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NatanYellin.com : Project management software, wikis, and other technical infrastructure for small startups

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:26:39 +0000

Thanks for the link. The project is small enough that I have no serious need for CI yet. I signed up anyway for the beta. I\\\'m going to experiment with automated testing.

NatanYellin.com : Protect Your git Repository's .htpasswd

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:29:29 +0000

I was wondering about the defaults. Thanks for explaining about Debian.

NatanYellin.com : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:24:01 +0000

It's not a bash issue. On modern UNIX operating systems, the shebang is parsed by the kernel.

For example, the Linux shebang implementation is located in linux/fs/binfmt_script.c:

/*
* This section does the #! interpretation.
* Sorta complicated, but hopefully it will work. -TYT
*/
...
if (*cp == '\0')
return -ENOEXEC; /* No interpreter name found */

(http://lxr.post-tech.com/source/fs/binfmt_script.c?v=linux-2.6.29-c100-a)

NatanYellin.com : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:41:54 +0000

Thanks, I didn't know about dos2unix.

NatanYellin.com : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:26:57 +0000

It's the kernel. Bash doesn't run executable files - the kernel does that.

There's a good explanation on Wikipedia detailing how shebangs work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)#History

NatanYellin.com : Lessons Learned from Writing a One-Month Novel

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:30:41 +0000

Thank you. :)

NatanYellin.com : Mars: I Don't Care If I Never Get Back...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:02:00 +0000

I just had a discussion with friends about the internet issue today. With some sort of inter-planet CDN you could reduce the latency for most regular internet activity. There's no way of fixing live VOIP and (video)chatting, but you might even be able to get Google and dynamic websites to work. You'd need some sort of intelligent caching system that knew what you were likely to search for so that it could cache results ahead of time...

Of course there's no infrastructure in place (yet) that can offer the high-speed connection between Mars and Earth that you need for this to work. But the problem is solvable.

NatanYellin.com : My Facebook ID is 669193209. You Can Have It - Now, Here's the Real Issue

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:31:32 +0000

Looking at the bigger picture, I'm not convinced that it makes a difference. Many popular websites already have users' real names (for example, the New York Times) so advertising networks can link cookies to real names anyway, depending on what agreement they have with the website. It's a shame that the WSJ article focused on Facebook instead of discussing what different firms do or don't do. Edit: Regarding your quote from the article, I'm slightly skeptical that they really threw out the extra information. RapLeaf also claimed that they didn't pass any of the information onwards, yet 12 other companies still had access to it.

NatanYellin.com : Web Developers Wanted

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:51 +0000

I'll get back to you all soon with details. Thanks everyone. :)

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:50:06 +0000

We'd love to see integration with GNOME Shell. Siegfried Gevatter added Zeitgeist support to GNOME Shell as a Google Summer of Code project. His patches are still awaiting review, so in the meantime we decided to develop a new user interface which doesn't depend on the shell. I'd love to see the two UIs merge together at some point.

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:25:31 +0000

Nah, Docky's menu is pretty. After working on Universal Applets, I don't think I'll have any problems with the transparent widgets. Thanks anyway- I'll see how good my memory really is. :)

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:20:28 +0000

I'm only making a Python version of Docky's context menu.

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:42:28 +0000

I'm already downloaded Docky's code and am working on a Python version. :)

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:44:34 +0000

Thanks. Sorry that I didn't get a chance to say bye before you left this morning. It was great to finally meet in person and work together.

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:41:53 +0000

Each file is randomly assigned a background color the first time that it is used. We then present the file everywhere with that color so that users can scan through a list of files and subconsciously use the file's color to find it faster. There's been some definitive usability research on the subject, but we would like to do some tests ourselves to determine what the best way of assigning colors is. (E.g. Should similar files have similar colors to help users find related documents? Or, perhaps, should similar files have different colors to differentiate between them?) In any event, we're going to use around 7-9 colors. Users who are color blind will be able to change the colors to something more usable or enable an option that will do so for them.

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:23:33 +0000

Hi Pestefo, Most of the Zeitgeist team hangs in #gnome-zeitgeist on irc.gnome.org and #zeitgeist on irc.freenode.net. I look forward to seeing you. :)

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:19:44 +0000

Again, this is only a mockup. The colors wont be an issue in the actual code and the thumbnails are aligned differently because I wanted to see how each alignment would look. As for the other issues: 1) In the current prototype we can fit 8 documents on one row. The primary purpose of the bar is to let users find and act upon their recent documents without needing to look for the documents in a filemanager. 8 documents is a good start to find something that you worked on earlier in the day. We're also going to have a more compact view for finding items that were worked on in the past week, etc. 2) We absolutely will NOT use a contextual menu. We're primarily targeting large-scale linux deployments in corporate/government environments. (E.g. Dave's deployment in Largo, Florida.) Most of our target users have no technical knowledge whatsoever and do not use right menus. At last year's UI hackfest, Dave Richards claimed that 60% of all users never click. Quite frankly, I'm not surprised. I almost never right-click and I'm a power user.

NatanYellin.com : Zeitgeist Hackfest- User Experience Team

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:09:16 +0000

Hi, Jason. Thanks for the feedback. At the moment, I'm trying to focus on getting all of the prototype's features working, but I'll do my best to fix everything you pointed out afterwards.

NatanYellin.com : Dear Lazyweb

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:08:44 +0000

Thanks.

NatanYellin.com : Dear Lazyweb

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:01:11 +0000

It's not a week late. It's over a year late. I understand that most people don't use the DVDs. However, if Canonical thinks that there is some demand for the added languages then linking to a version of Ubuntu which is three releases old isn't acceptable. (And if there's no demand then the links don't belong there to begin with.)