Apparently xine now runs on PowerPC linux systems. The latest CVS version seems to have PowerPC targets, but only having X86 machines, I can't test it out.
Grab the CVS with,
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xine.sourceforge.ne t:/cvsroot/xine
cvs login
cvs -z3 co -P xine
I know that for X86 systems, I'm getting pretty much perfect (as far as I can tell) playback. It's better than WinDVD/PowerDVD anyway.
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Flash is a binary coded, obfuscated, proprietary format owned and controlled by Macromedia. It's difficult to program for, supported only on select platforms, only with non-free plugins and utilities etc.
Use SVG, an open standard which aims for wide support, based on XML with a very strong underlying rendering model. It rocks.
HTML is great, XHTML (or at least HTML >= 4) is better.
The problem with HTML is that it was designed to be a markup language for simple documents, so it has heading, subheadings, titles, paragraphs etc. However, as people wanted to do more and more stylistic things with it, the language was extended by the w3c. But, most people kept just bastardising it by using heading tags to make things big and bold tags to emphasize things.
HTML is a big, nasty mix of structured document and stylistic tags. What HTML 4 strict does is to say that HTML is just a structure language with no formatting info. Then you use CSS or XSL to do the style work, which is a much more sane and portable approach.
Use a nice SGML/XML application like DocBook. Tools for manipulation are free, anyone can write DocBook, with or without specialist tools (it looks a lot like HTML to the layman).
Don't use HTML, at least use XHTML making sure that you segregate style from content. If you must use HTML, use stylesheets so that formatting is consistent.
But, my recommendation would be to use DocBook (SGML) and use stylesheets and nice free parsers to output TeX, ASCII, RTF, HTML and whatever else people want.
Look at the snapshots of the work, clearly the artist is exploring common forms and motions used in calligraphy and penmanship. The piece shows the common motions used in calligraphy from a variety of sources, I can see stuff in there that is reminiscent of Arabic, Eastern calligraphy, and pictographic stuff.
As a piece of art, I personally find it interesting, a good attempt at abstracting some of the features common to writing from many cultures and styles.
I'll note here (marginally) that if you are under 25 or 30 years old, the idea of a document being a program is probably just weird.
I'm 20 and fairly used to documents containing active code. But, what really puzzles me is why the ascii manpage isn't generated on the fly?
Although embedded code in documents can be very cool (ie postscript), I really do prefer some division of code and layout. Hence, I have a really nice Java FAQ written in SGML, using make it's automagically rendered and contorted into LaTeX, pdf, ps, plain text and HTML. It's really nice to have a single source format without any embedded code, that way it can be easily reused.
In the interview it says that Kernighan is currently hacking eqn to output XML/HTML (presumably MathML?). This has been suggested as a CS thesis title at my university, fortunately I decided that it was far too sick a task to even think about.
eqn is kinda cool (given that it works wonderfully on pipelines with troff in cunning ways). But, surely by now all old eqn documents have been converted to TeX or MathML anyway? Does anyone outside of Bell Labs actually have any eqn documents?
I wasn't sure if it was flamebait or genuine stupidity. But, never forget the old maxim, Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity.
Last time I looked Carmack was one of the main developers on the utah-glx project. I believe that he's been involved in bringing GLX support to Linux, writing an X server for MacOS X and releasing games under the GPL.
Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake 1 are all released under the GPL.
I want something the size of a psion (preferably with a small keyboard) which can run gcc, has a serial port, uses AA batteries (so I can replace them with a quick visit to a newsagent), has at least a 24hr battery life, has a PCMCIA slot (probably for a 340mb IBM microdrive or an ethernet card) and fits nicely in my pocket.
I've looked at all sorts of devices, but they all fail on some criteria. The tiny librettos don't meet the battery criteria, psions and palms don't have the horsepower, the Aero and the Cassiopeaia (sp?) and similar things don't have PCMCIA (or ethernet/HD).
I'm thinking that a hacked lart might do the trick, but I lack the skills to build it.
Sacks has actually written a book on colourblindness called "The Island of the Colorblind". I haven't read it, but I saw an excellent documentary about it.
It's about an island full of totally colourblind people (achromatopiacs?). It was fascinating.
I have a so called "severe colour discrimination deficiency". About 5 years ago I took a colour test in high school where I was presented with many black cards, each had three small dots, I had to say whether the left dot or the right dot was most similar in colour to the centre one. Because they aren't exact matches, this was extremely difficult for me.
Usually I rely on viewing colours from many angles in different lights to work out what they are. But, this text used small dots which prevented me from doing it. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that I can do some of the Ishihara tests by holding them in coloured light.
PS, I posted this/. submission on colour-blindness first:-P
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"Like CmdrTaco in every way except one eighth size, I will call him MiniTaco"
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xine.sourceforge.n
cvs login
cvs -z3 co -P xine
I know that for X86 systems, I'm getting pretty much perfect (as far as I can tell) playback. It's better than WinDVD/PowerDVD anyway.
No, seriously.....
Instant startup, netbooting over virtually any protocol/system, no floppies/hard disks.
Time to flash my BIOS.
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Flash is a binary coded, obfuscated, proprietary format owned and controlled by Macromedia. It's difficult to program for, supported only on select platforms, only with non-free plugins and utilities etc.
Use SVG, an open standard which aims for wide support, based on XML with a very strong underlying rendering model. It rocks.
\end{rant}Try the O'Reilly DocBook book. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/desc.html
It's not free, but quite good.
HTML is great, XHTML (or at least HTML >= 4) is better.
The problem with HTML is that it was designed to be a markup language for simple documents, so it has heading, subheadings, titles, paragraphs etc. However, as people wanted to do more and more stylistic things with it, the language was extended by the w3c. But, most people kept just bastardising it by using heading tags to make things big and bold tags to emphasize things.
HTML is a big, nasty mix of structured document and stylistic tags. What HTML 4 strict does is to say that HTML is just a structure language with no formatting info. Then you use CSS or XSL to do the style work, which is a much more sane and portable approach.
PDF is better. Smaller, better font embedding, better cross platform support, incremental download/display for web download etc.
But, much as we hackers love to edit postscript by hand, normal people don't. The original message said editable
Ah... but CR or LF or both? The eternal question....
Use a nice SGML/XML application like DocBook. Tools for manipulation are free, anyone can write DocBook, with or without specialist tools (it looks a lot like HTML to the layman).
Don't use HTML, at least use XHTML making sure that you segregate style from content. If you must use HTML, use stylesheets so that formatting is consistent.
But, my recommendation would be to use DocBook (SGML) and use stylesheets and nice free parsers to output TeX, ASCII, RTF, HTML and whatever else people want.
Look at the snapshots of the work, clearly the artist is exploring common forms and motions used in calligraphy and penmanship. The piece shows the common motions used in calligraphy from a variety of sources, I can see stuff in there that is reminiscent of Arabic, Eastern calligraphy, and pictographic stuff.
As a piece of art, I personally find it interesting, a good attempt at abstracting some of the features common to writing from many cultures and styles.
Small pigs? what? are you mad?
GiS is cool, please do more.
I'm 20 and fairly used to documents containing active code. But, what really puzzles me is why the ascii manpage isn't generated on the fly?
Although embedded code in documents can be very cool (ie postscript), I really do prefer some division of code and layout. Hence, I have a really nice Java FAQ written in SGML, using make it's automagically rendered and contorted into LaTeX, pdf, ps, plain text and HTML. It's really nice to have a single source format without any embedded code, that way it can be easily reused.You can hardly put TeX and MathML in the same category as the rest?
MathML is a totally clean, portable way of describing equations. AFAIK it's much cleaner than eqn with it's idiosyncracies.
Meanwhile, TeX is the choice of most mathematicians for publishing papers. It's changed very little over recent years, hardly like Word.
In the interview it says that Kernighan is currently hacking eqn to output XML/HTML (presumably MathML?). This has been suggested as a CS thesis title at my university, fortunately I decided that it was far too sick a task to even think about.
eqn is kinda cool (given that it works wonderfully on pipelines with troff in cunning ways). But, surely by now all old eqn documents have been converted to TeX or MathML anyway? Does anyone outside of Bell Labs actually have any eqn documents?
Whoops, I mean utah-glx. This is what happens when I don't paste urls.
I wasn't sure if it was flamebait or genuine stupidity. But, never forget the old maxim, Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity.
Last time I looked Carmack was one of the main developers on the utah-glx project. I believe that he's been involved in bringing GLX support to Linux, writing an X server for MacOS X and releasing games under the GPL.
Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake 1 are all released under the GPL.
I think it's an obscure reference to Emmett being the forgotten child of Jobs (or at least looking like the part)
Get well soon raja!
I want something the size of a psion (preferably with a small keyboard) which can run gcc, has a serial port, uses AA batteries (so I can replace them with a quick visit to a newsagent), has at least a 24hr battery life, has a PCMCIA slot (probably for a 340mb IBM microdrive or an ethernet card) and fits nicely in my pocket.
I've looked at all sorts of devices, but they all fail on some criteria. The tiny librettos don't meet the battery criteria, psions and palms don't have the horsepower, the Aero and the Cassiopeaia (sp?) and similar things don't have PCMCIA (or ethernet/HD).
I'm thinking that a hacked lart might do the trick, but I lack the skills to build it.
Please Santa.....
Sacks has actually written a book on colourblindness called "The Island of the Colorblind". I haven't read it, but I saw an excellent documentary about it.
It's about an island full of totally colourblind people (achromatopiacs?). It was fascinating.
Surely this isn't really big news? Some guy has written some free software for windows, it's not even especially interesting software.
This looks like a job for freshmeat?
I have a so called "severe colour discrimination deficiency". About 5 years ago I took a colour test in high school where I was presented with many black cards, each had three small dots, I had to say whether the left dot or the right dot was most similar in colour to the centre one. Because they aren't exact matches, this was extremely difficult for me.
Usually I rely on viewing colours from many angles in different lights to work out what they are. But, this text used small dots which prevented me from doing it. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that I can do some of the Ishihara tests by holding them in coloured light.
PS, I posted this /. submission on colour-blindness first :-P
Flash, you've only got 14 minutes to save the Earth.
Flash is binary, nasty and costly to develop, it must die.
I went to a talk on converting flash to SVG a few months ago, the program to do it is available online via some cgi
Flash to SVG converter