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Nat Demos Dashboard

Posted by michael on from the test-drive dept.

pheared writes "Nat Friedman from Ximian gave a fairly in depth, quite hilarious (got embarrassing screensaver?), and somewhat impromptu, talk about his project "Dashboard" at OLS. From his blog: "The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time." Neat stuff, but I don't think I will be warming up to Mono and C# any time soon."

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  1. Personal Information Space? by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you taking the PIS? Uhm... "my PIS is full. I can't find my PIS."

    I think we need another term. Unfortunately my PIS seems to have crashed so I can't search for one.

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  2. Re:Nice to see the sideswipe at .NET (not) by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're thinking of kuro5hin. This is slashdot. Slaaaaash, dohhhhht.

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  3. Re:Nice to see the sideswipe at .NET (not) by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I think if M$ has Mono, it would serve you well not to "get in bed" with them, so to speak.

  4. Re:emacs: been there done that by Steeltoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    once again, lame technologies seek to imitate what the One True Editor has been able to do for years.

    I thought /. served this purpose perfectly already. As you spend the day surfing /., you get to visit all the links in the vicinity of the cursor. Like magic, it's like they *ALREADY* know you'll be here to stay.. and thus need not make any effort at all!!

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  5. Elsewhere in slashdot... by ultrabot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... you can read a discussion about ADHD, general lack of concentration and inability to get a job done.

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  6. Re:emacs: been there done that by miguel · · Score: 1, Funny

    Very good observation, you have now mastered google.

    Emacs also does web browsing, but most people will probably choose Mozilla to read slashdot for various reasons: easier to use, easier learning curve, and way better rendering of the information than Emacs can do.

    Miguel.

  7. Re:Nice to see the sideswipe at .NET (not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey Jim! Can you help me out a second? I was going through my code when I suddenly stepped into this code of yours, problem is I don't grok Lisp#!

  8. Embarassing Screensaver by wowbagger · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, inquiring minds want to know - what is this "Embarassing Screensaver"?

    We Want Screenshots, download URLs, and descriptions!

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  9. Re:Unnecessary commentary? by hey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Instead of:
    if (!Directory.Exists(str)) Directory.CreateDirectory(str);
    How about just:
    Directory.CreateDirectory(str);
    The system will check to see if the directory exists and if does the method will fail. Or in C:
    mkdir(str);
    That was hard.