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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Getting things done with Tracks
« Last post by housetier on April 26, 2007, 02:06 PM »
I am very much into this social networking stuff and thus happily played around with netvibes.com. I have my many feeds spread across several tabs now. On my tab technews I am rssding ("reading" plus "rss" ;)) NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source.

Today they fed me this: Getting things done with Tracks, which leads to the full article at linux.com.

To make a long story short: The heading (GTD) caught my eye, so I felt I had to tell you about this. Apparently the author uses a software called Tracks to GTD.

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I was determined to adopt the popular organizational method. I searched for a solid software tool to track projects and next actions, and found dozens of desktop-oriented applications to choose from. One of the GTD axioms is to collect all of your tasks, projects, and lists in one place; since I regularly use four PCs and laptops and a mobile phone, finding a GTD-aware tool that would run as a Web app was paramount. I settled on Tracks; it is open source, easy to use, and accessible from anywhere.
-http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/19/2019213

I have not tried to GTD, with or without Tracks; however I remembered it was a rather important "thing" (for lack of a better word) on donationcoder.com. I hope someone will GMTD (get more things done) with tracks, or at least G1TD (get one thing done). While I didn't take active part in the GEO experiment I do have it in the back of my mind constantly.

Anyway, maybe someone finds it useful. At least you will be reminded of GEO :D

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Living Room / Re: Hunting bargains? Here's the ultimate tool for you!
« Last post by housetier on April 23, 2007, 09:40 AM »
err lol?

this is a rather innovative use of brass knuckles. Well I guess it's all about appearance  :o
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General Software Discussion / Re: Five Website Annotation Programs
« Last post by housetier on April 22, 2007, 11:51 AM »
techcrunch often has nice posts, and sometimes a proper rant ;)
954
Living Room / Re: Oh no, not another social network site...
« Last post by housetier on April 22, 2007, 11:49 AM »
another one in Germany is Wamadu.

"wamadu" stands for "was machst du?", meaning "watcha doin?". Same as twitter.
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Living Room / OMGLOLWTFBBQ! They set us up teh b0mbs!!11
« Last post by housetier on April 22, 2007, 07:52 AM »
Great little comedy series to watch online:
http://www.geeksares...ors-episode-1-video/

Razorwire and Overlord are two of the best hackers in the world. They can hack almost anything: computers, microwaves, jars of peanut butter…if you can name it they can hack it.



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They can hax a m1cr0w4v3! First put the apple in teh 'wave:
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Then j00 hax it, lol:
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And now ch3ck wot j00 gets:
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!!!!111111oneoneoneeleven!


When one of them is in trouble
hax_bomb_1.png

...his pal haxxes up da b0mb
hax_bomb_2.png

...to save him. Dem d00ds are good frendz:
heart_1.png 
;D

from: Geeks are Sexy: Technology News
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General Software Discussion / Re: Things We Could Do Without: Software Patents
« Last post by housetier on October 06, 2006, 09:36 PM »
The only worse patents are those on (human) gene sequences. I mean, nothing makes less sense than a patent on a more or less random mutation of RNS!

Back to the software: the waters are murky because many people are confused by copyright and patent. Basically everything that is created with a minimum of "original effort" (=not copying) is covered and protected by copyright. If you write software that does a certain thing, and, without looking at your code, I write different software doing the same thing/having the same effect, we do not infringe each other's copyrights.

However, if you manage to get the patent office issue a patent on "doing a certain thing" then any software doing this certain thing (or a similar thing) would "break" the patent protection. Whereas copyright protects your work, a patent keeps the competition in check.

I just want to have a patent on filing patents and then won't license it. The problem would be solved: no more patents issued. Too bad this dream is too ludicrous...

Companies in favor of software patents argue they need to protect their works. But the work is already protected by copyright! What they want to protect is their business modell! The dispute has become very emotional, which in turn means pure, naked facts are neglected.

But we can walk the emo path as well: just vote on the patents that don't feel right!  :)
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General Software Discussion / Things We Could Do Without: Software Patents
« Last post by housetier on October 06, 2006, 09:06 PM »
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That's right, you can have a patent on software. This does not mean the source code which is protected by copyright, but the idea in the code. An example is amazon's patent on their 1-click buy button. It is totally ridiculous but larger software companies do like these things as they can use their patent to keep down the competition.
:nono2:

Other big software companies strongly oppose such patents.

So if I could get a patent on "using groups of integers to encode multi-channel color values" or something along those (RGB,YMBC) lines, I could then sue ATI and Nvidia and Intel.
:greenclp:

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To ridicule these ridiculous patents and the system which grants them, several individuals have founded an organization against such software patents. Each month several software patents are presented and users vote the most ridiculous one, which is then awarded. From all the winners, a software patent of the year is selected.

Although this is primarily a European "problem" I want to encourage also my non-European friends to vote and spread the word because I think these software patents are ridiculous, awkward, and not good for competition. And when there is no competition, the comsumer loses. To argue yet another way: Competition is at the very heart of Capitalism and Free Market.
:hanged:

So, cast your vote :deal: and tell you mother, your sister and your sister's friends to do the same
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Get Ubuntu Linux CDs with Shipping for free
« Last post by housetier on October 06, 2006, 04:53 PM »
afaik 6.10 ("Edgy") will not be shipped on CDs. If you want a stable reliable version, you should stick with "Dapper", which is LTS: Long Term Support. Edgy is the version with all the new experimental features.

There might be Edgy CDs available, but I recommend Dapper unless you know better :) I run Edgy and regret it every second day...
959
General Software Discussion / Re: FairUse4WM : Strippingng DRM (digital rights management) from windows media
« Last post by housetier on September 28, 2006, 03:33 PM »
Music enthusiasts could also look for labels and artists that let you download and copy their music for free. Some even encourage you to do so!
:huh: :Thmbsup:

Sometimes you even get all the settings and tracks and stuff for software like reason so you can take "their" tunes and do something different with it. 
:)

It hasnt caught on really yet, because the big radio and tv stations are owned (in the 1337 sense) by the big labels, and those big players do not like competion one bit.
 :mad: >:(

Anyway this is a very emotional issue for me, mostly involving hate or disgust so I will stop for now. Given interest, I'll dig out the "free labels" that I know for you...

must...calm...down...
960
General Software Discussion / Re: What IRC client do you use?
« Last post by housetier on September 28, 2006, 09:14 AM »
I don't follow the jump from X11/Xorg to win32 and back.

Making a native port would be a nightmare, otherwise someone would already have done it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What IRC client do you use?
« Last post by housetier on September 28, 2006, 08:58 AM »
mitzevo, and f0dder: there are some known "issues" with gtk on windows. I do not know of a solution unless you are willing to juggle with several versions of gtk until you find one that works.

One should take the source and make a native win32 port of xchat...
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by housetier on September 27, 2006, 11:21 PM »
Back in the days of yore windows...

I also liked Total Commander very much. IIRC, it even had a means to integrate with an archiver program so one could easily browse through archives. It is possible, however, I am confusing this with the opensourced and GPL'd Midnight Commander.

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Anyway, the two-paned interface is extremely efficient. Too bad there is no way my beloved ROX-Filer would support this. Its approach is too different.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Why do unzip apps have to be so complicated?
« Last post by housetier on September 27, 2006, 09:14 PM »
well, the program/tool could delete only those archives which were unzipped successfully.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Wotsit's Format: The Programmers File Format Collection
« Last post by housetier on September 27, 2006, 07:07 PM »
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another similar site is filext.com (yes, only one "e")
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General Software Discussion / Re: What IRC client do you use?
« Last post by housetier on September 27, 2006, 07:03 PM »
I use and recommend xchat, a multiplatform irc client. There are several versions available for windows and only the official build by zed himself requires registration after 30 days. The other versions are free but might lack certain features.

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Xchat is sriptable through various programming langues. mircscript is not supported; but perl, python, tcl, javascript, lisp, ruby, c (and one more) are. Most scripts require a language plugin, with most scripts being written for perl, then python. There are tcl scripts as well, and, no, you cannot use eggdrop scripts with in xchat.

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The looks can be changed by gtk themes and internal configuration of colors and events, and it gets complicated quickly. The screenshot above shows what my xchat looks like. I have attached the corresponding config files (you will need to change them!)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Why do unzip apps have to be so complicated?
« Last post by housetier on September 27, 2006, 01:29 PM »
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I have an application that does just this, but it is only for the ROX Desktop. However, since it it delegates all the work it might be interesting nontheless HOW it calls the various unarchiving programs. It might be totally useless as well.

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Official Announcements / Re: Upgrading forum software on server to rc1.3 today.. be prepared for issues
« Last post by housetier on September 25, 2006, 10:44 PM »
Just for the record: when I search for, say, flock the relevance of each found post is 0%. This does not seem right...
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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by housetier on September 25, 2006, 10:36 PM »
oh emm gee! me 2, me 2, me 2!  :onfire: :onfire:

* housetier wants that too!
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Living Room / Re: Modern Chat vs. BBS
« Last post by housetier on September 25, 2006, 10:05 PM »
Yeah fido sadly is dead. all them former sysops should move on now :P

I wonder what written language will look like in 20 years. And what speech will sound like... Both will change dramatically over time, and maybe this "electronc communication thing" will accelerate the process. Personally, I find this exciting: it's all so dynamic, so ALIVE!

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Living Room / Re: Modern Chat vs. BBS
« Last post by housetier on September 25, 2006, 09:48 PM »
Hahahahah good ol' times!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Those were the times *sigh* Fido was very fun except for the boards about jokes, those were the up-tightest places in the history of electronic communication.

A very funny find  :D :lol:
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by housetier on September 25, 2006, 12:25 AM »
These are the ones I either use every day, or which I had been using for a long time:

PurposeNameURLWindows Version?
File ManagerROX-Filer.pngROX-Filerhttp://rox.sf.net/ :down:
IRCxchat.pngXChathttp://xchat.org/ :up:
IMBitlbeehttp://bitlbee.org/ :up:
EMailSylpheed-Clawshttp://claws.sylpheed.org/via cygwin
Web Browserswiftfox.pngSwiftfoxhttp://getswiftfox.com/ :down:
Remote DeskopFreeNXhttp://freenx.berlios.de/don't know
P2Preal_azureus.pngAzureushttp://azureus.sf.net/ :up:
MoviesMPlayer_mini.pngMPlayerhttp://www.mplayerhq.hu/ :up:
Audioquodlibet.pngQuod Libethttp://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/ :down:
AudioMP3Blasterhttp://mp3blaster.sf.net/ :down:
Window ManagerOroboROX.pngOroboROXhttp://rox.sourcefor...net/desktop/OroboROX :down:

I do have many more favorite programs for other purposes as well, but I don't use them very often. If wou want to know, just ask: "Hey what do you use for <your purpose>, and why?" and I'll try to give a meaning- and helpful answer. Also,
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Living Room / Re: Tom's Hardware 10th Anniversary, pc giveaway worth $10,000
« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2006, 01:21 PM »
I wish I knew how I could check the checkbox "    I agree to the Contest Rules." in a way that tom does not give me an error message: " Must check to agree to Contest Rules "

I mean the checkbox is ticked, what more can I do? I bet one needs to live in North America...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Essay: Open Source vs. Closed - Another Look
« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2006, 12:38 PM »
If only I could concentrate long enough to write down something like that. I have a myriad of ideas myself, but they never stick around long enough to "fix on paper".

I do take inspiration from this blog post, well from one of the comments. Highlighting the benefits for the user is a good argument I think.
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2006, 12:09 PM »
I can only recommend/praise linux software, I am not sure how others would benefit from that...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2006, 11:51 AM »
(...)
I do not have many shared bookmarks...
-housetier (September 15, 2006, 07:21 AM)

I do now though. I am virtually sharing all my del.icio.us bookmarks. It has completely replaced the bookmark thing of Firefox. I am now looking for a way to post to del.icio.us AND ma.gnolia.com at the same time. There is diigo, but somehow it doesn't post to magnolia; there are bookmarklets, but either they are only for one such service or I they "just" make posting a little easier (I still have to manually post to selected services); there is a userscript that lets me add my delicious bookmarks to magolia, but there is no indication if a bookmark has already been added. In short: I want something like diigo, but functional for delicious and magnolia.

On another note: I shall go an try a few of mouser's many extensions now :)
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