Tales of the Racoon Fink is a very cool site if you’re interested in fink development and KDE porting to OS X. Personally, I’m psyched over KDE compatibility coming to OS X. That means piles and piles of applications that I’ve liked under Linux/BSD/UNIX will run natively in OS X. But it’s still making progress and is not ready for prime time. But every little step counts.
Here Ranger Rick shows Konqueror running:
Check out this Dilbert entry if you want to see an evil CEO. Sorry I can’t just link to the strip itself. That would constitute …. copyright infringement… fooey. But I’m sure you can click the link if you really want to see it.
Wonderful, now the black hats are just sending emails off to people and threatening to delete files thruogh a security vulnerability unless the individual pays $20. And scarily it seems this tactic is working rather well.
What sucks is that it’s such a small sum that it costs more to track down this problem for one isolated case than to just let it slide. However, let’s do some more fun math:
$20 * 1000 naive people. That’s a cool $20k I just got from convincing 1000 people via a nasty email to send money.
I’ve heard of Using CVS for versioning your homedir however in the comments I noticed there was mention of using Plone as your data store. That’s rather interesting. Plone is a Content Management System built on top of Zope. From what I’ve seen it’s very impressive for open source software. I’ve done some Zope work before and have been happy with what it does. One of the great things about using Zope is you get versioning control of all your files as you work with them as it keeps an internal database. But I never put together using Plone/Zope as a way to store all of your home files in one spot. Sounds interesting although not sure I’m ready to try it just yet:
Here is the full comment:
It’s been a while since I read an equally silly article. If you need versioning for your files, use Plone. http://www.plone.org
It has that and a host of other features, it allows you to have all your files available through a web browser and it makes back ups much easier. Why? Plone keeps versioning of your files, but because it is a database system system on top of the Zope appliatication server, when it comes to doing a backup, you only have to worry about a single file to backup: the plone database that contains all your other writing and files.
I love when people overengineer their solutions such as you just did. It is so funny that I can hardly type this.
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It takes 20 seconds to install it. Python is included with most distributions. After that, just intall your plone rpm and start the process.
It is much more powerful, and much easier to user. Of course, you would never now because you would rather call me a troll.
And because it is all accessible through a web browser, you can leave a computer running at home and have access to all the files. Not to mention that you can annotate your files, provide meta key works for them…
Even if you just want to synchronize, then run plone on two separate computers and rsync one single file, the Data.fs store.
Looking at the Blender site again I stumbled upon this:
A 3d CG Martial Arts action flick. This looks very cool and it seems the movie was done by a one man animation team.. wow!
Ted Leung was kind enough to point out to me on an earlier post I made on viewing CHM files on OS X. YOU DO NOT NEED X11 to view CHM files. xchm uses wxWindows as its backend which has a native OS X port. Definite bonus in my book!
My Old incorrect post
Ted’s Original Post on viewing CHM files under OS X
I found this Open Letter to Atari an interesting protest to copy protection going too far?
Excerpt:
I just downloaded the 1.61 patch to Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. When I attempted to play the game, I was met with an error having to do with CD Emulation software.
It is true that I have Daemon Tools installed and running on my hard drive. I use it for the gameBattlefield 1942. I own the original CDs to the game; however, to minimize disc swapping, I have created images of these CDs, and have them mounted in virtual CD drives. This provides me the opportunity to play all the games I play on a regular basis, with a minimum of CD swapping.
Someone recreates the Disney Haunted Mansion in their own home. THat’s very cool
I haven’t mentioned it but kudos to BoingBoing for the past couple of posts
Must…. stop….. laughing….
www.marycareyforgovernor.com/
who am I kidding.. bwahahahahahahahahaha that’s so lame!
Anyways Marey… you’re chance for being Governor “Has Been Terminated”
The New York Times has an article on digital holdouts to the digital camera ‘revolution’
Personally, I have no qualms with people not wanting to go digital for their photos. It’s merely a matter of perspective in the set of systems you use for taking photos. I use my computer a lot. A digital camera to me is very practical and useful as I can input directly from a digital Camera into the computer and do most of the image manipulations I know.
However, what works for me might not work with someone that has already invested a lot of time in learning the ins and outs of traditional photography methods and has a lot of equipment and process to working with that well. And they might not even own a computer which is pretty much a requirement if you get a digital camera.
Let’s call it for what it is. It’s a ’system’ composed of smaller parts that make up a larger whole. One person uses a traditional camera, I like using a digital one. Calling these people ‘luddites’ is moronic since you have to look at the system it’s placed in to understand why. Yes there are some people that don’t know any better but there are plenty of people that have measured the pros and cons of each for their particular photography purposes and like what they have now better than the ‘brand-new and improved’ method.
For example, one thing that digital cameras definitely cannot do as well as traditional cameras is the ability to take many camera shots in a short amount of time. Many digital cameras must take the captured image and write it into memory which makes it impossible to take another picture until this write process is done. Perhaps with ever increasing speedup in interconnect technologies this process can be sped up. But this requires waiting for newer models to integrate methods (Some friends mention buffering the images then write back into permanent storage solutions ARE available) to allow this. But for now, there is no competition in that category. However, if you don’t take those type of camera shots then this is a non-issue. If you’re a photographer that uses those type of methods you’ll be sorely disappointed with current digital solutions.
Ted Leung describes how he built xchm which is a X11 app that lets you view Microsoft Compiled Help Files (CHM). THis is really handy although needing X11 is a semi bummer but a liveable one
Obligatory Excerpt:
I got xchm to build on Mac OS X. This is an open source view for compiled HTML help (CHM) files that are mostly used on Windows. The reason that I wanted xchm is that the Python docs are available in CHM format. The advantage of CHM is that its highly searchable (and you can search when you have no network connectivity). So this is a great way to get goo d access to documentation for Python, which I still need at this point.
CHM files are quite handy under Windows I must admit so it’s good to see a tool to let you view it on OS X
So far from what I’ve seen most of the free blogging tools are pretty weak. Most of them are built and designed to be exploited by the creator only. The creator then decided to make it free software since the thought is ‘hey it works for me, it might work for lots of other people’. But after looking through many of them, I find the documentation to be rather obtuse as a user, not as flexible to my particular desires, or just cruddily documented.
From Ranchero’s Weblog I saw this Weblog Entry on getting the Rhino JavaScript engine setup in OS X. This is pretty neat especially for people who are heavy into ECMA/JavaScript hacking as it allows them to leverage all of their sensibilities of JavaScript for doing scripting tasks.
The breakdown of tasks you need to do are:
One thing to note is that Rhino relies on a Java VM to be installed as it is basically a JAR file with a bunch of extra functionality. One bonus for OS X is that Java is already installed with OS X (isn’t it nice not having to go hunting around Sun’s website looking for a bloody JVM then waiting for some huuuuge download to finish?). However a detractor is that it’s Java. I’ve tried writing some command line tools using Java and I find them clunky as you have to do lots of annoying contortions to just run it correctly at the command line. For a seasoned Java programmer it’s probably business as usual…
However, I already know my way around Ruby, Python, and am fluent enough in plain Bourne SHell syntax that I don’t see the point of adding yet another tool to compete with my CLI tasks. Right now, I’ve truly decided on Ruby as my scripting language once it gets outside of the realm of too much difficult logic in Bourne Shell (I still use this when the needs are simple). I like Python but it sucks trying to get Python working properly in a command pipeline. But if you do the normal, write a file, then run it in the interpreter it won’t make a big difference. OR if you use some fancy IDE.
But either way, choice is good and I’m sure JavaScript fans will be able to benefit most from this
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