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51
Non-Windows Software / BYOBU - Even more fun with Screen and Tmux
« on: September 07, 2014, 06:33 PM »

Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen, for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern Tmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions.

http://byobu.co/

byobu-top-right.png


Learn BYOBU while listening to Mozart:


Yet again, from NixCraft Facebook page

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Non-Windows Software / rePTYr - Re-parent a running process to a new TTY
« on: September 07, 2014, 06:29 PM »
This one's going to be fun...
reptyr - A tool for "re-ptying" programs.
reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don't want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home.


from NixCraft Facebook page

53
Developer's Corner / If programming languages were weapons
« on: September 07, 2014, 11:11 AM »
In the vein of "Shooting yourself in the foot with different programming languages":  ;D


from NixCraft's Facebook page

54
Living Room / R.I.P. Robin Williams
« on: August 11, 2014, 06:44 PM »
You can find the news all over the 'net.  I didn't post a link 'cause there's too many to choose from. 
Another one gone...  :(

55
Living Room / EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" raises awareness, shames patent trolls
« on: August 10, 2014, 04:28 PM »
We wish we could catalog them all, but with tens of thousands of low-quality software patents issuing every year, we don’t have the time or resources to undertake that task.

But in an effort to highlight the problem of stupid patents, we’re introducing a new blog series, Stupid Patent of the Month, featuring spectacularly dumb patents that have been recently issued or asserted.


Their first example:
U.S. Patent No. 8,762,173, titled “Method and Apparatus for Indirect Medical Consultation.”
...
    a.    take a telephone call from patient
    b.    record patient info in a patient file
    c.    send patient information to a doctor, ask the doctor if she wants to talk to the patient
    d.    call the patient back and transfer the call to the doctor
    e.    record the call
    f.     add the recorded call to the patient file and send to doctor
    g.    do steps a. – f. with a computer.
...
What we found was that the original claim 1 (which was similar but not identical to the claim that eventually was patented) had not claimed a computer.
The examiner correctly issued a rejection, saying the claim was abstract and thus wasn’t something that could be patented. In response, the applicant added element (g) (“providing a computer, the computer performing steps “a” through “f””). And the rejection went away.

Somehow, something that wasn’t patentable became patentable just by saying “do it with a computer."
:-\

from aGupieWare Blog

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Non-Windows Software / No time for Man pages? Cheat!
« on: August 10, 2014, 03:51 PM »
Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.


How it works:

The next time you're forced to disarm a nuclear weapon without consulting Google, you may run:
cheat tar
You will be presented with a cheatsheet resembling:
# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar

# To extract a .gz archive:
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To extract a .bz2 archive:
tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/
To see what cheatsheets are availble, run cheat -l.

Note that, while cheat was designed primarily for *nix system administrators, it is agnostic as to what content it stores. If you would like to use cheat to store notes on your favorite cookie recipes, feel free.

He also lists some other similar solutions:
https://github.com/c...eat#related-projects

from NixCraft

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Non-Windows Software / Enough with the text editors... let's talk Terminal Emulators!
« on: August 06, 2014, 11:55 PM »
Call them Virtual Terminals, Terminal Emulators or Command Windows, anybody who has ever done anything involving configuration or administration that only requires a line or two of shell, knows what I'm talking about.  I get by just fine with Xfce4-terminal, others may stick with good ol' Xterm or Rxvt , or go in for fancy stuff like Guake, but I've run into no less than 2 VT's lately:

This one seems to go out of it's way to invoke nostalgia while your wrestling with file permission in /usr/share, but hey... I typed 'CLS' more than once, so mission accomplished.

Cool-Old-Term
Cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.


This next one aims to be the Swiss Army Knife of terminal emulators.  A modern UI bolted on to a solid terminal.  I like it (even if I can't compile it... yet).

FinalTerm
Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator.
It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including:
    Semantic text menus
    Smart command completion
    GUI terminal controls




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Developer's Corner / Shark, meet jump. Coders, meet DogeSharp
« on: August 05, 2014, 12:56 AM »
much language, so programming, very .NET   dogeicon.png

D# (DogeSharp)

D# is a programming language for Doge fans.

Huge disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, and definitely shouldn't write languages.


from Codeproject News

59
General Software Discussion / MaidSafe - The new decentralized Internet
« on: July 27, 2014, 02:42 AM »
I admit, this idea struck me as odd at best and 'pie-in-the-sky' at worst, but the basic gist is to create a network intended to replace the internet that is completely decentralized, paid for by users' spare hard drive space, and is completely encrypted.  This goes beyond darknets and meshnets, and... well... read the FAQs, check out the article, watch the video, decide for yourself.

The Server Needs To Die To Save The Internet

“What we’re building is software that connects together all the computers on the network to form — think of it as one giant computer, or effectively one giant cyber brain. So it really connects together all the nodes on the network and allows them to effectively become a very large datacenter, without of course the datacenter,” explains Lambert. “It’s a network infrastructure that will replace datacenters — and hopefully large technology companies.”

That’s right. This startup wants to reconfigure the current Internet hierarchy too — pulling the power and centre of gravity away from the owners of the biggest datacenters and platforms, and putting it back in the hands of individual users.


from CodeProject News

60
Developer's Corner / Childhood games
« on: July 03, 2014, 03:45 AM »
I wish I could find my old notebooks, I'd do the same...
Mexico City, 1984. There and then I was 12 years old, dreaming of creating computer games. I already knew how to program in BASIC, but I didn't have a computer. So I just took a pencil and a notebook, and wrote down my games.
...
Almost 25 years later, I re-discovered the old notebook with my first hand-written games. It was dusty but still readable (unlike the floppy disks). Thrilled by this encounter, I decided to write new games based on those original ideas.


Anybody here ever tried to do the same?

from RunMe.org

61
Living Room / Donationware Guitar lessons!
« on: June 23, 2014, 12:49 AM »
Lately, I've been doing a fair bit of research in most things guitar for many and varied purposes, but ran across this when I briefly thought "I'm getting kinda rusty at this geetar bidness, maybe I oughta take in a bit o' learnin' while I'm at it."
Lo and behold, I found a guy who not only plays quite well, but teaches at a good pace, covering all the ground needed to go in whatever direction you may want, AND it's all run by donations (and book sales, but that's beside the point... ).  Pay what you can on the honor system, go forth and twang...

There are many hundreds of free guitar lessons here, most with video and audio, and as you can imagine it's taken quite a lot of work for me to put it together. It's important to me to help everyone that wants to learn to play the guitar, not just those with money to spend on tuition, so I run it on an "honour system".

It relies on the honesty of its users to make a donation if they can afford to. Donations allow me to keep it free, so if you like what I'm doing here then please support the site, don't leave it for "everyone else": make a donation or buy some products. Thanks for your support!


from loogin' around

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Living Room / How to get users to install malware... pay them a few pennies.
« on: June 18, 2014, 08:57 PM »
 :o
It’s All About The Benjamins:
An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice

Abstract.
We examine the cost for an attacker to pay users to execute arbitrary code—potentially malware. We asked users at home to download and run an executable we wrote without being told what it did and without any way of knowing it was harmless. Each week, we increased the payment amount.
...
We conclude that users are generally unopposed to running programs of unknown provenance, so long as their incentives exceed their inconvenience.

 What the...

Engadget article here: http://www.engadget....n-paid-pc-hijacking/

PDF here: https://www.andrew.c...ations/CEVG-FC11.pdf

Faith in humanity: shaken yet again...

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Living Room / Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson says ISPs should quarantine infected computers
« on: June 03, 2014, 09:55 PM »
Umm... yeah. 'Cause, like, this will totally work...

ISPs on an on-going basis should take advantage of the threat intelligence feeds of the security industry to identify compromised systems connected to their networks. Those systems should be moved to quarantine, the account owners should be contacted and directed to resources which will enable them to clean up and rectify the situation. Until such time as the infection is remediated the computer should be able to access only limited Internet resources. Don’t care will be made to care.


Emphasis mine.

from CodeProject News

64
Developer's Corner / Apple debuts new programming language for iOS: Swift
« on: June 03, 2014, 09:24 PM »
Mommy!  All my friends have at least two languages, can't we get another one, too?  Please?  Huh?  Can we, huh?

Swift is a new programming language for iOS and OS X apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works.


And a free ebook on the language can be downloaded via iTunes here -> https://itunes.apple...ok/id881256329?mt=11

from CodeProject News

65
Living Room / Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:04 PM »
Just found this, and signed up to receive an invite.  Let's see how this pans out...
Our Story

ProtonMail was founded in summer 2013 at CERN by scientists who were drawn together by a shared vision of a more secure and private Internet. Early ProtonMail hackathons were held at the famous CERN Restaurant One. ProtonMail is developed both at CERN and MIT and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. We were semifinalists in 2014 MIT 100K startup launch competition and are advised by the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

...

So, what we got here looks like:

  • Based in Switzerland and backed up by the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DPA)
  • Fully free and paid accounts
  • Anonymous access (they don't track IPs)
  • Browser-based UI
  • Two-factor security (one password to login, another to encrypt emails)
  • Transparent encryption/decryption (they claim no private/public keys needed)
  • Other features like SnapChat-style self-destructing messages (don't know how they manage that one)

Sounds legit...

from CodeProject News

66
Found Deals and Discounts / Adobe celebrates 25 years of digital type design; gives away free font
« on: May 17, 2014, 02:05 AM »

Adobe's open-source font program doesn't stem from a desire to provide freebies, but instead from a need to have fonts that meet the legal requirements to include with its growing number of open-source projects. Source Serif Pro perfectly represents Adobe's current strategy: it's an elegant, well-designed, and fairly complete font, but was created because it was essential to the business, and then tied to a company milestone by PR and marketing to drive Creative Cloud subscriptions. Download it with equal parts delight and cynicism.


from CodeProject News

67
Living Room / Valley of Dolls - remote village of Nagoro, Japan populated by dolls
« on: May 11, 2014, 09:34 PM »
Ahh... nope, nope, nope... :o

Ayano Tsukimi (64) is living in Nagoro, a village in eastern Iya on Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. Not many people are still living there. For those who die or move away, Ayano Tsukimi is making lifesized dolls in their liking and puts them in places that were important to them. The dolls are scattered around the whole valley.


Also, explore the village virtually with Google maps:
https://www.google.c...sq_J5g5qrqExtA9w!2e0

from ah... nope.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Harrison Mixbus DAW only 20 bucks until May 15th!!
« on: May 09, 2014, 09:05 PM »
DAMMIT I wish I had the ducats to spare.   >:(

   
NO BRAINER DEAL : Harrison Mixbus - Fully Featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
RSPE Audio has teamed up with Harrison to offer their new release, Mixbus V2.5, for the “No Brainer Deal" price of only $19.95! This Mind Bending price is nearly 90% off!

Don't miss out! This No Brainer Deal ends May 15th!
http://www.rspeaudio...ain-harrison-mix.htm

69
Living Room / Chicken / Observations of an Internet Middleman
« on: May 06, 2014, 09:50 PM »
Awesome pair of posts from Level 3, a firm that owns thousands of miles worth of internet wire, that confirm everything you ever suspected about the gross mismanagement of bandwidth by the biggest ISPs, and what's actually going on behind the scenes.  No names were named, but I think we can read between the lines...

In the wake of the DC Circuit’s net neutrality ruling, there has been quite a bit of media attention around congestion on the Internet and its effects on consumers, including alleged impacts on the quality of Netflix video streams and the ability to use Amazon Web Services.  There is further speculation that this congestion could force large content distributors into cutting deals directly with Internet Service Providers (ISP) to avoid congestion the ISPs themselves are perpetuating.  While this is news du jour, it is a problem that has really been around for several years.  The problem is the game of “chicken” some last mile ISPs are playing with the Internet.


from Russia Today USA News

70
General Software Discussion / Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC!!
« on: May 03, 2014, 08:34 PM »
Well, a couple days late, but we'll not get into particulars...  :-[
I cut my computing teeth on Apple BASIC between '82 and '86, didn't touch computers from then until 2000, but I still remember those days sitting in the library typing in Beagle Bros. one-liners at an Apple ][e with fondness, and I still say "string" in my head when I have to use '$' in an environment variable or regex. 

Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
... Kemeny and Kurtz decided to create something so straightforward that it almost didn’t involve memorization at all. “We wanted the syntax of the language to consist of common words, and to have those words have a more-or-less obvious meaning,” says Kurtz. “It is a slight stretch, but isn’t it simpler to use HELLO and GOODBYE in place of LOGON and LOGOFF?”



71
Non-Windows Software / Yad - Yet Another Dialog
« on: May 02, 2014, 09:55 PM »
So, I've used this for quite some time now, and even squawked about it here and there, but I think it deserves a proper Webfind post.  

Display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line.
Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more.

Downloads here: http://sourceforge.n...projects/yad-dialog/
Code for above example from the Wiki:
[Select]
yad --title='Desktop entry editor' --text='Simple desktop entry editor' --form --field='Type:CB' --field='Name' --field='Generic name' --field='Comment' --field='Command:FL' --field='Icon' --field='In terminal:CHK' --field='Startup notify:CHK' 'Application!URI' 'Name' 'Generic name' 'This is the comment' '/usr/bin/yad' 'yad' FALSE TRUE

The Google code site has a lot of example code and a Wiki, whereas the Sourceforge site mainly hosts downloads.

It really is more than just a fork of Zenity, as it has enough flexibility to build basic to moderately-complex dialog-based GUIs for many common command-line functions.  Most of the instructions are pretty intuitive, with a few things here and there that don't seem consistent ('--rest' to read arguments from a text file?) and prepare yourself for a little pain if you need to make something requiring a tray icon...
Other than that, it's truly great.  My applause to Ananasik (Yad lead coder) and all those who have contributed.
 :greenclp:

from an Internet search for "Zenity alternative" or maybe "Autohotkey Linux", I don't remember

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Developer's Corner / You have ruined Javascript... Rob Ashton on AngularJS
« on: April 28, 2014, 09:56 PM »
Even if he's wrong, this is hilarious.
Javascript is it's own worst enemy just further reminds me how I'm never, ever touching Javascript if I can damn well help it.
;D

you have ruined javascript
...
What the actual !@#$%^&* is this? I read this as "in order to do a hello world, you must first create a hello world service to create the hello world factory to create the hello world service so you can print hello world on the screen."


from

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Living Room / Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL
« on: April 28, 2014, 08:17 PM »
IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge big bucks to the project.  About damn time...

The important role OpenSSL plays in securing the Internet has never been matched by the financial resources devoted to maintaining it.
... but the Linux Foundation wants to change that. The foundation today is announcing a three-year initiative with at least $3.9 million to help under-funded open source projects—with OpenSSL coming first.


from CodeProject News

74
Living Room / Cheap fountain pen shootout
« on: April 26, 2014, 06:34 PM »
Hi, my name is Edvard, and I'm a fountain-pen addict.
CHEAP fountain-pen addict, that is, and I haven't found the answer to my little habit for a few years now, ever since Parker dropped the fountain version of their "Jotter" line and Pentech was bought by the folks who make cheap Disney branded crap.  
... Then I find this:

I've decided to do a shootout of my lower-cost new normal writing pens.  I've wanted to review most of these before, but haven't been up to giving each one its own review.  I will be reviewing these in approximate price order, from $0 to $30, and scoring them in these categories (each from 0-10 points): Aesthetics, Functionality, Value, Desire, respectively.


from the Fountain Pen Network

75
General Software Discussion / Syncany releases working alpha
« on: April 26, 2014, 01:15 PM »
Sorry folks, I committed a minor faux pas in that I replied in an old thread something I should have posted here.
Please ignore https://www.donation....msg353960#msg353960 and read on:

Syncany is a cross-platform file sync application. It syncs folders between different clients using any kind of cloud storage. It aims to be a secure application to store files in the cloud and share files with others. No intelligent servers needed.


So basically, with Syncany I can finally use my Box storage on Linux with a nice GUI application, or other non-local/cloud storage for that manner.  It'll be nice to see exactly what it supports so far.  I'll report back...

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