I recently had to give my Dell Inspiron 8200 back to my ex employer, and was quite happy about it for the reason that the display had such a high native resolution. 1600x1200@15". While one can adjust the DPI setting in the display properties box, and the result is ok for most windows software, there are many programmes that have either hard coded widget text (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop palettes are non standard Win32 controls and therefore remain absolutely tiny, making it very difficult to use the programmes on that display) or have poor absolute size widget layouts or fixed window sizes esuring that the widgets are cut off or not visible (Corel Capture preferences dialog box is one).
For a windows laptop I will in future look for laptops with a much lower native resolution if possible (1400x1000@15" or even lower if the manufacturer has it)
I find X11 based systems to be difficult to configure (but not impossible) but the graphic quality on LCD's always seems to be a bit behind the current generation of Windows or Macintosh OS's. The fonts often seem either rough edged or blurred or both.
The most reasonable quality native resolution LCD displays that I've used are the Apple ones, as Apple seems to have kept the native resolutions lower compared to PC's. The 15" display on my G4 Laptop has a native resolution of 1152x768@15" and is much easier to work with and gives me far less eye strain. I don't know whether Apple does this to cut costs (cheaper than higher resolution displays) or if this is simply good design, but it does offer me more comfort in working on my machine with a (for me) better resolution.
I did a diploma in multimedia production through Tom Misner's SAE schools. In this case in Switzerland. The schools definitely do have a fairly good level of education and since their main focus is audio engineering, your CD stand's a good chance of being heard by budding producers/DJ's/sound techies. His system is really one of the better and fairer ones, my only gripe being that the schools tend to be a bit like the McDonalds of audio engineering.
I don't know if you need to prove a point or not. You can install and use Gnome (with enlightenment etc) KDE, or Windowmaker on OSX as well as run perl, tcl, python what have you.
It's Unix, or more properly it's a BSD variant.
I'll grant you that it seems senseless to buy an expensive Mac when a cheap generic x86 or PPC fits your needs, but some of us actually like OSX or Windows.
I have this sneaking suspicion that Gartner has only survived up until now by maintaining the same level of stupidity common to your average PHB. I have a feeling that any company relying on Gartner for decent consulting information would just as well be served by reading CNN's tech section or simply going to the local microsoft webpage.
After having busted my balls in this industry for years and effectively getting nowhere, I sit back and take a look at the POS that is the computer world. We have a huge monopoly on the one hand which knows no tactics dirty enough to gain marketshare. We have tiny little desperate companies such as SCO and Intertrust using the law to effectively cripple any wish to innovate in anything. We have an open source movement on the other hand that can't agree on the colour of it's desktop that spends a lot of effort in talking when threatened, but much less in actually defending itself.
I think I've had it. Let the indians have all these headaches.
The behaviour of this troupe of unspeakbly arrogant SCO bosses is making a fool and a mockery of your country. Does your constitution allow a company to openly defame others without having showed any proof whatsoever? Do your laws allow any company to threaten any other company without legally proven reasons? Do your laws allow a company to damage the credibility and business performance of another without fear of being held responsible?
In the interview McBride specifically states that this new action has nothing to do with IBM.
Where are all the goddamn big mouth open source gurus now? Where the fuck is Linus "I don't give a fuck about IP" Torvalds? Why doesn't he stand up and fight? Where the fuck is Eric "They're wrong, I know it" Raymond and the FSF? Are they too chicken too actually do something apart from yakking away about the advantages of their fucking GPL?
In short, when it comes to the crunch, where are all our intellectual heroes now, when we need them? Isn't it about fucking time that they came down from their clouds and realised that Linux is taking fucking water? Why don't these over zealous baboons start a legal fund to fight the case? I'd give $100 for my part.
Excuse my cursing. I'm excedingly angry that this farce is allowed to carry on and damage what we all enjoy working on without one single respected legal word in a prominent newspaper in defense of Linux.
These are refurbished machines, and run with a slower bus than other more modern G4's. There are people, like William Gibson, and other VIPs who love the styling of these machines, and might buy one from time to time. Power to them.
When you're finished, you might take a look at mac OSX and discover that Apple provides an X11 server for it, with which you can run the Gimp. Not only this but, surprise, MacOSX has a thing called a, wait for it... shell. Even bigger will be your surprise to discover that ImageMagik has been compiled for OSX, and that you can do all your commandline shell business just the same as you do it in Linux.
But I suppose it's fun to be able to vent from time to time isn't it?
I am surprised that the CIA, FBI, NSA and SPCA always get upset about NBC weapons. Why should a terrorist who is intent on killing huge amounts of people always have to think like a second rate hollywood scriptwriter? 19 Highjackers killled many people with box cutters, some flight training and a good portion of fanaticism. Timothy McVeigh killed more than a hundred people with a truckload of fertiliser, some easily available bomb manuals and training provided by your friendly US Army, incidentaly putting him in the same boat as Osama and co.
If someone fanatic enough to kill many people wants to do so, he doesn't need exotic weapons. All he needs is some fellow travellers and either readily available chemicals, such as Cyanide or some freely available rifles. If he wanted to bring down an airliner, him and his buddies would only have to take sufficient pot shots at a starting jumbo loaded with people and fuel.
Tackling the source of terrorism, and I don't mean bombing and invading foreign countries, would bring more that spending millions on high tech gadgetry that wouldn't detect any threat until it was too late anyway.
After learning Pascal some twenty years ago, the first time I had something to do with a compiled language was with Java in 1999. My first book was the Java in 21 days thing, which was a desaster for me. I found a used copy of Exploring Java in our company and that, although I had no experience in C or C++, was the best book I'd ever read on programming language. The occaisional, out of the blue, witty sarcastic comments could have come from any developer who is sitting in frustratedly in front of the monitor at 2AM. I refer here to the comment about how banging one's head against the monitor is also an event. I almsot wet myself when I read that.
It was things like that and not childish cartoons found in many books attempting to be simple, that made the book a good read. Programming is difficult and the acceptance of that is what helped me.
I assume that while the price tag of the IBM-SuSE deal was much higher than the Microsoft one (One is forced to wonder if Microsoft would be so kind to other, smaller customers) the real and largest savings were probably being seen in hardware in choosing Linux.
I further assume that the IBM-SuSE deal was broken up into various segments such as installation, testing, training, support and migration or at least aid in migrating the applications that currently run under WinNT. The migration would probably be based on using WINE initially and giving coding aid and support in porting the 100+ Munich applications over time.
But what probably clicnhed it was the fact that Linux would run on current hardware. Given that Munich was running WinNT, I assume that the majority of their PC's were in the 400MHz to 900MHz range i.e. a couple of years old. Anyone who has used WinXP on a 400MHz or even 600MHz machine knows that while it works, it's not something that is pleasant. I assume that installing WinXP would have meant aquiring a whole load of new hardware and with assumedly even only around 50% of those 14000 PC's in that range, it would have meant quite a bit of money since it would have meant going through a brand name company such as Siemens whose PC's (including support contracts) are not cheap.
Irrespective of this guy's opinion in this article, I simply wonder where the real problem is. Since the beginning of space shuttle programme there have been exactly two ways to get someone into space and back. One has been in a capsule with ablative heat shield on top of a standard rocket and the other has been in a glider with fragile tiles on top of or strapped to a standard rocket. Specifically, both have been expensive and both have had pros and cons.
The fact that shuttles have crashed is not really shocking, given how long they've been in service. There have been crashes with Soyuz capsules as well.
What seems to me to be the problem is that there is simply a lack of money. The fact that there is a lack of money is partly because of spiralling costs, but also due to an incredible inconsistency of policy and bad planning.
Consider that ESA started working on Hermes almost 20 years ago. While the author states that this vehicle is also lacking in saftey, the fact is that the vehicle is not here, now as ESA abandoned it due to spiraling costs. Consider that the Russians had a working shuttle , Buran, capable of automated flight also around 15 years ago, and built with typical Russian solidity. That is now for sale on ebay, because no one wanted to fund it. So we have two possibly better or at least alternative shuttles that were killed off due to lack of funding.
Prior to, during and since that time, many nations have being studying alternative methods of human spacefilght. The Dyna-Soar, the lifting body studies during the 60's, the Delta Clipper, the British Hotol, the X-what have you. They were all dropped due to lack of funding. Has anyone, ever, considered how much money has actually been wasted/spent on these studies?
For me personally the concept of a two stage, conventional rocket powered glider where a larger unmanned booster took off conventionally from a runway and the second smaller manned glider seperated at high altutude with both landing conventionally on runways was probably the most practical. I further imagine that with all the enormous amounts of funds that were simply thrown away in developing alternative after alternative without having a coherent goal this type of orbiter/lander could now be in service today
1. Will this application only run on Windows i.e. will it be an exe or an ActiveX control or a.Net application? If so why? If most banks can use Java, why can't the US government?
2. What is there in terms of technology to protect privacy? How can one be sure that our IP's, along with the security info needed to guarantee the avoidance of abuse, will not be stored along with whom one voted for? How is the security model set up? Is there a DB directly connected to the web? What measures have been taken to prevent hackers from stealing your information?
3. Are we perhaps overeacting to a typical US governmet announcement that was written by someone who only knows Windows, yet the application will work in any browser supporting SSL etc?
I see that a number of the respondents are indeed worried about the SCO FUD and are adjusting their perspectives accordingly....
to one of the BSD's.
Note BSD, not microsoft, but *BSD.
I find it quite ironic that the *BSDs, which lost a lot of time and energy and publicity due to the USL suit in the '90s, which ended up favouring Linux, may be the favoured ones in this round of FUD attacks by dead_but_sueing_to_swim crowd.
Take a look at this friendly little sample and ask yourself where H.R.Giger really got his inspiration for our friends, the aliens, in the Aliens movies series.
This is totally OT, since the FA was about benchmarks done by NASA, not by Apple and not by IBM and not by Intel.
You want to know what a Mac is really worth? Buy any Mac Laptop or Desktop and buy any Brand PC Lapptop or desktop. Use your machine for three years. Then put it up for sale on ebay. See which one fetches a higher percentage of the origional price.
If the ICC was going to be a political weapon, as you describe, it would be a political weapon against everyone. Your's is IMO a typical American centric point of view that thinks that anything taht doesn't come from te USA is bad for the USA.
As per usual, when an article appears on slashdot about an achievment made or to be made in a foreign country, be it in Europe, India or China, all the worms crawl out of the slashdot woodwork to have their day making racist and/or stupid remarks about said country, generally only showing their lack of knowledge about that country.
I think that many outside of China don't realise something that China's less than democratic system permits which wold be nigh on impossible in the USA: Long term commitment to a project.
In the USA the government gets elected every 4 years and with luck a single administration can stay in power for 8 years. What this means is that no American administration can really plan anything in advance that is more than three and a half years in the future (six months of those four years are spent playing the American political circus). The next administration can, and often does, reverse many of the previous administration's plans.
The Chinese can and do make commitments to long term projects that can be spread over many years, thus being less of a burden on the national economy and thus having the positive effect of having more time to correct and test those plans. If you look at the Chinese military, which was basically 1950's and 1960's vintage in 1980, when China invaded Vietnam (and lost) and the Chinese military of today, which is equipped with very modern weapons, you'll get the point. The Chinese navy is planning to have true long range ability (Carrier groups etc) by 2050! They take their time and no longer try to do Maoesque "Great Leaps". If China wants to go to the Moon or Mars, they will probably not race anyone there but take their time and do it right (Permanent bases anyone).
I think the Chinese government is well aware that there is a need for more openess in China and recent news articles discuss the idea of allowing democracy within the Communist party on a low level basis. I would find it highly ironic if China and the USA meet one another one day, what with China becoming more open and the USA becoming more restricted (Patriot acts I and II, anyone you don't like becoming an "Enemy Combatant" i.e. Enemy of the state)
I doubt that Europe will ever get it's act together enough to rival the US militarily, but financial power is also a telling instrument and Europe's Gallileo GPS system is certain to be a thorn to those in the US who seek to suppress competition.
While the US might well bully many nations (Cutting off military aid to 35 Nations because they won't give Americans immunity for anything they do, for example), bullying European nations will only alienate them.
And those nations that have been bullied will not forget who did the bullying.
It seems that PHP is moving in the same general direction in that it is now usable as a commandline tool and is adding many unneeded features, but at least the syntax is cleaner.
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I recently had to give my Dell Inspiron 8200 back to my ex employer, and was quite happy about it for the reason that the display had such a high native resolution. 1600x1200@15". While one can adjust the DPI setting in the display properties box, and the result is ok for most windows software, there are many programmes that have either hard coded widget text (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop palettes are non standard Win32 controls and therefore remain absolutely tiny, making it very difficult to use the programmes on that display) or have poor absolute size widget layouts or fixed window sizes esuring that the widgets are cut off or not visible (Corel Capture preferences dialog box is one).
For a windows laptop I will in future look for laptops with a much lower native resolution if possible (1400x1000@15" or even lower if the manufacturer has it)
I find X11 based systems to be difficult to configure (but not impossible) but the graphic quality on LCD's always seems to be a bit behind the current generation of Windows or Macintosh OS's. The fonts often seem either rough edged or blurred or both.
The most reasonable quality native resolution LCD displays that I've used are the Apple ones, as Apple seems to have kept the native resolutions lower compared to PC's. The 15" display on my G4 Laptop has a native resolution of 1152x768@15" and is much easier to work with and gives me far less eye strain. I don't know whether Apple does this to cut costs (cheaper than higher resolution displays) or if this is simply good design, but it does offer me more comfort in working on my machine with a (for me) better resolution.
I did a diploma in multimedia production through Tom Misner's SAE schools. In this case in Switzerland. The schools definitely do have a fairly good level of education and since their main focus is audio engineering, your CD stand's a good chance of being heard by budding producers/DJ's/sound techies. His system is really one of the better and fairer ones, my only gripe being that the schools tend to be a bit like the McDonalds of audio engineering.
I don't know if you need to prove a point or not. You can install and use Gnome (with enlightenment etc) KDE, or Windowmaker on OSX as well as run perl, tcl, python what have you.
It's Unix, or more properly it's a BSD variant.
I'll grant you that it seems senseless to buy an expensive Mac when a cheap generic x86 or PPC fits your needs, but some of us actually like OSX or Windows.
I have this sneaking suspicion that Gartner has only survived up until now by maintaining the same level of stupidity common to your average PHB. I have a feeling that any company relying on Gartner for decent consulting information would just as well be served by reading CNN's tech section or simply going to the local microsoft webpage.
After having busted my balls in this industry for years and effectively getting nowhere, I sit back and take a look at the POS that is the computer world. We have a huge monopoly on the one hand which knows no tactics dirty enough to gain marketshare. We have tiny little desperate companies such as SCO and Intertrust using the law to effectively cripple any wish to innovate in anything. We have an open source movement on the other hand that can't agree on the colour of it's desktop that spends a lot of effort in talking when threatened, but much less in actually defending itself.
I think I've had it. Let the indians have all these headaches.
The behaviour of this troupe of unspeakbly arrogant SCO bosses is making a fool and a mockery of your country. Does your constitution allow a company to openly defame others without having showed any proof whatsoever? Do your laws allow any company to threaten any other company without legally proven reasons? Do your laws allow a company to damage the credibility and business performance of another without fear of being held responsible?
In the interview McBride specifically states that this new action has nothing to do with IBM.
Where are all the goddamn big mouth open source gurus now? Where the fuck is Linus "I don't give a fuck about IP" Torvalds? Why doesn't he stand up and fight? Where the fuck is Eric "They're wrong, I know it" Raymond and the FSF? Are they too chicken too actually do something apart from yakking away about the advantages of their fucking GPL?
In short, when it comes to the crunch, where are all our intellectual heroes now, when we need them? Isn't it about fucking time that they came down from their clouds and realised that Linux is taking fucking water? Why don't these over zealous baboons start a legal fund to fight the case? I'd give $100 for my part.
Excuse my cursing. I'm excedingly angry that this farce is allowed to carry on and damage what we all enjoy working on without one single respected legal word in a prominent newspaper in defense of Linux.
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Dat wist ik niet. Maakt mij echt treurig hoor ;)
These are refurbished machines, and run with a slower bus than other more modern G4's. There are people, like William Gibson, and other VIPs who love the styling of these machines, and might buy one from time to time. Power to them.
When you're finished, you might take a look at mac OSX and discover that Apple provides an X11 server for it, with which you can run the Gimp. Not only this but, surprise, MacOSX has a thing called a, wait for it... shell. Even bigger will be your surprise to discover that ImageMagik has been compiled for OSX, and that you can do all your commandline shell business just the same as you do it in Linux.
But I suppose it's fun to be able to vent from time to time isn't it?
I am surprised that the CIA, FBI, NSA and SPCA always get upset about NBC weapons. Why should a terrorist who is intent on killing huge amounts of people always have to think like a second rate hollywood scriptwriter? 19 Highjackers killled many people with box cutters, some flight training and a good portion of fanaticism. Timothy McVeigh killed more than a hundred people with a truckload of fertiliser, some easily available bomb manuals and training provided by your friendly US Army, incidentaly putting him in the same boat as Osama and co.
If someone fanatic enough to kill many people wants to do so, he doesn't need exotic weapons. All he needs is some fellow travellers and either readily available chemicals, such as Cyanide or some freely available rifles. If he wanted to bring down an airliner, him and his buddies would only have to take sufficient pot shots at a starting jumbo loaded with people and fuel.
Tackling the source of terrorism, and I don't mean bombing and invading foreign countries, would bring more that spending millions on high tech gadgetry that wouldn't detect any threat until it was too late anyway.
After learning Pascal some twenty years ago, the first time I had something to do with a compiled language was with Java in 1999. My first book was the Java in 21 days thing, which was a desaster for me. I found a used copy of Exploring Java in our company and that, although I had no experience in C or C++, was the best book I'd ever read on programming language. The occaisional, out of the blue, witty sarcastic comments could have come from any developer who is sitting in frustratedly in front of the monitor at 2AM. I refer here to the comment about how banging one's head against the monitor is also an event. I almsot wet myself when I read that.
It was things like that and not childish cartoons found in many books attempting to be simple, that made the book a good read. Programming is difficult and the acceptance of that is what helped me.
Thanks for a brilliant book.
I assume that while the price tag of the IBM-SuSE deal was much higher than the Microsoft one (One is forced to wonder if Microsoft would be so kind to other, smaller customers) the real and largest savings were probably being seen in hardware in choosing Linux.
I further assume that the IBM-SuSE deal was broken up into various segments such as installation, testing, training, support and migration or at least aid in migrating the applications that currently run under WinNT. The migration would probably be based on using WINE initially and giving coding aid and support in porting the 100+ Munich applications over time.
But what probably clicnhed it was the fact that Linux would run on current hardware. Given that Munich was running WinNT, I assume that the majority of their PC's were in the 400MHz to 900MHz range i.e. a couple of years old. Anyone who has used WinXP on a 400MHz or even 600MHz machine knows that while it works, it's not something that is pleasant. I assume that installing WinXP would have meant aquiring a whole load of new hardware and with assumedly even only around 50% of those 14000 PC's in that range, it would have meant quite a bit of money since it would have meant going through a brand name company such as Siemens whose PC's (including support contracts) are not cheap.
Irrespective of this guy's opinion in this article, I simply wonder where the real problem is. Since the beginning of space shuttle programme there have been exactly two ways to get someone into space and back. One has been in a capsule with ablative heat shield on top of a standard rocket and the other has been in a glider with fragile tiles on top of or strapped to a standard rocket. Specifically, both have been expensive and both have had pros and cons.
The fact that shuttles have crashed is not really shocking, given how long they've been in service. There have been crashes with Soyuz capsules as well.
What seems to me to be the problem is that there is simply a lack of money. The fact that there is a lack of money is partly because of spiralling costs, but also due to an incredible inconsistency of policy and bad planning.
Consider that ESA started working on Hermes almost 20 years ago. While the author states that this vehicle is also lacking in saftey, the fact is that the vehicle is not here, now as ESA abandoned it due to spiraling costs. Consider that the Russians had a working shuttle , Buran, capable of automated flight also around 15 years ago, and built with typical Russian solidity. That is now for sale on ebay, because no one wanted to fund it. So we have two possibly better or at least alternative shuttles that were killed off due to lack of funding.
Prior to, during and since that time, many nations have being studying alternative methods of human spacefilght. The Dyna-Soar, the lifting body studies during the 60's, the Delta Clipper, the British Hotol, the X-what have you. They were all dropped due to lack of funding. Has anyone, ever, considered how much money has actually been wasted/spent on these studies?
For me personally the concept of a two stage, conventional rocket powered glider where a larger unmanned booster took off conventionally from a runway and the second smaller manned glider seperated at high altutude with both landing conventionally on runways was probably the most practical. I further imagine that with all the enormous amounts of funds that were simply thrown away in developing alternative after alternative without having a coherent goal this type of orbiter/lander could now be in service today
1. Will this application only run on Windows i.e. will it be an exe or an ActiveX control or a .Net application? If so why? If most banks can use Java, why can't the US government?
2. What is there in terms of technology to protect privacy? How can one be sure that our IP's, along with the security info needed to guarantee the avoidance of abuse, will not be stored along with whom one voted for? How is the security model set up? Is there a DB directly connected to the web? What measures have been taken to prevent hackers from stealing your information?
3. Are we perhaps overeacting to a typical US governmet announcement that was written by someone who only knows Windows, yet the application will work in any browser supporting SSL etc?
I see that a number of the respondents are indeed worried about the SCO FUD and are adjusting their perspectives accordingly....
to one of the BSD's.
Note BSD, not microsoft, but *BSD.
I find it quite ironic that the *BSDs, which lost a lot of time and energy and publicity due to the USL suit in the '90s, which ended up favouring Linux, may be the favoured ones in this round of FUD attacks by dead_but_sueing_to_swim crowd.
Take a look at this friendly little sample and ask yourself where H.R.Giger really got his inspiration for our friends, the aliens, in the Aliens movies series.
To a certain extent. Bios passwords on PCs and OpenFirmware passwords on Macs. Yes, you can get around them, but you have to open the case to do so.
Enjoy.
This is totally OT, since the FA was about benchmarks done by NASA, not by Apple and not by IBM and not by Intel.
You want to know what a Mac is really worth? Buy any Mac Laptop or Desktop and buy any Brand PC Lapptop or desktop. Use your machine for three years. Then put it up for sale on ebay. See which one fetches a higher percentage of the origional price.
It's called an investment. Case closed.
Hey, it's opensource.
And you're going to take this into orbit?
If the ICC was going to be a political weapon, as you describe, it would be a political weapon against everyone. Your's is IMO a typical American centric point of view that thinks that anything taht doesn't come from te USA is bad for the USA.
As per usual, when an article appears on slashdot about an achievment made or to be made in a foreign country, be it in Europe, India or China, all the worms crawl out of the slashdot woodwork to have their day making racist and/or stupid remarks about said country, generally only showing their lack of knowledge about that country.
I think that many outside of China don't realise something that China's less than democratic system permits which wold be nigh on impossible in the USA: Long term commitment to a project.
In the USA the government gets elected every 4 years and with luck a single administration can stay in power for 8 years. What this means is that no American administration can really plan anything in advance that is more than three and a half years in the future (six months of those four years are spent playing the American political circus). The next administration can, and often does, reverse many of the previous administration's plans.
The Chinese can and do make commitments to long term
projects that can be spread over many years, thus being less of a burden on the national economy and thus having the positive effect of having more time to correct and test those plans. If you look at the Chinese military, which was basically 1950's and 1960's vintage in 1980, when China invaded Vietnam (and lost) and the Chinese military of today, which is equipped with very modern weapons, you'll get the point. The Chinese navy is planning to have true long range ability (Carrier groups etc) by 2050! They take their time and no longer try to do Maoesque "Great Leaps". If China wants to go to the Moon or Mars, they will probably not race anyone there but take their time and do it right (Permanent bases anyone).
I think the Chinese government is well aware that there is a need for more openess in China and recent news articles discuss the idea of allowing democracy within the Communist party on a low level basis. I would find it highly ironic if China and the USA meet one another one day, what with China becoming more open and the USA becoming more restricted (Patriot acts I and II, anyone you don't like becoming an "Enemy Combatant" i.e. Enemy of the state)
I doubt that Europe will ever get it's act together enough to rival the US militarily, but financial power is also a telling instrument and Europe's Gallileo GPS system is certain to be a thorn to those in the US who seek to suppress competition.
While the US might well bully many nations (Cutting off military aid to 35 Nations because they won't give Americans immunity for anything they do, for example), bullying European nations will only alienate them.
And those nations that have been bullied will not forget who did the bullying.
Think about that.
It seems that PHP is moving in the same general direction in that it is now usable as a commandline tool and is adding many unneeded features, but at least the syntax is cleaner.