I love this.. mounting remotes over SSH, without feeling dirty afterwards.
Revisiting cross-platform graphics with HaXe. Earlier experiments where successful in compiling the same source for Flash9/AS3 and C++. Running Neko on Linux has been somewhat problematic in the past, but it looks like it has caught up. Also now with Neko Media Engine 2, the Neko/Flash compatibility layer Neash is obsoleted.
The screenshot shows how NME/SDL can do rotated text fields, very intriguing. Possibly very useful for certain handhelds. The code for the AS2 and AS3 targets that are shown running is mostly the same. I have not been able to run the C++ target anymore, but which I trust is a minor glitch in my environment.
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I rejoined Xanadu in 1988 largely because of fear about the dangers of nanotechnology, coupled with incredible excitement about the promises of nanotechnology. In looking at the dangers, I saw that none of us individually is clever enough to figure out how to solve those problems. The only hope that I saw in 1988—1 no longer believe it is the only hope—is that by creating better media for the process of societal discourse and societal decision-making, we stand a much better chance of surviving the dangers posed by new technologies, so that we may live to enjoy their benefits.
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Is I believe a comment made by Mark S. Miller.
Besides the opportunity to test a post of the Quote format, I found the remark an interesting one I am not sure I have found in connection to the Xanadu Project before.
‘The Open Society and its Media’ is a recommended read about society and hypertext, I myself nevertheless have not quite finished yet. Perhaps later some more, but what I will certainly get back for here is to post a new screenshot with some thoughts on my own state-of-the-art hypertext.
It’s a bit weird, but definitely more comfortable than the old dual-boot procedure. WinAmp+Enhancer “seamlessly” on my Gnome desktop.
VirtualBox has no problems running Windows XP, the only application that had trouble was iTunes. Its been years since i used this software. Nice. I could not get LCARS 24 or Plan 9 running in a virtual host though. Not that it matters, but would have been cool.
The enthought Tools Suite has some apps among which an reStructuredText editor with live preview. It runs on my Debian squeeze/sid but not flawlessly. Handling parser errors is broken. It also does not include files listed the toctree directive, in contrast the Sphinx builder does fine there. Didn’t try the include directive, guess that could nevertheless. But I already miss vim.
Sphinx btw, is a cool example of Docutils/rSt can do. I’m not sure about this file-based hypertext though. The problem with hypertext is imo, that by and large it is not interactive in a mutating way. I can’t branch from a document and have the server adjust or create the hyper structures follow me. Cannot compare chuncks I choose to frame, and not by whatever happens to be the section or an inherited file-boundary. What does web ‘page’ stil mean anyway.
Even now, I’m typing not only text into a what presumably is a text-field, but also links and paragraph structure. And I better draft or copy-paste-and-save it, cause my browser will obediently ditch everything if I or some bit goes wrong. One could see that as inherent to RESTfull document protocol, but I have no issues with that architectural design. Perhaps I don’t like HTML. Or I wish HTTP-range was better supported, but then that protocol layer sits below HTML, so how could that hand out chunks of HTML.. nah, still dreaming of Xanadu.
Document 3 contains several editions of the Declaration of independence. Shown is version 3 on the left, and 1 on the right.
Actually, in modern diff tools, the grey areas are treated as most interesting. These might be coloured red or orange in the edition on the left, for it was deleted or left out of the later edition on the right, in which the grey areas represent new text, which might be coloured green. Appearently these are the parts that have been under discussion during these drafts, while the coloured pieces here are rearranged and intersected chunks of preserved text, which Xanadu was meant to track so precisely.
The screenshot shows Pyxi’s compare view (main window, ALT-P), colours emphasize the continuation of ranges within the text across 3 versions. Pyxi is a front-end written in Python for Udanax Green (Xu88.1) and supports editing plain text with transclusion and two-way links.
Blurry analog photography and little-light accidents taking out the film… still like the way they turned out. Some are a little old, perhaps almost a decade, but the film makes em even look older.
Scanning negatives with a 49 EUR film scanner.
Curious little fellow, totally not scared. I could have picked it up had I not remembered rodents can be fierce biters if they want to. Found it beside the road, riding back from Emmen per bicycle.
Never thought I actually would try to solder that someday.
I broke my SimPad today by trying to “upgrade” its RAM. An old projector lens helps inspecting the connections.
Circumventing the network bug in Udanax Green. Screenshot shows the Pyxi demo frontend running on orb, talking with an Xu88.1 backend at iris.
Another Gnome/Ubuntu shot with clearlooks and dev’ing on an Anewt project.
A fresh Gnome install, and, ain’t clearlooks nice? Some c0de hacking in progress. I cant find pynote anywhere anymore, must have been real bad. Probably something PHP+RDF/XML.
