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https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.afollestad.cabinet

The source tar.gz for build 108 is still available

LICENSE.txt:

>There is no license, someone decided to pretty much republish Cabinet with no credit so I’m taking away the license altogether.

read as: "someone decided to ignore the license that said leave the copyright notice in, so I'm taking out the license and copyright notice for the project, violating the license for pull requests I've accepted" ಠ_ಠ

From github issue tracker (linked by /u/jumpwah):

>... someone copied the entire code including crash reporting and didn't bother to change the account it registers with, so he kept getting constant emails every time the rip-off (com.grizzly.main) was opened.

so he pushed "secret" account information into Github, too? Pffahahaha

>(was) libre and gratis

>piracy

wat

Anyhow if anyone wants another material design floss file manager, one I found is amaze, which is also on f-droid, linked for screenshots. But note it is beta.

Edit: Context. I suppose there's more to the story though than just that because that makes it look like author doesn't know what "open source" means.

OP, learn to use Vagrant ASAP. You stick a text file in each of your projects that says "Download this virtual machine, configure it this way and install such-and-such onto it". With one command it sets up a consistent VM to develop the project with. That way you can keep Arch as your base OS but use something stable for projects.

There was an update to TexLive that required user intervention. Using the pacdiff tool was recommended, but I'm not as clever or attentive as I think I am, so /etc/shadow and /etc/fstab (and maybe some other things) got overwritten.

Personal Package Archives, an Ubuntu-specific thing. They are pretty handy, truth be told, but you can always tell an Ubuntu-weenie by their whining about no PPAs when they have to compile and build their own things that aren't in their parent distro.

Emacs is not indenting properly because although that's valid HTML5, it's not valid XHTML. If you make the li tags self-closing with <li /> (Similar to how <br /> works), I bet you emacs will indent it properly.

But if you really want to avoid ever writing a closing tag, use haml, which is another markup syntax that compiles into html. Saves a ton of typing (although as an emacs user, you probably don't care about wasted keystrokes. BAH-ZING!)

I'm using Sysinternals Desktops. It works like a charm for me. It can't move existing windows between desktops, but I doubt that there's an API call for that.

Have you got another machine? If yes, you can use distcc, a program designed to distribute compiling tasks across a network. It even works by cross-compiling from another architecture using a tool called crossdev.

There's not much to change in your xmonad.hs. Add this at the beginning

import XMonad.Config.Kde

then create a file called set_window_manager.sh in ~/.kde/env/ with the following text in it:

export KDEWM=/usr/bin/xmonad

make sure it's executable. That's it! Now chose the normal, usual KDE session and enjoy your xmonad-powered KDE environment! For more details, check this link: here

There is, though what exactly depends on what you mean by "that". If you want the difference between yaourt and cower, well the latter is written in C and doesn't actually do the building part.

If you want the difference between yaourt and whatever my crappy thing is... well, mine's a fish function and yaourt is famous for being the maximalist AUR helper - it does everything including wrapping pacman proper.

I used to use cower, but with the git-based aur downloading and updating can be done via git clone and git pull (which also gives you the benefits of git, including a log of what has changed in the package and a way of storing local changes), so the only thing I needed was searching (since I didn't want to open up a browser all the time). After I got searching working, I thought "maybe I could also make it print the link I need to give to git clone", so I did that. Then I thought "maybe I could just let it do the clone". So I did that. Then I let it also clone the AUR dependencies. And then I noticed it did a fair bit of what cower does, so I posted this.

I searched but wasn't able to find a shop to buy or decent resolution for printing. :(

Edit: Even more sad

Edit2: Discussion about its inside jokes from 1987

Too bad you can't install any of these window managers, or any of these etc. Have you even ever used OSX?

OSX has many real problems like shitty package management, but managing windows is not one of them.

I compose in a Markdown-special editor (though, thanks to the nature of the format, that's not necessary) called iA Writer. I keep all the notes in a Dropbox directory (though git would work just as well, I use Dropbox to sync all my schoolwork so my phone and other machines can see it too). I usually consume the notes in plaintext form - just in an editor or whatever. If I need to give them to someone, iA Writer can export to PDF or HTML. I guess I just don't mind reading them in plaintext, although I could see how exporting would be tiresome.

If you'd like a sample of some notes, I can upload one or two.

I've heard good things about Pandoc for mkd2pdf, although I've not used it myself. I just keep things in the text format and only convert to HTML when I need to put it on the web.

Personally i prefer Simple Explorer it has a much better interface (also Material) and is easier to use. Cabinet is a file manager with home screen so…

I got curious and did some digging of my own, leading to the source (search for <head>, see "d->head_insert" a bit further down)

Adding the following to my own config got the meta tag into my directory listings:

IndexHeadInsert "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />"

although in hindsight it also seems to be mentioned in the documentation

Perhaps Julia is worth looking at, then? I don't know about TCO, but it does offer the ability to specify types, and doesn't use GIL at the moment (last I checked). Syntax is a bit different from Python (it's not strictly indentation-based), but is close enough that it's a doable switch. It also has a good REPL, like Python does.

Personally, I don't mind dynamic typing in languages like Perl, where the explicit goal is to prioritize programmer-friendliness and expressive code over performance, but I've come to appreciate the ability to combine that expressiveness and the ability to statically-type things like Julia does rather nicely.

using locate instead of find would be almost instant but idk if macs come with mlocate/etc installed by default.

everyone should know about mlocate

good for you. i prefer to get my linux-related news from someone who isn't constantly whining about not having time off and not receiving enough premium subscription purchases, all while maintaining a site riddled with ads and multi-page articles (gotta maximize that ad revenue!!1)

I'm not surprised - What do you need to boot? The partiton / filesystem information and basic kernel / bootstrap binaries. Those would be in the first what, dozen? ish? MB

Allegedly, it's possible to run a web server with a mere 8MB of disk usage (citation: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/).

You can try KolibriOS But i kind of agree. The problem is that a lot of people just write to 5 forums for one little problem, event thou it would only take a 5 second google search.

But i have to admit that i push Linux to every people i know.

I couldn't find where they recommend it, do you have an article or sth.?

EDIT: okay, they say here that it's recommended but not why. I think I'll just research myself and use aptitude for a few days.

So get the latest. Seriously. And consider running slackware for a year so you know how it feels to manually check dependencies, build configs and compile things.

For the filemanager, there is a solution, you can install cd & ls with gow

DEs are all awful. And i mean really, totally not usable at all.

edit:// i actually thought we are talking about windows. openbox is a wonderful DE, and Thunar / Dolphin totally useable and fast compared to the explorer.

For a beginner, LyX might be a good introduction to the realm of *TeX. I actually started using LyX, then got fed up with its naivety and moved to LaTeX (then XeTeX 'cause OpenType is cool and not everyone uses the Latin alphabet!).

Other than LyX, I'd recommend a decent editor - I hear emacs has a reasonably good mode for LaTeX but I personally prefer TeXstudio

As an aside, am I the only one who finds CTAN package docs really enjoyable? The nice formatting makes for such a huge difference IMO.

Ghost Commander is the best open source android file manager I've seen. Specially useful in tablets for its dual panel. Maybe it doesn't have pretty material design, but it's more space efficient and you can easily notice filetypes based on color.

It's only drawback being that it doesn't support encrypted zip/7z (I use them for encrypting specific sets of data so that I can carry around personal stuff on the phone). But very few file managers do... none that is free software.

You can copy just by selecting (your terminal options should have something about using the X11 clipboard), and you can do the same in firefox with Auto Copy. I haven't copied anything with ^C in months.

I'm not sure what to tell you... They definitely switched to HTML5 though.

Maybe Pandora's help page can, er, help?

There is the Size method of Scripting.FileSystemObject. It's explained here (CTRL+F "Scripting.FileSystemObject"). It's awkward but it works.

> How many mainstream distros...

This right here I think is the core problem. mainstream distros weren't made with you in mind. You cant configure any packages really anyway on mainstream distros as they all ship precompiled binaries out of their repos.

For distros like Ubuntu, why not use systemd? It's not like their target audience cares about what an init system or UNIX philosophy is anyway. Additionally, some people would argue that the idea of Linux keeping UNIX philosophy is dead.

It's been around in some form since 2007 (I think), but Linux's tickless capability has always been somewhat limited.

Here's a good article about tickless operation in Linux, though.

yup, kind of dumbed down service manager that restarts them every time they stop and most setup is done via single bash script.

http://smarden.org/runit/sv.8.html

obviously, systemd can do all that, but production here is still at debian 6.

It was this one. That version doesn't work with the current release anymore. The patched version in the AUR is here.

I already knew about VirtuaWin, but I pretty much only use Windows while on other computers so can't install. Dexpot does seem nicer though, with the full-screen preview.

Hi mguzmann,

I'm the author of SC and I wonder if you have any ideas how to make it "the better file manager" for you? You can either open an issue in github (https://github.com/escherdragon/sunrise-commander/) or leave a message in the Emacs Wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander)

Thanks for letting me know! I guess I just have to dive in. You use company provided xmpp acct, but have you any knowledge of jitsi provided one? They had a breach few months back and it seems that accounts are hosted by a third party, moreover they seem to be mitigating it by changing the providers. It also reads as if they had no idea what was the security setup in the first place. It doesn't instill confidence.

right. In my opinion, one of the hangups is that we usually just measure utility in dollars, which then gets confused because, are we talking price in dollars, or are we talking abstract happiness units? but yes, I think you are right that some, maybe many, people use foss, even though it doesn't benefit them financially, because it benefits them in some other way: seeing their FOSS used, feeling valuable, hacker cred, feel like part of a community. It appears that FOSS is an interesting place where the motivations are more than financial, like other volunteer efforts. yes I realize that big FOSS is commerical, see Linux with Intel/Google/whoever else, Red Hat, Canonical, shit even reddit. Google Android.

as to "no one acts rationally" . . . see Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, he's got some TED talks too. He shows some small, but convincing, experiements where our behavior deviates from the "rational." Though we might not act rationally in some cases, the main idea is, do you want $9, or do you want $10? Everything else equal, you want $10. That is my understanding of economically rational. True, our behvaior deviates from this, and some very interesting research is happening to explore the full scope of such deviations.

Scheme, in my opinion,is a good place to start. Right now I'm taking a class at university that uses Scheme; we're using The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is a classic book on Scheme and CS, and available online in full for free (MIT Press). If you're interested, this might be a good place to start.

Feels bad man. I got a bcm4352 on my Yoga 3 Pro. Wireless worked for a little while (though it would segfault sometimes), but it seems to have been completely broken by a recent kernel update.

I ended up getting this and using that for wifi instead of the built-in device.