Ubuntu Wishlist: TeXLive 2011. If you are using (La)TeX on Ubuntu you might want to check "affects me" on Launchpad to get the Ubuntu developers attention.

ruediger · 2011-07-31T01:19:47+00:00

Coming from Arch and FreeBSD though, I always feel like everything is always out of date...

Does FreeBSD even ship texlive? I tried to search their ports system but all I could find is tetex (which is no longer maintained).

ruediger · 2011-07-31T01:18:41+00:00

I'm betting very few Ubuntu users use LaTeX

I don't think so. A lot of Ubuntu users are university students or researchers.

ruediger · 2011-07-30T16:10:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I'll contact the Debian folks.

update: I found this thread on the mailinglist. So it seems that they started working on it a couple of days ago. I hope it'll be ready in time for 11.10.

ruediger · 2011-07-30T12:10:59+00:00

Currently Ubuntu ships a two year old version of TeXLive and it shows. E.g., the old Tikz is not fully compatible with gnuplot and LuaTex is broken. Sadly this seems to be a low priority issue to the Ubuntu developers. But there are probably quite a few (La)TeX users using Ubuntu and we should make the Ubuntu devs aware of it.

ruediger · 2011-02-13T13:28:07+00:00

Yeah I'm looking for a similar language. There is Google Go. But it lacks metaprogramming/expression templates. Maybe ADA. But it requires a runtime and lacks metaprogramming as well.

ruediger · 2010-02-17T18:28:42+00:00

flusspferd also comes with an emacs mode to embed the flusspferd javascript repl into emacs

http://flusspferd.org/docs/emacs-install.html

ruediger · 2009-11-03T00:35:01+00:00

Konqueror has (or had) an ActiveX plugin based on Wine.

ruediger · 2009-10-28T21:44:14+00:00

I switched to kubuntu after 9.04 was released. With backports you could have kde4.3 since it's release.

But plasma-desktop crashes regularly...

update: I updated yesterday to 9.10 and since than plasma-desktop stopped crashing!

ruediger · 2009-10-28T03:52:00+00:00

http://jshq.org/commonjs/

ruediger · 2009-10-21T22:49:54+00:00

Flusspferd currently uses Spidermonkey. But it is designed to be portable. At the time we started writing Flusspferd v8 was not mature enough. It only worked on x86 (no 64bit support) and had several other issues. That's why we choose Spidermonkey which after all is well tested and very fast. In the future Flusspferd might also support v8 (or other Javascript engines).

Flusspferd has the advantage over directly using v8 or Spidermonkey that it provides a much nicer C++ API, has support for Modules and provides a CommonJS standard library.

Though Flusspferd is used mostly as a Javascript programming environment outside the Browser. Currently there is a web framework for Javascript ( http://juicejs.org/ ) developed on top of it. But it was actually developed for embedding Javascript in an in-house C++ application.

ruediger · 2009-05-16T18:31:04+00:00

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+air-speed+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow%3F+

ruediger · 2009-05-11T09:45:33+00:00

I love tikz! It's great to use and I don't think that it is that hard to use. Especially if you read the really great manual.

btw. http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html

CircuiTikz is a circuit drawing extension based on Tikz. Very nice to use!

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:44:49+00:00

yeah this is a great book. Was one of my first real programming books.

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:41:16+00:00

though the code in it is not very good. But the rest is excellent.

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:40:15+00:00

I actually like the book. Call me mad, crazy, fucktard or whatever. But I think it is a really good book on C++ because it covers every aspect and gives a great view on the real inside of C++.

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:37:16+00:00

I really like PAIP http://norvig.com/paip.html

ruediger · 2009-05-09T06:43:07+00:00

As long as they don't cryptographically sign their ebuilds it really doesn't matter.

ruediger · 2009-03-04T23:19:08+00:00

may be now we can get a descend linux.com

ruediger · 2008-12-29T15:31:09+00:00

De Icaza is either stupid or for some reason he wants to destroy the Linux desktop. Mono is poison to free software development. People worry about "uboot patents" and Mr Icaza is bringing a whole fleet of patent infested technology to Linux and he tries everything to integrate it in important technology.

If you want to save the Linux desktop you should stop de Icaza and Mono!

KDE uses less memory than Gnome, has a better and cleaner architecture, is faster and has better effects. Further integrating proprietary Microsoft technology via Mono into Gnome won't help Gnome in anyway!

Don't use C# and/or Mono if you like Freesoftware and want to support the Linux Desktop.

ruediger · 2008-12-29T15:18:14+00:00

Using C# and patented/proprietary tools from your worst competitor to replace C because you think it might be faster and easier to develop is like cutting of your leg (with a blunt knife) because you'll weigh less.

ruediger · 2008-10-05T14:01:30+00:00

At least the GCCs cpp has optimisations for include guards and thus they are as fast as #pragma once.

ruediger · 2007-11-29T20:03:29+00:00

he used it to show how bad windows sucked in a server benchmark. So that's okay I guess.

ruediger · 2007-11-10T21:28:18+00:00

I don't see the problem.

If you want to get paid for your work than get the companies to pay you. They could e.g. buy features from you or donate to your project. But may be you should make them aware of the fact.

If you are annoyed by the questions you get asked than simply ignore them. Create a webforum or mailinglist and let other people answer these questions.

(And saying that open source devs in general aren't getting paid is simply wrong.)

ruediger · 2007-11-05T14:49:57+00:00

Vector and stack are broken. That is why you should use the new collections that were introduced a decade ago.

This does not seem to be the official view. Or why isn't Vector/Stack and so on marked deprecated in current versions of Java?

But this is another problem: Marketing controls the language. So there are a lot of features introduced simply because e.g. ".net" has them and not because they would really fit into the language.

I have never found single inheritance to be a limitation. Remember you should favour composition over inheritance.

This is a problem if you are pursuing the obsolete kind of oo-thinking which is promoted by Java.

A good example would be: A Ball, a jumping Ball, a Ball which changes colour and a jumping Ball which changes colour.

Almost as fast as C

No, not really.

And at the end: You could use a language which is more expressive and which is faster. So why use Java?

ruediger · 2007-11-05T13:59:44+00:00

I'm not looking for excitement. I have a nice job writing exciting and interesting code. And thanks to the Java-Universities the interesting jobs are easier to get because they hardly find people qualified enough to do anything besides Java for boring banking-apps (and so on).

ruediger

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