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Jibz's Tools / Re: LATEST VERSION - Dina 2.92 - September 7th 2013

« Last post by ewemoa on September 07, 2013, 11:51 PM »

I didn't find the version attached to be the same as the one available via the dedicated page.

The following are MD5 checksums I got for each:

attached: 028424baac750e9fd0f54df03202e5d0
dedicated page: 35d394ad838ca2d862fd0310d6bf3405

Hmm...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Quick Ways to Start Programs in X11 Environments

« Last post by ewemoa on September 04, 2013, 07:26 AM »

Well, lucky for me, the package installation didn't work out anyway

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Quick Ways to Start Programs in X11 Environments

« Last post by ewemoa on September 03, 2013, 11:19 PM »

Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried it recently and there are two things about it that lead me to be wary: 1. Zeigeist and 2. Number of dependencies.

May be I will try it again anyway

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Living Room / Re: Never Use Links to Detonate Explosives - Especially if you email them...

« Last post by ewemoa on September 03, 2013, 05:47 AM »

Sounds similar in spirit to JoTo's post.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: ANDROID: What's a good recipe viewing app?

« Last post by ewemoa on September 02, 2013, 10:59 PM »

Haven't tried it, but the following has source code available:

Bites

As a slight digression...

My general impression of developing for Android (having been working at it for some months) is that it's quite a different experience from Desktop app development.

For example, one of the things one must contend with is that the system keeps trying to elimintate running processes associated with 3rd party developers -- so a certain amount of development effort goes in to trying to cope with that. As I understand it, this is in the name of battery life and responsiveness

Another example is that non-system apps are restricted in what they can do -- and I've noticed that certain things that used to be possible are no longer possible (unless the app is a system app).

It is a different world, but as I understand it, other mobile platforms aren't really better off.

I find it's very easy to wonder why a particular app doesn't do X -- then when I go to look into how X might be accomplished, it's not unusual to find that it's not possible, it's really hard, or something similar...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Quick Ways to Start Programs in X11 Environments

« Last post by ewemoa on September 02, 2013, 07:42 PM »

Here is something that's not quite as nice, but similar for Arch:

for pkg in `pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}'`; do echo -e "$pkg:"; pacman -Q -l $pkg|grep bin/ | awk '{print $2}'; echo; done

Automatically generating things to provide a basis for something does seem like it could be helpful.

I wish though that certain kinds of things in my shell history would be "sticky" (i.e. not get deleted). Hmm, perhaps I can take notes containing specific invocations along with descriptions in org-mode and generate part of my shell history...

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Living Room / Re: Tech Startup Bootcamp

« Last post by ewemoa on September 02, 2013, 05:55 AM »

Doesn't it say that the final deadline is 2013-08-23?

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Living Room / Re: Brilliant Bit of Art - Mobile Phones

« Last post by ewemoa on September 01, 2013, 10:33 PM »

Indeed! Didn't see him at first...seems to be a technique being applied here more than once

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Quick Ways to Start Programs in X11 Environments

« Last post by ewemoa on September 01, 2013, 08:51 PM »

Just a standard keyboard here

According to the local ~/.fluxbox/keys, I've been using Exec for two things -- launching a terminal and dmenu-launch.

That works ok for the most part here -- until I forget the name of something...sometimes searching my shell's history helps, but this is a situation where I've been helped by hierarchical menus (rediscovery). I used xdg-menu to generate some menus per the instructions here:

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Living Room / Re: Brilliant Bit of Art - Mobile Phones

« Last post by ewemoa on September 01, 2013, 08:41 PM »

I thought of an interpretation somewhat like Renegade's initially, but then when I took a closer look, I noticed the hole in the inside of the prison and the hole outside of the prison (somehow at least the outside hole feels like it's been drawn to be noticed...). These interpretations don't seem completely at odds with each other to me

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Non-Windows Software / Quick Ways to Start Programs in X11 Environments

« Last post by ewemoa on September 01, 2013, 06:15 AM »

I didn't quite get FARR working via WINE (though it seemed remarkably close to working), so I've been trying out a few alternatives:

kupfer - very similar to QuickSilver -- used this one for a while but am taking a break from it
fbrun - similar to the "Run..." dialog, comes with fluxbox
dmenu-launch - dmenu-based launcher

Anyone else have favorites or things worth pointing out?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on August 31, 2013, 05:29 PM »

FWIW, I didn't get it either until some experience had been digested

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on August 31, 2013, 05:25 AM »

being able to stage individual hunks is a really nice way to avoid commits that contain multiple unrelated changes.
-Jibz (August 31, 2013, 05:21 AM)

Yes, yes, yes

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Screenshot thread!

« Last post by ewemoa on August 31, 2013, 05:24 AM »

Here's a fairly vanilla one

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Non-Windows Software / Re: A new section for Linux, cross-platform code, embedded, mac, android, ios, etc.

« Last post by ewemoa on August 30, 2013, 08:15 PM »

I'm kind of hoping this forum section doesn't get hijacked by the tablet/phone crowd
-Gothi[c] (August 30, 2013, 01:12 PM)

May be that can be grounds for the creation of a non-tablet, non-phone, non-windows section

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Looking for android budget app

« Last post by ewemoa on August 30, 2013, 04:58 AM »

IIUC, the following should meet the criteria of not having to pay for the app (source code should be avaliable too) -- not sure about the other criteria though:

Budget
Daily Money
GnuCash

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for Aug 28, 2013 - Codename: Safety and Security

« Last post by ewemoa on August 28, 2013, 11:24 PM »

Thanks for the newsletter

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina font in size 7, 6.5 or 6 ?

« Last post by ewemoa on August 28, 2013, 09:44 PM »

Attached is an attempt at a tarball for an Arch package of Dina ~~2.91~~2.92.

md5:6d4ef8c9b96551e553e6240855b5e240

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Window Managers and Terminals for *NIX

« Last post by ewemoa on August 28, 2013, 09:28 PM »

Now using fluxbox, thanks to Gothi[c]'s tiling patch (ArrangeWindowsStack*).

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Developer's Corner / Re: Installing and Using Arch Linux (2013-05 - 2013-07) on Thinkpads / Ideapads

« Last post by ewemoa on August 26, 2013, 08:01 AM »

Tested with some success on Z580 and might do so on E130.
-ewemoa (August 14, 2013, 08:20 AM)

Seems to work for the E130 as well.

At the moment, to keep the arrangement up-to-date, need to at least:

Remember to copy refind_x64.efi as bootx64.efi in to the appropriate EFI directory (boot, not refind) <- when refind is updated
Regenerate the vbox initramfs file <- when the linux kernel is updated

Now if there were a good way to make it hard to accidentally choose the wrong boot entry in refind...

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