I'd approach friends or acquaintances in your personal network who have the relevant skills if you are less than certain about the idea and need a technical look-through. It may cost you - either cash or ownership - but there are benefits to getting an expert involved.
Otherwise, if you are dead certain on the idea and have the cash to spare, go the rent-a-coder route. Cheap and you retain control/ownership of the idea.
And that, in a sense, is what is the most upsetting.
Forget functionality or general benefit to the user - profit, not excellence, is what drives things.
Let's just hope phone OS manufacturers take heed of the state of desktop OSs (pronounced Windows) today and start taking steps to secure their OSs from the outset.
Yep, pretty much, except that I believe the author meant that s/ware should be written with security in mind from the outset.
On a different note, what I'd loathe to see (but may be inevitable) are goddamn antivirus programs for phones. Imagine those things updating their virus dbs, etc. every time you switch on your phone...
You also can upgrade using yum or up2date. yes, you'd need to make sure you've dloaded aind installed the rpms for the latest yum and up2date packages, but after that it should be a snap.
The site doesn't even state where they are based, where the product is manufactured (except 'Asia'), and prefers to place a pic of an anonymous skyscraper. Riiight.
Pretty, professional looking site with lots of nice pics though, just may fool a few folk out there.
http://tunez.sourceforge.net - I downloaded and installed this in my office on an old Compaq P-ii. It is written mostly in PHP and Perl, has a pretty web interface to control playlists, etc. It can also be controlled by a bunch of command-line perl scripts if you SSH in.
It plays music using mpg123 (or ogg123) so you'd need to have these installed, you just need to make sure/dev/audio*,/dev/mixer* and/dev/midi* can be read/written to by your apache user.
Easy-peasy! Don't waste your time writing your own - use this and customise if necessary.
It doesn't do CD ripping though - you could implement your own perl script to do that though, and move the freshly ripped mp3's into the Tunez db using Tunez' import util.
Depending on how much you can afford to pay for such a service, give Collab.Net a try. (http://www.collab.net)
I do something similar, but I've just rebuilt my old PC as a server and have it running all the services you mentioned, connected to my ADSL line at home using a dynamic DNS host. Took me a couple of hrs, using FC2.
Jakarta's Commons Math library (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/) has some interesting classes (including handling of complex numbers and lots of statistical stuff). I haven't used it in anger and hence do not know the extent of their support for the features you are looking for, but it is a good start. It is also designed to be a lot faster than Sun's math APIs.
And yes, they're all objects and there is no operator overloading. And I reflect sentiment earlier about how this is a Good Thing in general.
If M$ get their way with Longhorn, Avalon and XAML, Moz/Firefox may well be left behind in the dark ages the way Netscape was.
And while Brendan Eich, Icaza and the rest of the Mozilla and Gnome groups have been talking about an Avalon/XAML compatible engine working across Gnome/Mozilla, this is still playing follow-the-leader. With a combo of patents and moving-target standards, M$ could easily put IE well ahead of the rest again.
Why is it that open source always plays catch up like this? What does it take for open source to innovate and lead? Push the envelope of technology?
I upgraded my FC1 installation (Athlon 2800+, NVidia GeForce4) which had XFree86 to FC2 which had XOrg's server - it upgraded cleanly and I now use XOrg with no issues.
Except that I warnings about XKB mappings every time I log in - but this hasn't affected my UK keyboard at all.
To what extent is Linus' move to Portland something he wants to do versus something he *had* to do to be close to OSDL?
I am a big fan of telecommuting and geographically disparate teams collaborating. The company I currently work for (in the UK) is, sadly, not a believer in the concept. I just wonder whether a corporate will ever be a believer in such things? Perhaps pressure from IBM and other corporate stakeholders in OSDL have caused Linus to move physically closer to the project?
I sure hope I'm wrong though - and it is purely coincidental that he picked Portland. Or even if he did move closer to OSDL, it was out of his own accord as opposed to pressure from corp stakeholders.
What are other peoples' views on how corporates in the US (and elsewhere) look at telecommuting?
Moz developers out there? Excuse my ignorance, but this XAML beast sounds an awful lot like XUL.
So in a sense, the OS world has had a XAML alternative for a few years now - just a damn shame the Moz platform isn't ubiquitous enough to promote proper takeup of XUL.
And if XAML is such a threat (and I see why), is it being developed along some standards? Is M$ going to submit this to ECMA as well? Why can't Moz/XUL start publishing "HTML New Generation" specifications, get corp buy-in from the likes of IBM, Sun, Novell, etc. to try and get XUL and XAML to converge?
This is probably a stupid April fool's gag, and I don't know why I bother responding, but...... if it weren't, and something like this does get put into practise, imagine the fun to be had by sniffing the internet for such programs running on remote machines and hacking them - and subsequently blowing up random computers on the 'net!
I think applying CSS would be a good thing. Perhaps even have a number of different stylesheets available, that a user could pick - one for on screen reading, one for print, etc etc. Naturally, other transformations of the original docbook sources (to PDFs for example) should be made available on the TLDP site...
Definitely a good idea. What would be nice is to provide a couple of stylesheets for logged in users to set as their preferred 'theme'.
And in the end, we can always specify a default custom stylesheet in Moz...
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I'd approach friends or acquaintances in your personal network who have the relevant skills if you are less than certain about the idea and need a technical look-through. It may cost you - either cash or ownership - but there are benefits to getting an expert involved. Otherwise, if you are dead certain on the idea and have the cash to spare, go the rent-a-coder route. Cheap and you retain control/ownership of the idea.
KHTML? I don't believe you. Just tried it with Safari Version 2.0 (412.2) and it is completely b*ttf*cked. At least FFox *attempted* to render it ...
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-m acosx-carbon.tar.gz.torrent
www.google.co.uk/ig breaks when you try and sign in ...
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odd, complains about cookies.
And that, in a sense, is what is the most upsetting.
Forget functionality or general benefit to the user - profit, not excellence, is what drives things.
Let's just hope phone OS manufacturers take heed of the state of desktop OSs (pronounced Windows) today and start taking steps to secure their OSs from the outset.
Yep, pretty much, except that I believe the author meant that s/ware should be written with security in mind from the outset.
On a different note, what I'd loathe to see (but may be inevitable) are goddamn antivirus programs for phones. Imagine those things updating their virus dbs, etc. every time you switch on your phone...
You also can upgrade using yum or up2date. yes, you'd need to make sure you've dloaded aind installed the rpms for the latest yum and up2date packages, but after that it should be a snap.
Sorry, this reeks of hoax.
The site doesn't even state where they are based, where the product is manufactured (except 'Asia'), and prefers to place a pic of an anonymous skyscraper. Riiight.
Pretty, professional looking site with lots of nice pics though, just may fool a few folk out there.
http://tunez.sourceforge.net - I downloaded and installed this in my office on an old Compaq P-ii. It is written mostly in PHP and Perl, has a pretty web interface to control playlists, etc. It can also be controlled by a bunch of command-line perl scripts if you SSH in.
/dev/audio*, /dev/mixer* and /dev/midi* can be read/written to by your apache user.
It plays music using mpg123 (or ogg123) so you'd need to have these installed, you just need to make sure
Easy-peasy! Don't waste your time writing your own - use this and customise if necessary.
It doesn't do CD ripping though - you could implement your own perl script to do that though, and move the freshly ripped mp3's into the Tunez db using Tunez' import util.
Depending on how much you can afford to pay for such a service, give Collab.Net a try. (http://www.collab.net)
I do something similar, but I've just rebuilt my old PC as a server and have it running all the services you mentioned, connected to my ADSL line at home using a dynamic DNS host. Took me a couple of hrs, using FC2.
Here's something that's potentially useful.
Jakarta's Commons Math library (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/) has some interesting classes (including handling of complex numbers and lots of statistical stuff). I haven't used it in anger and hence do not know the extent of their support for the features you are looking for, but it is a good start. It is also designed to be a lot faster than Sun's math APIs.
And yes, they're all objects and there is no operator overloading. And I reflect sentiment earlier about how this is a Good Thing in general.
If M$ get their way with Longhorn, Avalon and XAML, Moz/Firefox may well be left behind in the dark ages the way Netscape was. And while Brendan Eich, Icaza and the rest of the Mozilla and Gnome groups have been talking about an Avalon/XAML compatible engine working across Gnome/Mozilla, this is still playing follow-the-leader. With a combo of patents and moving-target standards, M$ could easily put IE well ahead of the rest again. Why is it that open source always plays catch up like this? What does it take for open source to innovate and lead? Push the envelope of technology?
I upgraded my FC1 installation (Athlon 2800+, NVidia GeForce4) which had XFree86 to FC2 which had XOrg's server - it upgraded cleanly and I now use XOrg with no issues. Except that I warnings about XKB mappings every time I log in - but this hasn't affected my UK keyboard at all.
To what extent is Linus' move to Portland something he wants to do versus something he *had* to do to be close to OSDL? I am a big fan of telecommuting and geographically disparate teams collaborating. The company I currently work for (in the UK) is, sadly, not a believer in the concept. I just wonder whether a corporate will ever be a believer in such things? Perhaps pressure from IBM and other corporate stakeholders in OSDL have caused Linus to move physically closer to the project? I sure hope I'm wrong though - and it is purely coincidental that he picked Portland. Or even if he did move closer to OSDL, it was out of his own accord as opposed to pressure from corp stakeholders. What are other peoples' views on how corporates in the US (and elsewhere) look at telecommuting?
Has anyone got a similar prog to measure fragmentation for reiserfs, ext2/ext3, and NTFS? And, what the heck, FAT32 as well? Could be very useful...
Moz developers out there? Excuse my ignorance, but this XAML beast sounds an awful lot like XUL. So in a sense, the OS world has had a XAML alternative for a few years now - just a damn shame the Moz platform isn't ubiquitous enough to promote proper takeup of XUL. And if XAML is such a threat (and I see why), is it being developed along some standards? Is M$ going to submit this to ECMA as well? Why can't Moz/XUL start publishing "HTML New Generation" specifications, get corp buy-in from the likes of IBM, Sun, Novell, etc. to try and get XUL and XAML to converge?
The project was created on April 1st, althought it only made it to /. today ...
This is probably a stupid April fool's gag, and I don't know why I bother responding, but ... ... if it weren't, and something like this does get put into practise, imagine the fun to be had by sniffing the internet for such programs running on remote machines and hacking them - and subsequently blowing up random computers on the 'net!
I think applying CSS would be a good thing. Perhaps even have a number of different stylesheets available, that a user could pick - one for on screen reading, one for print, etc etc. Naturally, other transformations of the original docbook sources (to PDFs for example) should be made available on the TLDP site ...
Definitely a good idea. What would be nice is to provide a couple of stylesheets for logged in users to set as their preferred 'theme'. And in the end, we can always specify a default custom stylesheet in Moz ...