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Re: Re: Google Wave?

Benjamin Scott — 2010-03-11T01:36:46

  You're welcome.  Thanks for your reply!  :)

...

  It sounds to me like that would enable Wave to be used as a
collaborative whiteboard, which makes perfect sense to me.

[GNHLUG] NHRuby, Monday, 15 March: Ruby on Windows

Ted Roche — 2010-03-10T23:00:42

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brian Turnbull
Subject: [nhruby-discuss] March Meetup: Windows and Ruby

Join us at RMC Research (1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH) this coming 
Monday, 15 March 2010 at 7pm for the March edition of NHRuby.  This 
month our host with the most, Tim Golden (Technology Director at RMC 
Research), is leading a hands-on session on setting up Ruby on Windows.

Windows has long been an "also ran" in the Ruby community... but no 
more! With a proper setup, Windows is a robust and stable platform for 
Ruby development and Tim will guide us through a live install of Ruby, 
Rubygems, and some popular gems.  In addition, Windows IDEs (integrated 
development environments) will be covered.  Wrapping up, we'll put our 
new Ruby environment to the test developing a simple Rails application.

Tim will be providing CDs of all packages needed to get up and running, 
so bring your Windows boxes and get setup with Ruby!

Directions to RMC Research and more information can be foun

Report on files by type

Greg Rundlett (freephile — 2010-03-10T22:33:10

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Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 17, 2010 SUSE Studio

Jerry Feldman — 2010-03-10T21:47:49

When: March 17, 2010 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Demo of SUSE Studio, a web service for building software appliances
Moderator: Robert Schweikert - Novell Corp
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 335


Robert discusses SUSE Studio, and demonstrates using it to create an 
appliance. He also talks about Kiwi, the command-line based back-end 
engine driving SUSE Studio's image creation.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meetng meeting 
location at The Cambridge Brewery. We may need to check ahead since this 
is St. Patrick's Day.

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Open Mike Night

Jerry Feldman — 2010-03-10T20:04:13

When: February 17, 2010 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Demo of SUSE Studio, a web service for building software appliances
Moderator: Robert Schweikert - Novell Corp
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 335


Robert discusses SUSE Studio, and demonstrates using it to create an 
appliance. He also talks about Kiwi, the command-line based back-end 
engine driving SUSE Studio's image creation.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meetng meeting 
location at The Cambridge Brewery. We may need to check ahead since this 
is St. Patrick's Day.

Re: Git Help

Ted Roche — 2010-03-10T18:43:34

It's not my primary SCC, but I'll give it a shot. (Update: Looks like 
Coleman's got you all set.)


I tried out a trivial example, using git checkout -b "new_branch" to 
create a branch in a working directory with unstaged changes. My working 
directory, with local modifications, is the new branch. When I merge my 
branches and then make a new change, then try to switch back to one of 
the older branches, git refuses, with "error: Entry 'myfile.example' not 
uptodate. Cannot merge."

My git book ("Pro Git" by Scott Chacon, Apress, mostly still unread, but 
recommended) states that git will not let you switch to a branch in the 
current working directory if it will overwrite uncommitted work.

git help <commandname> is also a good resource for basic help.

More resources: NHRuby had a great presentation on git back in April: 
http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2009/05/01/nh-ruby-30-april-2009/

Nick Quaranto's slides can be found: http://drop.io/gitstarted

and the freely-distributed book is at: http://book.git-s

Re: Re: Google Wave?

Ralph Mack — 2010-03-10T18:10:51

Thanks for that article, Ben. I just wanted to add my own observations.

I attempted to use Wave to do something real in a few different contexts:
1. Virtual table-top role-playing
2. Virtual committee-style meeting
3. Virtual project activity:
     - Design session
     - Planning session

In all cases, the thing that really stymied us was the inability to make 
useful pictures.

If somebody wanted to make Wave useful, they would develop a collaborative
picture editor for Wave with the following general model:

- Arbitrary overall closed shapes - boxes, diamonds, circles, clouds, 
cylinders etc.
   Height and width can be adjusted.
- Closed shapes have internal grid of rectangular boxes filling largest 
rectangular interior
   space of shape - rows and columns can be added and internal divisions 
can be adjusted.
- Boxes inside shapes can contain anything the outer frame can -
   the outer frame is essentially the outermost box.
- Lines between arbitrary points on edges of closed shapes or other lines,
   e

Re: Git Help

Coleman Kane — 2010-03-10T17:59:44

Basically, the "repository" is the .git/ subdirectory. The working
directory is your local copy. Think of the current working directory as
your "local client directory" when you run "svn checkout http://.....".
Think of the .git/ subdirectory as the subversion repository on your
server.

Thinking in terms of SVN, when you run 'checkout -b tom2' when using the
'tom' branch, it's like running:
svn cp http://your-server.com/repos/toms-project/branches/tom http://your-server.com/repos/toms-project/branches/tom2
followed by
svn switch http://your-server.com/repos/toms-project/branches/tom2

The result is that you are now considered by the git software to be
working on files that belong in the 'tom2' branch, whereas before you
were working on files considered to belong in the 'tom' branch. However,
the status of all of the files in the working directory remains the
same. You still need to commit your changes to the present branch before
they'll be stored in the repository. In other words the files marked as
edite

Re: Git Help

Thomas Charron — 2010-03-10T17:27:36

  Actually, I already knew that one, I was separating the logic in
case it confused things.  :-D


  And if my current branch is 'tom', with edited files, and I issue a
git checkout -b tom2, then tom2 will now be a copy of tom, PLUS the
edited file?


  I gave up on the HOWTO's and just dove in.  :-D  Now I'm using git
to allow an application which has a single configuration directory,
~/.skeinforge, to have multiple configuration by using a git wrapper
which uses git branches as 'profiles'.

Re: Git Help

Coleman Kane — 2010-03-10T16:46:49

Do't use 'git branch' any more for creating new branches, instead use
'git checkout'.

the following example where you edit the file 'test.c' and want to
commit those changes to a new branch named 'branch-2' rather than the
current branch ('master').

In your git-managed source repository, edit the file 'test.c' and save
it.

Then, run (this will create a new branch 'branch-2' from the current
working branch):
  git checkout -b branch-2

Your file 'test.c' will still remain "edited", but the .git repo will
have 'branch-2' now which is almost identical to 'master' (same rev
history). You will automatically be operating o 'branch-2' instead of
'master' when the operation completes.

Add the changes to 'test.c' to the present branch ('branch-2'):
  git add test.c

Finally, commit these additions to the present branch ('branch-2'):
  git commit


To switch back to branch 'master':
  git checkout master

To switch back to branch 'branch-2':
  git checkout branch-2

The output of these two will differ:
  git log m

Git Help

Thomas Charron — 2010-03-10T16:30:07

  As a git newb, I've got a couple of questions about git which
confuse me.  Any git users who might be able to explain?

  If I'm in a directory and have made local modifications, and then I
issue a git branch, what does the branch contain a copy of if I check
it out?  The latest head?  Or does the branch branch whatever I'm
working on to a new branch, which contains a copy of the state of the
original branch?

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Jeffry Smith — 2010-03-10T05:05:53

The problem with DRM is not truly a FOSS issue, it's that you're
passing the lock AND the key to the person, and trying to prevent them
from using the key in the lock except when you say they can.  Think of
it like this.  You buy a house, but find out you can only unlock the
door with the realtor present.  They hand you the key that's kept
under a rock by the front door, you hand it back for them to unlock
the door, they hand it back to you, who again returns it to them to
put under the rock again.  They tell you this makes your house more
secure than carrying the key on you and you using it directly.  After
a while people start realizing the key is under the rock - anyone can
get to it.  Why do you need the realtor there?  Especially since you
own the house.   After a while, people get tired of this, and start
lifting up the rock and pulling the key out and using it themselves.

At this point the realtor pulls out the agreement they showed you
AFTER the sale of the house that says you only rented the key a

Re: Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

John Abreau — 2010-03-10T10:16:48

A similar tool is at gravatar.com.  See my test page at

    http://blu.org/grav.php


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin< at >geekspace.com> wrote:

Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

Joshua Judson Rosen — 2010-03-10T05:39:55

[...]
[...]

And maddog also wrote:

On that note, I actually have a tool to help with that:

    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/stickfigurator.cgi

Re: Google Wave?

Alan Johnson — 2010-03-09T18:36:23

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Re: Google Wave?

Benjamin Scott — 2010-03-09T17:07:09

  That thought occurred to me, too.  No joke.

  Back when there was much speculation that Colin Powell might run for
president but the man himself seemed very quiet about the matter,  the
comedian Mark Russel speculated that it might just be "the best book
promotion gag since the New Testament".


  That might work.  I'm not sure how well it would lend itself to a
large, structured document, though.  No real outline/heading system,
no ability to hide/zoom on things.


  Well, it's basically just a text area, so I suppose you could use it
that way.  And adding syntax highlighting should be fairly
straight-forward.


  There's no facility for parliamentary procedure.  HHOS.


  Thanks for the compliment, and you're welcome.  :)

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Benjamin Scott — 2010-03-09T16:57:38

P.S.:

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

  Strike the above.  Changed my mind.

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Benjamin Scott — 2010-03-09T16:56:25

[aggregate reply to multiple people]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Chip Marshall <chip-ni9fzTQ5d8yFX2APIN6yfw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

  Oh, that's a good point.  I was thinking just of the patent
encumbered stuff, i.e., codecs and the like.  I briefly forgot about
the copy restriction stuff (wishful thinking, I guess).  Even if they
would be willing to grant a license to something that could be used by
a potentially unlimited number of people, the CSS license requires you
to protect the content downstream of you (i.e., making sure the output
device is copy restricted).  That can't happen in a FOSS project.


  Yah, I actually sought out and read the CCA CSS license terms last
week, and they're just as absurd as they ever were.  For example, if
you're an implementer, the studios can require you to let someone
audit your stuff, and force you to cease distribution if they don't
like what they find.

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Alan Johnson — 2010-03-09T16:31:52

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Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Chip Marshall — 2010-03-09T16:27:03

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Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Alan Johnson — 2010-03-09T16:23:26

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