You might like the VE.A keyboard ( https://www.massdrop.com/buy/v... but at this point you're looking at second hand) or the clone that is readily available (if you're slightly adventurous) on TaoBao ( https://item.taobao.com/item.h... ) -- It was the first mechanical keyboard I moved to after years using MS Natural keyboards. I have since moved on to using a self-made ReDox keyboard https://github.com/mattdibi/re... but that might be a step too far for you at this stage.
I'm not sure to what extent it relates to the specific offline translation modules in the translate app, but a while back the Google Research blog had a post on multi-lingual machine translation models (and that let them do translation between two languages for which they didn't have direct translation training corpus). So at least in that case, there is just a single translation model rather than separate input and output models that go to and from an IR.
Absolutely, RSS is fantastic and it gives you the user control over which news you follow, and makes following sites with infrequent but informative updates easy to manage.
I've never used an RSS reader app -- instead I use rss2email to fire all the RSS feeds at my gmail account, where a swag of standard gmail filters categorize based on source or content into different labels. For more advanced aggregation and filtering I used to use yahoo pipes, but now that I has been shut down I do custom filtering with huginn.
Consuming the RSS via email means I only have to deal an email client for all my regular mail, mailing lists, and rss, with automatic syncing betwee desktop, mobile, etc. It also means you can easily search your archives for older RSS entries.
We are already losing the benefits of X window managers via the rise of client-side decorations. Where once you had a nice consistent interface to all the windows on your desktop via the window manager of your choosing, now you end up with an inconsistent mess, with some having their decorations and behaviour handled by the window manager, and some directly provided by the app.
For example most of the newer gnome apps draw their own crappy window decorations, and when I drag the windows near the top of the screen they automatically decide to maximize themselves, which is not something my normal window manager (Window Maker) does.
MEGA have a ton of code on github, including their whole client-side SDK, so (just as with tools like gnupg) as long as you can ensure you are running the same code as is on github, you can have the same level of trust as you would have in other open-source, audited encryption tools. As you note, the website version of MEGA could potentially be updated without you knowing, but with the browser plug-in versions and the mobile apps it's possible to turn off auto-updating.
I'm not sure why the parent got modded up as it does not meet the OP needs -- they explicitly said they wanted a local solution. For many people with data caps on their cellular and or home internet connection, syncing videos to your PC via the internet is not viable as you use double the bandwidth.
G+ is also monster for eating your cellular data -- even after telling it to sync photos etc via wifi only it still destroyed my data cap one day, I assume this was in some attempt to download an "autoawesome" video that had been generated but didn't obey the wifi-only preference.
To answer the local sync question, I use FolderSync, as another poster below mentioned already.
The linked article (and the blog post that it links to) doesn't say what makes the app a trojan as opposed to functionality the user may have actually been intending to install. What was the app pretending to be? Scaremongering, or just a poorly written blog post?
If I want to uninstall Adobe reader and install a lite viewer that lets me read PDFs without support for all the SWF/Javascript/Kitchen Sink extensions, what is the best viewer package (for Windows)?
A better mail client, or better integration with a GUI mail client. Emacs together with Remembrance makes for an awesome mail combo, but every time I've tried to do Email in Emacs, it's been a huge effort to keep it going.
I find the Wanderlust email client for emacs is pretty damn good - give it a try.
That is at best an incomplete understanding of evolutionary theory. It has come a long way since Darwin. Steven J Gould was a proponent of 'punctuated equilibrium': that species remain relatively static for long periods until something disturbs the equilibrium causing rapid speciation.
I'm on the verge of getting into seriously learning lisp. Can you explain why lisp macros (since the general term 'macros' is a bit ill-defined in this thread), do not qualify as metaprogramming?
It seems to me that lisp macros == metaprogramming, and lisp advice == aspects.
A very nice set of scripts that I use is dvdwizard.
Basically point it at a bunch of mpeg files and it does the rest. You can use the scripts as starting points for customizing the menus if you want.
What is wrong with using a combination of a hashcash type approach in conjunction with cryptographic signing to address the shortcomings of both.
Thus the following rules for the user:
If an incoming email is cryptographically signed by someone on your whitelist, accept it.
If an incoming email has made hashcash payment, accept it. The user then decides whether to accept future signed messages from the sender.
Other incoming mail is returned to sender instructing them to make hashcash payment.
Sign all outgoing messages, and also generate hashcash if you haven't previously sent to the user.
How this affects the downsides:
Mailing lists: Would generate hashcash payment for the subscription process, but regular mail messages are just cryptographically signed (i.e. independent of the number of subscribers).
Unequal taxation: May still be a concern if your machine isn't up to the task of signing the bulk of your outgoing messages.
Robot armies: Users (should) quickly notice if their machine is burning the CPU generating hashcash tokens and address the problem.
Legal robot armies: I don't see what the problem is here -- the sender is still having to pay to generate the tokens, so the economics of spam are changed.
Automated abuse: Hashcash payment is required for all initial messages, so generating countless certs doesn't help.
Usability: Crypto signing is done with self-signed certs (e.g.: PGP) so no central CA is needed.
Hmmm, having seen him speaking publicly, as well as hanging out with him for a couple of days when he came down to New Zealand a few years ago, I would have said that he was fine at public speaking (probably better at public speaking than interpersonal speaking). Maybe it was just that the public lectures I saw were fairly well rehearsed.
The state of printing on linux is shite. I bought a Epson C60 for my wife to print out her photos. This printer is reported on linuxprinting.org as "works perfectly". Our Red Hat 7.3 machine drove it just fine. Then after upgrading to Red Hat 9, it couldn't even print the nozzle check (escputil -n) without gaps and the wrong colors.
After spending literally hours reading around on www.linuxprinting.org, trying various things and getting completely confused by gimp-print, ijs, stp, CUPS, ppd, foomatic, uniprint, half of which are never explained, I tried the printer from inside VMWare. Just plugged the printer into the USB, inserted the CD that came with the printer, and was printing photos perfectly within a couple of minutes. Sigh.
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You might like the VE.A keyboard ( https://www.massdrop.com/buy/v... but at this point you're looking at second hand) or the clone that is readily available (if you're slightly adventurous) on TaoBao ( https://item.taobao.com/item.h... ) -- It was the first mechanical keyboard I moved to after years using MS Natural keyboards. I have since moved on to using a self-made ReDox keyboard https://github.com/mattdibi/re... but that might be a step too far for you at this stage.
I'm not sure to what extent it relates to the specific offline translation modules in the translate app, but a while back the Google Research blog had a post on multi-lingual machine translation models (and that let them do translation between two languages for which they didn't have direct translation training corpus). So at least in that case, there is just a single translation model rather than separate input and output models that go to and from an IR.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2016...
Absolutely, RSS is fantastic and it gives you the user control over which news you follow, and makes following sites with infrequent but informative updates easy to manage.
I've never used an RSS reader app -- instead I use rss2email to fire all the RSS feeds at my gmail account, where a swag of standard gmail filters categorize based on source or content into different labels. For more advanced aggregation and filtering I used to use yahoo pipes, but now that I has been shut down I do custom filtering with huginn.
Consuming the RSS via email means I only have to deal an email client for all my regular mail, mailing lists, and rss, with automatic syncing betwee desktop, mobile, etc. It also means you can easily search your archives for older RSS entries.
We are already losing the benefits of X window managers via the rise of client-side decorations. Where once you had a nice consistent interface to all the windows on your desktop via the window manager of your choosing, now you end up with an inconsistent mess, with some having their decorations and behaviour handled by the window manager, and some directly provided by the app.
For example most of the newer gnome apps draw their own crappy window decorations, and when I drag the windows near the top of the screen they automatically decide to maximize themselves, which is not something my normal window manager (Window Maker) does.
MEGA have a ton of code on github, including their whole client-side SDK, so (just as with tools like gnupg) as long as you can ensure you are running the same code as is on github, you can have the same level of trust as you would have in other open-source, audited encryption tools. As you note, the website version of MEGA could potentially be updated without you knowing, but with the browser plug-in versions and the mobile apps it's possible to turn off auto-updating.
I'm not sure why the parent got modded up as it does not meet the OP needs -- they explicitly said they wanted a local solution. For many people with data caps on their cellular and or home internet connection, syncing videos to your PC via the internet is not viable as you use double the bandwidth.
G+ is also monster for eating your cellular data -- even after telling it to sync photos etc via wifi only it still destroyed my data cap one day, I assume this was in some attempt to download an "autoawesome" video that had been generated but didn't obey the wifi-only preference.
To answer the local sync question, I use FolderSync, as another poster below mentioned already.
Yep, one more vote for GCompris -- both my kids enjoyed it when they were younger (now though, it's hard to prise them away from Minecraft :-))
The linked article (and the blog post that it links to) doesn't say what makes the app a trojan as opposed to functionality the user may have actually been intending to install. What was the app pretending to be? Scaremongering, or just a poorly written blog post?
If I want to uninstall Adobe reader and install a lite viewer that lets me read PDFs without support for all the SWF/Javascript/Kitchen Sink extensions, what is the best viewer package (for Windows)?
A better mail client, or better integration with a GUI mail client. Emacs together with Remembrance makes for an awesome mail combo, but every time I've tried to do Email in Emacs, it's been a huge effort to keep it going.
I find the Wanderlust email client for emacs is pretty damn good - give it a try.
FYI, the article is referring to New Zealand, which is not yet a state of Australia.
FYI, Darwin himself had a pretty good idea that this is how it would work. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/punc-eq.html
http://www.koders.com/ is what you want.
I'm on the verge of getting into seriously learning lisp. Can you explain why lisp macros (since the general term 'macros' is a bit ill-defined in this thread), do not qualify as metaprogramming?
It seems to me that lisp macros == metaprogramming, and lisp advice == aspects.
M-C-e performs shell-expand-line, which does what you want.
You missed the point. The original poster has not backed up his claims either, and could just as well be lying.
A very nice set of scripts that I use is dvdwizard. Basically point it at a bunch of mpeg files and it does the rest. You can use the scripts as starting points for customizing the menus if you want.
What is wrong with using a combination of a hashcash type approach in conjunction with cryptographic signing to address the shortcomings of both.
Thus the following rules for the user:
If an incoming email is cryptographically signed by someone on your whitelist, accept it.
If an incoming email has made hashcash payment, accept it. The user then decides whether to accept future signed messages from the sender.
Other incoming mail is returned to sender instructing them to make hashcash payment.
Sign all outgoing messages, and also generate hashcash if you haven't previously sent to the user.
How this affects the downsides:
Mailing lists: Would generate hashcash payment for the subscription process, but regular mail messages are just cryptographically signed (i.e. independent of the number of subscribers).
Unequal taxation: May still be a concern if your machine isn't up to the task of signing the bulk of your outgoing messages.
Robot armies: Users (should) quickly notice if their machine is burning the CPU generating hashcash tokens and address the problem.
Legal robot armies: I don't see what the problem is here -- the sender is still having to pay to generate the tokens, so the economics of spam are changed.
Automated abuse: Hashcash payment is required for all initial messages, so generating countless certs doesn't help.
Usability: Crypto signing is done with self-signed certs (e.g.: PGP) so no central CA is needed.
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I probably spend 10 hours a day online.
Don't forget to spend time with the kid.
Hmmm, having seen him speaking publicly, as well as hanging out with him for a couple of days when he came down to New Zealand a few years ago, I would have said that he was fine at public speaking (probably better at public speaking than interpersonal speaking). Maybe it was just that the public lectures I saw were fairly well rehearsed.
The state of printing on linux is shite. I bought a Epson C60 for my wife to print out her photos. This printer is reported on linuxprinting.org as "works perfectly". Our Red Hat 7.3 machine drove it just fine. Then after upgrading to Red Hat 9, it couldn't even print the nozzle check (escputil -n) without gaps and the wrong colors.
After spending literally hours reading around on www.linuxprinting.org, trying various things and getting completely confused by gimp-print, ijs, stp, CUPS, ppd, foomatic, uniprint, half of which are never explained, I tried the printer from inside VMWare. Just plugged the printer into the USB, inserted the CD that came with the printer, and was printing photos perfectly within a couple of minutes. Sigh.
Score: VMWare 1, Windows 1, Linux -1.
What happened to printing between RH 7.3 and 9?
That's the gist of the LNX-BBC. It has a very cool package building system called GAR. See the lnx-bbc website
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Gee thanks! I had signed up for the beta test and
now I've got the entire slashdot crowd applying --
there go my odds of getting one...
If they become available at all, given the current copywrite extension precedents.