dantheta

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by dantheta 2y ago
It's a lovely set of sentiments. I think another aspect of UI that has been lost is discoverability - finding out how to do things in a new interface seems harder than it used to be when there was one app-level menu bar. Too many thi
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by dantheta 3y ago
I couldn’t afford software in the 90s, but I would definitely have registered PowerMenu from Brown Bag software (DOS front end and program launcher). It was really powerful and enjoyable to use, and the interface was delightful. I still thi
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by dantheta 3y ago
Also an extremely happy Zim user for desktop notes, projects & work journal. Recently I was looking for a self-hosted equivalent to Google Keep (which I use mainly for lists, quick notes and web snippets), and tried out Joplin. It look
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by dantheta 6y ago
Take a look at Gemini: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by dantheta 6y ago
Same here - I was a Cakewalk user back in the 90s, and decided on a whim to find out if it was still around.
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by dantheta 10y ago
There are parts of it that have aged really badly, though. I was working on an NNTP-related project last year. Article numbers and threading are a bit crappy. The conflation of messages and commands (like cancel) also sat rather uncomfo
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by dantheta 12y ago
I'm running one for calendar syncing (cyanogenmod and iOS clients), personal file storage and as a limited photo gallery. The automatic file sync from my phone is good too. It's running at home on my server. Setup was straightfo
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by dantheta 12y ago
As an aside to your edit, I have also seen "different than" used more and more often of late. I'm not sure if it is an Americanism that I was just unaware of. It's not that "different than" is wrong, it'
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by dantheta 12y ago
One of my previous companies was producing a Digital TV set-top box based on a Via mini-ITX board. When using component output, the overscan on the image was way too big and we were losing a significant portion of the TV picture outside th
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by dantheta 13y ago
I have trouble finding any candidates I can believe in. The only benefit (for me) of the two main parties is that their stance on any issue is widely known regardless of who the individual candidate is, so I can avoid them. I like the ide
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by dantheta 13y ago
I was also pleased to find that in version 1.4 a MySQL login health check was added "option mysql-check".
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by dantheta 13y ago
It surprises me how much the closing paragraph sounds like certain elements of Buddhist philosophy.
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by dantheta 14y ago
You can also use: $ TZ=CST date -d "Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 UTC 2013" Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 CST 2013 which doesn't invoke a subshell. env vars can always be prepended to the executable name for use with just that program (not sure if that's bash
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by dantheta 14y ago
I'm currently a reasonably happy puppet user, but I do like the look of Salt. Puppet's configuration DSL always struck me as a little over-wrought (and slightly too inconsistent to remember easily). I would have preferred YAML/XML/ini fil
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by dantheta 14y ago
As a UK resident, I feel a pang of embarrassment and sadness and anger as I see how non-residents are treated when going through immigration control. Heathrow immigration is the worst. It's depressing, oppressive, cold and ugly. These are
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by dantheta 14y ago
I'd definitely agree. I guess more specifically (and more charitably), I'm thinking of the section of the audience that uses photoshop but doesn't need any of its intermediate or advanced features, whether they paid for it or not. There's
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by dantheta 14y ago
I'm not sure about photoshop killer ... although I do suspect that outside of the professional class of photoshop user (webdevs, print designers etc), a great many people who have a less-than-legitimate copy of photoshop and dramatically un
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by dantheta 14y ago
XML also has the advantage of declaring the character set of the content.
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by dantheta 14y ago
Just a quick note on those HP microservers - I have one, and I'm fond of it, but the e-SATA port doesn't support hotplug and the inbuilt ethernet doesn't support jumbo frames (at least, under versions of Linux that I've tried). The e-SATA t
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by dantheta 14y ago
I was an OS/2 user from 1993 - 1996 or so. I have very fond memories of it - for those lucky enough to have a supported machine, it felt indestructable. You could do the most obnoxious things inside a DOS session, and the most that could
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by dantheta 14y ago
It's a shame that your post is disappearing into the gray background - I feel something similar every time I have to use Javascript & HTML for a rich interface. Every time that happens, I wish I was using GTK or QT instead.
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by dantheta 15y ago
That might have been fluxbox (fluxbox.org), from the BlackBox family.
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by dantheta 15y ago
strace can do it (Linux). Watch out for "open", "read","write","unlink" in the output - these are some of the filesystem operations. inotifywatch (from inotify-tools) can show you changes made to files in a particular directory.
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by dantheta 15y ago
"Microsoft believes that WebGL will become an “ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities” in its current form. " If only they'd had the same insight with ActiveX, and all of the other attempts to turn Internet Explorer into a zero-insta
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by dantheta 15y ago
There is a temptation to use MySQL message queues to provide more complex queueing strategies - prioritization, retries, folding multiple queues into one table, claim tokens to avoid the global lock, and in the very worst case keeping all o
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by dantheta 15y ago
One thing I am curious about (genuinely curious!) is how so many of the mac git GUIs are closed-source and/or paid apps. The original CLI git client is GPLv2, IIRC. Are the mac clients calling the git command line tool, have they re-implem
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by dantheta 15y ago
I would certainly think so (the two languages you've mentioned are both regarded as being quite easy to get started with), but everyone is different and is interested in different things. If the demo app you're writing (and the framework y
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by dantheta 15y ago
I'm self-taught, starting with C on MS-DOS at age 9 (I'm now 32). I moved onto Visual Basic (ugh) at 12 because my C compiler wouldn't do windows programs, and later moved to Borland C++ on Windows. I did later do a BTEC course in compute
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by dantheta 15y ago
I do find Mac OSX slightly inconsistent at times - to install desktop apps, drag to Applications; to install lower-level stuff, double-click the .mpkg file. Where is the uninstall for the .mpkgs? The most annoying thing I find about other
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by dantheta 16y ago
What jurisdiction does the company/service/servers fall under? Although I'm based in the UK (which is hardly a privacy haven), I'd be quite wary of storing account data or anything on US-based servers, even though I'm not remotely interest

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