I'll bite the troll as well :
I've been happily running linux as my main OS at home since 1996.
The last time I dual booted with win2k was in, well, 2000. Ever since then I've been solely using Debian, and it's been filling all my needs : web, programming, word processing, scientific computing, and so on (though I reckon I don't play games).
Why would I trade reliability for something else ?
Hello Limor,
I like what you made as ladyada and now at adafruit.
what was the trigger so that you made of your hobby a business and a job from which you could make a living ?
2 questions in fact : what difficulties did you have to overcome when you started your bussiness ?
Cheers,
Fred
Though I very rarely use Octave, Gnuplot is one of my favorite tools, I like it a lot, it is very powerful. This a very good decision to port them on Android, because associated with ADK it can enable easy custom applications for data acquisition and analysis on the field.
I agree with you on that. Plus it should be a feature Wikipedia benefits from. They should receive a fee for any redirect or any book sold that way. But to be fair Wikipedia should offer an API to any booksellers to do this. A feature that would help customers choosing their bookseller.
1) a person browses Wikipedia (the portal of knowledge) 2) she finds an interesting book referred from Wikipedia 3) chooses her bookseller to buy the book (the deposit of knowledge) 4) ??? 5) profit !;-)
I don't get your point, you should develop a little further.
The Python installer for windows is rather painless, launch setup.exe and it's done.
Plus though the cmd.exe console is rather minimalistic a few Python scripts would offer you a minimum of the command line expressiveness.
At my workplace we are stuck by microsoft lock-in, I bless the possibility I've had to develop a bunch of Python scripts over the years for to ease the burden of having to work in a windows environment.
This Asus thing is kind of linux on the desktop, looks great. I wish I had at least one. I intend to buy 2 : 1 as a personal organiser for its mobility, and 1 for my home automation project because of its low power requirement and the hacking possibilities.
fred
I've been searching for an easy and fast way to publish documents. In the places where I worked I saw people were loosing too much time with text processors. Instead of focusing on content they were fiddling with fonts, colors,... style. This usely lead to poor content.
What is needed is separation of content and style : text then style, content then presentation.
Opera CTO is right with HTML and CSS, but they might not be appropriate for publishing.
PDF is a good format for publishing and it is widely used but it is missing the template feature.
Lyx can do the trick but template customization and generation is not easy for non (latex)latex aware people (non programmers).
I've searched for such a mean to separate text and style, you just type text, then your style is automatically applied, check my web page : http://fredboboss.free.fr/pyfpdf/index.php
At last you get a PDF ready for publishing, this is just a proof of concept, but the idea is that you can keep your content an change the style whenever needed.
I don't know what ODF format consists in, but a good document format for producing document ready for publishing would allow seperation of content and style à la CSS stylesheet so that users can just concentrate on text.
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yes:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.3/04672.html/
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85941/
I'll bite the troll as well : I've been happily running linux as my main OS at home since 1996. The last time I dual booted with win2k was in, well, 2000. Ever since then I've been solely using Debian, and it's been filling all my needs : web, programming, word processing, scientific computing, and so on (though I reckon I don't play games). Why would I trade reliability for something else ?
Hello Limor, I like what you made as ladyada and now at adafruit. what was the trigger so that you made of your hobby a business and a job from which you could make a living ? 2 questions in fact : what difficulties did you have to overcome when you started your bussiness ? Cheers, Fred
Though I very rarely use Octave, Gnuplot is one of my favorite tools, I like it a lot, it is very powerful. This a very good decision to port them on Android, because associated with ADK it can enable easy custom applications for data acquisition and analysis on the field.
To echo the lame comments please let me just say that IMHO Inkscape is one of the best open source tool out there.
Thank you to the Inkscape devs (and thank you for this book review for spreading info about it).
I agree with you on that. Plus it should be a feature Wikipedia benefits from. They should receive a fee for any redirect or any book sold that way. But to be fair Wikipedia should offer an API to any booksellers to do this. A feature that would help customers choosing their bookseller.
1) a person browses Wikipedia (the portal of knowledge) ;-)
2) she finds an interesting book referred from Wikipedia
3) chooses her bookseller to buy the book (the deposit of knowledge)
4) ???
5) profit !
I don't get your point, you should develop a little further.
The Python installer for windows is rather painless, launch setup.exe and it's done.
Plus though the cmd.exe console is rather minimalistic a few Python scripts would offer you a minimum of the command line expressiveness.
At my workplace we are stuck by microsoft lock-in, I bless the possibility I've had to develop a bunch of Python scripts over the years for to ease the burden of having to work in a windows environment.
This Asus thing is kind of linux on the desktop, looks great. I wish I had at least one. I intend to buy 2 : 1 as a personal organiser for its mobility, and 1 for my home automation project because of its low power requirement and the hacking possibilities. fred
This ASUS EEE looks to be very promising, small, light, it fills the gap between PDAs and UMPCs. And it's all about reliability, low power, almost no moving parts, and Linux (Xandros). A lot of people (like me) are getting really impatient, some are about to get mad. This site has also neat reviews of the thing : http://www.blogeee.net/ (translation) : http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogeee.net%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
I've been searching for an easy and fast way to publish documents. ... style. This usely lead to poor content.
In the places where I worked I saw people were loosing too much time
with text processors. Instead of focusing on content they were fiddling
with fonts, colors,
What is needed is separation of content and style :
text then style, content then presentation.
Opera CTO is right with HTML and CSS,
but they might not be appropriate for publishing.
PDF is a good format for publishing and it is widely used but
it is missing the template feature.
Lyx can do the trick but template customization and generation
is not easy for non (latex)latex aware people (non programmers).
I've searched for such a mean to separate text and style, you just type text,
then your style is automatically applied, check my web page :
http://fredboboss.free.fr/pyfpdf/index.php
At last you get a PDF ready for publishing, this is just a proof of concept,
but the idea is that you can keep your content an change the style
whenever needed.
I don't know what ODF format consists in, but a good document format
for producing document ready for publishing would allow seperation of
content and style à la CSS stylesheet so that users can just concentrate
on text.
fred