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24 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

codelike

codelike: "1) The one which is easier to use wins"

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Syndicated 2013-05-24 15:55:00 from sness

24 May 2013 dmarti   » (Master)

QoTD: Bob Hoffman

Online advertising was supposed to be interactive. It was supposed to rescue us from having to force people into looking at our ads. Consumers were going to want to interact with us, they were going to want to have conversations with marketers, they were going to want to have relationships with brands.
It was all fantasies and delusions based on naive interpretations of consumer behavior by people who had a whole lot of ideological commitment to the web, and very little experience with real world marketing.

Bob Hoffman, Ad Contrarian

Syndicated 2013-05-24 14:17:52 from Don Marti

24 May 2013 asmodai   » (Journeyer)

Selenium, Chromedriver2, and SSL pages

If you are doing Selenium testing using Chromedriver2 0.8 and are having problems with self-signed SSL certificates, this is a known problem and will be fixed in a subsequent release. In the meantime I found that using the Chromedriver 26.0.1383.0 still worked without problems for Chrome 27 and also did not have this SSL certificate regression in it.

Syndicated 2013-05-24 13:47:32 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

24 May 2013 fabrice   » (Journeyer)

24 May 2013 mostafadaneshvar   » (Apprentice)

لینوکس در ایستگاه فضایی

ایستگاه فضایی بین‌المللی قصد دارد از سیستم عامل لینوکس به جای ویندوز در لپتاپ‌های خود استفاده کند.
در این ایستگاه تعدادی لپتاپ وجود دارد که فضانوردان از آنها در ماموریت‌های خود استفاده می کنند. ناسا تا کنونی از سیستم عامل ویندوز بر روی این گونه لپتاپ‌ها استفاده کرده است اما قصد دارد یک سیستم عامل امن و قابل اعتماد را جایگزین آن نماید.

ایستگاه فضایی بین‌المللی

ایستگاه فضایی بین‌المللی

یکی از کارشناسان ناسا در این زمینه می گوید ما در حال مهاجرت از ویندوز به سمت لینوکس هستیم چون ما نیاز به سیستم عاملی داریم که پایدار و قابل اعتماد باشد و به ما توان کنترل از راه دور در مرکز را بدهد. چنانچه اگر نیاز به نصب وصله‌ها، تنظیم و تغییر داشته باشیم به راحتی بتوانیم این کار را انجام دهیم.
چووالا، کارشناس ناسا، می گوید ما از لینوکس علمی به دبیان ۶ مهاجرت کرده‌ایم. وی افزود لپتاپ‌هایی که در بردهای ایستگاه توسط افرادی استفاده می شوند که نیازها و مسئولیت‌های بسیار ویژه‌ای دارند.
استفاده از لینوکس در ناسا چیزی جدیدی نیست. قبلا در پروژه‌هایی همانند فرستادن کاوشگر به مریخ از این سیستم عامل استفاده شد. هر چند این تغییر و تحولات وقت زیادی را در زمینه جابه‌جایی برنامه‌های قدیمی ویندوزی خواهد گرفت اما نگرانی ناسا را در زمینه امنیت و آسیب‌پذیری کم خواهد کرد.

در همین زمینه:

  1. QNX
  2. لینوکس و ذره هیگز
  3. دبیان ۷ آمد
  4. سیستم عامل کامپیوتر من
  5. حذف ایندکس لینوکس از گوگل

Syndicated 2013-05-24 11:06:29 from وب سایت مصطفی دانشور » linux

24 May 2013 fabrice   » (Journeyer)

24 May 2013 fabrice   » (Journeyer)

Le Motorola X Phone est-il vraiment mort ? – FrAndroid

Arrivera ? N’arrivera pas ? Allez !!!!! sortez le nous ce X Phone !!!

Le Motorola X Phone est-il vraiment mort ? – FrAndroid.

Syndicated 2013-05-24 10:14:38 from Fabrice's blog

24 May 2013 dmarti   » (Master)

How can I break the Facebook habit?

I understand all those I'm quitting social site posts, really. The open web is much more fun, useful, and promising in the long run than hanging out on whatever current site has taken the place of AOL, CompuServe, and MySpace.

But, really, just quitting a site? Might be harder than it sounds. Habits are hard to break, so here's a list of things to help add some motivation to social network quitteration.

  • Awkward friending. Every week or so, connect with a person who isn't really your friend, but would find it difficult to turn you down. Be a creepy ex-coworker. Don't spam, though.

  • Social marketing FAIL Find the most awful "engaged brands" in the ads on social sites and follow or friend them. Keep yourself from being tempted to return to a social site by knowing that your feed there will be full of FREE WEBINARs.

  • Social marketing double FAIL Befriend the most heinous companies and astroturf organizations you can find. The "American Sugar Alliance" and other groups looking for corporate welfare usually do it for me.

  • Klouchebaggery. Do a search for "social media marketing" and do the first tip you find. These change all the time, so be creative.

  • Open the RSS spigot. Set up an account on a site such as dlvr.it to automate posting your blog's feed to the social site. Good for breaking a social networking habit. (If you're all like, I just need to get on and post my one blog link, and before you know it you've been on for an hour, this is better. And yes, dlvr.it works for me.)

  • It's always Hug a Spammer Week. Someone named Melissa wrote to tell me, I like your picture and you look cute n awesome. Well, Melissa, I think you're cute n awesome too. Friend request accepted, and welcome to my social graph.

Bonus link: Silicon Valley’s Problem by Catherine Bracy.

Syndicated 2013-05-24 06:20:05 from Don Marti

24 May 2013 dmarti   » (Master)

Can I uninstall Java?

The answer is almost certainly yes—unless you're a Java programmer. It can't hurt to remove it if you don't need it, and can probably help.

I've been running without Java on the desktop for years. The only thing that I've needed to put it back for has been with one extremely "legacy" behind-the-firewall application.

There are some old corporate applications that still depend on Java in the browser. If you're in the situation of having to use one of those, don't mess with the software installed on your company system, because the IT Department probably has a required setup that you're supposed to use, and you can just use that. (What are you reading random blogs for? Call your company help desk if you have questions about that machine!)

For your own computers, the instructions for removing Java depend on the OS. On Linux, you can use the regular system package manager to remove Java. On other platforms you can read How do I uninstall Java on my Windows computer? and How to disable Java on your Mac.

Syndicated 2013-05-24 06:02:51 from Don Marti

24 May 2013 valessio   » (Apprentice)

Compartilhado nas redes sociais

  • Observando Hugo Cabret

    A busca por inspiração e a compreensão da linguagem e decisão daqueles que admiramos é algo comum no entretenimento e, provavelmente, em toda redação criativa. Alguém já fez algo bem, por que não compreender e concentrarmos a atenção na evolução em vez da perpetuação de erros, não é mesmo?

    Pensando assim, tenho assistido muitos filmes durante a preparação para as filmagens do meu tão esperado curta-metragem, “The Flower Shop” (cujo um dos patrocinadores é o B9 e que já comentei aqui durante a fase de crowdfunding), e por conta da natureza de “filmes de época” optei por colocar “A Invenção de Hugo Cabret” na lista dos títulos mais importantes dessa seleção. Além da homenagem descarada às origens do cinema, elemento que, aliás, ainda me tira lágrimas por conta do trabalho de Ben Kingsley, notei algo mais sutil, algo mais marcante e fundamental nas escolhas de Martin Scorsese. “Hugo” é um tratado cinematográfico sobre a observação e pontos de vista.

    A constatação deveria ser clara depois daquele impressionante passeio por Paris e pela estação de trem logo na abertura, entretanto, nas primeiras assistidas, fiquei encantado pela história e perseguindo cada referência possível a George Méliés e aos primórdios do cinema. Foi mais um mergulho naquele mundo entre-guerras, nos detalhes que Scorsese optou por mostrar.

    Hugo

    De certa forma, assistimos um filme dentro do filme de outro filme. Hugo, Méliés e a obra de Méliés e dos Lumiére.

    Anteontem, assisti novamente analisando tecnicamente e além de perceber que, exceto pelas grandiosas tomadas com grua e o uso limitado de steadi cam, o diretor optou por cortes secos na maior parte do filme. Ele quase não move a câmera; quem tem fluidez são os personagens e aquilo que eles veem. Arrisco apontar a composição das tomadas ter cerca de 25% de pontos de vista.

    Muito por conta da natureza do assunto homenageado – o cinema, onde todos são espectadores e espiam por uma janela por vezes convidativa, por vezes assustadora – os personagens de Hugo Cabret também estão observando. Eles veem os detalhes, ou seja, quase nada de inserts (close ups fechados de objetos ou ações) mecânicos ou pontos de vista neutros.

    Alguém sempre está olhando, seja Hugo, seja Méliés, seja o próprio Autômato. Tudo é motivado e reforça o conceito da relevância do cinema. Méliés surtou quando viu os sonhos perderem a batalha para o realismo e a dor, do mesmo modo Hugo sonha com os detalhes da realidade idílica na qual vive, mesmo contra qualquer razão lógica. Sozinho, ele não busca ajuda; ele continua a projeção na esperança de um fim milagroso, como nos filmes.

    “Cinema trata do que está na tela, e do que não está” – Martin Scorsese

    Hugo

    Hugo

    A variedade de pontos de vista, de intensidade na observação e mo grau de maravilhamento vivenciado pelos personagens graças a essa escolha de Scorsese é intrigante. Ele costuma dizer que “cinema trata do que está na tela, e do que não está”; Hugo trabalha, e questiona, esse conceito de forma profunda. Se estamos observando, quem vê o que sentimos? Até que ponto a sensação alheia pode refletir no estado de espírito do observador? O cinema é mesmo limitado àquilo que se vê ou se escuta? Em muitas ocasiões, um poderoso “reaction shot” vale mais do que mostrar uma tragédia. Na dinâmica da vida de Hugo, todos são personagens, menos ele. Quem o observa é inanimado.

    Quando isso muda, a linguagem muda. Ele passa a figurar mais e o medo inicial deixa de ser o único tom quando ele ri, corre riscos e, mesmo sem perceber, se apaixona. De certa forma, é a trajetória de Méliés, que o observava mesmo sem que o garoto notasse. Sentado atrás do balcão, o cineasta sonhador via um mundo no qual era incapaz de provocar efeito, de despertar o devaneio, de criar sorrisos.

    Em vez de concentrar esforços na redescoberta da visão de Méliés, Scorsese transfere toda essa carga para as crianças e o efeito é o mesmo. Eles descobrem, exploram, observam e são observados. O diretor aproveitou cada ângulo dos cenários, cada possibilidade maluca criada pelas cenas em CGI e sempre nos manteve espiando.

    Hugo

    De certa forma, assistimos um filme dentro do filme de outro filme. Hugo, Méliés e a obra de Méliés e dos Lumiére. Esse tratado sobre pontos de vista torna “A Invenção de Hugo Cabret” um filme muito mais relevante do que o apelo histórico e romântico inicial, e demonstra compreensão total de um diretor pela alma daquilo que ele ama. Ele inclusive explica isso na cena em que Hugo mostra a cidade vista do alto a Isabelle. “É assim que eu vejo tudo!”, diz o garoto.

    O cinema é mesmo limitado àquilo que se vê ou se escuta?

    Adaptar a percepção da realidade era, ao mesmo tempo, a única defesa contra a solidão e o desespero, e a arma para concluir aquele objetivo tão sonhado. Pensando como alguém envolvido com criação, a simplicidade e a obviedade dessa característica não deveria gerar muito espanto, porém, a busca por algo a mais sempre funciona como uma barreira. Mesmo que encontremos algo, ele está em outro lugar. Alterar o mundo, em vez de esperar que ele nos altere, pode ser a melhor solução, não é?

    Reveja e preste atenção no mundo editado pelos olhos de Hugo, em suas preocupações, medos e sonhos, todos revelados pela câmera sensível de Scorsese. As surpresas estão lá, esperando por você!

    ============
    Fábio M. Barreto é jornalista, cineasta e autor da ficção científica “Filhos do Fim do Mundo”.

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  • Aprenda como fazer o efeito Cut Out no Gimp – Globo.com

    Seguindo as instruções deste tutorial, você aprenderá a fazer o Cut Out no Gimp. Ele serve para destacar uma imagem, deixando uma foto em preto e branco com apenas uma parte colorida. Efeito Cut Out feito no Gimp (Foto: Reprodução/Raquel Freire) …

Atenção: O conteúdo desta postagem é automática e contém o resumo diário das minhas atividades nas redes e recortes de outros sites ou blogs.

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23 May 2013 proclus   » (Master)

I signed this petition about the Koch brothers -- now can you?

Friend,

The climate change denying, union-busting, voter disenfranchising billionaires want to create a mouthpiece for their right-wing, “free market” ideals by buying eight newspapers from the Tribune Company, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and others. We have to stop them.

Use the link below to sign the petition with me. Then can you share with some of your friends, as well?
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kochs_tribune/?sp_ref=.4.120.e.0.2&referrer_akid=7974.2988458.NVLoz0&source=mailto_sp

Syndicated 2013-05-23 21:45:00 (Updated 2013-05-23 21:45:58) from proclus

23 May 2013 skvidal   » (Master)

documenting for posterity – ansible – wait for a dir to exist before continuing

Got a ridiculous process **cough**Jenkins**Cough** that you have to wait to create a dir before doing things?

This might help you as godawful ugly as it is.

– name: wait for a dir to exist – this is just ugly
shell: while `true`; do [ -d /var/lib/jenkins/plugins/openid/WEB-INF/lib/ ] && break; sleep 5; done
async: 1800
poll: 20


Syndicated 2013-05-23 21:07:15 from journal/notes

24 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

codelike

codelike: "If you create or maintain an open source project and want to make it big: Generate buzz!"

'via Blog this'

Syndicated 2013-05-24 15:55:00 from sness

23 May 2013 Stevey   » (Master)

Lumail continues to progress

Although I've still not got the ability to reply to messages, and composing new ones is ugly, my toy mail client is working nicely.

I've received a couple of patches, and given commit access to the repository to one other user.

Currently I'm still juggling primitives around and working out what is missing. The big exceptions are the obvious:

  • Cannot reply to a message.
  • Cannot move a message to a new folder.
  • When composing a mail to be sent no copy is saved in "sent-mail", or similar.
  • Thread-view is absent. Indefinitely.

But on the plus side the lua scripting is lovely:

precious ~/git/lumail $ rm /tmp/unread.log
precious ~/git/lumail $ ./lumail  --rcfile ./lumail.lua --eval "dump_unread();"
precious ~/git/lumail $ head /tmp/unread.log
Selected folder /home/skx/Maildir/.Automated.backups
	Folder has 10 unread messages
Selected folder /home/skx/Maildir/.Automated.bounces
	Folder has 3 unread messages
Selected folder /home/skx/Maildir/.CRM.Spam
	Folder has 7 unread messages
Selected folder /home/skx/Maildir/.facebook.com
	Folder has 4 unread messages
..

The website needs some love, most notably a logo. And there are several reported bugs/todo-items I need to work through.

Still for a toy program I'm using it daily. (Though still using mutt to reply to messages & view/save attachments.)

Syndicated 2013-05-23 12:22:37 from Steve Kemp's Blog

23 May 2013 etbe   » (Master)

Noise from Shaving

About 10 years ago I started using an electric shaver. An electric shaver is more convenient to use as it doesn’t require any soap, foam, or water. It is also almost impossible to cut yourself properly with an electric shaver which is a major benefit for anyone who’s not particularly alert in the morning. Generally my experience of electric shavers has been good, although the noise is quite annoying.

Recently a friend told me that an electric shaver is as noisy as a chain-saw. Given the inverse-square law and the fact that the shaver operates within 1cm of my ears that sounds plausible. So the risk of hearing loss is a great concern. Disposable ear plugs are very cheap and they can be used multiple times (they don’t get particularly dirty while shaving or get squashed in the short time needed to shave). So for a few weeks I’ve been using ear plugs while shaving which reduces the noise and presumable saves me from some hearing damage – although after 10 years of using electric shavers I may have already sustained some damage.

According to Cooper Safety their ear plugs reduce noise by 29dB, [1] I presume that the cheap ones I bought from Bunnings would be good for at least 15dB.

According to Better Hearing Sydney the noise from an electric shaver is typically around 90dB, less than the 100dB that is typical of a chain-saw [2]. So if my ear-plugs are good for 15dB then they would reduce the noise from a typical electric shaver to 75dB which is well below the 85dB that will cause hearing damage. Given that the noise from a typical shaver is only slightly above the damage threshold it seems that I might not need particularly good ear-plugs when shaving.

A quick scan of shaver reviews indicates that the amount of noise differs by brand and technology. The Hubpages review suggests that rotary shavers tend to make less noise than foil shavers [3], but I’m sure that it varies enough between brands that some rotary shavers are louder than the quietest foil shavers. It seems that the best thing to do when buying a new shaver would be to go to a specialised shaver shop (which has many models on offer) and get the staff to demonstrate them to determine which is the quietest. If a typical shaver produces 90dB then it seems likely that one of the more quiet models would produce less than 85dB.

Another item on my todo list is to buy a noise meter to measure the amount of noise produced in the places where I spend time. There are some Android apps to measure noise, I’m currently playing with the Smart Tools Co Sound Meter [4] which gives some interesting information. The documentation notes that phone microphones are limited to the typical volume and frequencies of human voice, so my Galaxy S3 can’t measure anything about 81dB. My wife’s Nexus 4 doesn’t seem to register anything above 74dB. Additionally there is some uncertainty about the accuracy of the microphone, there is a calibration feature but that requires another meter. Anyway the Sound Meter app suggests that my shaver (a Philips HQ7380/B) produces only 71dB at the closest possible range – and drops down to 67dB at the range I would use if I grew sideburns.

Conclusion

Getting a proper noise meter to protect one’s hearing seems like a good idea. An Android app for measuring noise is a good thing to have, even though it’s not going to be accurate it’s convenient and will give an indication.

When buying a shaver one should listen to all the options and choose a quiet one (I might have got a quiet one by luck).

Sideburns seem like a good idea if you value your hearing.

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Syndicated 2013-05-23 09:56:22 from etbe - Russell Coker

24 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

Why you should write Makefiles

Why you should write Makefiles: "Your build process usually can be described in terms of sequences of commands with some dependencies between. make captures this naturally as a set of build targets (with dependencies) and associated snippets of shell script (usually sh):"

'via Blog this'

Syndicated 2013-05-24 15:54:00 from sness

24 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

Doom3 BFG Source Code Review: Introduction

Doom3 BFG Source Code Review: Introduction: "No exceptions.
No References (use pointers).
Minimal usage of templates.
Const everywhere.
Classes.
Polymorphism.
Inheritance."

'via Blog this'

Syndicated 2013-05-24 15:40:00 from sness

22 May 2013 proclus   » (Master)

#Guantanamo ends now - #gitmo #closegitmo

We could finally see the shameful Guantanamo prison camp shut down, but it's going to take a final global push for President Obama to do the right thing.

Join me in this campaign here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/obama_shut_down_gitmo_us/?kjGZrbb

Syndicated 2013-05-22 20:47:00 (Updated 2013-05-22 20:47:08) from proclus

22 May 2013 wainstead   » (Master)

git-sdiff

I've longed for an implementation of sdiff for Git, but in the meantime I have something that works great on OS X. It requires FileMerge, part of the developer tools from Apple. Hat tip to my friend Dale.

This works when:
  • You are in a branch,
  • the branch differs from master, and
  • the file you're interested in differs in your branch and master.

    The command is:
    git difftool -t opendiff $(git log --pretty=format:%H -1 master -- $1) $(git log --pretty=format:%H -1 HEAD -- $1) -- $1

    (I'm using subshell calls to get the SHAs of the file for the branch and master; a simplified look at the command is:
    git difftool -t opendiff SHA-master SHA-branch -- path/to/file.py).

    I put this in a shell script and call it with the relative path to the file. Git is picky about that relative path; it should be relative to the current directory your shell is in, and a directory that is in the repository.

    Assume you named the script my-sdiff. Example:
    my-sdiff relative/path/to/file.py

    You'll be prompted at the shell with something like:
    Viewing: 'relative/path/to/file.py'
    Launch 'opendiff' [Y/n]:

    Just hit RETURN and FileMerge should open, showing you a side-by-side comparison of the file.

    Vexingly, if you get the relative path wrong, nothing happens! If you don't get the Y/n prompt you probably have the relative path wrong.
  • 22 May 2013 proclus   » (Master)

    Tell the Senate: Repeal the Monsanto Proection Act

    Senator Jeff Merkley is introducing an amendment to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act – the outrageous provision which allows Monsanto and other companies  to ignore court orders to stop selling their GMO seeds, despite safety concerns. Tell the Senate to take action: http://act.credoaction.com/sign/monsanto_protection_act/?sp_ref=.4.125.e.539.2&referrer_akid=7959.2988458.3HNdni&source=mailto_sp

    Syndicated 2013-05-22 15:20:00 (Updated 2013-05-22 15:20:21) from proclus

    23 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

    A Gaga Musical review: Beautifully staged tale of Lady Gaga | On Stage | Arts | National Post

    A Gaga Musical review: Beautifully staged tale of Lady Gaga | On Stage | Arts | National Post: ") She’s played here by a performer with the wonderfully appropriate name of Kimberly Persona, who functions beautifully as a walking Rorschach test."

    'via Blog this'

    Syndicated 2013-05-23 15:08:00 from sness

    23 May 2013 sness   » (Journeyer)

    GRiZ - The Future Is Now - YouTube

    GRiZ - The Future Is Now - YouTube: "