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Re: Quick Way to Make Money!

tante — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:33:27 -0000

Crap, Brian was too fast, that would have been a nice way to earn 3k in an evening.

Seriously: That offer was a joke, right? Please, someone tell me it was a joke or I'll cry.

Re: Finding Gentoo

tante — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:39:05 -0000

Planet larry also has a Universe, the regular planet filters quite a lot out.

Re: Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads From Anywhere with Clutch

tante — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:03:20 -0000

I use transmission on my Linux boxes, it seems to be quite non-mac-only from my perspective, it does at least run on linux and mac. I don't know what clutch is written in but are you sure it's mac-only, too?

Re: Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads From Anywhere with Clutch

tante — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:15:17 -0000

Well I checked the post after stumbling on that issue in my feed reader, probably just bad timing, glad it's fixed.

Re: What is Your Computer Name

tante — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:23:06 -0000

My computers are all named after dredg songs, my desktop is called "yatahaze", my laptop "sanzen", the fileserver "kayasuma".

It's abstract enough but still nice to pronounce.

Re: What is Your Computer Name

tante — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:23:06 -0000

My computers are all named after dredg songs, my desktop is called "yatahaze", my laptop "sanzen", the fileserver "kayasuma".

It's abstract enough but still nice to pronounce.

Re: Ubuntu 8.04 and Python Editors

tante — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:53:53 -0000

GVim/Vim is the best IMO.

I've played around with every Editor under the sun but either they are slow and clunky as Eclipse or they lack features.

I've used Komodo somewhat but it wasn't good enough for me to pay for it and I had an evaluation license for WingIDE which was kinda neat I guess, but in the end I rely on vim: It's everywhere I log in and works.

Re: Moved from Debian to Arch Linux

tante — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:53:43 -0000

I had Arch for a while on my Laptop but got fed up with it after a while. I had to build quite some packages myself that didn't work as they were supposed to (esound was pita) and since I had switched away from Gentoo on that Laptop cause it was too old, I thought that doing heavy compiling on it was retarded. Maybe Arch's packages are better nowadays but I guess I'm somewhat spoiled so I either go the lazy debian/ubuntu way or build a real system in Gentoo.

Re: Linux MP3 Music Library Managers

tante — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:47:40 -0000

I use GNOME but there's no GTK application that comes close to what Amarok has to offer.

I think as a GTK user you still have to bite the Amarok apple (and it's a big and nasty one with its huge kdelibs thingy).

Re: Meme: Your Favorite Desktop Linux Software

tante — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:07:17 -0000

"TEA"? That must have been a typo, I guess you meant "v" instead of "t", "i" instead of "e" and "m" instead of "a", right?

Re: Meme: Your Favorite Desktop Linux Software

tante — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:31:51 -0000

meld really kicks ass, especially since it's already integrated into git really well (git-mergetool), it's really pretty. Though the color scheme does not work with dark GTK styles to I had to change mine.

Is GQview a fork of pornview? And does it use Qt? Why not use eog? It's glim, GTK based and actually in recent incarnations really good.

Re: Meme: Your Favorite Desktop Linux Software

tante — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:32:24 -0000

s/glim/slim/

Re: Inbox Zero

tante — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:43:52 -0000

1. I use Inbox Zero myself with my own email server
2. It works really great. I used to keep mails in my inbox as kind of a toDo list, but that sucked and just started piling up. Now I use rememberthemilk.com and Tasque as GTK app for it as TODO program so I can move mails away after having made them a TODO item.
3. I have a gmail account but don't use it: Never trust an Email server that you have no control over.
4. tante@the-gay-bar.com so, yes I use my domain ;)
5. IMAP server on a server a friend of mine owns (courier), locally I have my own IMAP server (dovecot).
6. rsync to a harddrive in the same computer and I have my email client "keep mails for offline use" so I have some backups.

Re: What is wrong in this Code?

tante — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:08:10 -0000

One thing that comes to mind that I'd criticize (and many PHP people would probably disagree) is that the PHP code and the HTML are not separated. No matter how small the application is, separating both things makes finding bugs and working in teams easier (especially if some people from the team are "only" designers, not coders).

The obvious criticism that there is no comment whatsoever goes without saying.

Just a few things that come to mind (yeah I'm late to the party so all the good things had already been found ;) ).

Re: Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers

tante — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:41:11 -0000

I tend to use friendfeed for that, too (and as long as you saty away from the "big guys" it can keep up quite a good signal/noise ratio.

For programming news I sometimes browse the programming reddit section (http://reddit.com/r/program... which sometimes has nice articles linked.

For really interesting stuff I think you have to rely on humans to add the content and to keep it fresh, automatic aggregation won't really get the interesting bits.

If you really want to improve the situation you could open a friendfeed room where people can post items to to create a public collection of interesting news without the hassle of setting up some software and managing it.

Re: Moved

tante — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:57:19 -0000

Good for you that you have done most of the stuff already. Moving sucks but when the stuff all has its new place the pain starts to go away ;)

Re: Because everybody is doing it...

tante — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:36:16 -0000

If I had known what I started ...

Dumb question: Why do you use vim in a terminal and not gvim?

Annoying remark: Your comment form looks weird here (screenshot: http://the-gay-bar.com/spli... with a Mozilla Firefox [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092416 Firefox/3.0.3]

Random addition: 3+12

Re: Because everybody is doing it...

tante — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:27:28 -0000

_MY_ fields are too small? How about _YOUR_ fields being too small? ;)

Re: Because everybody is doing it...

tante — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:41:47 -0000

Well it's probably my GTK+ theme but I do still consider it your fault just because I can. I have the blaming technology.

Re: Is Contextual Advertising Bullshit?

tante — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:18:02 -0000

I don't click any ads, if I see them I have to adjust my adblock filters ;)

The biggest problem with contextual advertising is the tendency to mix content and ads, something that does not happen a lot with target audience focussed advertising. I don't like ads but when they get mixed in with the actual content, when they try to hide and pretend to be "useful information" I get really pissed.

Re: 3 Tips to Keep Me Commenting on Your Blog

tante — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:29:55 -0000

The "subscribe to comments" feature is really important, I agree, but recently there was a problem that did affect German bloggers (iI don't know about the law in other countries):

You could enter someone else's email so that person (who had not asked for it) would get notices by the blog. Now you will say that that is not too bad, but in German law spamming (as in sending commercial email without the receiver wanting them) is illegal. Blogs that have ads on them are considered commercial in that respect so there were some German blogs getting sued for that behavior.

Just to clear things up why some people might not have the feature enabled: As long as it doesn't do double opt-in it can be used for spaming and might get you in legal trouble.

<abbr>tante´s last blog post..Systrays</abbr>

Re: The Web 2.0 is not about you

tante — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:58:24 -0000

Same problem here and I agree, it's mostly cause people follow people that create very little signal but a lot of noise.

Re: How identi.ca Groups Could be Improved

tante — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:29:08 -0000

First improvement: Posting a message to a group costs one Dollar for everyone but me, that should stop the noise ;)

Re: Compiling is not a very Useful Test

tante — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:51:52 -0000

I gotta admit that my experience with OCaml and Haskell is really very limited, do you Haskell/OCaml people use Unit tests? Or is a different way of testing the dominant paradigma in those communities?

Re: Accessing GMail through Python

tante — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:02:16 -0000

Hey, I recently dealt with accessing gmail from Python (I wrote a script to clean all messages from certain labels that were older than X days [http://github.com/tante/gma... ]) and while IMAP is not exactly a pretty protocol (hideous is more like it) you can use it to properly work with GMail quite effectively.

I had bad experiences with libgmail which really didn't work well for me.