World: r3wp

and grow legs :-D

too bad there's no F1 this year... (in montreal) we won't be able 
to walk on ferrari street for a whole week... imagine, its been said 
by pilots, that montreal was the favorite spot for partying on the 
F1 championship after monaco.

I can believe it...

(and I have an abundance of legs...)

hehehe

visiting montreal in the summer is really cool, there are festivals 
back to back for 3 months, sometimes there are 2-3 major events overlapping 
in the schedule.

its probably the most culturally-oriented city in all of canada.

2 of my 3 children born in Montreal but both declined to go to U. 
there ... I don't get back often ... I always found spring too short: 
a long winter and suddenly its summer and hot and muggy (not like 
St Louis or Memphis, but still ...)  Fall was usually great - and 
biking and skiing in the Laurentides - I started out in Levis, but 
only spent one summer at U. Laval ... in German - and one summer 
in college up in Lac St Jean (no English spoken up there ! )

yep if you stray to far from montreal... english weeds out pretty 
quick.. a part from the eastern townships... which basically follow 
the US border.

and yes... seasons are a constant race  ;-)

Bicycle paths... you should see it in Amsterdam or any Dutch city.

the country is flat ...

Unflat countries can make some effort too (see map -- it's a 35.meg 
PDF linked to from thism page):
http://www.sustrans.co.uk/what-we-do/national-cycle-network

Though, as this collection of photos show, not all of it is world 
class:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/site-map.htm

Designed by someone with a dark sense of humour?

BTW: I', living in the city where the Bycicle was invented.


Overall, it seems that mobility is an important topic here. Karl 
Benz was born in Karlsruhe as well. And the world's first "car" drive 
was just around the corner...

What's the easiest way to setup streaming audio on the net?

videolan ?

videolan server?

What was used for the devcons?

And what is Pekr going to use for the next Devcon?? :)

[I'm sure I posted this a few days ago....Perhaps the resync bug 
ate it]

On the R3 Alpha page, Carl name checks a couple of Windows sandboxes: 
Sandboxie and DropMyRights. Anyone have experience of using these?
http://www.rebol.net/wiki/R3_Alpha

Interesting - maybe he used some free low-level code?

Scheduler library released (see Announce channel). A few words about 
that :


- it allows you to program deferred tasks (like night batchs or short-term 
tasks like sending a mail in 10 minute from now).

- it's feature-close to CRON or QUARTZ java library (not covering 
100% yet).

- it needs a lot of additional testing before using it in production 
for critical tasks.

- some issues are not yet addressed like tasks execution overlapping 
over other tasks events, daylight saving gaps or system time changes.
- minimum delay between 2 events is 1 second.

- maximum delay between 2 events is 9999 hours (a little more than 
a year)

- event loop is currently a custom one, next version will add 'do-events 
patching for a easier and more transparent integration with View 
or network apps.

Btw, it started as a simple extension for UniServe kernel, but I 
was keeping adding features...now it might have a broader usage, 
so I decided to release it as a standalone library.

Comments & bug reports (here, for now) are welcome.

Sounds so cool :-) I was just in need to produce simple scheduler 
for power-point  replay of multiple files, so I will look into your 
script :-)

Nice.

Nice Doc.

Am I a spammer? Perhaps the truth is out there:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23017/am-i-a-spammer

Stop answering him!

Perhaps someone else  could have a go at answering some of the outstanding 
and/or poorly answered questions regarding REBOL:
   http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=rebol&tab=newest

I don't like that sort of question about parse.

We don't know the output the guy wants. Instead, we try to guess 
the output by reading his dirty code.
boring....

is it just me or is stack overflow generating a hell of a lot of 
new users for the language?

Don't know why they don't come here instead

having more that one channel is ok, nothing wrong with rebol being 
more spread out.

But they don't use the mailing list or the official documentation 
either. Most of their problems are well known.

So, this is just an advocacy problem. Be nice to them there, and 
they'll be more likely to come here eventually.

not every one is a developper by trade.

and many don't learn by reading references.... rebol is after all 
more inclined to the technically savy and those on the other spectrum.

IMO coming here and asking  newbie questions is the same s asking 
them elsewhere.

But coming here takes some doing. It is best to motivate people to 
do so - being cool usually works.

is it just me or is stack overflow generating a hell of a lot of 
new users for the language?


As I see it, it's mostly the same person asking REBOL questions on 
stackoverflow, the reboltutorial guy. How did you come to the conclusion 
with lots of new users?

I didn't look at all the names... but I did notice a few names I 
had never seen before...  the few times I went to that site...  after 
posting this I saw that most of the replies where from known REBOL 
experts.


I guess its attracting some people, maybe not as much as I initially 
imagined...

Greg Higley has asked a few REBOL questions on Stackoverflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/users/27779/gregory-higley

It looks like just him and Reboltutorial are trialing Stackoverflow 
as a place for REBOL questions.


I am not convinced the competitive points scoring paradigm of Stackoverflow 
currently fits the more "amicable experts"  character of the REBOL-specific 
forums that exist.


I will attempt to answer questions on Stackoverflow as I am also 
critical of the somewhat unoutreaching character of most REBOL-specific 
forums [darknet / gated communities are terms that have been used]. 
But I am not greatly hopeful that Stackoverflow will become the premier 
destination site for REBOL questions....


....Thus leading to the obvious question: what should be that site? 
Maybe it is time to build it!

I think it is not all that good activity of Reboltutorial. He missuses 
SO for marketing purposes, and it got noticed. It is like I would 
ask questions there and send you over there to answer them for me 
...

Win XP user having trouble installing REBOL -- can anyone help?
    http://www.reboltalk.com/forum/index.php/topic,4428.0.html

seems to be another case of the installer not being run.

Thanks for leaping to his aid, Henrik.

[continuing a discussion from Core].....The occasional code golf 
type quiz can be fun, but only if the enough of the expert REBOLers 
have time to drop by and try their hand. Generally, I think they 
are more likely to respond to real problems rather than quizzes, 
but I am happy to be proved wrong.


BC – if you have an idea or two for a good round of Golf, we could 
start with a couple of new [web-public] groups here....It would not 
quite be as nice a website as (say) http://golf.shinh.org/but it 
would help gather the requirements and gauge the interest in a REBOL 
golf website.