I couldn't agree more. Like many great open source tools, it does a good, if not 100% perfect, job of replicating the slick functionality of commercial tools, but once you know what you're doing it gives you the openness and flexibility to get under the good and really make it work for you. Frinstance, Inkscape lets you drop into the SVG source, tweak it (eg changing the path of an included bitmap) and have the results appear in the canvas. Book or no book, give it a go.
...and I apologize to the world. The problem is that, while SA is a wonderful place to live etc, the political gene pool is way too small and its too easy for some fairly marginal individuals to rise to positions of power. I didn't vote for these jokers BTW - but the opposition is even worse. The Greens are the only (reasonably) sane option.
Sounds weird maybe, but try Protege Owl (http://protege.stanford.edu). It comes out of biomedical research but, using the W3C OWL standard, is a brilliant tool for capturing complex knowledge of any kind. I use it to document a metro-wide fibre network (http://www.sabrenet.edu.au).
I recall seeing this idea on the "The Inventors", which screened on Australian TV in the early 1970's. Clive Hale was the host from memory. Being an Australian invention, it was pitched as a self-cooling beer can.
To all those who want to tell us how much they don't like it... so what? No one's going to read your pearls of w and say "Hey, I thought I liked it, but I now know I am wrong"
As it happens I love it (old Eno fan shows his age, recalls 'Evening Star')
If the authors or anyone else can point to the snd code that made this, please please do.
I want to hear Coltrane's "Ascension" with the same treatment.
So I could log in through the serial port and... err... log out and log in again and... err... run 'top' to see what was happening and...... reinstall wince.
Pocket Outlook is pretty good. So is avant go. I also figured out how to get FOP to make PDFs of Project Gutenberg texts that read nicely with Pocket Acrobat, but that was for the challenge rather than any great desire to read Alice in Wonderland on the bus. Anyone wants the code, let me know.
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I couldn't agree more. Like many great open source tools, it does a good, if not 100% perfect, job of replicating the slick functionality of commercial tools, but once you know what you're doing it gives you the openness and flexibility to get under the good and really make it work for you. Frinstance, Inkscape lets you drop into the SVG source, tweak it (eg changing the path of an included bitmap) and have the results appear in the canvas.
Book or no book, give it a go.
...and I apologize to the world. The problem is that, while SA is a wonderful place to live etc, the political gene pool is way too small and its too easy for some fairly marginal individuals to rise to positions of power. I didn't vote for these jokers BTW - but the opposition is even worse. The Greens are the only (reasonably) sane option.
Thirded. It's the way to go
I thought the site was Flash, but it appears to be all javasacript and HTML, using jquery.
Sounds weird maybe, but try Protege Owl (http://protege.stanford.edu). It comes out of biomedical research but, using the W3C OWL standard, is a brilliant tool for capturing complex knowledge of any kind. I use it to document a metro-wide fibre network (http://www.sabrenet.edu.au).
...it's about the laptop itself, which could be/contain a bomb. Just a guess
I recall seeing this idea on the "The Inventors", which screened on Australian TV in the early 1970's. Clive Hale was the host from memory. Being an Australian invention, it was pitched as a self-cooling beer can.
To all those who want to tell us how much they don't like it ... so what? No one's going to read your pearls of w and say "Hey, I thought I liked it, but I now know I am wrong"
As it happens I love it (old Eno fan shows his age, recalls 'Evening Star')
If the authors or anyone else can point to the snd code that made this, please please do.
I want to hear Coltrane's "Ascension" with the same treatment.
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As it says on the site, it was done w/ the unix sound editor snd.
If one of the authors is reading this - how about posting the code?
So I could log in through the serial port and ... err... log out and log in again and ... err ... run 'top' to see what was happening and ... ... reinstall wince.
Pocket Outlook is pretty good.
So is avant go.
I also figured out how to get FOP to make PDFs of Project Gutenberg texts that read nicely with Pocket Acrobat, but that was for the challenge rather than any great desire to read Alice in Wonderland on the bus. Anyone wants the code, let me know.