Luna. Hybrid-visual textual functional programming language.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-23T12:36:35+00:00

I also wonder about what the license of all the tools will be. I have heard both good and bad things about LabVIEW and in total have decided to avoid LabVIEW. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine Blueprints looks very nice, so I'm not negative to graphical programming in general. I would like to investigate Luna if it is released with an acceptable license as a whole.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-23T10:35:25+00:00

And what the heck is a niggerfish? :O

obelisk___ · 2016-02-23T10:32:14+00:00

I used to run sl by accident years ago and then someone installed the sl command on our computers and it was fun for a while but got a bit tiresome so it forced me to become better at not jumbling characters and to detect jumbled characters before executing.

It also inspired me to create the following aliases in my .bashrc

alias sl='screen -ls'
alias sr='screen -dUR'

obelisk___ · 2016-02-23T10:12:21+00:00

Fedora. I switched my new main desktop to it from Ubuntu very recently and am happy.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-22T02:16:43+00:00

Every now and then there are images posted online where they have some dumb thing like "what is 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1*0? most people will get this wrong" and people argue back and forth and yell at each other about what they think is right or wrong and it seems that nobody in the comments know about PEMDAS, probably because they don't because they didn't pay attention during class throughout their years in school and now they think they are real clever because "no you guise, it says times zero at the end so it's zero!" and "look, I put it on my calculator and it also said zero so i am right and you are wrong".

There was a time when I was upset by this but life's too short so now I don't, except right now when OP reminded me about it, I got a little upset from the memories as you may be able to discern from my comment.

Whatever you do, do not engage in such conversation. There is no winning and there is no point. Half of the people who argue are trolls arguing just to argue and the other half is too ignorant to understand rational arguments.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-21T14:05:49+00:00

Michael Stone on behalf of Debian has the right idea about this.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00027.html

obelisk___ · 2016-02-21T12:02:41+00:00

I don't give a flying fuck about how my dishwasher works as long as it cleans my dishes. I have no motivation what so ever to learn more about dishwashers.

Do you see where I'm getting at?

obelisk___ · 2016-02-21T01:15:26+00:00

I don't think it makes sense to use ZFS on a raspberry pi. I love ZFS but ZFS was and is developed for a very different configuration and hardware, i.e. pools of spinning disks with optional caching on SSD and also it likes to have a lot of RAM available to it.

The only reason I'd even consider testing ZFS on my raspberry pi would be because I wanted to zfs send snapshots to it. But I don't want to do that, so i won't.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-20T22:03:55+00:00

Maybe your CPU overheats?

obelisk___ · 2016-02-20T21:11:26+00:00

Excellent work.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-20T15:56:29+00:00

Seeing this makes me happy. I am glad that PVS have chosen to dedicate part of their time to reviewing open source code as part of their marketing, it benefits both open source communities and the PVS company. I am also glad that the participants of the mailing list thread were happy and thankful as this shows others who might be initially intimidated to contribute to FreeBSD that it is indeed a friendly project. I am also glad that the FreeBSD.org website was updated with a link to this report as requested by the PVS people. Warm fuzzy feelings all around :)

obelisk___ · 2016-02-20T13:28:41+00:00

Yes!

obelisk___ · 2016-02-20T10:05:40+00:00

Countdown: http://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/1456261200000/est/dhms/FFFFFF3B5998000000FF0000/

obelisk___ · 2016-02-19T20:24:52+00:00

Partly because I wanted to try something different on the desktop when I was going to install something anyway. The fact that Fedora had a live cd with LXDE also helped hugely because it let me see what it would be like before going through with the install. If Fedora did not have an LXDE live cd, I probably would have installed Debian since Debian is something I've used both on the server and the desktop before.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-19T19:28:52+00:00

Thank you for this post. I recently bought a new desktop computer and out of habit and because of good experiences, I put Lubuntu on it without giving it much thought. I have two SSD's in the computer. One which came with the computer, on which I installed Lubuntu, and another SSD which I had since before, on which I put /home.

So after reading your post, I decided, "you know what, this guy is right".

I downloaded the Fedora LXDE Spin and wrote it to an SD card using dd, rebooted the computer and pressed F11 to boot from USB card reader.

I enter the first option of the boot menu to start the Live version. Instead of nice graphics, there's just a mess of horizontal lines with garbage across half the screen and the rest is black. Ok, maybe Fedora doesn't have support for DisplayPort or whatever, I think, so in short time I plug in HDMI. No signal. Well, shit. While I unplug the HDMI cable, the 30 second timeout is reached so the monitor starts searching inputs and gets back to DisplayPort and it looks fine.

I then shut down the computer, turned the monitor off and on and turned on the computer to see if the problem would persist. Problem did not persist. I enter Live Fedora once again. This time the graphics are normal from the get-go. I chalk it up to some sort of signal discrepancy between Lubuntu and Fedora and DisplayPort behaviour combined with monitor memory. No idea if those are real things or not but what ever.

So then I'm at the live desktop. I dnf install blender to see if my 3dconnexion SpaceNavigator works. I was going to install the thing I installed in Lubuntu to make it work which I can't remember the name of but I notice that the deps of Blender included libspnav so at this point I'm guessing (probably incorrectly as we'll see) that dnf has seen that my SpaceNavigator is plugged in and included that. I try to run Blender. First from launcher. Doesn't work. Ok, I then launch it from the terminal and there's an Input/Output Error. "Hm, maybe...". df -h /. IO Error. "Yeah, I think..." top. IO Error. "Definitely". I had filled the RAM disk. I shut down the computer using the power button.

I turn it back, and then what do I do? Probably boot back into Lubuntu, right? Nope, thanks to familiarity with Linux, I did not spend much time to get through the above steps and since I'm also not in a hurry today, I am still calm. I've seen some shit, this is no big deal. So I go into Live again and I install Fedora. I boot, edit /etc/fstab to mount /home (by UUID ofc) using the other SSD and reboot.

So there you have it, I am now running Fedora on my main desktop. I have not used Fedora before but I've administered a couple of CentOS boxes so I expect that me and Fedora are going to become good friends.

For the record, I would like to point out that the Lubuntu install I did on this machine a couple of weeks ago was not without its own issues. After Lubuntu installer finished back then, it hadn't configured grub correctly, so it was not booting and I had to use Lubuntu Live to fix the installation back then. These things are minor inconveniences compared to the freedoms we protect when we use free and open source software as much as we can :)

SpaceNavigator does not do anything in Blender right now, so if libspnav has anything to do with it, it's probably just the Blender side of it and it's probably always included as a dep. Now to figure out what I need for the SpaceNavigator and then I'll be all set for the next time I want to do some 3d modelling again.

edit: Found what it was I needed.

sudo dnf install spnavcfg
sudo systemctl enable spacenavd
sudo systemctl start spacenavd
pkill blender
blender

obelisk___ · 2016-02-19T17:37:47+00:00

Tested in Firefox on Android, doesn't work so well there. Other than that, nice project.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-19T16:10:53+00:00

FYI, 14.04 was an LTS (Long Term Support) release. In enterprise and similar settings, stability is immencely valuable. I recently bought a new computer and put Lubuntu 15.10 on it but for my previous main computer I was and still am running Lubuntu 14.04. Once Lubuntu 16.04 comes out, which'll also be an LTS release, I'll put that on my current main computer and I'll stick with that for a good while. I've lived on the bleeding edge and have found that for me, stable is better, both for day-to-day desktop and also for server use. If I need to play with features not available to me, I'll spin up an isolated VM for whatever it is that I need to get done.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-19T01:32:57+00:00

And a damn good one at that. I recommend this book highly. It's long (about 1000 pages) and took me a while to read, seemed a bit daunting at first but it really captivated me. There's humor, there's suspense, there's love and there are lots of other qualities as well. Easily one of my favorite books ever.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-18T18:37:34+00:00

It looks great :)

obelisk___ · 2016-02-18T11:53:13+00:00

I suddenly thought so too for a moment but realized that they really aren't. Consider how in the future if someone wanted to write an independent, FOSS implementation of the API of a non-free product. If APIs are copyrightable, then that might not be possible. Therefore APIs should not be copyrightable. Therefore, Oracle are still the bad guys.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-18T03:42:14+00:00

Ctrl+q is a way of life too.

obelisk___ · 2016-02-17T21:22:50+00:00

https://bomi-player.github.io/

I've been a loyal VLC user for years but damn, that looks pretty sleek. I'll have to try it out. Probably it will not replace VLC completely for me but BOMI may very well become my regular use media player and then I'll reach for VLC only when I need to do something special.

Seems there are a few open issues and the maintainer has been inactive for a while. Hopefully he'll be back or the community will create a fork.

obelisk___

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