When you get stumped on how to handle a situation with your free software project, its always good to find advice. I found the Free Software Project Management HOWTO by Benjamin Mako Hill to be very...commentary, but it also does a good job of quoting other worthy sources on the topic. It was updated as recently as August of 2008. However, the booklet covers topics that have lasting currency

Поставил на ноутбук MuseScore  — свободный нотный редактор (он кроссплатформенный, есть бинарник под винду, однако в портах FreeBSD его нет). Первое впечатление — похож на Sibelius. Ряд клавиатурных сочетаний...ноты не только в собственном формате, но и куче других, включая MusicXML и LilyPond. Ну и, конечно, может экспортировать звук в MIDI-файл, а картинку — в PNG и PDF. Вечером попробую разобраться

Rather than complain about Emacs , Emacs can be made to complain about Emacs. The following are echo statements from the describe-key-briefly command to the *Messages* buffer. They will show various...a split decision. The winner and still undisputed champion editor of the world is Emacs. * Note: M-p runs the command previous-history-element M-n runs the command next-history-element

Apparently, there's an argument about what the next version number of Windows by Microsoft will be . I sense this is really a bunch of marketing effort that now is creating waves of conversation to cover... However, Microsoft is a company with tons of wealth, monopoly power and influence. It should never be written off as either a dominant player in industry or an active denier of computer user rights

A new riddle about two gates and two angels was added to the MathVentures section: There's a famous riddle that goes like this: You are standing in front of two gates (a left one and...page . The Fortune Cookie files can now be compiled as an RPM. Added a free musical downloads section to my links page. New links were added to the pages against bad software .

OpenSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we’ve decided to do it again! The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for immediate...CDs for GNOME and KDE [currently to big, see bnc#431900] * VirtualBox 2.0.2 * Intel e1000e status (See below) * OpenOffice.org 3.0RC2 * GNOME 2.24.0 * KDE 4.1.2 * Mono 2.0 RC 3 * Compiz 0.7.8 Тыц-тыц

В споре между энтузиастом моделирования миниатюрных железных дорог и владельцем компании, выпускающей модели поездов и сопутствующую инфраструктуру поставлена точка . Дело об использовании компанией...сделаны уже сейчас. Это должно послужить хорошим уроком всем авантюристам и предотвращать попытки посягательства на свободное ПО в будущем. Источник: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=18272

I submitted my first patches to WebKit . Both of them are trivial one-liners, but one fixes a common user complaint while trying to build Chromium on Linux . The URLs you need to contribute code are their contributor guidelines and their guide to using git . In particular, the second one has a link at the bottom to a script to attach a patch to a bug report from the git command line.

At my work, we use RPM to modify various system configuration files on Fedora GNU/Linux . We do a few tricks with RPM scripting in our RPM spec files to get this accomplished the way we'd like. Unfortunately...updating the macro file, and propagating the macro file through an update. However, this could have less than useful side-effects, ones that aren't confirmed by the original RPM-builder's intentions.

Yoni Rabkin wrote a short post called waaaaa? pi? again? . He read that the probability of integer pairs being coprime is equal to 6 over pi squared (6 / pi^2). I wrote some Emacs Lisp to test...'calc-ext) (math-format-number (math-div 6 (math-pow (math-pi) 2))) >> "0.607927101854" The probability of selecting a generally prime number is zero . "Apples to oranges", I know.