...is maybe easier to setup onto an USB stick than installing Ubuntu on Windows partition or disk (the gparted part being probably the hardest), but it will be handy afterwards too. The GUI isn't as fancy as Ubuntu Unity, but it is fast and usable even on older hardware. http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm
The joke was probably about not invented here (NIH) syndrome, as the Jackson Laboratory asked their funder, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assume defence for them in the case.
But yes, I agree. DNA being patentable really, really sucks.
Given all the negative comments about the complexity and misfeatures of C++, I one day decided to take a good look at D programming language.
I know Ruby, Python and Common Lisp, and as I have used Ruby's NArray and NumPy quite much, I appreciate that D language has first class Array objects and vector operations for arrays built into the language. D is also compatible with C and has two-way bridge for Objective-C. The version 2 also supports functional programming.
Overall, D seems to have taken good influences from dynamic programming languages like Ruby and Python.
I wonder why D isn't more popular? Maybe the division of the standard libraries is a big factor?
PS. I have been looking a similar library to NumPy for Common Lisp, but GSLL just doesn't cut it and Matlisp only handles two-dimensional matrices. Of course you can use map, but iterating even slices of two-dimensional matrices with map can be a hassle and is much more verbose than having a good iterator abstraction.
I second this idea, I would like to see it become a useful resource for both users and developers/artists. There could be a directory and a customized search engine pointing to good resources about open source and creative commons materials.
For developers it could help find libraries with selected license (BSD and MIT like licenses in addition to GPL like), links to free tutorials, books, documentation and interesting projects to collaborate by language, information about different licenses. Also a message board or news section for finding collaborators for and announcing new projects might be useful.
Wiki works too for a dictionary claryifying some terms about open source, but I think it should just be a part of the site. I see a collectively edited Dmoz or Yahoo style link directory equally useful. For inspiration on making new users for open source software: http://www.opensourcemac.org/
On the software side, there is already Github, Sourceforge and many more, but open.org could provide some visual statistics about most used open source software, most active projects, most liked projects the information being collected from different sites and repository hosts. Github and ohloh.net do a good work of being useful for both developers and users. In my opinion Sourceforge has gone much worse in this respect in the last two versions, unvisionarily mixing the two sides and not catering to either.
As for the self-sustaining revenue: On the web there's generally four ways to make money:
Donations, ads, selling some useful items or services and porn.
I guess I'll look seriously into starting to use Gimp, Xara LX and Inkscape. Are there any good open source photo editors / bitmap graphics applications?
Literally, all the tourism "goods" that Maldives can generate will disappear.
Except for scuba diving... In the future it can maybe even be combined with "goods" (aka "treasure") hunting. How knows, maybe it will be even more profitable?;-P
FreeBSD is actually a good OS. Yes, it's very nice
I would rather say it works like a charm!
After toying with several Linux distros, it amazes me how every upgrade with FreeBSD is a non-surprise!
Mac users use it, No they don't, they use Mach with a BSD api wrapper
Dead wrong! I use FreeBSD rather than some Linux distro.
It just feels more familiar with the BSD environment and similar rc-scripts.
I am a Mac user and a graphic designer, still everyone asks me for technical help.
WTF? What should I do to stop at least Windows users doing it? Become a BOFH?
Thank you! I just found out about portsnap after reading your comment. I remember reading about portsnap on the install docs, but for some reason I ended up using cvsup instead...
OTOH I did not find about portupgrade until few weeks after I started using FreeBSD (which I regret).
-- If you don't know what it is, please do yourself a favour and google it!
So, what do you do when you upgrade your machine significantly (ie. are forced to change hard drives)?
Do you reinstall everything and click through all those preference tabs for each application you use regularly, and reset each check and radio button as it was on your previous machine?
On a Mac, I just copy the preference folders over to the new machine and I'm all set up working in an environment where applications behave EXACTLY like I'm used to.
If you know what else to copy over, this also applies to EVERYTHING ELSE: All applications, application registrations, colour profiles, video codecs, internet browser plug-ins, keychains (encrypted storage utility for passwords etc), emails, custom shortcuts for programs (like Freehand and Adobe CS apps) and even the desktop picture and such details.
I have some settings on my home machine, that I have carried over from machine to machine since 1998! -- Most notably Freehand keyboard shortcuts. At my job, I just got a new quad processor Intel MacPro. The previous machine was double processor G4. The transition took some time -- three hours to be exact, but was VERY SMOOTH!
How do you do this on Windows? Or can you? (I honestly don't know)
One thing I forgot to mention in the previous post was that I have my email address visible on my web page in plain text inside a mailto link, but the mailto link has +web tag after the account name.
Of the over thousand spam emails received only FIVE of them has the +web extension. One spam message from Japan came to both addresses -- with the tag and without it.
I have not used my email address anywhere else without a tag, so this means that:
a) Spammers remove the plus tag extension from addresses or b) Harvesters do not collect addresses with a + sign or c) They prefer collecting addresses from the text inside mailto links
The option a) seems most likely to me. But I would like to test if -tag extension pass the harvester's regexps more easily.
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...is maybe easier to setup onto an USB stick than installing Ubuntu on Windows partition or disk (the gparted part being probably the hardest), but it will be handy afterwards too. The GUI isn't as fancy as Ubuntu Unity, but it is fast and usable even on older hardware. http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm
Ok, what alternatives does Skype have that work on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows? Preferably Open Source.
The joke was probably about not invented here (NIH) syndrome, as the Jackson Laboratory asked their funder, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assume defence for them in the case. But yes, I agree. DNA being patentable really, really sucks.
Given all the negative comments about the complexity and misfeatures of C++, I one day decided to take a good look at D programming language.
I know Ruby, Python and Common Lisp, and as I have used Ruby's NArray and NumPy quite much, I appreciate that D language has first class Array objects and vector operations for arrays built into the language. D is also compatible with C and has two-way bridge for Objective-C. The version 2 also supports functional programming.
Overall, D seems to have taken good influences from dynamic programming languages like Ruby and Python.
I wonder why D isn't more popular? Maybe the division of the standard libraries is a big factor?
PS. I have been looking a similar library to NumPy for Common Lisp, but GSLL just doesn't cut it and Matlisp only handles two-dimensional matrices. Of course you can use map, but iterating even slices of two-dimensional matrices with map can be a hassle and is much more verbose than having a good iterator abstraction.
I second this idea, I would like to see it become a useful resource for both users and developers/artists. There could be a directory and a customized search engine pointing to good resources about open source and creative commons materials.
For developers it could help find libraries with selected license (BSD and MIT like licenses in addition to GPL like), links to free tutorials, books, documentation and interesting projects to collaborate by language, information about different licenses. Also a message board or news section for finding collaborators for and announcing new projects might be useful.
Wiki works too for a dictionary claryifying some terms about open source, but I think it should just be a part of the site. I see a collectively edited Dmoz or Yahoo style link directory equally useful. For inspiration on making new users for open source software: http://www.opensourcemac.org/
On the software side, there is already Github, Sourceforge and many more, but open.org could provide some visual statistics about most used open source software, most active projects, most liked projects the information being collected from different sites and repository hosts. Github and ohloh.net do a good work of being useful for both developers and users. In my opinion Sourceforge has gone much worse in this respect in the last two versions, unvisionarily mixing the two sides and not catering to either.
As for the self-sustaining revenue: On the web there's generally four ways to make money:
Donations, ads, selling some useful items or services and porn.
I guess I'll look seriously into starting to use Gimp, Xara LX and Inkscape. Are there any good open source photo editors / bitmap graphics applications?
Literally, all the tourism "goods" that Maldives can generate will disappear.
Except for scuba diving... In the future it can maybe even be combined with "goods" (aka "treasure") hunting. How knows, maybe it will be even more profitable?
A-ha! Now i figure out the vicious plan:
Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer's next announcement
will be so hilarious that everyone will die of laughing!
I wonder when will he step out of the cloud
and have his feet meet the concrete?
Beware the "gypsie jams" though.
Bugger... I'll just wait until they do it with lasers in full colour!
Yes, it's very nice
I would rather say it works like a charm!
Mac users use it,After toying with several Linux distros, it amazes me how every upgrade with FreeBSD is a non-surprise!
No they don't, they use Mach with a BSD api wrapper
Dead wrong! I use FreeBSD rather than some Linux distro.
It just feels more familiar with the BSD environment and similar rc-scripts.
I am a Mac user and a graphic designer, still everyone asks me for technical help.
WTF? What should I do to stop at least Windows users doing it? Become a BOFH?
Thank you! I just found out about portsnap after reading your comment.
I remember reading about portsnap on the install docs, but for some reason
I ended up using cvsup instead...
OTOH I did not find about portupgrade until few weeks after I started
using FreeBSD (which I regret).
--
If you don't know what it is, please do yourself a favour and google it!
So, what do you do when you upgrade your machine significantly (ie. are forced to change hard drives)?
Do you reinstall everything and click through all those preference tabs for each application you use regularly, and reset each check and radio button as it was on your previous machine?
On a Mac, I just copy the preference folders over to the new machine and I'm all set up working in an environment where applications behave EXACTLY like I'm used to.
If you know what else to copy over, this also applies to EVERYTHING ELSE: All applications, application registrations, colour profiles, video codecs, internet browser plug-ins, keychains (encrypted storage utility for passwords etc), emails, custom shortcuts for programs (like Freehand and Adobe CS apps) and even the desktop picture and such details.
I have some settings on my home machine, that I have carried over from machine to machine since 1998! -- Most notably Freehand keyboard shortcuts. At my job, I just got a new quad processor Intel MacPro. The previous machine was double processor G4. The transition took some time -- three hours to be exact, but was VERY SMOOTH!
How do you do this on Windows? Or can you? (I honestly don't know)
One thing I forgot to mention in the previous post was that
I have my email address visible on my web page in plain text
inside a mailto link, but the mailto link has +web tag after
the account name.
Of the over thousand spam emails received only FIVE of them
has the +web extension. One spam message from Japan came
to both addresses -- with the tag and without it.
I have not used my email address anywhere else without a tag,
so this means that:
a) Spammers remove the plus tag extension from addresses or
b) Harvesters do not collect addresses with a + sign or
c) They prefer collecting addresses from the text inside mailto links
The option a) seems most likely to me.
But I would like to test if -tag extension pass the harvester's
regexps more easily.
I've thought of implementing something similar for a couple of weeks now.
Thanks for the code, I will put it to use when I get back home.
Only difference is that I planned to use a minus tag extension:
user-ipandtimeencoded@example.com
Maybe I will combine this with the hidden spam trap address trick and
leave my real address on the page as is and see what happens.
I hope you don't mean Mozilla should be renamed to Winzilla and have a shareware fee? Eek! :-)
Seriously, I think Mozilla is great except for the bloated and somewhat clunky interface. Luckily Chimera and Phoenix come to rescue on that front.