Well, I guess this is similar to statements that US never landed on the moon, Gagarin never flew to space, and that good-old movie Capricorn-1 (is that right) about a manned flight to Mars....
I would tend to agree with you, at least for short scripting -- since I really tend to think more in terms of short, not necessarily reusable orders given to the shell. Objects & classes seem to be a bit of an overload...
Looking at the theme for politics.slashdot.org, they are. While US may pride itself the most democratic democracy of all, could the theme be a litle less stars-and-stripy?
I realize that US is having a big election thing soon, but if politics section is to be on/., can it be a bit more globally tuned than the one on Fox?
I know of things being done the other way around -- check out Psi.
I would not think that Coca -> Qt port would be that easy, considering that Objective C (Cocoa) is *not* C++ (Qt), nor is it a straight-through conversion of one into another.
It would have been nice had GNUStep been more on par with Cocoa for GUI apps -- then one could recompile Adium or Fire on any Linux or BSD (or anything else that GNUStep would run on).
AS rightly pointed out in another reply, we're talking OSX here (remember, it's iChat that is the subject of the story). Hence Cocoa apps have preference.
While GAIM might have a very good coverage, as far as IM networks are concerned, I can't say that I enjoy running it in the situations when I have to -- e.g. when I am on my BSD box.
When it comes to MacOS X, there are several worthy contenders: Fire, Adium to name a few. All of them are Cocoa apps and you do not need to run X11 to use them.
Parent's (1) had nothing to do with grep, ht://dig or find: it was more what will be coming in (2).
As for (3), putting an SQL Server onto each desktop to store all the meta-data about all the files was a wrong idea to start with (not learning from Be's lessons are we? Nothing to do with computers becoming more powerful then what they were in the age of original Be). A much better approach would be more similar to ECCO's organizer system, RDF, FOAF, what Chandler will (hopefully) one day become, etc. -- i.e. it must be flexible to accomodate any number of attributes, even the ones that might not be known at design time.
Lastly, searching for *content* will most likely have to be different from searching meta data. Here some sort of an FTS system that'll index your data in the background is required. And it would have to be intelegent enought o handle a variety of formats (any format if a plugin is available). There are quite a few of those that are available (for Win) even now -- check out Copernic, Lookout, etc. As for Lin/Un -- I guess that ht://dig is one's friend, but I never liked it much...
Since you're in education -- you may take a look at.LRN over at OpenACS site. It is what MIT is using for open courseware, and so does Carnegie-Melon.
It is based Oracle or PostgreSQL backend, with AOLServer serving the content. AOLServer has a built-in Tcl interpreter that is used to build the whole solution (there is nice separatoin of logic and presentation built as ACS Templates package that makes build ing forms *really* easy).
While pgAccess is not a PHP tool you meant (phpPgAdmin is what you wanted to say), pgAccess has forms and reports that could help in migration, although you'd still have to code these. Also, moving over to *any* free RDBMS is likely to require recoding of your back-end, regardless of whether it is MySQL or PostgreSQL you'd choose.
You may want to check on MacOS X Hints on extra views that are available for OSX Calculator.app. You can get hex/bin/oct calculator (and those you can use with RPN), as well as somewhat basic graphing calculator.
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As seen on MacOS X with Safari. Same result with Konqueror. UA spoofing does not help.
... has never been properly resurrected. If you recall your history class, in ancient Greek Olympic games competitors were supposed to compete not only in who can run faster or throw a spear/disc/whatever farther -- but also in a lot more intellectual things, e.g. writing verses/poems, and such. Greeks were always interested in equal development of mind and body -- without giving preference to either.
- You don't assign priorities to tasks (at least not explicit ones): what needs to be done is determined by context, energy, available time.
- Forget about "doing a project" -- you never do. All you do is a bunch of little steps, one at a time, that bring you to sum-total that you call "done". Project is justa "finishing line", not the course.
GTD also has a nice workflow concept. You need to get *all* of the things (i.e. not only work-related, but *all* the things you do) organized into lists which you review, organize by contexts, push forward, little by little.
BTW, Sacha -- it is a post on your site that made me very interested in the system. Went to David's site and got me GTD Outlook plugin (trial). Liked it. Got me a book, still reading it. I do recomend it to others.
I think that one of the things that is probably very appealing to geeks in GTD is clear workflow: it is (relatively) easy to implement it algorithmically, and there is a lot less subjectivity of prioritising in it. Its empahisis of total and airtight coverage is also very good: gives you a Swiss Army knife for life management:)
Anti-outsourcing articles *are* whinings of Americans (US, rather -- there are two whole continenets out there called 'Americas'). Just the same like cries about a (potential? happening?) brain-drain from US back to EU or Asia.
People are free to have their opinions -- noone argues against that. Slashdot editors are free to include whatever stories they please -- just as well as include the same story twice, thrice, or any other number of times. We are then free to discuss and express our POVs on any of the above.
TFA is an obvious rant. While it does raise good points, like 'Is it really world-wide, this Web?' Yet at the same time it makes a few poor arguments.
I've also been bitten by short-sightedness of many Western (especially US) websites. Hell, ITMS would be the first one on the list of my gripes: I am more than willing to pay.99 cents (even EURO-cents!) -- can you just bloody let me doo that without filtering my billing address only because it is not in US/UK/FR/DE?!
True, billing address blocks are different from IP blacklisting -- the latter won't allow me access ITMS even if I had a valid US card with a proper billing address somewhere in the middle of MO, MN or MT.
Yet whining about "unfairness" of what is done and appealing to the "public", instead of trying to see whether some home cleaning could not be done first -- that does seem like a lame way about it, don't you think?
I really do want to hope that Chandler would come close to ECCO's power. I doubt, however, that being written in Python would make it as robust as it needs to be. It also is in extremly early development stage -- but from my POV has already started to accrue some useless featurisms...
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Well, I guess this is similar to statements that US never landed on the moon, Gagarin never flew to space, and that good-old movie Capricorn-1 (is that right) about a manned flight to Mars....
I would tend to agree with you, at least for short scripting -- since I really tend to think more in terms of short, not necessarily reusable orders given to the shell. Objects & classes seem to be a bit of an overload...
Looking at the theme for politics.slashdot.org, they are. While US may pride itself the most democratic democracy of all, could the theme be a litle less stars-and-stripy?
/., can it be a bit more globally tuned than the one on Fox?
I realize that US is having a big election thing soon, but if politics section is to be on
Any plans for secure communication? Such that it would work with Psi?
I would not think that Coca -> Qt port would be that easy, considering that Objective C (Cocoa) is *not* C++ (Qt), nor is it a straight-through conversion of one into another.
It would have been nice had GNUStep been more on par with Cocoa for GUI apps -- then one could recompile Adium or Fire on any Linux or BSD (or anything else that GNUStep would run on).
For Jabber I've always beeing using Psi. Multiplatform as well, thanks to Qt.
Honestly did not know it. That then explains the assine view on encryption which pretty much the same as in GAIM land...
AS rightly pointed out in another reply, we're talking OSX here (remember, it's iChat that is the subject of the story). Hence Cocoa apps have preference.
While GAIM might have a very good coverage, as far as IM networks are concerned, I can't say that I enjoy running it in the situations when I have to -- e.g. when I am on my BSD box.
When it comes to MacOS X, there are several worthy contenders: Fire, Adium to name a few. All of them are Cocoa apps and you do not need to run X11 to use them.
Parent's (1) had nothing to do with grep, ht://dig or find: it was more what will be coming in (2).
As for (3), putting an SQL Server onto each desktop to store all the meta-data about all the files was a wrong idea to start with (not learning from Be's lessons are we? Nothing to do with computers becoming more powerful then what they were in the age of original Be). A much better approach would be more similar to ECCO's organizer system, RDF, FOAF, what Chandler will (hopefully) one day become, etc. -- i.e. it must be flexible to accomodate any number of attributes, even the ones that might not be known at design time.
Lastly, searching for *content* will most likely have to be different from searching meta data. Here some sort of an FTS system that'll index your data in the background is required. And it would have to be intelegent enought o handle a variety of formats (any format if a plugin is available). There are quite a few of those that are available (for Win) even now -- check out Copernic, Lookout, etc. As for Lin/Un -- I guess that ht://dig is one's friend, but I never liked it much...
Since you're in education -- you may take a look at .LRN over at OpenACS site. It is what MIT is using for open courseware, and so does Carnegie-Melon.
It is based Oracle or PostgreSQL backend, with AOLServer serving the content. AOLServer has a built-in Tcl interpreter that is used to build the whole solution (there is nice separatoin of logic and presentation built as ACS Templates package that makes build ing forms *really* easy).
While pgAccess is not a PHP tool you meant (phpPgAdmin is what you wanted to say), pgAccess has forms and reports that could help in migration, although you'd still have to code these. Also, moving over to *any* free RDBMS is likely to require recoding of your back-end, regardless of whether it is MySQL or PostgreSQL you'd choose.
maybe more like:
find / -type f | xargs strings | grep -il $string
just in case there's a bunch of binary stuff there, that'd mess up your terminal...
Has not he mentioned he tried it and was not satisfied?
You may want to check on MacOS X Hints on extra views that are available for OSX Calculator.app. You can get hex/bin/oct calculator (and those you can use with RPN), as well as somewhat basic graphing calculator.
Check here, to save yourself the search.
...but he could look at Be, and see where Spotlight might be coming from...
Konqueror is ok, but can't really agree with your other points. There can be a really nice framework within KDE but as a user I could not care less.
As for Quanta -- this is just an 'extended' copy of tons of other apps, e.g. HomeSite.
As seen on MacOS X with Safari. Same result with Konqueror. UA spoofing does not help.
And so is RedCarpet, and so can be FireFox theme/extension updating...
As long as these same nerds could run, swim, wrestle and jump like an olympic sportsmen should -- maybe.
Anyway, nakedness was not part of the spirit, but was due to the fact that Nike and Reebok had not had any outlets in the area.
... has never been properly resurrected. If you recall your history class, in ancient Greek Olympic games competitors were supposed to compete not only in who can run faster or throw a spear/disc/whatever farther -- but also in a lot more intellectual things, e.g. writing verses/poems, and such. Greeks were always interested in equal development of mind and body -- without giving preference to either.
By this token -- why, math is a great sport!
Good summary, to add just a few notes:
:)
- You don't assign priorities to tasks (at least not explicit ones): what needs to be done is determined by context, energy, available time.
- Forget about "doing a project" -- you never do. All you do is a bunch of little steps, one at a time, that bring you to sum-total that you call "done". Project is justa "finishing line", not the course.
GTD also has a nice workflow concept. You need to get *all* of the things (i.e. not only work-related, but *all* the things you do) organized into lists which you review, organize by contexts, push forward, little by little.
BTW, Sacha -- it is a post on your site that made me very interested in the system. Went to David's site and got me GTD Outlook plugin (trial). Liked it. Got me a book, still reading it. I do recomend it to others.
I think that one of the things that is probably very appealing to geeks in GTD is clear workflow: it is (relatively) easy to implement it algorithmically, and there is a lot less subjectivity of prioritising in it. Its empahisis of total and airtight coverage is also very good: gives you a Swiss Army knife for life management
Anti-outsourcing articles *are* whinings of Americans (US, rather -- there are two whole continenets out there called 'Americas'). Just the same like cries about a (potential? happening?) brain-drain from US back to EU or Asia.
People are free to have their opinions -- noone argues against that. Slashdot editors are free to include whatever stories they please -- just as well as include the same story twice, thrice, or any other number of times. We are then free to discuss and express our POVs on any of the above.
.99 cents (even EURO-cents!) -- can you just bloody let me doo that without filtering my billing address only because it is not in US/UK/FR/DE?!
TFA is an obvious rant. While it does raise good points, like 'Is it really world-wide, this Web?' Yet at the same time it makes a few poor arguments.
I've also been bitten by short-sightedness of many Western (especially US) websites. Hell, ITMS would be the first one on the list of my gripes: I am more than willing to pay
True, billing address blocks are different from IP blacklisting -- the latter won't allow me access ITMS even if I had a valid US card with a proper billing address somewhere in the middle of MO, MN or MT.
Yet whining about "unfairness" of what is done and appealing to the "public", instead of trying to see whether some home cleaning could not be done first -- that does seem like a lame way about it, don't you think?
I really do want to hope that Chandler would come close to ECCO's power. I doubt, however, that being written in Python would make it as robust as it needs to be. It also is in extremly early development stage -- but from my POV has already started to accrue some useless featurisms...