Feel free to e-m@il me on any stuff i might have useful.

Posted Jun 17, 2008 18:33 UTC (Tue) by olecom (guest, #42886) [Link]
IT bubble days are over. Linux kernel (almost the only useful FOSS thing left) tries to not loose it's volume.

Developers do what they do on limited resources, using dumb tools or no tools at all, saving buzz-hype using PR fuzz. It is a social and economical problem, not a technical and/or ethical one.

From: "Oleg Verych" <olecom@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:56:57 +0100
To: Jamie Lokier
Subject: Re: about size optimizations (Re: Not as much ccache win as I expected)
Cc: David Woodhouse, linux-embedded, linux-kbuild, segher

> You can do this without changin the Makefile, if you provide suitable
> scripts on $PATH for the make.

From: "Oleg Verych" <olecom@gmail.com>
To: linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel
Message-ID: <8499950a0806131452j5dc9574dk336e9e06ee9e1785@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:52:52 +0100
Subject: about size optimizations (Re: Not as much ccache win as I expected)

your editor and any other may just look onto smtp<>nntp<>news_reader. Yes this is not `apt-get install foo` stuff, but exim4<>inn<>slrn for private mail or gmane<>slrn for lists is the most productive, flexible and stable environment i've ever had.

This post is in russian aimed for my close communication cycle. But i want to share it in my search for collegues in general and on consciousness in particular.

ACPI-fied or driverized extention keys on keyboard on laptop are just stupid. There are 100 keys, they need even more and ugly.

'Fn' on laptops. Why all extentions: backlight, sound volume, etc. cannot be done for one hand: Fn+1 Fn+2.. Fn+q Fn+w.. Fn+a Fn+s?

I doubt this frozen 'Fn' thing is even needed at all. Again, more flexible UI and keyboard in the first place are needed! EOF

Ordinary headphones with volume potentiometer. What if i need just next/prev song and stop/start playback commands? By sensing resistance of the load/output current on amplifier all can be acheived (by two buttons):

* either left or right resistance is high (no volume, small current) -- prev./next
* both are high -- stop if playing, play if stoped (or on/off chain + application decides)

http://hq.fsmlabs.com/~cort/papers/lazy/lazy.nohead.html
Abstract:
In this article I provide a practical analysis of programming practices and education. The phrase ``Good programmers are lazy'' is very often offered to students as a guide to good programming. This statement is very wrong and reflects some of the problems with attitudes in computer science today.

I claim to be a `sed` lover, not guru (generally bad term), not geek. Since seders is closed private group (stupid, huh), i'd like to post something interesting and useful here.

Tutorials, i know, and could find in google all have silly examples and suck. Let's do a HOWTO for real-life stuff.

> Would this make for a better links than elinks?

Run Borland Pascal 7.0 in dosbox to see what Turbo Vision was. Help system there is a nice browser, nither of today's lynx, links or elinks or whole www has. Pictures and flash are mostly spam, many don't know how to turn off.

dialog -> ncurses -> |stdout(ESC) -> tty -> vga_console |-> video RAM/frame buffer

shown concepts:
o `sh && sed && stty && dd` flexible patterns and no `find`, built-in `dd`
  are needed; mc, ncurses, readline are not
o key-vectors (tab is fixed origin)
o +,-,[,] keys - flexible UI config.
* tty backend needed: true windowing (move, overlap), stack-based coloring
  (easy multi-context highlighting).

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/683845

Told ya, Al: where's your example of fixing your text editor?

http://kerneltrap.org/Quote/Common_Convention#comment-297182
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sed '' << 'EOF'
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/73
Let's listen to silence again now...

Update:
`set -F[rnd:$(read_ethernet_now)]` -- another choice
( # if there's no that much network activity:
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/another_kernel.tar.bz2 &
sleep "$seed"
set -F[rnd:$(read_ethernet_now)]
kill $!)
EOF

flv=`sed -n '
/xmlfile/{
s-.*e=http://\([^/]*\)-url="nc \1 80" ; -
s_\(/[^"]*\)".*$_\
http="GET \1 HTTP/1.0\\r\\n\\r\\n"\n\
printf %b "$http" | $url | sed -n "/^<FLV/{s-<[^>]*>--g;p;q}"_p
q
}' "${1-/tmp/1tv}"`
$mplayer `eval "$flv"`