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Living Room / Re: An apology

« Last post by tinjaw on January 22, 2008, 06:03 AM »

codeTrucker,

I was disappointed by your deletions and was among those who felt you had caused damage to the community's body of work. However, I believe you are sincere in your apology and I'm glad you're being given a second chance.

I'm not as good as Carol when it comes to appropriate quotes, so you'll have to settle for a joke. The Pope, an atheist, and a midget walk into a strip club... 

Welcome Back

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General Software Discussion / Re: I Want To Index Every File On My LAN.

« Last post by tinjaw on January 21, 2008, 05:39 AM »

I don't want you in my LAN, tinjaw! Stay off my harddisk

-housetier (January 21, 2008, 05:29 AM)

Don't worry. I won't take up much space. I'll just relax in a small ~ file in your temp directory.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I Want To Index Every File On My LAN.

« Last post by tinjaw on January 21, 2008, 05:38 AM »

I have no clue as to what kind of indexing it offers, but have you looked into Amazon S3 at all?

-J-Mac (January 20, 2008, 11:33 PM)

S3 is a very useful tool, but not suitable for this purpose. It is predominately a storage mechanism. Think of it as a remote disk drive where you pay for only what you use.

If S3 were to be used for something like this 1) you'd have to mirror every file on S3 2) you'd have to upload those terabytes of files over you internet connection and 3) you'd still need to write the software to do everything else.

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General Software Discussion / I Want To Index Every File On My LAN.

« Last post by tinjaw on January 20, 2008, 09:25 PM »

I know there are various threads about desktop search applications here on DC, but I want to not be tied down to just one computer. I want to find an open source application that will spider my entire LAN (mostly via SMB, but also HTTP and FTP if possible) and index every file. I want it to grab meta data and use plugins to index the contents of every file. I want thumbnails of image files. I want it to go into compressed archives. I want want to search it all via a web frontend. I want to be able to click on the search results and have either my preferred web browser, FTP client, or (Windows) file manager open to the file.

The first place I am going to look is to see if Google has something like this that is free/opensource. I have found many of the bits and pieces for such an application at the Apache Software Foundation, but it would all need to be glued together.

[update] I just found IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition. It looks like it just might do what I want. I am reading through the website right now.

[update 2] Microsoft has countered this with Search Server 2008 Express.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Most popular GNU/Linux distros nicely outlined

« Last post by tinjaw on January 18, 2008, 08:12 AM »

Looks nice.

For those who don't already know about it, check out DistroWatch as well. It is the most comprehensive listing on the web for *nix distros.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why AJAX is Preferred for RIAs over Java

« Last post by tinjaw on January 18, 2008, 08:05 AM »

I played with Open Lazlo a bit. I liked what I saw. If you don't know already, there is an eclipse plugin to do Lazlo GUIs.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tinjaw on January 17, 2008, 07:50 PM »

Keep on posting, Darwin; your words are worth it! 

-Curt (January 17, 2008, 05:00 PM)

The weren't always. But Darwin's posts have been steadily evolving.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: MD5 Utility For Packaging Updates

« Last post by tinjaw on January 17, 2008, 08:30 AM »

I will build this, because I need it. But I don't want to reinvent the wheel if somebody has already created what I need.

I need to take two directories, one "before" and one "after". I then need to generate a list of filenames of the files that have changed. That listing needs to be exported in a file that I could use with a compression utility (ZIP) to create an self-extracting file with only the changed files in it.

I have tried several tools but nothing does what I need without a lot of massaging of the data. Before I write scripts to automate this, I wanted to check with the community first.

thanx

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General Software Discussion / Re: academicproductivity.com (my blog on productivity) lifehacked

« Last post by tinjaw on January 16, 2008, 08:36 AM »

w00t! (I think that about covers it.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor Needed

« Last post by tinjaw on January 15, 2008, 01:34 PM »

Ken,

If I am understanding you correctly, it sounds like you are looking for "One Editor to Rule them All". If that is the case, you will run into a problem. Most editors are built with a focus. So an editor that would handle RTF would have a UI that caters to formating, the shortcut keys would be mapped to formatting, etc. But an editor that would handle BAT or INI files would be concerned not with formatting, but with manipulation of unformatted text. So shortcut keys would be mapped to things like cut and past or switch to ALL CAPS. Now the latter very well may have syntax highlighting, but not formatting.

You can think of it as Wordpad (RTF) vs. Notepad (TXT). I tend to use Open Office for RTF and Notepad++ for sourcecode or generic text.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 15, 2008, 07:33 AM »

A browser-side solution would also not solve the problem of setting off corporate proxy servers that check content for compliance with corporate policy. You might be able to "safely surf" playboy.com with a browser-side filter, but it still is going to get you into hot water at work.

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Living Room / Re: Nice little write-up of DonationCoder in usa today "tech_space" blog

« Last post by tinjaw on January 15, 2008, 07:09 AM »

Mouser, That's great. Congratulations on your baby getting national attention.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 14, 2008, 10:06 AM »

I agree with the idea of restoring all codeTrucker's posts and locking the few threads that have been the center of recent attention. Others need not be locked, as codeTrucker's account has been disabled and he cannot return to delete them anew.

My reasoning for this has nothing to do with codeTrucker and everything to do with the rest of us and future members of this community. The moment codeTrucker posted to any thread, it became community property. By removing his postings he has done harm to DC's members personally and to the community's body of work.

It is up to codeTrucker to decide if he does or doesn't want to participate further, but he has a social contract not to take away that which is now part of this community's common property.

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Videogame Development / Re: 2D/3D game developement

« Last post by tinjaw on January 14, 2008, 08:06 AM »

I'm interested in 2D game developement.

-arunpawar (January 14, 2008, 04:12 AM)

That's quite a list you got there.  Those are all great questions. You are definitely on the right track. However, your questions are broad enough that my answers would just be long lists of lists, and that won't help you. May I ask you a few questions so I can better answer yours? First of all, what computer programming experience do you have? If none or very little, I highly recommend purchasing a copy of The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners. I own a copy and think it is an excellent start to learning how to build 2D games. I also suggest you start with 2D games for two reasons: 1) You need to learn about the general aspects of programming games, and 2) It is easier to start off with 2D, as the programming is a bit easier. I can also recommend the game development tools from Garage Games. I like Torque Game Builder for 2D and the Torque Game Engine for 3D.

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 12, 2008, 03:08 PM »

It was a while ago and I used Scmbug. I don't remember how difficult it was.

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 12, 2008, 12:29 PM »

Btw tinjaw, is integrating mantis + subversion easy? I'm thinking of automagicifying stuff, like auto-closing tickets based on svn commit logs?

-f0dder (January 12, 2008, 08:29 AM)

Yes. There are several places this has been done and notes kept:

• http://alt-tag.com/b...ntis-and-subversion/
• http://blog.evaristesys.com/?p=13
• http://blog.evariste...e-view-a-minor-hack/
• http://brushpen.net/...Tracker_using_SCMBug
• http://ascendwiki.ch...o_ViewVC_from_Mantis

edited to add another link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 12, 2008, 07:25 AM »

What's so good about Mantis?
It doesn't look very pretty looking at the demo?

-urlwolf (January 11, 2008, 05:50 PM)

I've never really give its appearance much thought. It does what I think a bug tracker should and it is open source, so I can modify it if my needs differ from the stock installation. It is also much easier to integrate an open source bug tracker with an open source version control system and an open source wiki (mediawiki - Matis integrates with it out-of-the-box as of 1.1).

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Living Room / Re: Wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald 3-D simulations

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 05:00 PM »

So far, ForgeFX Ocean Wave Simulation in 3D is the best I can find.



I gotta head out and run some errands. I'll poke around a bit some more. The best suggestion I can think of is to email NOAA, United States Merchant Marine Academy, or any universities with an oceanographic studies program.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 01:45 PM »

I don't know the answer to this question, or even if it is a valid question, but...

What if a __________ system was implemented and those who desired to use it, started to do so and those who weren't interested weren't even aware it is in effect because the integration is seamless?

Is that possible? Would that be a desirable goal?

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 01:16 PM »

Edit - This is not directed at tinjaw's last comment.  He is just being himself.

-CodeTRUCKER (January 11, 2008, 01:07 PM)

Thanks. Put another hash mark in the "Mentioned Tinjaw" column please. 

Now if you excuse me I have to return to my debate. I want to go left, me wants to go right, and myself justs wants to go to Hell with his new handbasket.

Update: I forgot to add that I will be setting up a Tinjaw affiliate program for those of you who would like to make some money every time you mention my nick. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 01:12 PM »

Jumpbox is something I bookmarked as "looks worth trying".

I use Mantis. You should be able to integrate Mantis with Mercurial via Scmbug.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 01:06 PM »

Most of the discussion, here and elsewhere, is bringing me around to see that what I had in mind as an experiment would not be practical. However, I would like to try my ideas somewhere. I'll go off and try to find a forum more willing to put up with some increased workload to help get the baseline established. Anybody have any suggestions for forums.? DON'T POST THEM! Instead PM me. Posting them will not add any value to this thread.
administrative note: can we get the admin to increase the allowable file size. I tried up load my ego and got an File Too Large error.

Enough about tagging. Let's get back to talking about me. 

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 12:59 PM »

I think KenR is definitely a candidate for the largest tag in the cloud. 

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 10:15 AM »

Interestingly, all of the things I see being posted here as to what the tagging system is for and how it might work are VERY different than the individual discussions I have had with mouser about the topic.

-KenR (January 11, 2008, 09:32 AM)

All good programmers know the maxim that users never use the software in the manner the developer planned for. 

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Electronic/Searchable Holy Books

« Last post by tinjaw on January 11, 2008, 05:25 AM »

First of, thank for the link to the film. It looks very interesting. I'm going to try an view it when I get the opportunity.

I do understand that what I am asking for is quite huge, but only if you look at it as me trying to "understand" everything about all of the religions. What I seek is only slightly more than a surface level understanding, a foundation, that will provide me with a proper perspective with which I can view related issues. I do not wish to do this as a Doctoral Thesis, I just want an educated layman's understanding - something beyond hearsay and propaganda.