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Pekr 21-May-2006 [976x2] | Structure writing with LyX - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/documents_with_lyx |
structured | |
Kaj 21-May-2006 [978x2] | The release of Syllable 0.6.1 got REBOL on OSNews: |
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14669 | |
JaimeVargas 21-May-2006 [980] | Cool Kaj. |
Anton 23-May-2006 [981] | So they've done it - a Skype-enabled wireless phone: http://us.accessories.skype.com/direct/skypeusa/itemdetl.jsp?prod=3059 |
Graham 23-May-2006 [982] | I think the important thing is that it is PC-less. Or, it 's a portable PC inside the phone! |
Terry 23-May-2006 [983x5] | I was searching to see if it's linux or pocketpc based? |
Sure the hacks will come fast and furious once it launches.. cram some Rebol in there maybe? | |
I want to cram a small skype os into this.. http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/Port-O-Rotary/portable-rotary.htm | |
The ultimate .. buy this http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/?shop=1&cart=673098&cat=1&itemid=416& (for $399) and add skype so when you're in a hotspot, you use skype, and cellular when out of range. | |
hmm.. messed up altme.. should say " add skype when in a hotspot, and cellular when out of range" | |
Ammon 25-May-2006 [988] | One day, wireless broadband is going to be the rule not the exception. http://www.freepress.net/news/15630 |
Henrik 26-May-2006 [989] | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14725<--- does this sound familiar? :-) |
Kaj 27-May-2006 [990] | It's an RPC architecture, so it sucks a bit |
Pekr 5-Jun-2006 [991x2] | We have got another competition for View? PythonCard - http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/index.html |
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples/widgets.html | |
Ashley 5-Jun-2006 [993] | The PythonCard motto is "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible." ... I'm sure I've seen this stated before somewhere ;) |
Henrik 6-Jun-2006 [994] | http://wufoo.com/demo/<--- pretty nice interface |
JaimeVargas 6-Jun-2006 [995] | Really cool interface, javascript dynamism ;-) |
Anton 6-Jun-2006 [996] | Yes, pretty simple and easy interface. |
Pekr 6-Jun-2006 [997] | interface is nice, just a bit difficult to place cursor and type anything under mozilla :-) |
Henrik 6-Jun-2006 [998] | http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html<--- looks like Google are going for an office package |
Ashley 6-Jun-2006 [999] | http://www.ajaxlaunch.com/<-- another Michael L. Robertson (of Linspire fame) venture. |
JaimeVargas 7-Jun-2006 [1000] | Graham may want to attend this as well as other programmmers in that part of the world http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/06/unenterprisey-languages-meeting.html |
Graham 7-Jun-2006 [1001] | Bit out of my way .. it's at least a 15 min bus ride into town! |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1002] | I just tried Google Spreadsheets and I'm not too impressed. Granted the interface is simple and there is centralized storage, but the thing is slow to work in and dragging cells can get a bit messy if you accidentally drag outside the sheet area. this could have been done so much better in Rebol. |
[unknown: 9] 7-Jun-2006 [1003] | Looks worth going, if nothing else but to meet new people. |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1004] | it'd be cool to build a group based spreadsheet that takes advantage of AltME filesharing. |
[unknown: 9] 7-Jun-2006 [1005] | Describe please. |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1006x4] | I don't know what you plan with AltME filesharing, but I sometimes would like a file storage service available centralized that would be available for me no matter where I've logged in. |
there's not much of an idea in it. I'd just like to see a Rebol version of what Google is doing. | |
I'd bet it could be done much faster and lighter. | |
maybe it could be done through the viewtop, connect to a rebol/service to ask for and store documents. I don't know... | |
Graham 7-Jun-2006 [1010] | Henrik, how about carrying a usb drive with you? |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1011x2] | USB drives do not always work on the target hardware |
in fact I've not experienced that great reliability with USB drives. more often than not I find myself using an FTP server as the USB drives have failed, files have been screwed up or not properly updated. | |
Graham 7-Jun-2006 [1013] | You could always run a synapse chat server :) |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1014x2] | the google way is cool if you have some work you do at home, which you want to continue on a netcafe or the library or just a place where you won't be for long |
but it lacks speed and elegance | |
Graham 7-Jun-2006 [1016x3] | Or and IOS server if you have the $$$ |
but IOS requires local installation :( | |
As does Altme | |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1019] | yeah, hopefully the plugin would solve that |
Graham 7-Jun-2006 [1020] | also needs to be installed :) |
Henrik 7-Jun-2006 [1021] | which hopefully will become as smooth as flash... |
Ingo 7-Jun-2006 [1022] | ... and preinstalled in all internet cafés ... |
Pekr 8-Jun-2006 [1023] | Henrik - very strange, really. In our company, USB drives (flash drives) are really a boom. We can see problems VERY sporadically, if ever. I would definitely refuse to call them unreliable - much more reliable than anything else - floppies, cds/dvds |
Edgar 8-Jun-2006 [1024] | I have seen a few laptops that has broken USB ports due to overused of USB drives. I still think it is great though. |
Henrik 8-Jun-2006 [1025] | pekr, the drives themselves are OK, but the OS'es handle them badly. If I under MacOSX store some files on the drive and eject the drive as I properly should, the files are just not present on the drive according to WinXP, as if the ejection procedure didn't sync files to disk. Half the time, they don't work under Linux without hours of fiddling and most win98 machines won't handle them at all. Data transfer between machines is probably successful about 50% of the time. An internet connection is, for me, a much more reliable way to get data onto a machine. It's probably the syncing aspect that makes them so unreliable. |
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