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rsvn is a wrapper for subversion which associates shorter and more easily typed names for repository URL's.
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rsvn is a wrapper for subversion which associates shorter and more easily typed names for repository URL's.
here is the web page: http://arcsin.org/softwares/rsvn.html
"Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions."
please don't turn this into livejournal. if i understand the purpose of the game correctly, it's to be able to say something when you have nothing to say. which is why you get all sorts of quizzes and random tasks like seeing what chain-restaurant appetizer you are on places like livejournal: many people there (and who use weblogs in general) don't have anything interesting to say.
i/we probably aren't so much above that level, but we can pretend.
at least make it an interesting or at the very least creative task or challenge, like perl golf, or using gimp to manipulate some piece of fine or pop-art into social satire.
it seems it is fixed; yay!
In the meantime though, to me it looks increasingly like we need to go down the road of Python, XPCOM/UNO, GObject introspection, and other half measures; ....
i'm glad that people are leaning in this direction.
one issue that is bothering me with regard to java and mono:
java and mono are desirable because they make programming software easier in many ways. this is mainly a function of better abstraction mechanisms. both also rely on virtual machines, but this seems orthognal to the first point.
from my point of view having a virtual machine doesn't buy me anything and only adds software complexity, redundancy (with the normal toolchain), memory footprint overhead, and another set of compatibility headaches. it might be nice that you can run things on different platforms, but that has always been an option with free software.
the arguments in favor of virtual machines that i can think of off the top of my head include runtime optimization, runtime code creation, and restricted execution.
i am a big fan of dynamic languages like python, lisp and scheme that run on VM's so i don't have an axe to grind in this respect: i just don't see the benefit of foregoing mature tools that are already there to get to the point where we can say "it runs within about 10% of normal code" and theoretically it could run faster....
give me my high level language, with garbage collection, and the like happiness, and give me my neat-o virtual machines, but don't force me to buy one to get the other.
(DRAFT) some random thoughts on gnome stuff (dunno how realistic it is): i've been thinking more about the gnome language issue lately. two related issues exist here: the needs of the developers working on the core of gnome (infrastructure), and the needs of the developers working on applications. the most flexibility exists with the application developers whose choices generally affect only themselves. they should be able to use the language of their choice and every effort should be made to make their lives easier (more on that later). the choices infrastructure developers make affect everyone else, so more caution is required. at the same time, requiring infrastructure developers only use C significantly increases the effort necessary to write software and keeps them from taking advantage of higher level language features. therefore a balance must be struck: take every effort to make both groups more productive without tying a large, foreign into gnome's core (note: i don't think anyone is suggesting that mono or java be used for the core of the platform, but i'm trying to suggest that there is a middle ground between staying as things are now, and draggining in mono or java). given all this, my preference is to improve the object system, create a convience layer for infrastructure developers, and take steps to allow application developers to use any language they like. (this is one of havoc's proposed solutions). identifying some requirements: interfaces must be specified with less ambiguity: currently interfaces are largely defined by the C header files. using C, most interfaces tend to be under specified, for example: foo_bar_baz(foo ** arg0, blah_t * arg1, foo_t * flaz); you don't know what the parameters are doing (in, out, or in/out). this creates a problem come time to write bindings for other languages, like python where if arg0 is an out parameter, arg1 is an out parameter, you might find ( arg0, arg1 ) = foo_bar_baz(flaz) since we can pass back multiple values rather than use in/out parameters. an IDL or some other interface definition language would be better suited. binary interfaces should be specified: this just means given an interface definition, we should establish and adhere to a known set of calling conventions so that any language can call into any other language's libraries (one way or another). (this exists de facto, but i believe other issues must be specified). i'm going to make the assumption that we will be using an object oriented system one way or another. i think this is a safe assumption. it should be easy to subclass existing objects: (in order to customize behaviour and create components) the current gobject implementation makes it quite painful to derive an object, (or create an object at all), which significantly reduces the probability that people will actually do it. in many cases functionality which might benefit from being made an object (and possibly reused) is instead created in an ad-hoc to speed development. under the current regime, only advanced users will do it or be able to do it. objects should provide all pertinent metadata: ie function signatures, methods, objects, classes, etc (life cycle issues?) this helps automatically create bindings whether at runtime or compile time objects should require no special effort to provide a component (in or out of process) you should get corba (or whatever) bindings for free when you create the object (this will aid in allowing other languages to use it as well). currently this is a bit painful because C doesn't allow you to abstract away many of the details. one should be able to subclass these imported objects in the language they are imported into (with restrictions most likely) a garbage collector should be provided (as well as a way to get around it). life cycle/memory management issues should be enumerated and provided by metadata so that they can be handled (or at least warned against) the current system can provide (or already does provide) many of these without major changes; the biggest barrier is the fact that C makes it painful to use. consider the case of using corba in which you have to initilize your class's virtual method table and what not manually. the relative lack of use by the community reflects this difficulty. choosing from mono or java is a divisive issue, and both are in my opinion poor choices for infrastructure work. in both cases we tie ourselves to something we cannot control (and it matters because unlike C/C++, there are geniune benfits to having input to .net or java platforms), both require a virtual machine (which don't seem to make provisions for sharing vm's between multiple applications). both also represent a radical departure from what most of us (me) in the community are used to. D seems fits (my biases) well, but currently compiler support is not mature (a gcc front end for it has only recently appeared). the compromise would choose would be a precompiler like gob2 which will allow one to take advantage of the object system easily while retaining C underneath. there could in fact be several different precompilers to suit various tastes. the major issue is that these mini-languages must be documented and versioned. C++ is another possibility, but in my opinion a less desirable one (with no further justification) . ------------------------ With respect to making developers' lives easier, there are several issues that must be attacked. First and foremost we must make sure that doing the default/normal things are dead easy for a developer. secondly we must effectively communicate what is available and how to use it to the developers. finally, we need a test by which we can judge our success. The first two points require us to figure out what developers actually need to do and what technologies they could use to accomplish those things. here's a laundry list of questions a developer might ask, or stuff we should provide, etc: UI: GUI interfaces (make them easy to build to the HIG) Internationalization (how?/why?/where?) Accessibility Storage: when do you use the vfs layer? when should you not? what structured storage is available? when should i use it IPC/Networking: how do i interact with other applications? how do i talk dbus or corba? how do allow my application to be scripted? how do i do DND, how do i do it right? how do i use mime types? how do i access shared bookmarks? how do i use the clipboard App Integration: what does it mean for an application to be well-integrated? how do use the help system and browser? how do i install and remove my application properly? Media: what media services are available? how do i use them? how do i play audio? when should i not use them? (less latency, better performance, etc) most of these things can be done with the platform as is. but it tends to be hard. if we want people to do it (if we want to make it easier for us to do it), we have to make doing it as easy as possible and require little or no effort to implement and get right. for the most part many of these features remain painful to use as a developer. we should provide cookie cutter recipies for putting together applications with minimal effort. underneath, an experienced developer should still have access to all the basic components so that if need be they can customize or create whatever behaviour they need. -------------------------------- how do we know when we're accomplishing what we've set out to? this assessment should be driven by the high level goals: create a coherent and usable desktop for the user create a coherent and usable platform for developers ultimately, all technological choices should be measured against these two goals. these can be further divided substantially; and they must. the easier we understand what our goals are (and by "our" that might not mean the entire "GNOME community", just that group that agrees on them), the more clearly decisions can be made. ------------------------------------ many of these steps (better documentation, standardization, object system extensions, etc) are not controversial and can be done (or begun) today. -------------------------------------- clearly we should all just relax.
On hypervisors
grey recently noted an article about cpu virtualization and wondering if it had already been done.
hypervisors have been around for quite sometime. the reason they have been difficult for x86 platforms is that you have to go through some contortions to make it work because the instruction set isn't designed to be virtualizable.
the best available example of one that is is the Power and PPC families. get a copy of mol and have at it (just make it run under linux rather than over, but the concept is the same). that said virtualization doesn't really address ISA/architecture emulation. basically it just does for the cpu what virtual memory does for ram.
regarding this,
my vote would be for a language neutral system with as thin of a runtime as is possible to give you GC and cross-language access (hopefully all running as native code).
gcj would appear to fit into this for the most part; perhaps using a native object system.
currently we have a component system based on CORBA. it's actually very nice to use from python. you can even call python code from C in-process.
one reason this object system never caught on (or at least it never caught on with me) was that you had to go to a lot of extra trouble to expose the interfaces via the object system. (oh and using CORBA in C is awful...10000x worse than g_object's OOP-in-C).
i think whatever the choices made, one property that is important is: any object/interface that a person may create should be automatically available via the component system with as little intervention (by the programmer) as possible.
Just receive the AI4U book ... I will read it for christmas ... and try to understand why this work is so disparaged.
from scanning the content, i would guess it would be because of the hand-waving, the neologisms, the lack of references to (any) literature, the lack of explanations or justifications, the naive approach to the subject matter, failure to address obvious issues with the approach, ummm, the lack of coherence or focus in the writing, lack of testing, proof by assertion, the wishful thinking, etc, etc.
sure, cog-sci and philosophy are expected to be a bit fluffy, but this is on the level of second grade doodlings of day-dreams of 50 foot tall robots with lasers shooting from its eyes or supercars with rocket launchers (eg. from the fantastic comic WIGU).
P.S. when i grow up i'm going to invent a gun that shoots knives.
hey kids,
i remember someone here who worked on audacity, but don't recall who. i couldn't find a mailing list archive that worked. but i wanted to know:
what's the deal with mac os X support and audio unit support? it currently seems a bit ragged...is it being actively developed? or does it need some love? what needs to be done?
i'd like an audio editor, but i'd rather not spring for bias peak or whatever.
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New man relishing exciting challenge
Tommy Rowe today spoke of the "exciting prospect" of joining Wolves and says he will be heading into the new Sky Bet Championship season with optimism.
Rowe has enjoyed "five amazing years" at Peterborough but with his contract expired is now delighted to be heading into the next stage of his career and a return to the level he previously graced with Posh for two seasons.
The 25-year-old has already scored at Molineux, when Peterborough won 3-0 in December, 2012, but is now firmly focused on doing the same for Wolves and helping the team build on the success of landing the League One title.
"I am delighted to have joined Wolves - as soon as I heard the club were interested I was very keen," says Rowe, who has played most of his career at left midfield or left back.
"We've had some good games against Wolves over the last couple of years including in the Championship when we had a great day and I managed to score as well.
"Unfortunately both of us went down that season but having seen Wolves this year you can see why they won the league.
"They are a young side but also a composed side with experience at the right time.
"Everything about Wolves really appeals to me.
"The fact it's a big club, the fans, how well they did last season, it's an exciting prospect for me and exciting to be looking forward to the future and all the possibilities.
"And I am looking forward to playing in the Championship again.
"After being there before and tasting what it was like I always wanted to get back there.
"We have to go in with optimism.
"It is a very difficult league with some big clubs coming down from the Premier League and some good ones going up from League One.
"It is a league where a lot of teams will start the season thinking they have a good chance of promotion and we have got to go out and give a good account of ourselves and hopefully we will be amongst it.
"It's a good challenge to go into and an exciting one to be looking to have another good season - I am really excited and can't wait to get started now."
Rowe has made almost 300 senior appearances in his career so far, at Stockport and Peterborough, and admits he leaves London Road after a thoroughly enjoyable time.
"I've had five amazing years at Peterborough," he added.
"We had a lot of highs and a couple of lows and it was a disappointing end because as a team we'd have liked to have done a lot better last season.
"Losing in the play-offs was a big disappointment although we did have some success in the cup which was brilliant and good for the fans.
"I'm glad that I managed to win something with the club in my last season."
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Hating every existing language is the first glimmer of awareness.
The second comes when you have started inventing languages meant to be better, and find that they are all worse, except the ones that are far, far worse. They share almost all the fundamental flaws of the language you hate most, but with extra fundamental flaws of your own. If you are perceptive enough, you discover you have no idea what really makes a language useful.
The third comes when you realize that no one language is right for everything or everybody. You begin to think your only hope is a completely specialized language, such as one uniquely suited for left-handed color-blind cartoonists, or for cats. ("No one could reject a language made just for them!" But they do.) Real problems refuse to confine themselves to what your language is supposed to be best at, and keep washing over into where it is worst. ("But it has first-order functions, and it's case insensitive! Who really needs speed anyway?")
The fourth is when you realize that ideology works no better in language design than in governance, and let real problems constrain the design. Creativity thrives on constraints. Discovering what are the real problems turns out to be way harder, even, than getting a language to help solve them without itself becoming a worse problem. Poisonous complexity emerges at every turn. Formalisms stubbornly refuse to solve problems all by themselves, or prevent them.
Finally you realize that while luck is the lion's share of what makes a language successful, failure can always be traced to fatal flaws the designer was (and usually still is) blind to. First your language has to be good enough, which is nearly impossible, and then it has to be impossibly lucky on top of that. Then you have to work hard, too.
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Investing in Mexican cement maker Cemex (CX) is a bet that U.S. continues with its recovery and Mexico will turn the corner this year.
Cemex reported its fourth-quarter earnings yesterday. Mexico continued to lag but U.S. saw sales gains. Bloomberg reports:
A slowdown in Mexico's housing industry and public-works spending has extended Cemex's streak of losses after the company emerged from a steep decline in the U.S. residential market. Fourth-quarter sales in Mexico dropped 5.6 percent to $785 million while the company's total revenue climbed 4.4 percent to $3.87 billion, buoyed by gains in the U.S., Europe and South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Barclays raised its Buy price target for Cemex from $13 to $14 upon stronger-than-expected U.S. earnings in the fourth quarter.
Mexico continued to lag, but analysts seem to think it has already reached its trough. Here are UBS analysts Marimar Torreblanca and Miguel GarciaRuiz, who have a Buy rating with $14 price target:
We believe the Mexico subsidiary has left the worst behind as we see public spending accelerating this year.
Look at Mexico's 2013 numbers as glass half full, commented Barclays analysts Benjamin M. Theurer and Berenice Munoz:
2013 was weak as expected, but this year should bring easy comps: FY2013 EBITDA in Mexico was down 17%, yielding weak consolidated YoY growth. In our view this makes 2014 an easy year due to the low comparison base. We expect in Mexico a volume recovery to drive EBITDA up to 2012 levels (close to US$1.2bn), which would represent close to 44% of the total forecast EBITDA growth in 2014.
Shares of Cemex closed at $12.9 yesterday. Year-to-date, Cemex rose 8.6%.


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I have been too busy with the specific code related to the prototype site to enter any files in the Triumvirate code base. Everything is too specific to the current project. I am refactoring the PHP code as I go along and am finding that the HTML needs to be refactored right along with it. Surprise, surprise. Anyway, it's coming along slowly.
In other news, the C2 Wiki is still off the air. I was intending to get a hold of Ward Cunningham to see if he intends to ever put the thing back up again. There is lots of useful, valuable content there that I'd like to see made available again.
One of the page threads on the C2 Wiki is (was?) about electronic voting machines. We were working on putting together a specification for electronic voting machines that could be Open Sourced. I wonder if there is such a project here? How would one find such as thing?


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There have been many names tossed around as perspective candidates for the lieutenant-governor's position when John Crosbie retires at the end of his current term.
There is a general consensus that it should be a woman, finally.
There is a political precedent that it will be a Conservative, definitely.
Here is my reason why it should be Lynn Verge, unquestionably.
It began in 1979 with the help Lynn Verge gave to me and my friends when we were fighting to be hired as female labourers at the Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill, then Bowater's.
I want to share that experience so that her dedication to the equality of women can serve as justification for her consideration.
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I was attending university and there seemed to be a significant difference between my girl friends and my male friends when we registered for school in the fall after a summer job.
My male counterparts always seemed to have the upper hand financially.
In Corner Brook, the largest employer was the pulp and paper mill.
That meant a significant number of young men could afford a good secondhand car, a better-than-average stereo and a big downpayment on their tuition.
All I could seem to do was a bike, a radio and some spending money.
Sure, the boys had to be available for 'round-the-clock shift work, to constantly fill bottomless pits of log grinders or roll 1,500 pounds of paper off conveyor belts, but I was not convinced that only men could do the job.
Two things changed my life forever: I met with management and I met with Lynn Verge.
She worked directly with us, advising us after every meeting or confrontation.
There were arguments, there was posturing, there was discouragement.
She lent the advice and the credibility, all without any financial compensation or personal gain. There were no guarantees. It was uncharted territory.
She was unwavering.
Behind the scenes
Moreover, there was no public acknowledgement as she had not yet thrown herself into the political foray for which she was later known.
Lynn Verge had done so for no other reason than to help advance the rights of women in Corner Brook and in Newfoundland.
Mind you, I gained considerably.
Three of my friends and I were hired as the first female labourers at the mill.
Besides better pay, I gained confidence and knowledge and a skill set that would serve me well for my entire life.
Further, I can imagine ours was not the only untold story; selflessness and dedication does not happen in isolation.
To that end, I would encourage anyone who needs a nudge in making up their minds for who would be best female Conservative for the job — it should be Lynn Verge.
Please send this or any other letter of endorsement to the very male prime minister to help him decide.
Here's the address:
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SCOTUS's Warrantless Wiretapping Punt is a Win for America's Ruling Parties
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October 11, 2012 6:00 PM
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SCOTUS, presidential nominees appear united: sometimes due process is just not convenient
In a ruling that has a deep impact on domestic surveillance in the short term, the
Supreme Court of the United States
(SCOTUS) opted
to review a controversial
U.S. federal circuit appeals court decision
which upheld legal immunity provisions for telecoms who wiretap at the behest of the federal government.
I. President, Romney Unanimous in Support for Warrantless Wiretaps
Removing immunity would essentially leave telecoms unlikely to comply with warrantless requests, as they could be penalized in court by citizen lawsuits for following warrantelss data demands. The basis of U.S. criminal law for centuries has been cornered on obtaining warrants to investigate persons of interest. But over the past several decades, both parties have increasingly argued that
due process is inconvenient
and at times a threat to national security.
The two parties worked hand in hand to grant cooperating telecoms immunity from lawsuits via
"Protect America Act"
of 2007 (
Pub.L. 110-55
Both Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney support throwing out due process (warrants) in cases where national security is viewed to be at risk -- a policy first put in place by Republican President George W. Bush (with bipartisan support from America's two ruling parties) in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
President Obama and his predecessor President Bush agree on many things, including that the federal government should be granted unregulated spying on its citizens.
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Mr. Romney expressed a viewpoint narrowly in line with President Obama's plugging warrantless wiretaps in a recent interview (see below), stating, "If it means we have to go into a mosque to wiretap or a church, then that's exactly where we are gonna go, because we are going to do whatever it takes to protect the American people. And I hear from time to time people say, 'Hey, wait a sec, we have civil liberties to worry about', but don't forget... the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive."
In a statement on the SCOTUS ruling, President Obama marched in lock-step with his political rival, with his press office
Electronic surveillance for law enforcement and intelligence purposes depends in great part on the cooperation of the private companies that operate the nation's telecommunication system.
If litigation were allowed to proceed against those who allegedly assisted in such activities, the private sector might be unwilling to cooperate with lawful government requests in the future, and the possible reduction in intelligence that might result is simply unacceptable for the safety of our nation.
The SCOTUS did not explain why it made its decision to punt in this case. The only evidence that it made the decision at all is
a note in the case docket
stating the case will not be heard.
That silent nod to the prevailing sentiment on The Hill is
a win for America's two ruling parties
, who are unanimous in their belief that the right to "be kept alive" (by the government) mandates spying on citizens without due process now and then.
II. Opponents Continue to Fight on
Of course civil liberties advocacies like the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF), and a handful of politicians like
Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas) disagree.
He argues that the American political system has been hijacked by zealots,
, "The PATRIOT Act was written many, many years before 9/11, [the attacks simply provided] an opportunity for some people to do what they wanted to do..."
"Democracy isn't all that healthy in this country because if you're in a third party... you don't get in the debates... And if you ever come to the conclusion -- heaven forbid -- that the two parties aren't all that different, then what is left really?"
Ron Paul is one of the few politicians to support keeping due process, even in the face of the nebulous "terrorist" threat. [Image Source: NBC]
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl concurs, adding:
By passing the retroactive immunity for the telecoms' complicity in the warrantless wiretapping program, Congress abdicated its duty to the American people. It is disappointing that... [the courts] endorsed the rights of telecommunications companies over those over their customers.
But in the current political climate voices like the EFF and Rep. Paul's are mere whispers in a sea of shouts of support. Without saying a word, the punt by America's most powerful federal court in effect adds one of the loudest voices yet in support of warrantless wiretaps, although it leaves the door open for later revision, should America's political climate drastically change.
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