Read existing documentation - some other posters already mentioned a few nice examples. Get in contact with the project of your choice and ask them what they need. Walkthroughs, Tutorials, Manuals, technical documentation. Read some more - style guides for technical writing. That is quite different to the writing of essays in school. (To get you started, try this one I wrote as a jump off point. Some technical journals also have guidelines for writing, read those too.
Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that my paper is the best guide out there, but it is decent for getting started into technical writing.
According to the Inquirer, it seems to be a wonderfully dreadful combination of cluelessness, a horrible CMS and definitely non-standard HTML (or whatever) code. Just run the page through the W3C validator...
I mean, two contradicting doctype declarations in one page? And it only gets worse.
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You might consider a) consulting the #develop forum
- a nice place, or
b) run the postinstalltasks.bat coming with #develop
Hmm, while there is no official statement from CA (yet), one of their senior architects in the web services group has to say a word or two in his blog regarding this matter:
'CA Says It didn't Pay SCO no stinking Linux tax', to use the blog entry's title.
Seems SCO spins it a bit differently from what really happened...
Amazing that no one here has mentioned etree. They offer thousands of live recordings done with the permission of the bands. Recording is done on DAT, then converted to a lossless file format 'shorten'. Those files then can be converted back to CD-audio using tools offered on their site. Great stuff, go have a look!
A book titled 'System Identification And Key-Clustering', by Dr. I. J. Kumar is available from Aegean Park Press. It deals with defining a methodology for identifying cryptosystems and narrowing the key space applicable for a given message. This is quite what you want, but be warned - it is not for the faint of heart...
The FFT is *one* particular variety of Fourier Transform - the second most 'popular is the DFT (discrete Fourier Transform). Fourier Transform as such is never actually abbreviated in use, as discussions tend to deal with a particular variety. Sorry for this post, got carried away. Guess I work too much with this kind of stuff...
For stuff like caleidoscopes, gyroscopes and ton of other wonderful stuff, you should definitely go and check out Hawkin's Bazaar. They sell stuff under the slogan 'Things you thought were gone, things you never knew existed'. Man, could I buy stuff there... Just go and look at the 'air-zooka'!
Ah yes, what about all this neat DRM functionality? Do you really think the encryption stuff for keying files to the media pc in question won't take cpu cycles?:-) You really think those wonder machines will let you burn CDs for your car stereo?
Well, you might either shell out some bucks (USD 29.95 upwards) for ActiveState's Komodo - if your working with windows. Or you might just write a plug in for Eclipse or Sharpdevelop. Remember, your effort might be just what will help others as well.
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As you work on Windows systems, you might look at #develop which is a very flexible open source IDE for.NET. I presume you are running.NET anyway by now, as that is where VS is at now. It has among other nifty features a completely plugin-based architecture (see the SODA document for details) and user-definable backends, i.e. you can switch the compiler (and language of course) to whatever you like. Currently the MS.NET compilers and the SUN Java engine are implemented as backends, but if you want to use MONO for Windows, GCC or whatever, you can do it. And as you might guess from the last bit, porting to Linux is planned as soon as dotGNU and/or MONO are up and running:-)
Oh, it is a EU country, is it? It is not far removed from the EU geographically speaking, but using this criterion, say Colombia or Honduras would be US States:-) Geography is not the same as politics, see?
I - and most citizens of this planet - wish that people (especially US) would just wake up to the fact that things are completely different from what can be learned from satellite TV. And hopefully the US will realise that they do not cover most of the Earth's landmass!
Hmmm. About a year ago, there already were (short and not too detailed) articles in German IT mags on M$ planning to 'dongle' their future OSses to a specific hardware combo. According to these articles, this process would go beyond just the MAC address, using BIOS Ser#, PIII-ser#, HD-Identifiers and what not. In short, this would have meant applying for reactiviation or buying a new license every time some component used for the dongle got replaced. I really hope for M$ that they rethought that. I for one wouldn't be too happy with the extra red tape which might still just be fine for a single PC, but dozens...
Well,in Germany there *is* a format for submitting tax forms electronically, it is binary, encrypted (no idea of how strong that encrypt is)and can only be used from the usual financial packages like Quicken et al. together with transaction numbers obtained from the revenue service. Maybe somebody might come up with an approved OSS prog for taxes? The format, btw is called 'ELSTER' (ELektronische STeuerERklaerung, which in English means magpie...
True, black machines are really cool. Years ago, I actually ripped my Amiga 2000 apart and spraypainted the case black. Obviously, I didn't paint the key caps... But it did look so great. A pity they won't let me do that with my office PC.
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Read existing documentation - some other posters already mentioned a few nice examples.
Get in contact with the project of your choice and ask them what they need. Walkthroughs, Tutorials, Manuals, technical documentation.
Read some more - style guides for technical writing. That is quite different to the writing of essays in school. (To get you started, try this one I wrote as a jump off point. Some technical journals also have guidelines for writing, read those too.
Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that my paper is the best guide out there, but it is decent for getting started into technical writing.
According to the Inquirer, it seems to be a wonderfully dreadful combination of cluelessness, a horrible CMS and definitely non-standard HTML (or whatever) code. Just run the page through the W3C validator...
I mean, two contradicting doctype declarations in one page? And it only gets worse.
You might consider a) consulting the #develop forum
- a nice place, or
b) run the postinstalltasks.bat coming with #develop
This neat little prop was done in 2002, as the wayback machine will tell you. Seems /. is loosing its edge as far as up to date news go :-)
On a redeeming note, I am sure I saw this on /. before...
Hmm, while there is no official statement from CA (yet), one of their senior architects in the web services group has to say a word or two in his blog regarding this matter:
'CA Says It didn't Pay SCO no stinking Linux tax', to use the blog entry's title.
Seems SCO spins it a bit differently from what really happened...
Seems only thing considered legal nowadays is something making money for someone - preferably some (RI)|(MPA)AA kind of outfit.
*Free* stuff also is legal. If a band decides to offer their music for free download, this is legal, too.
Go to that other site for a nice discussion and list of free legal music downloads.
Amazing that no one here has mentioned etree. They offer thousands of live recordings done with the permission of the bands. Recording is done on DAT, then converted to a lossless file format 'shorten'. Those files then can be converted back to CD-audio using tools offered on their site. Great stuff, go have a look!
A book titled 'System Identification And Key-Clustering', by Dr. I. J. Kumar is available from Aegean Park Press. It deals with defining a methodology for identifying cryptosystems and narrowing the key space applicable for a given message. This is quite what you want, but be warned - it is not for the faint of heart...
The FFT is *one* particular variety of Fourier Transform - the second most 'popular is the DFT (discrete Fourier Transform). Fourier Transform as such is never actually abbreviated in use, as discussions tend to deal with a particular variety. Sorry for this post, got carried away. Guess I work too much with this kind of stuff...
I take it you did not download the source distribution?
If not, do so now and take a look at the samples directory. There *is* a (simple) GCC backend binding supplied - go and hack it to your liking.
For stuff like caleidoscopes, gyroscopes and ton of other wonderful stuff, you should definitely go and check out Hawkin's Bazaar. They sell stuff under the slogan 'Things you thought were gone, things you never knew existed'. Man, could I buy stuff there... Just go and look at the 'air-zooka'!
Ah yes, what about all this neat DRM functionality? Do you really think the encryption stuff for keying files to the media pc in question won't take cpu cycles? :-)
You really think those wonder machines will let you burn CDs for your car stereo?
Well, you might either shell out some bucks (USD 29.95 upwards) for ActiveState's Komodo - if your working with windows. Or you might just write a plug in for Eclipse or Sharpdevelop. Remember, your effort might be just what will help others as well.
As you work on Windows systems, you might look at #develop which is a very flexible open source IDE for .NET. I presume you are running .NET anyway by now, as that is where VS is at now. It has among other nifty features a completely plugin-based architecture (see the SODA document for details) and user-definable backends, i.e. you can switch the compiler (and language of course) to whatever you like. Currently the MS.NET compilers and the SUN Java engine are implemented as backends, but if you want to use MONO for Windows, GCC or whatever, you can do it. And as you might guess from the last bit, porting to Linux is planned as soon as dotGNU and/or MONO are up and running :-)
Oh, it is a EU country, is it? It is not far removed from the EU geographically speaking, but using this criterion, say Colombia or Honduras would be US States :-) Geography is not the same as politics, see?
I - and most citizens of this planet - wish that people (especially US) would just wake up to the fact that things are completely different from what can be learned from satellite TV. And hopefully the US will realise that they do not cover most of the Earth's landmass!
Hmmm. About a year ago, there already were (short and not too detailed) articles in German IT mags on M$ planning to 'dongle' their future OSses to a specific hardware combo. According to these articles, this process would go beyond just the MAC address, using BIOS Ser#, PIII-ser#, HD-Identifiers and what not. In short, this would have meant applying for reactiviation or buying a new license every time some component used for the dongle got replaced. I really hope for M$ that they rethought that. I for one wouldn't be too happy with the extra red tape which might still just be fine for a single PC, but dozens...
Well,in Germany there *is* a format for submitting tax forms electronically, it is binary, encrypted (no idea of how strong that encrypt is)and can only be used from the usual financial packages like Quicken et al. together with transaction numbers obtained from the revenue service. Maybe somebody might come up with an approved OSS prog for taxes?
The format, btw is called 'ELSTER' (ELektronische STeuerERklaerung, which in English means magpie...
True, black machines are really cool. Years ago, I actually ripped my Amiga 2000 apart and spraypainted the case black. Obviously, I didn't paint the key caps...
But it did look so great. A pity they won't let me do that with my office PC.