Well, myself I think that the answers were quite interesting. I'm thinking about the thread on dissassembling the lights, and the debate about how they work. This is true nerd thinking...
Of course, the original question looked more like "what brand should I buy", which is _not_ nerdy.
But honestly, this is not the kind of article were you can learn how-to do a linux-running: it simply says how they use it, but you are not going to find anything "usable" from there.
Hum, good point, did not think about that: I always have a machine or two running somewhere that can do that kind of job... Not exactly the average home user setup.
I suppose that someone could take Koha and wrap it with a local perl HTTP deamon (using something like HTTP::Lite or HTTP::Daemon) and port it to SQLite.
But even then, Koha is not focused for the use of the typical home user with a few hundreds books; the target is more like small libraries or documentation center, with a few thousands books.
So yeah, I think that Koha would be a solution more for someone that would want to manage it's book collection like a small library than for someone who would just want to "keep things neater".
Having the possibility to lookup the infos on the LoC, I think that going to LC is a good bet for a small collection. Usually, a personnal library consist of a lot of book on the same or similar subject. From what I understand of what my wife tell me about Dewey, it is more accurate in describing the subject of books, but for small libraries, it tend to force you to use long cotes (the actual number; is it called "cotes" in english? it's "cote" in french) to distinguish the books on similar subject.
Dewey has standard practice to differentiate multiple copies from each others; they uses more infos, a incremental digit I think. So I suppose that something similar exist for LC; gotta check this with the wife...
Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe.
It is intended to manage a small library or documentation center: at 3500 books, you are still considered a pretty small documentation center... But it could ease a lot the management of those books, the friends borowing, etc.
They have a lot of success-story. My librarian wife finded it nice when I showed it to her. Even though she refuse to keep woking at home organizing our books. Damn!
Of course, to really help keeping track of the books, you will need a good physical organisation too. But since Koha can talk Z3950, it may be possible to obtain the classification professionnaly done by big libraries: making Dewey or LC classification is _hard_. Librarian don't usually have master degree for nothing... So I would suggest refraining from going that work yourself ; pick a simple organization, since 3500 books is not that big, when you think about it and compare with _real_ libraries...
BTW, I tell my daughter that I write video games (I am a developer, but not a game developer) because, at 8, that is the only software that she can relate to.
My daughter (6 years old) thought for a while that I built the Internet. Like, all of it...
When she started to ask me to build sites about specific subject, I guessed it was time to tell her the truth and start teaching her HTML...
It does the same as rsync (ie. move only the bits that changed), but is two-way. With the GTK interface (well, or directly the text files configurations), you can build some "profile" that lets you sync at will say, only your brownsing stuff, all your/home, etc.
Then you must have been only to big cities, like Montreal, Quebec...
Because I can tell you for sur that in the "back-country", that old man with his big-bad pickup-truck don't know what the hell is a signals, and why then hell could'nt I drive in the lane I g**damn like!
It's always a shock to drive to my parents place in Abitibi and having to un-learn my good driving...
he himself was influenced by a science fiction tradition that began long before
So was Shakespeare. You know, the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing is real : even for geniuses (sp?), every work is always very profondly done on the work already done around it...
(and this is why We-Don't-Want-To-Let-Mickey-Mouse-Go Disney type of copyright holding is sad and dangerous).
Hrm, I won't argue about the "pro-seperatists [...] restriciting views that aren't in line with the separitist mantra" since it is true for too much "pro-seperatist" that don't like the idea of sane public debate (and the same could be said about the other side).
But please, don't bring E.Delisle in the discussion. I know people who studied at the same department, and her work was so bad that the university didn't want at first to grant her her diploma... And no, not because of her point of view, but purely because of her bad research method...
If they would do this, this would basically means No DRM/Regular MP3. If the files are offered in lossless versions, there is no problem re-encoding them to ogg/mp3/whatnot : it's a problem to convert between lossy compression because they don't lost the exact same kind of things. But from a lossless format, well, go on.
Not exactly. There is a lot of "potential holes" that are patch from version to version. But there is just nobody that feels that this is worth a press release...
Initially, GFS was conceived as the backend le system
for our production systems. Over time, the usage evolved
to include research and development tasks.
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Well, having tried Call Of Duty 3 for the Wii just yesterday, I can tell you that this kind of thing is possible right now.. :)
Giving melee attack with a remote has something really weird though.
Well, myself I think that the answers were quite interesting. I'm thinking about the thread on dissassembling the lights, and the debate about how they work. This is true nerd thinking...
:)
Of course, the original question looked more like "what brand should I buy", which is _not_ nerdy.
How to DIY is the way to go..
But honestly, this is not the kind of article were you can learn how-to do a linux-running: it simply says how they use it, but you are not going to find anything "usable" from there.
Try digging in HackADay or Make instead.
Hum, good point, did not think about that: I always have a machine or two running somewhere that can do that kind of job... Not exactly the average home user setup.
I suppose that someone could take Koha and wrap it with a local perl HTTP deamon (using something like HTTP::Lite or HTTP::Daemon) and port it to SQLite.
But even then, Koha is not focused for the use of the typical home user with a few hundreds books; the target is more like small libraries or documentation center, with a few thousands books.
So yeah, I think that Koha would be a solution more for someone that would want to manage it's book collection like a small library than for someone who would just want to "keep things neater".
Having the possibility to lookup the infos on the LoC, I think that going to LC is a good bet for a small collection. Usually, a personnal library consist of a lot of book on the same or similar subject. From what I understand of what my wife tell me about Dewey, it is more accurate in describing the subject of books, but for small libraries, it tend to force you to use long cotes (the actual number; is it called "cotes" in english? it's "cote" in french) to distinguish the books on similar subject.
Dewey has standard practice to differentiate multiple copies from each others; they uses more infos, a incremental digit I think. So I suppose that something similar exist for LC; gotta check this with the wife...
From the their self-description:
It is intended to manage a small library or documentation center: at 3500 books, you are still considered a pretty small documentation center... But it could ease a lot the management of those books, the friends borowing, etc.
They have a lot of success-story. My librarian wife finded it nice when I showed it to her. Even though she refuse to keep woking at home organizing our books. Damn!
Of course, to really help keeping track of the books, you will need a good physical organisation too. But since Koha can talk Z3950, it may be possible to obtain the classification professionnaly done by big libraries: making Dewey or LC classification is _hard_. Librarian don't usually have master degree for nothing... So I would suggest refraining from going that work yourself ; pick a simple organization, since 3500 books is not that big, when you think about it and compare with _real_ libraries...
Good luck!
I can't begin to imagine why.
It's Philips Electronics that own the "CD" trademark, as shown in that oh-so-cutesy flahs animation about "Philips Heritage"
A true geek would not be selling this...!
As a new owner of an iBook, I'm curious : how well does your Win98 work on it?
My daughter (6 years old) thought for a while that I built the Internet. Like, all of it...
When she started to ask me to build sites about specific subject, I guessed it was time to tell her the truth and start teaching her HTML...
Give a try to Unison.
It does the same as rsync (ie. move only the bits that changed), but is two-way. With the GTK interface (well, or directly the text files configurations), you can build some "profile" that lets you sync at will say, only your brownsing stuff, all your /home, etc.
May I suggest a variation? :)
/dev/null :)
grep -i "troll" >
Then you must have been only to big cities, like Montreal, Quebec...
Because I can tell you for sur that in the "back-country", that old man with his big-bad pickup-truck don't know what the hell is a signals, and why then hell could'nt I drive in the lane I g**damn like!
It's always a shock to drive to my parents place in Abitibi and having to un-learn my good driving...
So was Shakespeare. You know, the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing is real : even for geniuses (sp?), every work is always very profondly done on the work already done around it...
(and this is why We-Don't-Want-To-Let-Mickey-Mouse-Go Disney type of copyright holding is sad and dangerous).
Broadband Canada outperforms broadband US
Ok, the text is old, but anyway.. ;oP
Hrm, I won't argue about the "pro-seperatists [...] restriciting views that aren't in line with the separitist mantra" since it is true for too much "pro-seperatist" that don't like the idea of sane public debate (and the same could be said about the other side).
But please, don't bring E.Delisle in the discussion. I know people who studied at the same department, and her work was so bad that the university didn't want at first to grant her her diploma... And no, not because of her point of view, but purely because of her bad research method...
/me takes a moment to hug his Thunderbird.
Why, are you in the extortion business?What's funny with that, is something Andreesen say in the interview
Still worth more money, ok.
But from an investors point of view, you would choose Red Hat...
There is something under the KDE-Cygwin project umbrella :
QT 3 Win32
If they would do this, this would basically means No DRM/Regular MP3. If the files are offered in lossless versions, there is no problem re-encoding them to ogg/mp3/whatnot : it's a problem to convert between lossy compression because they don't lost the exact same kind of things. But from a lossless format, well, go on.
Worst.
It's the binary you must check.
Better know your opcodes!
Not exactly. There is a lot of "potential holes" that are patch from version to version. But there is just nobody that feels that this is worth a press release...
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