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March 2005



P-Language Report

2005.03.28 Mon 11:14 P GMT-07
It looks like the report mentioned by Guido is now available (http://www.burtongroup.com/research_consulting/publicdoc.aspx?cid=14 ).Here is a quick writeup on it ( http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3492771 ). On a side note, I've bee
Category: python open source
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Open source competition continued...

2005.03.28 Mon 11:11 P GMT-07
Interesting interview with an ex-sun employee ( http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3719 ). Here's a quote (my bolding): My friends in the Open Source community wondered what my interest was in OpenSolaris because the prevailing open source wi
Category: linux open source

Open source and competition

2005.03.22 Tue 10:25 P GMT-07
People complain that their favorite app isn't ported to Linux, but when such an app is ported they complain.  With the recent release of Nero cd burning software for linux, I've read a few gripes like why Nero used gtk+, is it free (as in gratis)?,
Category: linux

No go for the Rocbox

2005.03.22 Tue 9:52 P GMT-07
So I'm going to take the Rocbox back.  I should think twice before buying a first generation item from a vendor (even if the price is right).There were a few things that I liked about it:The feel of the buttons on the front (they click well like an
Category: python linux
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Adding music to the rocbox with linux

2005.03.15 Tue 12:58 A GMT-07
Ok, if anyone is reading this, I thought I might share some investigative work. So after a quick attempt to copy music over to the rocbox failed, I started searching on google for any help. Nothing turned up.... So I looked at the db files on th
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Alone in the Wilderness (Dick Proenneke)

2005.03.15 Tue 12:57 A GMT-07
Just finished watching an interesting autobiography of Dick Proenneke on public television. He wanted to spend a year alone in Alaska (at the age of 51), living off the land and hand tools (he made a cabin).  His cabin was amazing. He ended up liv
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Using the Rocbox with Linux (as a storage device)

2005.03.12 Sat 12:59 A GMT-07
I recently bought a rocbox (http://www.roc-digital.com/main.html) for a good price, thinking I would be able to use it as a portable drive as well as an mp3 player. (I got it for about half the price of a 20 gig ipod), so I won't complain about the
Category: linux