experience with a project like Gluescript? It's on http://gluescript.sourceforge.net/ and it provides GUI programming, server side JavaScript, and maybe other things.
I just found out its existence today. Just wondering about opinions.

For the longest time I kept a blackbox login for gaming from, because of the very low overhead.

I now do all my Linux gaming from within Gnome, mostly because I'm running 8GB of RAM though.

As much as Rocks is very simple after a fashion, there's something about it's design philosophy that just, well, bugs me (no pun intended). I really hated it when it was Redhat-only and the OS was much more rigidly tied to the management, now I just feel vaguely uncomfortable using it, like if my (now ex) girlfriend packed my bag for a trip. Everything appears to be there and appears to be okay, but there's a certain nagging feeling there nonetheless...

I'd take RHEL/CentOS/Fedora using xCAT (funny how they changed the name from eXtreme Cluster to eXtreme Cloud Administration Tool - what is it with everyone having to throw the word "cloud" into everything - we're mostly educated people, we can look at software and see whether it will work for a cluster that's being used to provide cloud services or not!) over a Rocks install any day.

For a Windows XServer, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

Works great when I've needed it!

Off topic illogical adhominem attacks don't make YOU "look smart" @ all... period!

Is THAT the "best you've got" boy?? Apparently so! Instead, why not attempt to disprove the points I make here:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2188228&cid=36252736

You run from them - Perhaps because you can't? LOL, we KNOW you can't!

They are MY points by the by...

Fact is & my init. post has proof of it??

I've been pointing them out since 1997 in fact, & my init. post even evidences it for me with verifiable facts you can see online from security guides & posts I have done in the past from that far back in fact!

---

Now, in regards to your WEAK/EFFETE adhominem attacks on my intelligence?

Well, you evading disproving my 20 points in the URL above seems to show YOU are the weak one here... lol!

Secondly: The day you have done more than I have in this art & science of computing, + before I did per this list below (very partial, only some of my favs):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to u

Off topic illogical adhominem attacks don't make YOU "look smart" @ all... period!

Is THAT the "best you've got" boy?? Apparently so! Instead, why not attempt to disprove the points I make here:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2188228&cid=36252736

You run from them - Perhaps because you can't? LOL, we KNOW you can't!

They are MY points by the by...

Fact is & my init. post has proof of it??

I've been pointing them out since 1997 in fact, & my init. post even evidences it for me with verifiable facts you can see online from security guides & posts I have done in the past from that far back in fact!

---

Now, in regards to your WEAK/EFFETE adhominem attacks on my intelligence?

Well, you evading disproving my 20 points in the URL above seems to show YOU are the weak one here... lol!

Secondly: The day you have done more than I have in this art & science of computing, + before I did per this list below (very partial, only some of my favs):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to u

Well, to be fair, vimperator does show the url most of the time. BTW, if you like vimperator, do check out its apparently-more-actively-developed fork, pentadactyl.

I agree with you it shouldn't be there. Correct me if I am wrong on this point but TiVo was most likely forced to use DRM in their files in order to use allow the legal use of cable cards in their DVR. Fortunately not many channels are flagged for copy prevention. As far as the ease of copying TiVo desktop and Desktop Plus allows someone to download from the TiVo unit and then convert it to video that is playable on an iPod, iPhone, several blackberry devices, Palm Pre, Zune, PSP, and several other devices. As far as burning them onto a video DVD or Blu-Ray it does take a few additional steps. Start off with either TiVo desktop, TiVo PLaylist, Galleon, or any web browser to download the video or videos, using either Tivo Decode or Directshow Dump to remove the wrapper, then use any DVD/Blu Ray authoring software out there as long as it supports MPEG2.

While it is rather easy not everyone would be able to perform such acts. Then again, those who have little or no technical skill probably were not able to set the clock on a VCR, or copy a simple file on a computer. No matter how easy you make something there is always going to be quite a few people who will not simply get it.

I agree with you it shouldn't be there. Correct me if I am wrong on this point but TiVo was most likely forced to use DRM in their files in order to use allow the legal use of cable cards in their DVR. Fortunately not many channels are flagged for copy prevention. As far as the ease of copying TiVo desktop and Desktop Plus allows someone to download from the TiVo unit and then convert it to video that is playable on an iPod, iPhone, several blackberry devices, Palm Pre, Zune, PSP, and several other devices. As far as burning them onto a video DVD or Blu-Ray it does take a few additional steps. Start off with either TiVo desktop, TiVo PLaylist, Galleon, or any web browser to download the video or videos, using either Tivo Decode or Directshow Dump to remove the wrapper, then use any DVD/Blu Ray authoring software out there as long as it supports MPEG2.

While it is rather easy not everyone would be able to perform such acts. Then again, those who have little or no technical skill probably were not able to set the clock on a VCR, or copy a simple file on a computer. No matter how easy you make something there is always going to be quite a few people who will not simply get it.

I play all my favorite DOS games on 64 bit Linux with dosbox. No video or Audio issues. Games I platy: Ultima 3,4,5 and 6. Might and Magic 3,4. Pool of Radiance, Wizardry6, Bards Tale 2,3, Dungeon Master 2. Though I did need to tweek the conf file for each game, so I launch DosBox with the -conf flag pointing to the conf file for the game I want to play, usually in a launcher on the desktop, the conf file then maps the appropreate directory to C and initates the correct midi port and executes the game. By adding the exit command at the end of the conf file, dosbox closes when I exit the game. I also use Frotz Z-Machine to play my text interactive games: http://frotz.sourceforge.net/ Also, I hold on to all my old software and games, including the Boxes. I believe that they will be worth something to collectors some day. At my old job I found a bunch of unopened DOS 5, windows 3 and NT 3 boxes and scooped them up, with permission. My boss thought I was crazy, but I think I may have a possible collectors dream. I also have original Comador 64 and Amiga games in good condition, still in box. WatCom Basic OS2/WARP unopened. Borland C, unopened. I wish I had held onto my old hardware though. I think it would be cool to still have my old ZX 81: Vid of ZX 81 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92xvLlbnVg&feature=feedlik , Comador 64 and Amiga. Even an old 386 would be cool to have kicking around. P.S. Does anyone know why all the text in my posts gets skished up into one block, and loses all my carriage returns?

several other similarly named terminal windows that's sitting on some desktop that I forget where I put it. Scale.... visual recognition... select... and I'm there

So far I find it easier to distinguish window titles than windows - they often look too similar (a terminal with hostname1 often looks like hostname2 - I do colour code hostnames for live, staging, etc but I don't do different colours for each host ;) ) . So stuff ilke Scale or Windows 7's preview isn't as helpful to me. Windows 7's textual window title preview is helpful (esp when I often have about 30 task buttons (email, IM, explorer, putty, cmd, rxvt, remote desktop, editor, etc * multiple instances of each and it starts to add up!), So far it still is faster for me to switch windows than to keep closing and relaunching/reopening them later.

But I'm never handling the same number of applications within screen as I do my desktop. I could certainly emulate screen's window / task management in my desktop environment.

Just curious how would you do that on GNOME/KDE or whatever your desktop environment is (I think "awesome" or something can probably do it)?

On Win XP/7 I do that with a program I wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/

It works as long as you do not need to switch rapidly amongst more than 9 windows at a time. There is actually support for bank switching but I think only a few would be able to use that well (I don't use it ).

To work with a new set of up to 9 windows, "raise" them in the reverse order you want and then press winkey+0 or alt+0 (I prefer alt).

Handy if you don't have access to big/multi screens, or need to copy and paste amongst more than two windows (I can never do alt-tab fast for three or more windows).

or check out Gambas

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
http://www.scilab.org/
http://www.scicoslab.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_programming_language

Fuck desktop calculators. Fuck nostalgia from 70s engineers and programmers who think RPN is the shite because it works like a computer stack. Repeating anything if you get even the slightest thing wrong, or heck, even checking it is a time consuming nightmare on any desktop calculator. Spreadsheets and programmable math environments have FAR superceded dinky desktop calculators.

For voice, I just use Mumble and then host my own Murmur server. Sure that has its limitations and is stretching the application a little, but I've gotten it to work quite well with few problems. And it has the benefit of not needing anything other than using a decent broadband ISP. (Since you can easily host your own server, no other middleman involved.)

Video chat on the other hand is another thing. There's the video option under the Gmail chat, but it still doesn't seem to be consistent enough across platforms. Maybe they'll fix it in time now that the demand will be there.

Pentadactyl is the new vimperator http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/help/pentadactyl/

http://www.semanticdesktop.org/

My own limited attempts in that direction:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

I agree that those programs are no true alternatives, not until all my customers, my coworkers and my friends start using them. They'll stick to Skype and so must I. If they'll stop developing the Linux client and make the current one incompatible with the other ones I might even have to buy a Windows netbook only for it. At least I'll test web apps with IE9 outside a VM. I guess I'll become a heavy user of Synergy

By the way, I definitively switched to Linux at the time of Skype 4, with that big bad full screen interface and I don't know if things went for the worse or for the better since then. The Linux client looks like the old minimalistic Windows interface and has a better feeling. It's a matter of personal tastes.

Denyhosts also. I just set this up after finding over 40,000 failed ssh attempts in the last 3 days.

One counter example... sort of... but more to provide some, hopefully, helpful info:

I run three systems on my desk (Win 7, Mac OS X, Mandriva Linux). I run Synergy+ on all three (server runs on Linux) although I also have a KVM for those few rare moments when Synergy is not running. I also run virtual desktops on all three systems (Win 7 - 2x3, OS X - 2x2, Linux - 2x2). I am constantly switching between systems and desktops and I do use specific desktops for specific tasks. Typically I have between 3 and 5 windows open on each desktop. Lastly, I am a system administrator and only do related scripting and programming as opposed to being a developer and constantly in a programming environment.

Certainly I run the three systems to have one of each type of desktop system I typically administer. However you can also look at the setup as having three monitors as I use all three in my non-platform specific tasks. Certainly I could run with less monitors and virtual desktops although my efficiency and organization would greatly suffer (IMHO). I find organizing virtual desktops by task extremely useful when dealing with interruptions, multiple tasks, etc. Even going down to three systems/monitors and no virtual desktops would significantly increase screen clutter and decrease efficiency. Going down to a single system with remote access to the other two and having virtual desktops would be worse yet. Of course, a single monitor/system with remote access and no virtual desktops would be a nightmare.

I know other system administrators with only single monitors but with virtual desktops. However, even they have 1 or 2 additional systems on their desk which gets designated for a current task to help reduce screen clutter and increase organization. The developers I know run multiple screens when possible regardless of the platform used.

Finally, regarding virtual desktops on Windows 7: I highly recommend the following:
- VirtuaWin (using 4.3) with plugins: VirtuaPlus, VWDesktopIcons, vwKvasdoPager (this is the must-have module), VWPreview
- http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
Of course if you are running more than 1 system on your desk:
- http://synergy-foss.org/
- http://www.volker-lanz.de/software/qsynergy

Pentadactyl is a Vimperator fork. I started using it as they were quicker to bring out Firefox 4 support.