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What high-powered, high-design, graphics-oriented, Unix-based computers are beloved by their fanatical users? Clue: It's not what you think. By Jason Walsh.
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What high-powered, high-design, graphics-oriented, Unix-based computers are beloved by their fanatical users? Clue: It's not what you think. By Jason Walsh.
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| MetaProgrammingSystem | design | |
Sergey Dmitriev is one of the leaders of JetBrains, the people who gave us such wonderful tools as IntelliJ Idea and ReSharper. He's recently published an article on some exploratory development he's done called the Meta Programming System. He sees this system as an example of a broader movement which he calls Language Oriented Programming. My colleague Matt Foemmel and I spent some time with him last week and were very impressed with what we saw. I'm very interested in this growing movement, one that looks to build software through closely integrated sets of DomainSpecificLanguages. There's other interesting players in this space - most notably Intentional Programming and Microsoft's Whitehorse work. It's an area to keep your eye on over the next few years. | ||
You can download a new IDE for Laszlo technology preview from the Alphaworks site. Laszlo is based on LZX, a XUL-like language for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and the IDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that let you edit, preview, and debug these applications. There is a demo, written ...
[eclipsepowered]
There's a great new app floating around that automatically downloads and saves your favorite programs via bittorrent. I haven't used TVtorrent before so I'm not sure how complete it is, I bet you'd have to stick to fairly popular shows if you really wanted to get every episode.
People have been building apps with bittorrent and rss before, but this is the first automated app I've heard of that combines the two to grab just the shows you want. Sounds a lot like the app wished for here.
[PVRblog]Just caught wind of this new ultralight from Seagull Aerosports, unveiled at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh back in July. Basically, you buy the cockpit (or "pod" as the manufacturer calls them) and attach wings from a standard hang glider. The pods come in two versions, the Escape Pod and the Pod Racer. The primary difference between the two is that the Pod Racer has no motor—it seems like a heavily reconfigured hang glider, and obviously it can't take off without assistance. The Escape Pod, however, comes with a 25 horsepower motor and three-blade propeller, making it a true self-contained ultralight—at a mere 75 pounds including motor, the name ultralight might be an understatement when you consider that most ultralights weigh in between two and three hundred pounds. The web site doesn't specify a price and the company didn't immediately respond to my email, but I'd guess the Escape Pod can be had for well under $5,000.
Seagull Aerosports [FlySeagull]
[Gizmodo]First, STOP the DNS service in Server Admin. (& make a backup of the existing named.conf file.
Edit the /etc/named.conf file (I use Pico. Needs 'sudo' or root privs), go to the "." zone clause, remark out the existing 2 line contents and add the forwarder statements. My "." zone now looks like...
zone "." IN {
//type hint;
//file "named.ca";
type forward;
forwarders {
1.1.1.1;
2.2.2.2;
};
};
...where 1.1.1.1 etc are my ISP's DNS servers. There are semi-colons after the IPs and after the closing curly bracket.