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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Notepad logging for (Vim and) GNU Emacs

« on: September 27, 2019, 03:51 PM »

I moved the Emacs repository over to my server:
https://code.rosaele...n.org/logpad.el/home

I'll update MELPA, the logpad package is currently dead as I deleted the original.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: Welcome to NANY 2020

« on: September 27, 2019, 03:11 AM »

19 days after starting this thread, mouser finds out that this thread exists. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - A whisky exposé for reddit

« on: September 13, 2019, 05:41 PM »

Moved the repo over to my server:
https://code.rosaele...acket-whisky-reviews

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019: The Decision Sieve

« on: September 11, 2019, 04:45 PM »

Moved repo (as announced elsewhere):
https://code.rosaele....org/decision-sieve/

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: Welcome to NANY 2020

« on: September 08, 2019, 12:53 PM »

I have two more projects in my pipeline but I don't think that I'll get them done in 2019.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: Welcome to NANY 2020

« on: September 08, 2019, 08:15 AM »

Eek! This time of the year again.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: remv: Rename files (and directories) with regular expressions

« on: September 05, 2019, 08:17 PM »

Moved the repo over to my server:
https://code.rosaelefanten.org/remv

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 30, 2019, 05:47 PM »

How many do you need?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 29, 2019, 06:23 AM »

Uhh.

Honestly, I have no idea. 
I guess it works via filter actions, as many things do...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 28, 2019, 12:07 PM »

Right-click the root folder (usually named "Mail"), press and hold Shift, click "New...", leave Shift.
(A lot of things are - undocumented - reachable by pressing Shift at the right moment.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 27, 2019, 03:47 PM »

I, personally, find virtual mailboxes highly distracting now that I know what they do. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 27, 2019, 08:46 AM »

Good start: I accidentally deleted all of my e-mails yesterday because I thought that "In" was only a mirror of my actual INBOX folders.
There is that "Leave Mail on Server" checkbox... which is easy to miss.

 

Pandora should probably not use that for IMAP.
Well, at least now I know that my provider's backup system works.

I’ll have took for the virtual folders.  What are they called in Pandora?

Mailing list or box? 

-Steven Avery (August 27, 2019, 08:34 AM)

Those are called a "Mailbox" afaics. Just like "In" and "Out" are nothing but "Mailboxes". Which I know now. 

edit: The HERMES people also plan to add new features:
https://sourceforge....olutionary-features/

I guess they're just slow.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 26, 2019, 05:30 PM »

After considering my options for what comes after The Bat! 8.8.9, I bought Pandora and uninstalled The Bat! today, keeping Thunderbird with Enigmail as my GnuPG fallback until Pandora (or Pegasus Mail? ) gets GnuPG support as well. Ribbons. Ugh! Thank you, Steven, for this opportunity. (Are you aware that Pandora does have virtual mailboxes?)

The one thing that lets Pandora struggle is an old(ish) mailing list which has almost 60,000 messages in it. It takes ages to change anything in that folder.
I took the time to empty it now ... 

I have quite a few improvement suggestions and I found a few bugs. I reported all of them.
Let's see how this will end.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« on: August 24, 2019, 06:37 AM »

That Heptapod looks interesting, but it confuses the hell out of me that they use "CVS" when they mean "VCS". 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« on: August 24, 2019, 06:04 AM »

There is no "the BSD license". Also, it is based on... Java? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« on: August 24, 2019, 04:49 AM »

SCCS originated in 1972!?!? And here I was thinking that CVS was old and feeble...

-Shades (August 23, 2019, 10:43 PM)

It does one thing well - on the limited set of supported platforms...  version control is not necessarily a huge task.

Been taking a look at this 'Fossil'. Looks interesting enough and likely suffices for a one-man shop or a very small team (caveat: I have been spoiled with am used to Jira). Thanks for that one, though.

-Shades (August 23, 2019, 10:43 PM)

Jira is expensive, but it is my favorite bug tracking system indeed. I like it when I see projects using it, like Vivaldi does. However, I can't trust Atlassian anymore. (And I don't need most of Jira's features. My projects usually are "one-man-shows". )

I just finished installing RhodeCode on one of my machines, and importing all 40 of my Bitbucket repositories into it.

It wasn't very painful or hard to configure or anything.

-Deozaan (August 24, 2019, 03:43 AM)

Gathered from looking at the website for a minute:

• Their website menu doesn't work well on Safari. Hard enough to find some information...
• The FreeBSD port is unmaintained.
• RhodeCode is based on Python 2 which will EOL soon. Python 2 also comes with a huge lot of dependencies.

Sure: It is bearable. But it would not beat Fossil... unless I'd absolutely want to stay with Mercurial. And the past few years have shown that it does not matter at all. People don't come to my projects anyway. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« on: August 23, 2019, 08:33 PM »

P.S.:

I'll move all of my projects over to Darcshub (the smaller ones) and probably somewhere else (the larger ones) before the deadline.

-Tuxman (August 21, 2019, 02:44 PM)

Let's talk about the "somewhere else" for a while, crossing out Darcshub which is currently unsurpassed for what it does.

The main reasons why I keep (soon: kept) some of my projects on Bitbucket and, partially, GitHub were pure egoism:

• Those services provide(d) a low entry barrier for potential collaborators. Not that my projects had attracted actual collaborators, except for this one. It was really easy to find my code.
  
• Self-hosting something like Kallithea, GitLab or RhodeCode would have required quite some effort, those services usually have a lot of dependencies. Also, data loss would be much more likely on one of my servers than on theirs.
  
• Running a bare VCS like CVS or SVN on my servers would have almost no advantage over just throwing everything on Darcshub, minus a good (here: contributor-friendly) web interface.

Shuffling through my collected notes again, I found out that the newest version (2.9) of Fossil, SQLite's homegrown version control system, comes with an automatic GitHub mirror export function. In theory, this is a perfect solution:

• Running Fossil servers is not really resource-consuming.
• Making a backup of a Fossil repository is done by copying exactly one file.
• Contributing would be easy and I would still have easily discoverable repositories.

In practice, I tested the documented two-step method to make an existing GitHub repository a Fossil repository which is then automatically (one-way) synchronized with GitHub on one of my less popular projects. Although the result came out almost as expected, I found a couple of obvious bugs on Windows, including one that prevents Git converstion from inside the PowerShell. This is bad, as Windows is still my main development OS. I wrote a lengthy bug report into their forums (which seems to be in a moderation queue or something), probably it will be awesome soon.

I have a few months left to decide ... 

-----------------------------------

(Of course, I also tried to try SCCS. Does not seem to work well on non-Solaris systems just yet. I posted to their mailing list, maybe I can help.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 23, 2019, 01:17 AM »

Maxim said they'd replace the existing toolbars by a new toolkit.

I wonder how many people will stand up against that.

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What's the Best? / Re: Newsreader programs

« on: August 22, 2019, 09:21 AM »

What is a newsgroup?  I see that option in Thunderbird's create accounts window.  It's not the same as rss news?

-BGM (August 22, 2019, 09:14 AM)

No, it's the Usenet.

Here is the installer download for this:
https://github.com/graemeg/xananews

-BGM (August 22, 2019, 09:19 AM)

That's what I had linked.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Syncovery - OneDrive - Encryption

« on: August 22, 2019, 05:28 AM »

Never assume that anything which you don't encrypt before uploading will be encrypted on the remote server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 22, 2019, 04:08 AM »

FWIW:
The next The Bat! (version 9) will have a ribbon layout. Ribbons!  Blergh.

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What's the Best? / Re: Newsreader programs

« on: August 22, 2019, 04:04 AM »

I have uninstalled GNU Emacs this week - the last thing I did with it was browsing the Usenet.

I was briefly considering to try the Forté Agent, but the free/open source XanaNews is more than enough for me.  Granted, I don't use binary newsgroups, so if you misuse the Usenet as a filesharing software, it might not fit everyone's needs...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to convert FLAC albums to tracks?

« on: August 22, 2019, 03:32 AM »

something that can take my perfectly ripped FLAC files and either export them as individual tracks using the metadata from the associated CUE file for proper filenames and tags, etc.

-Deozaan (August 18, 2019, 04:44 PM)

I use XRECODE (started with XRECODE2, happily continue with XRECODE3). It is not that great when it comes to smart tagging though. A good companion is beets which has replaced Mp3tag for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: forum software

« on: August 22, 2019, 03:29 AM »

Both SMF and its fork ElkArte are free software, in one way or the other. Still, if I had the choice, I'd write my own forum software, (more or less) a PunBB or Phorum in a less insane language. I had already started twice. But there's only so much lifetime ...

I had a XenForo once. It was nice, but it had no users. Also, that one XenForo design is everywhere today, all newer forums look exactly the same. That's boring.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 22, 2019, 03:17 AM »

like, can you just make the editor wrap like a normal window?

-superboyac (August 21, 2019, 11:30 AM)

It automatically wraps - or rewraps - long lines when you press Alt+L, I find that handy, actually.