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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware
« Last post by housetier on November 05, 2008, 06:46 AM »
I wonder what an articel about "Five Years DC" would sound like...

It's good we keep these old threads alive: the forums feels deeper somehow with all the historical facts still present.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What would your ideal Operating System be like?
« Last post by housetier on November 02, 2008, 08:32 AM »
I only caught part of the talk because I had to keep so many aliens in check onboard our space station.

However, the concept seems interesting: Instead of working with (the bugs of) a program, users complete tasks. On the desktop you see objects and tasks, or objects and connections to other objects. So the user gets a good overview of how things/objects/people interact.

You can even share your desktop/workspace! And I think this is best thing about it: to be able to take this "semantic thing" to the collaborative level. After all, people want to connect and share ideas; making this possible in an easier fashion is good.

On the other hand, it will require a little bit re-training yourself if you are - like me -used to working with programs. I will give DeepaMehta a spin, but I don't think I'll switch completely yet. The visual appeal is not there yet.

It also reminded me of mozilla's ubiquity thing, which I also will try out soon; a friend has been using it for some time and is very happy about it, limited as it is.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Codeweavers - no good deed goes unpunished
« Last post by housetier on November 01, 2008, 09:59 PM »
OK Where's the punishment?
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General Software Discussion / Re: What would your ideal Operating System be like?
« Last post by housetier on November 01, 2008, 08:25 AM »
well underway in the semantic desktop crowd
-urlwolf (November 01, 2008, 06:35 AM)

Later today I'll attend a short talk about Deepa Mehta, which to me looks like a Semantic Desktop or at least a Semantic Filemanager.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 44
« Last post by housetier on October 31, 2008, 05:37 AM »
yay thanks!
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Living Room / Re: High Capacity Portable MP3 Player
« Last post by housetier on October 28, 2008, 04:58 PM »
don't these eeePCs from Asus(tek?) have a large harddisk? maybe a different subnotebook will do and be cheaper as well...
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Living Room / Re: I'd pass on this discount...
« Last post by housetier on October 28, 2008, 10:16 AM »
You could submit it to The Daily WTF.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE
« Last post by housetier on October 25, 2008, 06:22 PM »
pida-logo-tiny.png vim_header.gif

I like PIDA best when it comes to python programming, because I can use my favorite text editor.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Tray Icon to toggle hidden/system files display in Explorer
« Last post by housetier on October 25, 2008, 11:02 AM »
rox-filer has a button in its toolbar that toggles visibility of hidden files, but rox-filer is not readily available for windows. However, I think it might be more convenient to have this button directly in Windows Explorer, so you can quickly change the setting while you are actually active in that window.
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General Software Discussion / Re: which Linux version for my laptop
« Last post by housetier on October 22, 2008, 05:51 PM »
Darwin - I also have yet to try xubuntu and I don't really see myself going for it. I do not have the need. People say it is snappier than the gnome desktop from ubuntu. However, I think my ultra customized rox-desktop is still superfast and functional...

If you want to try for yourself: "xubuntu-desktop" installs everything for the xubuntu version, "ubuntu-desktop" and "kubuntu-desktop" do the same for ubuntu and kubuntu resp. You can choose your desktop during logging in under "Session".


Davidtheo - I agree with Edvard: ubuntuforums is a very good place to start searching. It might be a little overwhelming at first, so just take your time :-)
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General Software Discussion / Re: which Linux version for my laptop
« Last post by housetier on October 22, 2008, 10:05 AM »
Always go with the package manager of your distribution!

In case of ubuntu there is one mighty package manager named "apt" which has several frontends. Personally, I prefer "aptitude"; "synaptic" is quite sophisticated (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager), simpler is Applications > Add/Remove

Debian has the same tools. Fedora has "yum", Suse Yast and Yast2 as frontends for their package manager rpm.

All these frontends let you search and install programs and anything those program need (they call it dependencies).


Now, Linux and multimedia sometimes work flawlessly and sometimes just barely. I can't decide between amarok, mpd, or rhythmbox for my MP3 playing. On the other hand, I decided on mplayer for watching any kind of multimedia file because it is the best.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: My First Ubuntu Program (MFUP) by Wreckedcarzz
« Last post by housetier on October 22, 2008, 04:25 AM »
Mono is supposed to be .net for linux. Also supposedly it supports .net 2.0, but not the cool stuff from 3.x.

Congratulations for your first ubuntu package. I think making a proper package is very important. I like it when programs can be uninstalled as easily and swiftly as they had been installed.

 :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: which Linux version for my laptop
« Last post by housetier on October 22, 2008, 03:57 AM »
From personal experience I can recommend the new ubuntu version 8.10 (codename intrepid ibex). It works very well on my new thinkpad. But first ask your friends who use linux which distribution they use and choose the same. They will be the ones helping you, and it is easier to help on familiar ground.

As for instant messaging with MSN, there is a multiprotocol (multiplatform too!) instant messaging client "pidgin". It lets me chat with my one friend in Thailand that is still using MSN. However, I doubt things like videochat will work.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Lets talk about GUIs.
« Last post by housetier on October 20, 2008, 01:13 PM »
This is an interesting question, I hope it receives likewise interesting
answers.

I can't provide any help, for I have turned to web interfaces if I need an
interface.
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Living Room / Re: c-base - the amazing space station
« Last post by housetier on October 19, 2008, 04:59 AM »
libavg was developed by one of our members. In the showcase on libavg.de you will find more references to c-base.

A couple of scenes for several movies were shot on the c-base as well ("Tatort: Tod einer Heuschrecke", to name just one). And just last night a team from the local TV station came by to shoot for a short documentary.

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Living Room / Re: c-base - the amazing space station
« Last post by housetier on October 16, 2008, 05:12 PM »
Who came up with this vision for c-base and its mythical origins?
-zridling (October 16, 2008, 12:50 PM)
This piece of information is not available to me, we are still trying to decipher the memory crystals we found in the probe "Siri" which was ejected just before the crash and which has a complete (we hope) backup of c-beam's data. c-beam is the board computer of the space station; it is functional again insofar as it announces the time every hour, and it can relay messages via a text2speec interface.

Where are the fembot portals?!
Prof. Kirsch is our main researcher. He has (re)built and created several alien robots already. Some had to be taken apart immediately, some commited suicide and some still won't move after all these years, so we put them up for display. But even so we cannot yet tell the gender of a robot, and we are not even sure if they have genders at all, or how many there might be.
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Living Room / Re: c-base - the amazing space station
« Last post by housetier on October 16, 2008, 05:06 PM »
sounds great housetier
-tomos (October 16, 2008, 08:40 AM)
It is great! :-)

Any pictures of the space(s) ?
There are a lot, however they are spread across several servers and services. You will find bunch on flickr and we used to have our own gallery but someone broke it during upgrade. I have been tasked with collecting all the different sources of c-media, but it will take time and I haven't even started yet so I can't post specific links as of yet.

whats the deal with the "space station that crashed 4.5 billion years ago"  :tellme: :)
There is an article in the English wikipedia about our space station. And even though the URL says "C-base" it is important to always write it in lowercase: "c-base"!

AFAIK the word "space" has more than one meaning in the English language: one is the universe and the other meaning is that of a smaller designated area such as a room. This works very well in German: space means "Raum", which is the same as Weltraum (universe) and "Raum" as area or room.

Now, the space station is both a transgalactic transport vehicle (well we aim to restore the engines so we can take off) and it offers space for its members and associates to do their thing.


(This one is going to be tricky) The space station c-base clearly is from the future which is why it crashed 4.5 billion years ago.

For projects to succeed on board they must be future compatible, and we have mustered chronicle services to reinforce this rule.
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Living Room / c-base - the amazing space station
« Last post by housetier on October 16, 2008, 08:15 AM »
C-logo_claim_blue.png

Some of you might know I am a member of the club c-base e.V. (import the root certificate from cacert.org to avoid error messages from good browsers). Our goal is to reconstruct a space station that crashed 4.5 billion years ago. It is directly under the city of Berlin in Germany. Reconstructing not only means to restore buildings or make the facilities work again, it also means to bring back to live the old and lost culture of the former inhabitants of the space station and to restore the lost knowledge we find in excavated data storage items.

What we do (totally incomplete)
So the c-base builds things and cultures. We throw parties and hold conferences, also Aliens (non-members) can rent those parts of the space station that has already been rebuilt for parties and conferences.

Big Events
One of those conferences from Aliens was the Maemo Summit 2008, which was sponsored by Nokia of Finland. We had over 250 developers listening to three parallel tracks; they also brought the wireless network we had set up for them to the limit. It was a huge event, one of the biggest in the 12-year history of c-base e.V.. It was also the best - all the Alien guest we had on board were amazed, blown away, avid, or simply stunned by our club. Among those Aliens were managers from Nokia, one of them even agreed to be interviewed. So that is an outside voice speaking about Nokia, Maemo and the ultimate impression c-base has left on him.

Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Why I mention this? Because my name is mentioned in the interview! :D When you listen to it, he says that I had been working 24 hours a day "which is basically insane". My job on board the space station is that of an event manager, so I was indeed working day and night to get "my people" whatever they needed. It was extremely exhausting so I think I deserve the praise and the fame too :D


There are more videos about c-base to be found on youtube and vimeo, I will try to dig them all up and post here. That will give you even more weird pieces of information about our space station.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions! This club is very dear to me so I will be glad to talk about it. Also, if you want to hold a conference, a meeting, a hackfest at an extraordinary place in Berlin, please just send an email to [email protected]
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Developer's Corner / Re: Easy, low maintenance club website recommendations please
« Last post by housetier on October 14, 2008, 05:04 AM »
blogger.com and its clones (there are too many) are fine if you only want to post news. If you want to do more, Drupal is a CMS I want to suggest.

It does not really matter which CMS you choose though, as long as you can work with it. Wordpress is also much more than just a "blog engine", just like Drupal (which I prefer :D).
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Living Room / Re: Recommend a keyboard
« Last post by housetier on October 13, 2008, 12:57 PM »
daskeyboard3105.jpg

I recommend Das Keyboard. It looks damn cool and it will very very quickly improve your typing skills. It is supposed to be based on the famous IBM Model M keyboard, with mechanical keys and audible clicks. The next keyboard I buy, it's gonna be this one.

Now if only they had an illuminated version...
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 41 [NEW]
« Last post by housetier on October 11, 2008, 01:06 AM »
Oh my this must have taken a long time to compile the news and display it so nicely   8) :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: skype... how secure is it?
« Last post by housetier on October 08, 2008, 08:47 AM »
I do not trust skype. I cannot make sure my data is really secure. We use it at work but only for general chit-chat, we do not send confidential or sensitive information.

If you want something like IRC but more secure have a look at silc.

If there is personal or other sensitive information involved: be paranoid!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!
« Last post by housetier on October 07, 2008, 05:46 PM »
So I have new gear now to show off :D

housetier's laptop "io"
System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 08.10.2008 00:42:31
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo

SYSTEM INFORMATION
   Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) release.
   GNOME: 2.24.0 (Ubuntu 2008-09-22)
   Kernel version: 2.6.27-6-generic (#1 SMP Tue Oct 7 04:15:23 UTC 2008)
   GCC: 4.3.2 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
   Xorg: unknown (06 October 2008  03:29:38PM) (06 October 2008  03:29:38PM)
   Hostname: io
   Uptime: 0 days 1 h 54 min

CPU INFORMATION
   GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz
   Number of CPUs: 2
   CPU clock currently at 800.000 MHz with 3072 KB cache
   Numbering: family(6) model(23) stepping(6)
   Bogomips: 4787.97
   Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm

MEMORY INFORMATION
   Total memory: 3960 MB
   Total swap: 9703 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
   SCSI device -  scsi0
      Vendor:  ATA     
      Model:  HITACHI HTS54252
   SCSI device -  scsi1
      Vendor:  HL-DT-ST
      Model:  DVDRAM GSA-T30N 
   SCSI device -  scsi6
      Vendor:  Samsung 
      Model:  Mighty Drive     

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
   Host bridge
      Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
      Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20e0
   PCI bridge(s)
      Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01)
      Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01)
   USB controller(s)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
   ISA bridge
      Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
      Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20f6

GRAPHIC CARD
   VGA controller
      nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS (rev a1)
      Subsystem: Lenovo Device 2107

SOUND CARD
   Multimedia controller
      Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
      Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20f2

NETWORK
   Network controller
      Intel Corporation Device 4237
      Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1211
   Ethernet controller
      Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
      Subsystem: Lenovo Device 2108



housetier finally has a decent system! I gave it myself for my 30th birthday :)

Actually getting it was rather difficult: when I had chosen a system and arranged for payments, it always would be sold out, so I had to go and find the next affordable deal, make arrangements, only to find it out of stock again... But this time it worked out and I now have a system lets me watch anime in that bloody x264 codec!
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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter For October 7th, 2008 - Codename "Tech News Weekly"
« Last post by housetier on October 07, 2008, 03:31 PM »
Yay for another great newsletter. I really need those newsletter so please keep em coming!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?
« Last post by housetier on October 07, 2008, 03:26 PM »
oh wow this is awesome news!
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