Older blog entries for Malx (starting at number 13)

Siting.... scanning photoes by PrimeFilm1800u.... thanks to GIMP for easy processing...

Thinking about JavaScript Shell implementation from Mozilla

It's easy to do:
obj["dir1/.file"]="something";
But if use make same thing with global name space you can't access result!!!
Or am I wrong? ( just ["dir1/.file"] whould represent string.. :(

   nymia - I thinks you are wrong with decision to slow down progress.
But I agree that current situation is fairly doomed (write an article?).
Look into history - When man was anable to run fust he just make cars (and most of public have no need to know how drive it - there was buses). Now there is NO CLEVER TOOLS. All documentation is written for people only not for autoprocessing. Same way is making roads only meter wide never thining about car must also go this road some time....
It's pity.....

As for God - think of Windows desktop... There could be 3 or more icons, which lead to same software. But (as an ordinary user) you can't see what the soft is - all you could see is icon on desktop.....
(read Castaneda and you'll have debugger to see what software really is, but still it whould be to complex for you to debug :))))
See here

Have read mirwin answer in article.... revoke certificate.

Today have a talk with person, who says that WebChat is better then IRC ... fun... he have made WebChat(http://fantastic.x9.ru) himself.

Idea
It whould be greate to add into free documentation license additional line about "you must provide sources aswell" (same as for code). For printed book (say O'Raily or other) this whould mean file with complete book layout. Also it whould be usefull for precompiled sources oreven other languages (if book was translated).

jimw
- was you on mozdev.org ?

raph
- Could you make MAX flow value autoregulated? not depending on number of users, but.... To number of masters? To number of active certs? Number of projects?

Please add <sup> and <sub> Tags!!! I can't write T_EX properly :((((  ;-)

xach
- if your list <100 you mustn't bother with performance issues in your php script :) Just simple key/value pairs in simple txt file TAB deliminered.
SHOW: Read in memory, display
SAVE: Read all, start saving from scratch until new value reached, save new value , continue saving to file; read again , display

PHP have arrays (php3 and php4) and they could be accesses as hashes, arrays, stack or list :) And you need -
$aa=array(); $aa["01-12-2001=12:34"]="Read diary";

DV
- make image "Boycott Adobe/PDF" as a banner on web page :)
Also - what do you need from PDF? It has only one uniq thing - it allows disabling of editingand copying - but this violates GPL :) Why to implement things which are really not for this community??!! There is TeX and HTML already (xhtml+MathML+etc).

ignatz
- You could make all of it Tikets. Just make a Door which is named "Person Alex" or "Group guest". And give Ticket1 to correspondinguser. BUT behind That door you must hide another Tiket2. So Every person, which have access inside Door "Person Alex" will recive Ticket2 which actually mean that heis Person Alex or Group.
As for implementation - check last URL (in URL section) on xmlvl.net

ebizo
- I do not know about other countries, but in Ukraine I haven't heard about any ISP , which is running MS :) All of them FreeBSD or Linux.

mirwin - sorry for not answering to article today :(

I have caught a chill, so now in read only mode... :)

The only ability I have now is to play with HTML (see nice box around your link...(Ops.. I forgot that NN4 disables link if you put it in box :() I whould be gratefull to see same behaviour for < person > tag, but it is impossible :(

Great idea about support company. But for me personally it is hard to make phone calls all over ocean :) - most of real customers demands 24h online phone.
// I have seen only www.keen.com so :(

Advogato

I'm back to J level... Strange...

Life

This month I was outdoors - first it was Blacksea seashore in Crimea. Then a week in Carpatian(?) mountings.

Thoughts

Still around 1) unstructured knowlage base, 2) universal messaging system (part about - will admin of server agree to transfer all traffic or he should be able to choose subjects with trust metrics (comp/sport/valuable to..)?), 3) value of unimpotent data in programming - for exapmle you have mpg123 - it outputs anly data it is supposed to - audio stream, but there is also xmms which in addition displays time of song/name etc.etc. - this data is not really essential, but valuable. But peson, who desides which data is valuable is proggammer, not user of product. Is it possible to change? So I could choose to see progress bar when I need it, but hide to achive speed of execution. Same - to set some handlers to keyboard input behaviour changes (say check speed of typing in AbiWord with external program).

IRC - Forest

Irc.ForestNet.Org changed it's server to bIRCd (with koi8-u/cp1251/alt/transl support added). Also it could be compiled for M$ win. One of servers now up for 34 days (win2k).
You are wellcome to it - it's multilingual.

xmlVL.net

Diging in... I have some filling that something strage there with certs ideology at all........
I thinks it is mixing ability(rating/value) and access(allow to do).
So if you give someone Master cert you telling 2 things - 1) it is high level developer(or other), 2) it have enough ability to make a disigion about level of others persons/groups/projects.

universal IDs? why?

Is it possible to get rid of universal IDs?
One of them - DNS name is uniq to all world. And "book.com" is owned by one.

You could see that you Real name is not universally uniq - there is lot's of "Bob"s :)
You use different characteristics together - name, second name, geogrphical location, parents names to identify someone uniqly... But you need not this just to call "Hey! Bob! Let's go" :)

recentlog

It's like a drug - you need to read it every day, or you may loose answers to your diaries :))

Styles of Advogato

It's hard to read text on white background at night... But still you need to see level of person.
In Netscape location just type:
javascript:void(document.bgColor="#777777") and Enter

mwh - cert

Now there is limited number of persons, which could be ranked as A,J or M (separately).
So If some new person will become ranked, some other will fall off rank ;)
That's why I am not trying to become ranked back again ;)

jmallett - virgule

subjects easily implemented :)
As for mentioning - it is bad thing... Recent log you could ignore, but if you have on your page link to others diaries (even Observer one's) - you just need to answer :)
Also it is hard to implement here - see XVL project instead.

Advogato become vulnerable....

Protection of it is trust metrics, but it works for articles only...
Now more popular is to post Diary and then read all list of diaries to answer to questions and make comments. But so - any user could alter this part (list of recent diaries) and put any Spam he want.
So we have protection no more... only good behaviour of members saves all :)

As for certifications.... Look at list of people who have certified me.... And still I am Observer ;-))))
Just realized - I can't modify a project I'm Lead developer to ;)

dyork: Certs - Just remember the process of certifiing...
1st calculates all Apprentices (including J and M). If you have strength of 1000 (flow value) give 10 Apprentice certs to people, then you give to every one 1/10 of your strength (=100).
Now - 2nd is J (including you) - you certify only 2 persons - this means that your power to certify J's is 1000/2 = 500 - so every of them get 500 points.
You see why it is easy to push to higher level ? :-)))
Becouse you are already give more certs of lower level than you able to handle with your strengs.
It's pity... but you can't display value of this strength :(

Phoon: Xmove will never work if you have color depth more then 16bit AFAIK.
Now I have:

xmove.04.eps
xmove.2.0beta2.tar.gz
xmove.thesis.ps
xmove_performance_slides2.ps

I got them from authour - do not know are they avaliable on original FTP.

Some parts from mail:

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:28:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Ethan Solomita <ethan@cs.columbia.edu>

 
 I'm afraid that I've not been working on xmove in quite a while.
........
Sorry that I don't have better news! I'd be very happy to
help explain the source code to someone, if you or someone else wants to look into it.

It's bad to publish others e-mails... I'll remove it if someone will object

negative certs Is very bad thing - it is censorship of information... it shows bad fillings about someone....
Internet etics states to ignore instead of taking actions against someone....

lkcl: No... I know XMLvl will handle this :)
I'm talking about creating real site - so have you hosting for it and is it good idea for you? :)

josh: [rpm] Please do not forget about those poor people, who lives behind firewall and have only HTTP proxy (with basic pass authentication) avaliable :(

josh,lkcl: How about creating site (with XMLvl) to store good ideas for which you have no time.
Master will be person with best (and clear) imagination , not coder (like here) ;-)

Phoon, Tv, alisdair: Xmove is the only such software, but it is not good enough. It have problems with big color depths. And you can't switch windows between screens with differend color depth and resolution.
AFAIK - not this software is not supported any more (this is year old answer from author) - so you could get sorces for development. And it support per-client handling
What I whoud really be interested in - Geting ability to attach/reattach window, but with ability to set it's zoom (for example to map window, but set it's size to twice as normal, or in opposite - to shrink it's size). You will need to solve this anyway to handle 2 screen with different resolution.

RyanMuldoon,jamesh: Free CA is a good idea.
. I'll propose several levels of certificates (0 -for all and 1). And to get a trusted cert there (say level 1), you need to be with any level here on advogato.
How to make this? Just show md5 string to user, and ask him to add this string to his diary or about. Next press "ok" - it'll be checked.

It whould be best for person cert's and for sites, which represents projects of Advogato.

As for ROOT dns zone.... better to use certain domain in search list. Wedo so in our University. And there is no limitation to length of it. You could even ask for *.web.gnu.org or thmth.
then add in /etc/resolv.conf a "seach" for last statement and it will convert bsd.web.gnu.org -> bsd
It's easy :) and still accessible by all. (btu you need to forbid registration of all TLD there!!!!!)