daggerquill

Member since: May 12th, 2005

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The British like Macs (TUAW.com)

Mar 8th 2007 8:33PM Ummm, EWI...I hate to break it to you, but about 1/3 of Ireland is part of the UK. A quick web search for "Northern Ireland" might be enlightening.

AbiWord: Word Processing for Everyone (Download Squad)

Mar 8th 2007 8:45AM bikeham: you should take another look. Latest Mac release is 2.4.5, released in the fall. No 2.4.6 yet, but it seems to be under active development. I use it daily.

Maypole: Agile web development for the rest of us (Download Squad)

Feb 15th 2007 9:28AM No, Perl probably isn't easier for a Java programmer. For other languages, I'd say it's a tossup. But that's not really the point.

Agile web development doesn't have to mean Rails. There are other alternatives, and I've pointed out one of them.

I've also pointed out some of the reasons why I think, if you're looking at trying something new, you might want to consider all your options instead of simply following the hype.

And if you're an experienced Rails developer, you should go back and see what the default installation looks like, as well as the popular tools like locamotive. Rails can run anywhere, it's true, with a lot of tweaking, but your comments are way off base. Every tutorial starts out with three assumptions: 1) you're going to run a test server using the built-in httpd (or lighttpd) on a local host; 2) you're going to try to manage three separate databases in various stages of development, and 3) you're going to run your application as a stand alone application, not CGI. Configuring your environment differently is not straightforward, even though the assumptions are only valid for a small subset of development environments.

"Just shop for another host" is fine if you're an amateur programmer putting up a photo gallery, or even a small, flexible company.

In the environment most of the world operates in, though, the infrastructure decisions are not made by the people writing the code. We have to adpt to the environment, not the other way around.

But again, that's not really the point. The point is that there are options.

Getting Started with MacFUSE: DLS How-To (Download Squad)

Jan 16th 2007 11:51PM Take a stroll through the sshfs project page--http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html--for the details, but it looks like sshfs will honor settings in ~/.ssh/config. Just add a configuration for the host on 443.

Getting Started with MacFUSE: DLS How-To (Download Squad)

Jan 16th 2007 6:25PM Dan,

The answer to your question is yes, there's a reason: I foolishly assumed the release listing was chronological order. But of course it's asciibetical.

Getting Started with MacFUSE: DLS How-To (Download Squad)

Jan 16th 2007 5:42PM Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your PATH. Try this:

$ PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

$ sshfs user@...

Delkin eFilm ExpressCard 34 (TUAW.com)

Sep 23rd 2006 6:05PM It's just you. ;)

Seriously, though, while $59.99 would buy you several USB readers, the card will be worth the money form many pro-am photogs. The card itself is no bigger than most readers, and most of that will be inside your machine. The only external part is the white bracket, which is just deep enough to hold the pins of the CF card--about 1/4"-1/2" from the looks of it. Add to that the convenience of not haveing to worry about cables and possibly portable hubs, and it will make sense for Delkin's core audience: serious photographers.

Hawkeye: DVD and PVD video creation (Download Squad)

Sep 23rd 2006 5:51PM ummm...it's posted under category: Macintosh, but sure.

FairPlay: coming to a classroom near you? (TUAW.com)

Sep 23rd 2006 5:48PM hmmm...

The line between free as in speeh and free as in beer is particularly thin when it comes to questions of academic freedom. If DRM were simply a way to enforce copyright or keep people from--god forbid--learning something for free, that would be one thing, but as we know, it's much more. It actively interferes with people's ability to make derrivative works and excerpt, and in many cases meaningfully cite works, all hallmarks of rigorous acaemic work.

Furthermore, taking the hisorical long view, open access to lecture materials is essential to our intellectual tradition. Many of historiy's greatest thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle right down to de Saussure and Wittgenstein are known to us only or largely through their lecture materials. We wouldn't know de Saussure at all if some of his students hadn't collected and psthumously published his lecture notes. And that paradigm holds even more in obscure and technical fields. Where would we be, for instnace, if the only access we had to Einstein's was his few published works?

Universities taking a short, shelfish, purely monetary view of intellectual proerty is bad, bad, bad business.