Wtf, putting blinking LEDs in fans makes them "next-generation"?
The CPU fan I'm using right now is what I'd call next-generation. Why? Because it's actually quite silent. Go ahead and check out Verax (German only unfortunately). There's information on their fan design, including more detailed pics of different models. Verax uses a special fan shape to reduce noise, and, most importantly, ties the fan to the heatsink with a rubber connection, reducing vibration.
Replacing my old fan with one of those babies has greatly reduced the noise level of my box.
Yes, the point of XML files is that their _syntax_ is simple and easily parseable by computers. But that doesn't tell you anything about the _semantics_ of a document. And as long as there is no proper documentation on what the mess of tags in your XML file means, there's hardly any way for you to hack together a Perl script to, say, extract plain text, or convert the Word XML file to an OpenOffice.org XML file, or whatever else comes to mind.
We need all the distribution we can get. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell your coworkers. If you're a student, get it distributed at your college. If you like Phoenix, please also submit a story to Slashdot about the release. The more interest we show to the editors, the more likely they'll accept the story.
Maybe someone should've mirrored that comment on Salon... but, well, probably they hate us enough already since their Saloning can't keep up with a Slashdotting...
A friend of mine's fellow student had applied for and received a scholarship to spend one year at a US University. Because he is of Iran origin (but has lived in Germany all his life) and has a name similar to one of the terrorist's names, his visa application was turned down without discussion. So much for his scholarship.
Hmm, this is offtopic, but the/. feature showing domains of links in brackets behind the link should maybe be fixed a little for news:// URLs as the one given here. It reads [binaries.tv.farscape] here; maybe it would be more practical to make it simply read [newsgroup] or something? Just a sidenote...
If this is actually working, I'd happily volunteer to be the first to use it... I think the advantage is not that it's pain-free. I couldn't care less about pricking me in the finger. The real problems with conventional systems are
You are dependent on an electronic device and test strips. You have to carry it with you at all times (or should at least), and I could move around much more freely if I did not need to take with me and look after my glucose tester.
The test strips have to be bought regularly (I use between three and five per day), and they're not exactly cheap. It's also a pain because, at least in Germany, I have to get a Doctor's prescription each and every time I need to buy new supplies. Some sort of subscription would really help here. I am diabetic, and I will be for probably the rest of my life, so why the need to get a stupid prescription all the time, instead of having some sort of token that entitles me to buy my medication whenever I need to?
Nothing could be of more help than a continuous measurement. That way, for example, I could immediately tell if my food had more carbs than I expected and I can react sooner.
Also, while devices for continuous measurement are out there, I don't expect them to be really comfortable, and I'd still depend on a device that I have to look after. So if this tattoo proves to be working, I'd be more than happy to use it.
Oh, and a question -- this polymer stuff reminds me of those materials used in modern hard-to-forge banknotes (see here for instance), is that a similar material?
Problem is, though, yam is no help trying to access the Google cache. I tried a query on yam, and the cache links point directly to Google, instead of being proxied through yam. Too bad...
Having looked at several CMS for a website I am going to relaunch, I needed an approach that was most general and would allow me to choose how I could store the content and separate the design. OK, the difference to the projects mentioned here is that I don't need a large system to manage things like user comments or other methods of dynamically adding pages. Currently I think I will go with AxKit, which is not really a CMS, but basically an on-the-fly caching XSLT processor. For me this provides the most flexible solution. I have designed an XML format to store my content files, and can then use either an XSL stylesheet to produce HTML or WML or whatever needed, or write an XPathScript style sheet allowing me to process the XML data while additionally using perl code to add dynamic features. The nice thing is that with AxKit you can use HTTP GET parameters to allow different style sheets (plain, xhtml, print,...), pick a style sheet depending on browser type (lynx, netscape4, mozilla...), etc. And for a website offering mostly static content that needs to be organized in a proper way, I think separating content from layout using XML seems like a good idea. What I like to is that it's easily possible to include multiple language versions of your page in your XML data files and transform to HTML based on, say, a ?lang attribute. Plus, you could even store the XML content tree in CVS...
For websites that are just trying to be in control of their mostly static content, AxKit surely helps (provided you have access to the server box as you need to install the apache module...). Storing pure content as XML and then providing different stylesheets for layout seems a proper way to go for me.
Of course, this is not to say I don't like the LJ or E2 engines, butjust depending on what you need for your website, XML might be helpful, and AxKit might be the way to implement it.
I've mirrored the Galeon 2 web page and screenshots here. I sure hope Mozilla gets ported to gtk2 quickly, and maybe even Garnome features Galeon2 soon.
The statement made by Thomson relating to Slashdot's post can be read here as well. Replying directly to the Slashdot post, Thomson makes it clear that "Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders."
I suppose the reason why Literate Programming has not caught on is simply that no major programming language forces you to do it.
Given the right tools within a programming language---say, a documentation tool such as JavaDoc, and some code and commenting conventions---and proper understanding of some software engineering methods concerning the thoughtful design of your software, it is quite possible to achieve what Literate Programming tries to achieve.
But Java, for example, doesn't require you to build a proper UML model, follow the code conventions, and JavaDoc everything in a way understandable for others. But nobody stops you from using those methods right now. The problem is just that doing Literate Programming---or, for that matter, any kind of proper, thorough documentation---eats up a lot of time, since easily around 50 percent or more of the total time spent on a project are concerned with documentation. And for most programmers, including me, it requires quite some effort to be disciplined enough to do such "proper" software development thoroughly.
In other words, it might be helpful to use a Literate Programming tool that forces you to document your stuff, but it is still up to you to create a proper design and documentation for your software.
In case you're under Linux, use Galeon. I've been using it exclusively for quite a while. OK, you'll still have to install the core Mozilla packages, as Galeon renders via Gecko, but even on my old K6/233+96MB RAM box Galeon used to run just fine. My Debian package seems to only depend on mozilla-browser... admitted, that's a >9MB _package_ already.
WXYC Chapel Hill, the first radio station to broadcast on the Internet, is still online, though struggling. Their broadcasts are only RealPlayer, but they're free, and the quality of the G2 stream is adequate. WXYC is pretty much the most diverse and interesting Internet radio stream out there.
I have downloaded and tested the Dasher, and I must say that it is extremely useful once you get the hang of it. It is very important, though, that it is trained well, because when you try to type a word it didn't expect or know, you get slowed down significantly. In such cases, it might be helpful if Dasher would not simply order the appearing letters alphabetically, but by their distribution in the chosen language. Other than that, one quickly learns how to use it and gains speed quickly. When using it, you'll notice how very soon your mouse pointer will be moving further and further to the right.
My theory is that while the Amiga scrolled by changing the pointers to where the screen was in memory, the PC dumb-copies entire screens.
Well, that's what Id avoided on PC... (did you rtfa?:)) When EGA cards came up, they had enough graphic memory and functionality to change pointers... back then I tried this a little on VGA (320x200 tweaked mode giving four screens, and changing a pointer to scroll/switch screens for double-buffering).
The Amiga did of course have much better graphics hardware, including a blitter for fast graphics data transfer and accelerated drawing functions, (at that time) lots of video memory, and further hardware acceleration such as sprites support. And, also, support for bitplanar graphics modes, easing smooth scrolling.
The box is already secured according to this post. If you read the weblog by the guy who found the exploit (mirrored here), you will see that he (by some luck) got in touch with ^Sarge^, the owner of the box.
Well, but many people trust microsoft's servers when they download the latest Windows/Mplayer/whatever service pack binaries... and there's not a whole open source community watching over the sources, so I guess it's far easier to trojan proprietary binary service releases.
Slashdot Mirror
Wtf, putting blinking LEDs in fans makes them "next-generation"?
The CPU fan I'm using right now is what I'd call next-generation. Why? Because it's actually quite silent. Go ahead and check out Verax (German only unfortunately). There's information on their fan design, including more detailed pics of different models. Verax uses a special fan shape to reduce noise, and, most importantly, ties the fan to the heatsink with a rubber connection, reducing vibration.
Replacing my old fan with one of those babies has greatly reduced the noise level of my box.
Yes, the point of XML files is that their _syntax_ is simple and easily parseable by computers. But that doesn't tell you anything about the _semantics_ of a document. And as long as there is no proper documentation on what the mess of tags in your XML file means, there's hardly any way for you to hack together a Perl script to, say, extract plain text, or convert the Word XML file to an OpenOffice.org XML file, or whatever else comes to mind.
:-)
Here's why that won't happen :)
http://www.satirewire.com/news/0010/internationalMaybe someone should've mirrored that comment on Salon... but, well, probably they hate us enough already since their Saloning can't keep up with a Slashdotting...
A friend of mine's fellow student had applied for and received a scholarship to spend one year at a US University. Because he is of Iran origin (but has lived in Germany all his life) and has a name similar to one of the terrorist's names, his visa application was turned down without discussion. So much for his scholarship.
Hmm, this is offtopic, but the /. feature showing domains of links in brackets behind the link should maybe be fixed a little for news:// URLs as the one given here. It reads [binaries.tv.farscape] here; maybe it would be more practical to make it simply read [newsgroup] or something? Just a sidenote...
If this is actually working, I'd happily volunteer to be the first to use it... I think the advantage is not that it's pain-free. I couldn't care less about pricking me in the finger. The real problems with conventional systems are
Also, while devices for continuous measurement are out there, I don't expect them to be really comfortable, and I'd still depend on a device that I have to look after. So if this tattoo proves to be working, I'd be more than happy to use it.
Oh, and a question -- this polymer stuff reminds me of those materials used in modern hard-to-forge banknotes (see here for instance), is that a similar material?
Problem is, though, yam is no help trying to access the Google cache. I tried a query on yam, and the cache links point directly to Google, instead of being proxied through yam. Too bad...
Having looked at several CMS for a website I am going to relaunch, I needed an approach that was most general and would allow me to choose how I could store the content and separate the design. OK, the difference to the projects mentioned here is that I don't need a large system to manage things like user comments or other methods of dynamically adding pages. Currently I think I will go with AxKit, which is not really a CMS, but basically an on-the-fly caching XSLT processor. For me this provides the most flexible solution. I have designed an XML format to store my content files, and can then use either an XSL stylesheet to produce HTML or WML or whatever needed, or write an XPathScript style sheet allowing me to process the XML data while additionally using perl code to add dynamic features. The nice thing is that with AxKit you can use HTTP GET parameters to allow different style sheets (plain, xhtml, print, ...), pick a style sheet depending on browser type (lynx, netscape4, mozilla...), etc. And for a website offering mostly static content that needs to be organized in a proper way, I think separating content from layout using XML seems like a good idea. What I like to is that it's easily possible to include multiple language versions of your page in your XML data files and transform to HTML based on, say, a ?lang attribute. Plus, you could even store the XML content tree in CVS...
For websites that are just trying to be in control of their mostly static content, AxKit surely helps (provided you have access to the server box as you need to install the apache module...). Storing pure content as XML and then providing different stylesheets for layout seems a proper way to go for me.
Of course, this is not to say I don't like the LJ or E2 engines, butjust depending on what you need for your website, XML might be helpful, and AxKit might be the way to implement it.
Hrmmm... that should've read 'Galeon2 page mirror' instead of 'Garnome mirror', grmbl... wish I were still running nicely after 36 hours of uptime...
haltI've mirrored the Galeon 2 web page and screenshots here.
I sure hope Mozilla gets ported to gtk2 quickly, and maybe even Garnome features Galeon2 soon.
The statement made by Thomson relating to Slashdot's post can be read here as well. Replying directly to the Slashdot post, Thomson makes it clear that "Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders."
I suppose the reason why Literate Programming has not caught on is simply that no major programming language forces you to do it.
Given the right tools within a programming language---say, a documentation tool such as JavaDoc, and some code and commenting conventions---and proper understanding of some software engineering methods concerning the thoughtful design of your software, it is quite possible to achieve what Literate Programming tries to achieve.
But Java, for example, doesn't require you to build a proper UML model, follow the code conventions, and JavaDoc everything in a way understandable for others. But nobody stops you from using those methods right now. The problem is just that doing Literate Programming---or, for that matter, any kind of proper, thorough documentation---eats up a lot of time, since easily around 50 percent or more of the total time spent on a project are concerned with documentation. And for most programmers, including me, it requires quite some effort to be disciplined enough to do such "proper" software development thoroughly.
In other words, it might be helpful to use a Literate Programming tool that forces you to document your stuff, but it is still up to you to create a proper design and documentation for your software.
In case you're under Linux, use Galeon. I've been using it exclusively for quite a while. OK, you'll still have to install the core Mozilla packages, as Galeon renders via Gecko, but even on my old K6/233+96MB RAM box Galeon used to run just fine. My Debian package seems to only depend on mozilla-browser... admitted, that's a >9MB _package_ already.
WXYC Chapel Hill, the first radio station to broadcast on the Internet, is still online, though struggling. Their broadcasts are only RealPlayer, but they're free, and the quality of the G2 stream is adequate. WXYC is pretty much the most diverse and interesting Internet radio stream out there.
I have downloaded and tested the Dasher, and I must say that it is extremely useful once you get the hang of it. It is very important, though, that it is trained well, because when you try to type a word it didn't expect or know, you get slowed down significantly. In such cases, it might be helpful if Dasher would not simply order the appearing letters alphabetically, but by their distribution in the chosen language. Other than that, one quickly learns how to use it and gains speed quickly. When using it, you'll notice how very soon your mouse pointer will be moving further and further to the right.
... and al'Khwarizmi is actually the source of the word Algorithm. (No, it does not have anything to do with Al Gore)
Now we're actually getting to a point where "a Beowulf cluster of these" might turn out to be a feasible and affordable option :)
Well, that's what Id avoided on PC... (did you rtfa? :)) When EGA cards came up, they had enough graphic memory and functionality to change pointers... back then I tried this a little on VGA (320x200 tweaked mode giving four screens, and changing a pointer to scroll/switch screens for double-buffering).
The Amiga did of course have much better graphics hardware, including a blitter for fast graphics data transfer and accelerated drawing functions, (at that time) lots of video memory, and further hardware acceleration such as sprites support. And, also, support for bitplanar graphics modes, easing smooth scrolling.
Not if it plays any role that the names of the authors are sorted alphabetically (J, K, S).
http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/gj/
This was intended to be added into Java, I suppose it hasn't (haven't checked 1.4 though).
The box is already secured according to this post. If you read the weblog by the guy who found the exploit (mirrored here), you will see that he (by some luck) got in touch with ^Sarge^, the owner of the box.
Well, but many people trust microsoft's servers when they download the latest Windows/Mplayer/whatever service pack binaries... and there's not a whole open source community watching over the sources, so I guess it's far easier to trojan proprietary binary service releases.
nice... the old, infamous method of Security through Obscurity has been replaced with a new, much safer one -- Security through DMCA. Way to go!