I know im having a ton of fun writing open broadcaster and am learning much in the process. The drawer and small cabinet beneath have been extremely useful, as is the open. It is small, easy to use and highly customizable via theming engine and blazor components. The bulk materials division of command alkon, a global leader in integrated solutions for the construction materials industry, is. The apache openoffice project announces the official release of version 4. Jan 28, 2009 shawnee mission, ks december 11, 2008.
Secondly, no one really wants to spend their free time digging through cruft in order to figure out how to contribute. Choose from a selection of easytouse templates all with flexible layouts and hundreds of background images or design something new. At present, he is a systems engineering manager for collabnet, which is hosting for sun microsystems. Fulfilling the maxim write what you know, argentine fabulist jorge luis borges penned one of his most extraordinary and bewildering stories, the library of babel, while employed as an assistant librarian. Things you should never do, part i joel on software. And so, i did and open broadcaster software evolved into somewhat of a monster of a project.
Kodi writes jamie zawinski has put an interesting page on his site describing his fight with wrist pain. The jws division of command alkon introduces scale watcher ii. However, this does not mean that open and closed source cannot coexist. Frank hecker is perhaps most wellknown in open source circles for his role in open sourcing netscapes code.
A 3d matrix screensaver based on the matrix reloaded. Its apparently quite well known, so it floors me that this is the first ive seen it. They live and the secret history of the mozilla logo. In may, microsoft ceo satya nadella announced electionguard, a free open source software development kit sdk from our defending democracy program. In my free hours i develop allround software from administrative tools to game apps, which are free to use. So, with some credentials out of the way, heres my impressions. Around 1998 i pushed for netscape to open source both the 3. Frank hecker is perhaps most wellknown in open source circles for his role in opensourcing netscapes code. Jan 21, 2015 posts about open source software written by lukaseder. End users icons have been modernised to fit in with current versions of outlook. I hope people can make use of open broadcaster or learn something from it. Software which everyone requires such as an operating system makes a very good candidate for an open source project. About once a month, i post a mixtape here of recent music videos that i have discovered and enjoy. Zmatrix is a desktop enhancement tool which creates the streaming character effect out of the matrix on your desktop.
The postnetscape mozilla logo after they went oss but before firefox was drawn by shepard fairey, the guy who did the obama hope poster and the obey giant logo the latter gets its name from they lives iconic obey signs. Both open source software and open source hardware which often runs open source software have a steep learning curve, compared to offtheshelf options. The goal is to provide a windows version of this excellent screensaver for those of us unfortunate to have to deal with windows during the day but still want a. Squarespace is the allinone platform to build a beautiful online presence. Dna lounge follows announcement of financial troubles with a call to action. The postnetscape mozilla logo after they went oss but before firefox was drawn by shepard fairey, the guy who did the obama hope poster and the obey giant logo the latter gets its name from they lives iconic obey signs there, saved you some time and eye strain. Turns out it was the enthought epd package i used to install everything. Electionguard available today to enable secure, verifiable. In the ultracompetitive, ultracrowded vpn market, it isnt easy for a new entrant to distinguish itself. Major open source project revokes access to companies that. Look like an expert right from the start with awardwinning templates for your blog. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. We spend countless hours researching various file formats and software that can open, convert, create or otherwise work with those files. I thought id collect some of them for future reference.
First, movable type is archaic, even with the new 3. The program will blend with an existing background or be drawn overtop of it and does not impede normal desktop operations. Quite a few most popular emacs packages are like that. Mar 17, 2019 fastestvpn is a hot upandcomer in the vpn game and it can protect up to 10 devices now. The interesting part in pivotals announcement is this one. The blog s thread has lots of people going on about ways to fix this particular problem, but frankly im on jwz s side. I respect jwz, but this is very much a step backwards, and while i appreciate his complaint about breaking existing apis, this would be for programs near 20 years old targeted at a different platform. Electionguard is accessible by design and will make voting more secure, verifiable and efficient anywhere its used in the united states or in democratic nations around the world. Apr 06, 2000 for my day job, im the cofounder and ceo of stack overflow, the largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge, and level up. James werner zawinski born november 3, 1968, commonly known as jwz, is an american computer programmer with contributions to the free software. Wayland is a protocol to define the communication between a display server the compositor and a client, i.
If you are looking for a multiuser angular version of blogifier, please find it. If you want to do something thats going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. Like many blogs, this one is 5% personal, 95% shit i saw on the interweb that entertained or horrified me. Having had a scare a couple weeks ago, i can testify to the truth behind this. Recently he added to the site a description of what it takes to broadcast music over the internet. The decision to conclude its sponsorship of groovy and grails is part of pivotals larger strategy to concentrate resources on accelerating both commercial and open source projects that support its growing traction in platformasaservice, data, and agile development. James werner zawinski born november 3, 1968, commonly known as jwz, is an american computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects mozilla and xemacs, and early versions of the netscape navigator web browser. Also check out the typing injury faq, which he links to.
The article also delves into jwz s personality, and some of the history behind the jwz rms lucid emacsemacs split an interesting read. A port of jwz s xmatrix module for xscreensaver to win32. And there is no argument more evergreen than the timeless debate between tabs and spaces. The bulk materials division of command alkon, a global leader in integrated solutions for the construction materials industry, is pleased to announce the. She doesnt know how computers work and doesnt care. Like open source software users well know, linux is only free if your time has no value zawinski, 1998.
Supports widescreen setups, and can be run on windows, mac osx, linux, bsd and many other unix. Xscreensaver is a free and open source collection of 232 screensavers for unixlike, macos, ios and android operating systems. Or, statistically, most of emacs packages on melpa. Netscape and, and have been involved in the free software and open source community since the mid80s. Dna lounge follows announcement of financial troubles with. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.
I doubt most people using or talking about open source software have read all. Dont miss to download the new release and find out yourself. Zawinski was a major proponent of opening the source code of the mozilla browser and. Create a free website or build a blog with ease on wordpress. It was created by jamie zawinski in 1992 and is still maintained by him the free software and open source unixlike operating systems running the x window system such as linux and freebsd use xscreensaver almost exclusively. Salon on jwzemacsmozillaaol and nightclubs slashdot. Each month, more than 40 million professional and aspiring programmers visit stack overflow to ask and answer questions and find better jobs.
Large publishers have started moving away from drm, which means. The most important thing is that you dont ignore it. Cmatrix simulates the display from the matrix and is based on the screensaver from the movies website. If you were involved in the opengl es specification, you. The century from 1891 to 1990 turned a decade or so ago. Heres just one example of how micros1 loves open source. Every single layer of software involved in this process conspires to. Obviously, that depends on which century youre talking about. Dozens of free, customizable, mobileready designs and themes. Blogifier is a singleuser personal blog written in asp. Fast, powerful searching over massive volumes of log data helps you fix problems before they become critical.
In the release notes you can read about all new features, functions and languages. He has been involved in the free software and open source community since. Get a free domain or buy a custom domain with just a few clicks. On defaultlyconfigured unix systems, and on ancient dumb. He maintains the xscreensaver project which provides screenblanking for mac os x and for unix and unixlike computer operating. You can read all about it on my nowmorethanadecadelong blog.
Blogifier is simple, beautiful, lightweight open source. He has already ditched a free open platform before, but he seems a lot angrier this time. Dec 31, 2002 so when i read this story of jwz s mom always misplacing her documents, i thought of my mom. This was our contribution to the proof of the law of software envelopment.
Opengl is a terrible, awful, crufty api, and the reason those methods were removed is that they are comically suboptimal. Like most of the computer using world, she does email eudora and occasionally uses a browser or an office application. Software that is only used by a small niche market eg video editing software is a much less viable candidate for an oss project. The free software and open source unixlike operating systems running the x window system such as linux and freebsd use xscreensaver almost exclusively. I would like debian to stop shipping xscreensaver jwz. Ive previously thought of jamie zawinski not just as an excellent hacker but also as a marketing talent, creator of the original brand. Thats pretty much the open broadcaster software story. With each passing day the rate we acquire digital media increases we dont even bother unpacking our cds when we move anymore. At least it is for those whom, the computer is a tool for getting work done, instead of an end in and of itself. Zen software blog software distribution for it support. Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003. Customize the design to fit your personal style and professional needs.
That is, grouping messages together in parentchild relationships based on which messages are replies to which others. You know, these open source and free software types are all radical anarchists or marxist hippies. Makes for an interesting read, and a good summary of the dpra, dmca, their relationship with the riaa, and other issues involving. It works with terminal settings up to 2x300 and can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a userdefined speed. This concept and these notes are entirely obsoleted by dmcrypt, if you want a complete encryption solution. There is a small genre of posts around reinventing the interfaces of popular open source software. Firstly, open source projects dont happen unless people contribute. Source of the famous now you have two problems quote.
But instead im stuck inside under fluorescent lights, pushing bits around inside a computer in ways that are only interesting to other nerds. From september 2007 through march 2009, i posted a weekly audio mixtape here. Xscreensaverwin becomes paidware from jwzs free opensource. A theorist and analyst of open source, frank has continued to write on the evolving open source environment. Im sure that jwz s mother has more computer smarts than mine. Jwz considered disruptive 7 minute read ive previously thought of jamie zawinski not just as an excellent hacker but also as a marketing talent, creator of the original brand. Indeed, twisted by the dark side of the source, young zawinski has become.