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Living Room / You can leave your copyright hat on ;-)
« Last post by housetier on September 11, 2007, 04:27 AM »
It's a nice longe article, whih tries to avoid flamebait; of course it's misleading:

  • nobody has to select the gpl fo their code
  • authors still keep their copyrights

A license cannot break copyright. If I put something I wrote under gpl, I can still put the same code under a different license. Nowhere do I give up the rights I get from copyright law.

The only "problem" that could arise is when the author of a gpl'd published code no longer wants his or her code under gpl. OTOH that code might no longer be under their control, since both side accepted the license...

Yes the whole topic is complicated. But you cannot lose your copyrights, you an lose (sell) many other rights, but your work will always be your work.
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Living Room / Re: MS OpenXML formats fail IOS approval (LOL)
« Last post by housetier on September 11, 2007, 03:18 AM »
This ugly play is also covered by the best website on all the internets.

groklaw.gif

A lot of ressources can be found on their ODF-MSOOXML TIMELINE/RESOURCE PAGE. But as always: check your own sources as well; at least check different independent sources.

Yes I :heart: groklaw.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Frappr alternatives?
« Last post by housetier on September 11, 2007, 03:12 AM »
Yes I need to know of an alternative as well.   :tellme: :tellme: :tellme:

With just a few clicks I manage to break their site: it's not responding anymore. And photos seem to be maps, whereas maps are photos...

Frappr is too confusing for me [old-geezer-voice]and I have seen a lot of confusing things in my time![/old-geezer-voice].
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Living Room / The End is Not Near!
« Last post by housetier on September 11, 2007, 02:58 AM »
I haven't read the article yet.

But I am sure we still haven't seen the end of this process: storing more and more digital data in less and less (analog) atoms.

I shall go read the article now :-)
930
General Software Discussion / deleting mail folder seems to have done the trick
« Last post by housetier on September 09, 2007, 03:58 AM »
Thank you Dirhael!  :Thmbsup:

This simple trick worked, I deleted ~/.opera/mail and started kestrel. And lo and behold: it didn't even open the convert dialog!  :D
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General Software Discussion / convert nothing - never finished
« Last post by housetier on September 08, 2007, 08:29 PM »
Everytime I start the alpha version it wants to convert my mail settings (boxes?). However, I have never set up mail or chat accounts in opera - there is nothing to convert. Converting nothing seems to take forever, unless I click Pause and then Continue: opera 9.5 alpha then claims everything was converted until next time I start it.

My question thusly: how do I make it stop trying to convert?

I ask here because DC is the only forum I use and #opera has been unable to help so far.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use
« Last post by housetier on August 29, 2007, 03:34 PM »
  • xchat for IRC and all instant messaging (except bloody skype)
  • opera FTW (for teh web)
  • mplayer plays my movies in whatever format and codec they might come, also plays my music, podcasts and internet radio.
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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder
« Last post by housetier on August 29, 2007, 03:28 PM »
No Strictness

I don't really have a strict concept of organizing my files, nor do I have a folder "My Documents".

My home directory only has a few subdirectories which don't change often:

desktop-and-home.jpg

  • Apps - wrapper scripts for all the programs I use
  • Bilder - avatar images only
  • Choices - contains files and scripts to configure my desktop environment and most of the programs I use
  • Desktop - files and directories that I actively work with, or plan on working with; about as messy as my real desk
  • bin - so I can locally install programs without confusing my package manager
  • lib - likewise
  • mount - I mount stuff here


The ATPBA

In my Desktop directory I sort the files my secret ATPBA (Adaptive Type/Purpose-Based Algorithm): files I need for my work for the c-base club go into "c-base"; torrent files I keep in "Torrents" until I have downloaded the files; articles for newspapers and magazines, letters, invoices are in "Texte"; movie files are in "Filme".

ATPBA can be expressed shortly as: make directories after purpose and file types.

On Capitalization

I tend to use capitalized directory names; exceptions are "bin" and "lib" for technical reasons, and "c-base" because the name is not to be capitalized.

Slippy Bastard

Applying the ATPBA is not simple due to its adaptive nature. It is like using genetic algorithms to create circuits: it works and it works well - but nobody knows how or why. Deleting files helps a lot; if I haven't touched a file or directory for a couple of weeks I put them in a directory "to burn". Once that holds enough data, they are burned to cd-rom and deleted from my harddrive. I write the date and the names of the directory on the cdrom, but I don't group them in, say, "projects", "fun" - instead there are "cbrp-homework", "Battle Programmer Shirase" (a very funny anime), and the like.

Who's On Top?

I like to put files into directories, but I don't like to create a deep hierarchy - unless there is demand, i.e. organizing my 80 GB of mp3-files.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for August 27 - Codename "Mouser reinvents the wheel"
« Last post by housetier on August 29, 2007, 02:58 PM »
The DC newsletter is one newsletter I really look forward to receiving twice a month! It takes people like me back into the forum and encourages them to post here and there.
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Living Room / New Translation of Teh Bible found!
« Last post by housetier on August 15, 2007, 09:31 AM »
 :o :huh:
I just stumbled upon this new translation of the bible. It is not revolutionary but it shows being ancient doesn't mean dead.

That website is even more overloaded than mine.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Working with (display+format+restructure) big amount of data (text+graphics)?
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 11:36 AM »
I still haven't completely solved my organizational problem. I will eventually post my current "simple" solution. In the mean time, I'm still open to suggestions!
-Armando (August 10, 2007, 11:29 AM)

I am also eager to hear of those suggestions. IMHO it is more of a personal organizational problem than a technical problem. But maybe the tools I know are too limited and I would have to do all the work myself instead of relying on a tool...

I want to have a tool, so I won't have to use my brain so much :-)
937
General Software Discussion / typefaces and fonts explained
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 11:33 AM »
Thanks Armando! Now it is clear to me.  :Thmbsup:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Stumbleupon for opera is there!
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 04:42 AM »
 :D :-* :D :-* :D :-*

Good News Everyone!
Finally! It is there: StumbleUpon for Opera!

The Wait is over ;D
I had to wait so long, but no more. I can now rate and submit sites, and even have simple "integration" like the extension for firefox provides.

Trau, Schau Wem :o
I recommend this toolbar. However, before you can install it, you have to provide your ID, nickname, and password; this might keep users off operastumbler, although it didn't stop me. I guess this information is coded into each user's toolbar.

Thumbs Up  :up: :up:
It works very well. Here are the screenshots and the code.

edit: minor typo corrected
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General Software Discussion / Re: Social bookmarking sites
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 04:33 AM »
I use the Diigo toolbar
-housetier (September 12, 2006, 10:58 PM)

This is no longer true. I now use opera and have a little bookmarklet for bookmarking sites at del.icio.us, and operastumbler for rating and submitting sites to stumbleupon.

I'd love to post to ma.gnolia instead of to del.icio.us though, however I couldn't make their bookmarklets work in opera.
940
Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for February 7th, 2007 - Codename "Helping Hands"
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 04:26 AM »
I'd do Task #2, too, but for the fact that I use Opera which isn't supported by StumbleUpon  :-\
-TucknDar (February 10, 2007, 03:08 AM)

There now is operastumbler which I am happily using. Version 1.1 is quite advanced already and I use it frequently. You have to provide your ID, screenname, and password though. I didn't have a problem with that, you can inspect the code where the credentials are used.

I am really happy about operastumbler. Now opera only needs to stop raising itself and thus stealing focus and it will be teh bestestest browwwser out there.
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Living Room / Re: Article: Please don't steal this Web content
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 04:02 AM »
I am very worried about this too: people stealing my content. I am (slowly) writing a book; everyone can read it online, but I don't want people to just copy its content and sell it as their own.

It is my work! Well in fact it is a collaborative work, but none of the other writers want their work stolen as well. The whole book is under a CC-license which allows copying for non-commercial use and requires full credentials. But I don't really have a way of enforcing this license.

I shall take a look at copyscape.
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General Software Discussion / The Choice is not Mine
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 03:20 AM »
Being a linux-only guy I cannot choose between ODF and OOXML. It doesn't hurt me one bit though: I haven't used a word processor in over a year. I write most of my documents in textile markup and convert is as needed. I don't know if I will be able to convert to .odf though...
943
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Guy Tries Ubuntu
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 03:14 AM »
Look at it the other way: I am so used to they way X Windows works I am severly handicapped when I have to work with MS Windows. C&P jsut doesn't work as I am used to I have to install software to get virtual desktops/workspaces.

I understand everybody's trouble with linux. Linux akes trouble for them not because it is inerior, limited, or plain bad, but because it is different.

If you ain't happy with linux, don't use it! Fighting the OS is not productive.
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General Software Discussion / difference between typeface and font
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 03:09 AM »
and it doesn't know the diffrence between typefaces and fonts...
-Armando (July 20, 2007, 08:27 PM)

I also don't know the difference, could you explain it in simple terms? This is just to humor my curiosity; the rest of this thread is much more interesting and important.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your music player of choice?
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 02:30 AM »
I use mplayer for nearly all my multimedia needs:

  • movie files of any type, any codec, and any format
  • watching DVD
  • audio files of any type, any codec, and any format
  • radio streams (not all of them, flash stuff won't work)
  • video streams (ditto)

If I need DVD menus I use VLC.

Mplayer is free and good; you don't have to install it, so it won't mess with your registry either :-)

So far I have not found a usable GUI, but I haven't been looking that hard because *I* don't want a GUI. If you want your media player to look pretty, mplayer probably is not for you.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Web 2.0 Poll
« Last post by housetier on August 10, 2007, 02:23 AM »
It's not there yet, but soon it will be. I am thinking of free localization services based on free user created maps under CC. "web 2.0" will be the means for people to create what they really want, and not what big news corps want to sell.
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Living Room / FSFE asks: What is the ODF-OOXML-converter really good for?
« Last post by housetier on July 16, 2007, 07:00 AM »
logo-fsfe.pngopen_logo.gif

In a guest article on heise open FSFE asks questions about OOXML and ODF and converters:

But if Microsoft's claims to technical superiority of MS-OOXML over ODF are true, how could one ever be converted perfectly into the other?

Microsoft maintains that while it would have been easy to support the Open Document Format (ODF) natively, it had to move to MS-OOXML because this was the only way for them to offer the full features of its office suite. But if Microsoft itself is not able to represent its internal data structures in the Open Document Format (ODF) in its Microsoft Office suite, how could an external conversion program from MS-OOXML accomplish this task?

These are good questions.

Given past experience, their conclusion that
Microsoft has more interest in lock-in than competition
doesn't seem too far fetched.

Nonetheless, you should read the article for yourself, and also inform yourself about the FSFE.

If your views differ, please do say so here! I might sound anti-MS, but facts are more important than feelings.

from http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/92735
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What's the Best? / Firewall, DHCPd, DNS, sugar fo Ubuntu
« Last post by housetier on June 05, 2007, 11:35 AM »
Behold the words of the ubuntu fanboi!

ubuntulogo.png

As for firewall, I can recommend and do support ipmasq. Although it doesn't have a gui like other packages, it also stays out of your way and sets up a tight firewall. I have used this package for many years; I also tried out other firewall packages but always came back to ipmasq.  :Thmbsup:

And while I am going on about -masq, let me tell you about dnsmasq, which is a simple and very reliable dhcp server and caching dns server.   8)

To make the sugar even sweeter (and I cannot resist doing so), I have to direct your attention to yet another package, this time it's a little helper tool called resolvconf. resolvconf makes ipmasq and dnsmasq work nicely together; it's the grease between these two 1338 packages.  :P

Now, I admit, 3 packages at once might be a little difficult, but: they work so nicely together it definitely is worth the effort of getting to know them. Also, I am willing to help you setting them up (this is an easy promise, they don't need much setting up ;) )
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Living Room / All-New Book from O'Rly
« Last post by housetier on June 03, 2007, 06:59 AM »
cheezburger.gif ichc_logo.gif cheezburger.gif

Now that the memecats (Cute Overload, I Can Has Cheezburger, Meme Cats) have become deservedly popular, publishers are hopping on the train.


The first publisher to explain us the rules of lolingo and funniness are O'Rly in their latest book


cheezburger.gif LOLCODE - The Comprehensive Guide cheezburger.gif

lolcode_r.jpg



Example code from the Book
[Select]
HAI

BTW HUGSTIME? is system functions for determining hugs time
CAN HAS HUGSTIME?
CAN HAS STDIO?

I HAS A LOVINGU
BTW NAO is automagically set to time right now
I HAS A NAO

IZ NAO HUGSTIME?
YARLY
VISIBLE "<3"
LOVINGU IZ K
NOWAI
VISIBLE "</3"
LOVINGU IZ NOES
KTHX

KTHXBYE


There are even concrete, hands-on uses of the language! While ROR (Ruby on Rails) made the Ruby programming language popular, Monorail does the same for the LOLingo programming language.

O'Rly are totally on top of the buzz again - order now!  :D
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Mircryption / Re: Mircryption/XChat 0.4.0-alpha w/ DH1080 Key Exchange !
« Last post by housetier on May 01, 2007, 03:37 PM »
Ubuntu and debian users need to install the package libssl-dev. This, and all the other packages one needed before.

So far it seems to work on my 32bit ubuntu
[Select]
/keyx hadez
was successful.
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