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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite RSS Feeds?

« Last post by housetier on July 21, 2006, 06:54 PM »

Here is my current opml export from wizz rss again, see the attachment.

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Living Room / Re: A trip to North Korea

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 05:28 PM »

I really don't want to live there. 
I find military frightning. 

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Living Room / Re: Poll:initation celebration generation

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 11:22 AM »

Why, this is forum popollarity pollination inflation generation of course

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Living Room / Poll:initation celebration generation

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 09:23 AM »

A meta-poll, a poll about polls. It's all about the pollination (whoever doesn't get that pun should try harder). 

I think polls make for a easy feedback, because people don't have to think very hard what they want to say, they simply choose whichever options "fits best". And if they have second thoughts they can always leave a comment or pester the admin to invalidte their vote.

Results will be shown when the poll has expired; in 20 days as of time of this writing. So please have patience and "tell your papa, your mama, and your sista too" 

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Living Room / Re: Free blog hosting for members at DonationCoder - might be a good idea?

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 09:04 AM »

I already have my own blog. But since drupal is so super, there are feeds available for almost any type/group of content; so it would not be a problem to grab the feed and aggregate it on blog.dc.com. Sorta like planet.debian.org or planet.ubuntu.com et al do.

And it would still be possible for others to uhm blog locally or directly. I am absolutely positive wordpress could handle that: local content and aggregated content.

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Site/Forum Features / Wanted: Cody Cartoons

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 08:58 AM »

i think nudone is considering a cartoon
suggest it on forum to encourage him
maybe if we all clamour for it
he will do it

-mouser

Ok nudone please make a Cody Cartoon!

 

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Developer's Corner / Re: A good idea for web designers and site admins - Mirror your Site

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2006, 03:27 AM »

I use phpmyadmin and full dumps.

The databases do not need to be synched at all times, that is too risky. So I check "yes these should indeed be synched" or "hm no too much spam". Surely, a script that automates the task would help a lot, but I haven't written one yet.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Paul Graham's Essays ("What Business Can Learn from Open Source" and more)

« Last post by housetier on July 19, 2006, 09:26 AM »

Oh my! The excerpt made me curious, but I have so much else to read too. And my own site needs fresh content too, so I need to WRITE something too.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Article Find: Fundamental issues with open source software development

« Last post by housetier on July 19, 2006, 09:21 AM »

as much as I hate to disagree but here I do so

I don't think this is a "great" article. To me it seems to take the worst of the worst and define it as "fundamental".

I totally agree that there ARE issues. Absolutely. And each project has its unique issues which can be grouped together for easier comprehension.

But now lets take the same approach on people. Every single person on this planet is better with certain things and worse with others. Now we group the worse things together. Say we have six five groups now: input (seeing & hearing, senses in general); output (languages, lisping, bad teeth, mimic); effeciency (non-sprinter types, parkinson patients); interoperability (cultural background, language barrier); look&feel (ethnicity, dress-code).

Now I declare the human being is fundamentally flawed. (Yes others will agree with me on the result, but that would be a philosophical issue not a systematical).

I am not saying that the article is bad, but in my opinion it is too short to be "fundamental". The result might be correct but don't agree with the way we arrived at this result.

(I should have taken debate lessons while I was in South Carolina, then I wouldn't lack all the terms I was looking for. I can't quite express it nicely what I was trying to say.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Poster Printer - free (open source)

« Last post by housetier on July 18, 2006, 06:47 PM »

Yes the rasterbator is what I thought of too. Haven't tried either yet.

Can anyone write, like, a mini review of either service? I'd like to get a first (second?) hand impression of such services. I might try it once I have found a new apartment, I wanna get really creative when setting up my room.

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Developer's Corner / Re: its a myth, a MYTH I say!

« Last post by housetier on July 18, 2006, 12:19 PM »

Idea is simple, .obj files no longer have machine code but rather the intermediate "p-code" the compiler is generating anyway, and optimizing is deferred until the link stage.

-f0dder (July 18, 2006, 11:35 AM)

Which to me sounds as if it's not too far away from just-in-time compilation. I think in the future we will have more abstract machines which optimize themselves all the time; total virtualization so to say. I will have to pick up the proper technical terms so I can better explain what I mean.

The trend seems to be to generate the machine code as late as possible in the uhm "runtime/lifetime cycle" of The Code.

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Developer's Corner / its a myth, a MYTH I say!

« Last post by housetier on July 18, 2006, 10:53 AM »

whuu? Say what now?

Well I don't say it, but this article does.


Bah, I have read so many of these language comparisons already; shoutout.alioth.debian.org anyone?

True, there aren't any benchmarks. But at the same time it is also not a rant, it just explains where certain myths come from (thereby demystifying them). And who here says shootout.a.d.o. was in any way sound? It has lots of statistics but it doesn't prove a thing.


Yaddayaddayadda, so it's not polemy; why should I read it?

The article does not use complicated terms or foul language. I found it very easy to comprehend.

Read it and next time someone makes a claim about certain "features" of certain programming languages, consider how much truth lies in that article. But don't get caught up in a programming language flame war!

Happy Hacking!

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General Software Discussion / Re: New FREE Service to speed web pages, block ads & phishing

« Last post by housetier on July 18, 2006, 03:45 AM »

Regarding this:

can i just say that i got a helpfull phone call and email and follow up advice from opendns to help us improve our nameservers..

-mouser (July 18, 2006, 03:27 AM)

I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot. I contacted them via their contact form and informed them about the issues rover and I had with opendns.com not correctly resolving donationcoder.com. A few days (1? 2?) later they replied. It was a short reply, but it was not automated.

We have someone looking at this site's DNS and how it's set... they do some strange things, and we're looking at our code to see if we need some better error handling.

John Roberts
VP of Product
OpenDNS  http://www.opendns.com/

> It seems that the IP for donationcoder.com is not correct. 72.36.247.86 is the right one, while the resolved IP 208.67.219.40 leads \"nowhere\", well at least not to dc.com
>
> This discrepancy has been confirmed by other users of both donationcoder and opendns.

-opendns.com product service

They took this complaint seriously and responded. I like that!

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Developer's Corner / Flow oriented programming

« Last post by housetier on July 18, 2006, 01:55 AM »

Most Debian-people are smart people, some come close to being brilliant, others the world were a nicer place without... This sets the skeptical mindset I have when I read Planet Debian in my RSS reader of the week.

The other day a certain headline caught my attention. "Flow oriented programming":

I've been preparing on my exam on programming and modeling languages. The usual classification of imperative, functional, oop and logic programming is kind of inconsequent, since there are e.g. functional oop languages.

To me, oop is more of a software engineering thing, usually applied to imperative programming with a load of syntactic sugar.

-http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/2006071801-flow-programming

This made me curios and I read on. The article doesn't go very deep into this topic but it hints at a few new (for me at least) ideas/paradigms. I'll try to get my hands on Mr. Schuberts exam on this topic, I find this interesting.

What are your thoughts, could FOP be the new holy grail? Or is it just another hype after OOP+UML an XP?

(Should this go into the programmer's corner instead?)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ad Muncher: keeps the brain intact while surfing the Net - beats AdBlock!

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 08:47 PM »

edit:
this post has caused too much discomfort

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ad Muncher: keeps the brain intact while surfing the Net - beats AdBlock!

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 08:04 PM »

AdBlock beats AdMuncher because AB works on my computer while AM does not. I would have loved to try it though...

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General Review Discussion / Re: Any volunteers for Next Review (7/25 - 8/1) ?

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 07:59 PM »

I could review linux software, at least the one I use...

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Living Room / Re: Firefox 2.0 beta available

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 07:58 PM »

I tried the beta the other day, but fully half of my plugins weren't compatible yet. AdBlock was one of the incompatible ones. Since I can't browse without adblock, I am now using my trusted FF1.5 again.

I shall see what the second beta and the release candidates bring...

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Living Room / Re: AOL 1.0 Disk sells for $9K on ebay

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 11:32 AM »

http://www.oldversio...om/program.php?n=aol
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Living Room / Re: New Baby at Google Labs

« Last post by housetier on July 14, 2006, 06:10 AM »

and soon we'll have the GSpot and GIrth for a healthier sexual life (baby production)...
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor

« Last post by housetier on July 13, 2006, 09:49 AM »

I wonder if it works now. Last time I tried it, you could'nt switch back from the preview tab. In fact you couldn't switch back to anything, nor click any button. And that was the 1.0 release, ready for production. It put me off a bit.

Nowadays I leave the web design to people who know more about it than me. Then I take their mess results and make it standards compliant by hand. After that I feed it to my cms...

I think nvu is a cool thing though, because it works on linux. People should try and see if this isn't enough for what they need to do. No need to buy expensive software :-)

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Living Room / Re: MS working on an MP3 player to challenge the iPod dominance

« Last post by housetier on July 12, 2006, 09:46 AM »

hadez dug out this extremely funny video: How would Microsoft design the iPod?

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Living Room / Re: MS working on an MP3 player to challenge the iPod dominance

« Last post by housetier on July 12, 2006, 09:45 AM »

...
Apple have recently come to blows in Europe (esp. with the French government) for the inability to interoperate MP3/WMA/iTune formats ...

-Carol Haynes (July 11, 2006, 02:33 PM)

Do you what the French law had to say about OGG and other "free" and/or "open" formats? I haven't been following very closely
 

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Living Room / Re: Cartoon: Maladies of the Information Age

« Last post by housetier on July 12, 2006, 06:23 AM »

I like METAMANIA

Next time someone wants to impress me with their website, what it does, how great it is, who reads it, how much money they make from ads - I will simply reply: my site rates sites like yours. It will be a big fat LIE, but it will be fun:

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: New FREE Service to speed web pages, block ads & phishing

« Last post by housetier on July 12, 2006, 06:19 AM »

I am using OpenDNS for two days as of this writing. I haven't experienced anything surprising. There were not glitches, all sites that I want to reach I can reach.

As for the promised speed up: I am not so sure about that, but I also have not really paid attention nor have I run timing tests.

What can I say: It works, it works well!