I absolutely love Quicksilver. I only use Finder and/or spotlight to deal directly with files, but to run any app, Quicksilver is the best option. To find any contact without having to open the address book, the quickest way is with QS too. I often forget it's not part of the OS. The philosophy behind it is great, having an app that doesn't get in your way and all that.
Prolific? I wouldn't call Gibson prolific... how many novels did he publish in the 90's? Like 3 I think, and this decade I can only remember Pattern Recognition. He's very good, but by no means prolific.
Not to undermine the work of this guy, which sounds really cool, but...
1. He DID take the idea from the White Stripes video that Gondry directed, right? Hardest button or something? 2. Does he have to look so much like Robin Finck? Well actually a mixture between Robin Finck and Aaron North, which is really weird...
We've been using Yahoo UI. It's been fairly easy to integrate that with Tapestry, although I'm not aware of the details since I haven't been directly involved in the web development lately.
Does anybody know how to use this toolkit along with Tapestry? We have a couple of web apps of considerable size now, done in Tapestry, and are in the process of adding some AJAX functionality. This looks like a great alternative but the web developer told me he hasn't been able to integrate these two frameworks.
If an entire generation of kids grows up using Linux, what do you think they will use later, on their jobs, when they have the power to decide what OS to use?
And even if it's not an entire generation but just the students of a couple of schools somewhere, maybe some small town... when those kids grow up, it's the same story, only locally. Those kids will still use Linux when they grow up. Suddenly the town businesses use Linux.
Oh and the kids that will benefit soon from the OLPC project, they will use Linux too. When they grow up their Linux skills will set them apart from the kids who only know how to use Windows.
I'm not saying they'll all be software developers or sysadmins. But stories like the ones we see now, about some town's government wanting to switch to Linux, will become more common, because instead of meeting resistance to change, some people will actually be eager to use Linux because they're more familiar with it than with windows.
Subversion can diff binaries, so it's not impossible. Also, as a sidenote, I remember a CLI tool that could read a NIB file and spit out a text file describing all its contents. This text file could be used to generate another nib file, so it was very useful when upgrading between incompatible versions of IB, and maybe it could be used to store release versions of NIB files in CVS.
I thought about this a few years ago. It is technically feasible and if I'm not mistaken, someone at Sun was working on this when Swing first came out, but it never materialized for some reason. I was discouraged from doing anything like this because of that big ugly disclaimer in Swing:
Warning: Serialized objects of this class will not be compatible with future Swing releases. The current serialization support is appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running the same version of Swing.
They added a comment about XMLEncoder on version 1.4 but I was working on 1.3 when I thought about doing something like InterfaceBuilder.
Anyway, is this project something you have registered on SourceForge or somewhere else? Are you going to make it open source? under what license? I may be interested in helping out with some coding.
It's for agnostics that is everything is open to debate. Atheists believe there is no God (that's what it really means to be an atheist). Agnostics believe there is not enough evidence either way so they don't believe in God but they can't say there isn't one.
So yeah, atheists will stand their ground stating there is no God, no debate there.
PostgreSQL has always been really easy for me to install. On Fedora, yum install postgresql-server... on Debian there are packages for postgresql server; on Windows, PostgreSQL 8.0 has an install wizard. Maybe it's more difficult to set up if you don't like to edit the pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf files, but other than that...
The way I see it, if I write an open source app, I can give it away for free (although I'm not really obligated to do that). But I don't have to give support for free. If someone uses my software and wants me to make some modifications or a special configuration, or they need to install it or customize it, they can pay me for my consulting services. I can also charge money for installing PostgreSQL or Linux, even though I didn't install it. And if I make a big business out of something like that, well, I can then donate some of my profits to those projects. It would be in my best interest because then maybe I can get better support, or I can subcontract them, etc. This is the "software as a service" model. It's not a product and I shouldn't expect to sell many copies of my app and live off of that because those copies can be pirated, shared, etc. Instead, I can choose to make an app or a framework that people can use for free if they want to. If I develop a framework that a lot of people find useful and start to use, I can give training and charge for it. I can make customizations, I can implement new functionality that someone needs urgently, and charge for this. I also can charge for modifying some other open source software that is not mine. If someone needs a bugfix on some framework that I know well and the authors aren't available or the client can't afford them, they could hire me to make the fixes. I will still send the patches back to the authors and everyone else can benefit from that; the client won't care because they had a problem that required an urgent solution and I provided it for them. They benefit indirectly because the modifications I made for them will be integrated into the next version of the framework or application, and they won't need to patch everything again.
I hope this rambling gives you some insight into how you can make money from open source. I recommend reading a book called "Embracing Insanity" by Robin Miller, fellow Slashdotter; it has some other interesting ideas.
OK but not all of it is old; it says it's running Apache 2.0.52 so at least the web server has been updated, although I suppose the most important part is all the SGML stuff that is going to be replaced with XML now.
Parent is absolutely right... I am a mexican living in Mexico City, but I lived in Xalapa for 2 years and it was incredible. Nice weather, lots of things to do for such a small place... the only downside for me was that I was there managing a software factory for a Mexico City-based company, which suddenly decided to close shop and bring me back here. I tried to get a job over there but I didn't have enough time. I did look at LANIA, but it's one of those academic places where a degree can outweigh experience (I've been developing and designing software since 1994 but since I didn't have a master's degree I didn't have a chance there. It's stupid but it's the way it works).
The problem I saw in Xalapa was that everything is cheap (you can go to a nice italian restaurant downtown and have a big dinner with wine or beer and spend $25 USD, for TWO PEOPLE), but salaries are also very low. We were paying software developers around $1200 USD and it was a very good salary that the developers wouldn't be able to get fresh out of college in any other place; in some other place they could maybe get $600 USD. And there aren't many jobs there, unless you work in government but that's usually hard because you practically have to inherit the job from someone or know someone who works there to get it, and then your job depends on them staying there and moving up, not so much on your skills (as is the case for any government job in this whole country).
As for La Paz, I would prefer San Jose del Cabo, but that's just me (and a whole lot of americans who seem to live there).
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DO NOT LIVE with your girlfriend... Premarital sex is highly instrumental to divorces... a study was done and apparently waiting till marriage not only increases stability but also increases sexual pleasure
Got anything to back these claims? sounds like religious propaganda to me... Some things ring true, but this stuff about premarital sex just doesn't make sense to me. Seems like oversimplifying things and at the same time giving sex too much importance. Of course it IS important; important enough to be a reason why you don't want to be with someone anymore, as I see it. Marrying someone without having sex with them first is very risky in my opinion; she may turn out to like weird stuff you don't like, or the other way around, etc; in short, you don't know the person completely if you skip that aspect of the relationship, which is just that, one more aspect. People who wait until they're married to have sex are giving sex more importance than it deserves, IMHO.
Also, that stuff about "being good to your wife and always the man"... I wish it were that simple. This can maybe shorten the list of reasons why your wife would cheat on you but it's definitely not the only reason. Sometimes they just want something different, or someone who won't be as "good" to them, or just get away from the routine, or try something new, or in the case of women who've never had sex with someone else but their husband, the temptation to be with another guy can be too much... or some other stupid reason. You can try to be a good lover, a good husband, a good man, etc but that is no guarantee that she'll be faithful to you.
This is the first time that I see the Apple homepage with no images at all, just the tabs. Have we finally slashdotted Apple? or did their webmaster screw up or what?
I'm using it as an application server, so we don't have any standard services such as mail, file server, etc. Only ssh for administrative access and httpd which can be easily upgraded from source...
Why would a Fedora server break? You say it like it's a sure thing, like it's a fact that a Fedora production server will break. Can you tell me why? I am very interested in this because I have a couple of Fedora servers in production.
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I absolutely love Quicksilver. I only use Finder and/or spotlight to deal directly with files, but to run any app, Quicksilver is the best option. To find any contact without having to open the address book, the quickest way is with QS too. I often forget it's not part of the OS. The philosophy behind it is great, having an app that doesn't get in your way and all that.
Prolific? I wouldn't call Gibson prolific... how many novels did he publish in the 90's? Like 3 I think, and this decade I can only remember Pattern Recognition. He's very good, but by no means prolific.
Not to undermine the work of this guy, which sounds really cool, but...
1. He DID take the idea from the White Stripes video that Gondry directed, right? Hardest button or something?
2. Does he have to look so much like Robin Finck? Well actually a mixture between Robin Finck and Aaron North, which is really weird...
We've been using Yahoo UI. It's been fairly easy to integrate that with Tapestry, although I'm not aware of the details since I haven't been directly involved in the web development lately.
Does anybody know how to use this toolkit along with Tapestry? We have a couple of web apps of considerable size now, done in Tapestry, and are in the process of adding some AJAX functionality. This looks like a great alternative but the web developer told me he hasn't been able to integrate these two frameworks.
If an entire generation of kids grows up using Linux, what do you think they will use later, on their jobs, when they have the power to decide what OS to use?
And even if it's not an entire generation but just the students of a couple of schools somewhere, maybe some small town... when those kids grow up, it's the same story, only locally. Those kids will still use Linux when they grow up. Suddenly the town businesses use Linux.
Oh and the kids that will benefit soon from the OLPC project, they will use Linux too. When they grow up their Linux skills will set them apart from the kids who only know how to use Windows.
I'm not saying they'll all be software developers or sysadmins. But stories like the ones we see now, about some town's government wanting to switch to Linux, will become more common, because instead of meeting resistance to change, some people will actually be eager to use Linux because they're more familiar with it than with windows.
Subversion can diff binaries, so it's not impossible. Also, as a sidenote, I remember a CLI tool that could read a NIB file and spit out a text file describing all its contents. This text file could be used to generate another nib file, so it was very useful when upgrading between incompatible versions of IB, and maybe it could be used to store release versions of NIB files in CVS.
I thought about this a few years ago. It is technically feasible and if I'm not mistaken, someone at Sun was working on this when Swing first came out, but it never materialized for some reason. I was discouraged from doing anything like this because of that big ugly disclaimer in Swing:
Warning: Serialized objects of this class will not be compatible with future Swing releases. The current serialization support is appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running the same version of Swing.
They added a comment about XMLEncoder on version 1.4 but I was working on 1.3 when I thought about doing something like InterfaceBuilder.
Anyway, is this project something you have registered on SourceForge or somewhere else? Are you going to make it open source? under what license? I may be interested in helping out with some coding.
It's for agnostics that is everything is open to debate. Atheists believe there is no God (that's what it really means to be an atheist). Agnostics believe there is not enough evidence either way so they don't believe in God but they can't say there isn't one.
So yeah, atheists will stand their ground stating there is no God, no debate there.
PostgreSQL has always been really easy for me to install. On Fedora, yum install postgresql-server... on Debian there are packages for postgresql server; on Windows, PostgreSQL 8.0 has an install wizard.
Maybe it's more difficult to set up if you don't like to edit the pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf files, but other than that...
The way I see it, if I write an open source app, I can give it away for free (although I'm not really obligated to do that). But I don't have to give support for free. If someone uses my software and wants me to make some modifications or a special configuration, or they need to install it or customize it, they can pay me for my consulting services.
I can also charge money for installing PostgreSQL or Linux, even though I didn't install it. And if I make a big business out of something like that, well, I can then donate some of my profits to those projects. It would be in my best interest because then maybe I can get better support, or I can subcontract them, etc.
This is the "software as a service" model. It's not a product and I shouldn't expect to sell many copies of my app and live off of that because those copies can be pirated, shared, etc. Instead, I can choose to make an app or a framework that people can use for free if they want to.
If I develop a framework that a lot of people find useful and start to use, I can give training and charge for it. I can make customizations, I can implement new functionality that someone needs urgently, and charge for this.
I also can charge for modifying some other open source software that is not mine. If someone needs a bugfix on some framework that I know well and the authors aren't available or the client can't afford them, they could hire me to make the fixes. I will still send the patches back to the authors and everyone else can benefit from that; the client won't care because they had a problem that required an urgent solution and I provided it for them. They benefit indirectly because the modifications I made for them will be integrated into the next version of the framework or application, and they won't need to patch everything again.
I hope this rambling gives you some insight into how you can make money from open source. I recommend reading a book called "Embracing Insanity" by Robin Miller, fellow Slashdotter; it has some other interesting ideas.
OK but not all of it is old; it says it's running Apache 2.0.52 so at least the web server has been updated, although I suppose the most important part is all the SGML stuff that is going to be replaced with XML now.
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btw, what's a "restauant"?
A place where you can eat wabbit?
Parent is absolutely right... I am a mexican living in Mexico City, but I lived in Xalapa for 2 years and it was incredible. Nice weather, lots of things to do for such a small place... the only downside for me was that I was there managing a software factory for a Mexico City-based company, which suddenly decided to close shop and bring me back here. I tried to get a job over there but I didn't have enough time. I did look at LANIA, but it's one of those academic places where a degree can outweigh experience (I've been developing and designing software since 1994 but since I didn't have a master's degree I didn't have a chance there. It's stupid but it's the way it works).
The problem I saw in Xalapa was that everything is cheap (you can go to a nice italian restaurant downtown and have a big dinner with wine or beer and spend $25 USD, for TWO PEOPLE), but salaries are also very low. We were paying software developers around $1200 USD and it was a very good salary that the developers wouldn't be able to get fresh out of college in any other place; in some other place they could maybe get $600 USD. And there aren't many jobs there, unless you work in government but that's usually hard because you practically have to inherit the job from someone or know someone who works there to get it, and then your job depends on them staying there and moving up, not so much on your skills (as is the case for any government job in this whole country).
As for La Paz, I would prefer San Jose del Cabo, but that's just me (and a whole lot of americans who seem to live there).
Got anything to back these claims? sounds like religious propaganda to me... Some things ring true, but this stuff about premarital sex just doesn't make sense to me. Seems like oversimplifying things and at the same time giving sex too much importance. Of course it IS important; important enough to be a reason why you don't want to be with someone anymore, as I see it. Marrying someone without having sex with them first is very risky in my opinion; she may turn out to like weird stuff you don't like, or the other way around, etc; in short, you don't know the person completely if you skip that aspect of the relationship, which is just that, one more aspect. People who wait until they're married to have sex are giving sex more importance than it deserves, IMHO.
Also, that stuff about "being good to your wife and always the man"... I wish it were that simple. This can maybe shorten the list of reasons why your wife would cheat on you but it's definitely not the only reason. Sometimes they just want something different, or someone who won't be as "good" to them, or just get away from the routine, or try something new, or in the case of women who've never had sex with someone else but their husband, the temptation to be with another guy can be too much... or some other stupid reason. You can try to be a good lover, a good husband, a good man, etc but that is no guarantee that she'll be faithful to you.
And this is one way of helping to make it a reality sooner...
Poke it with a stick, if it moves it's alive, if it doesn't move it's either dead or really really drunk.
Now I know why that band is called Massive Attack, you guys really love that word!
This is the first time that I see the Apple homepage with no images at all, just the tabs. Have we finally slashdotted Apple? or did their webmaster screw up or what?
I'm using it as an application server, so we don't have any standard services such as mail, file server, etc. Only ssh for administrative access and httpd which can be easily upgraded from source...
Why would a Fedora server break? You say it like it's a sure thing, like it's a fact that a Fedora production server will break. Can you tell me why? I am very interested in this because I have a couple of Fedora servers in production.
Do Aibos dream of electric treats?
You're the Anti-Crust? (with apologies to Scott Adams)