$> kfmclient exec
this will open the file with the default binding if at all it exists...i.e. any app that associates itself with .swf MIME type.
for GNOME:
$>gnome-open
^ open file in proper program.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
open default browser
for KDE:
$> kfmclient exec
this will open the file with the default binding if at all it exists...i.e. any app that associates itself with .swf MIME type.
for GNOME:
$>gnome-open
^ open file in proper program.
$> kfmclient exec
this will open the file with the default binding if at all it exists...i.e. any app that associates itself with .swf MIME type.
for GNOME:
$>gnome-open
^ open file in proper program.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Blissful reading, uhh cramming.
Finished off the last of my library books.
I only read the sections of Upgrading & Repearing Servers that I was interested in, didn't have time to even open the book on TCP/IP... I probably don't need that level of information right now, filled for 'check out again later' hehe.
Skipped most of the book on Java and like last time I read a book on Java. I've also managed to avoid writing a lot of Java code, not a language I am very fond off... but would likely prefer Java to C++, then again I generally prefer C to C++ too hehe. The goal however was not to get into writing Java programs but to see how much the language had changed since the mid-late 1990's.
Most of my interest in the books I checked out was the Linux Programming Bible, which was useful for a few of the things common to Unix like OSes. For which the only good examples I have been able to dig up in the past, has been reading my Operating Systems user land programs.
The Security book, heck I would by that sucker if I had the cash; especially if there was a 5th edition xD
I generally inhale information when I am free to just do so, so polishing them off was not a problem.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Flockzilla
Installed Flock 0.9.0.2 on my laptop today, quick and easy as root:
And it is installed as linux-flock in my search path, very useful. I have used Mozilla based browsers for a long time. Years ago I started with Firefox 1.x, it was a great improvement over IE5 and 6, tabbed browsing - I was hooked instantly xD
As I got to spend a lot more time on the computer, I soon came to find Firefox less then perfect. The big bonus to using it had become greater portability between websites and OSes, some thing that is a bit of a must for me. I alos use Konqueror and Opera a lot among other browsers.
I tested Flock 0.7.x on my windows box awhile back and was rather impressed, while not perfect it was still pretty great. With a bit of that 'surfer' feel to it :-) I did not think though that it would scale to my laptops hardware quite well though. On a Pentium D 930 with 2GB of RAM, to a Sempron 3300+ with 512MB of RAM... But so far it has actually scalled a lot better then Seamonkey or Firefox 3.0 snap shots !
The main reason I discontinued working with Seamonkey and (Netscape) Navigator (9) was because while I liked them quite a lot, Navigator is actually a nice set up IMHO. The lack of responsfulness, particularly while editing text in fields like this and on forums made it less them ideal on my hardware. Even on the faster Desktop I occasionally noticed slow downs during text editing. On my laptop, even Firefox 2.0.0.x and 3.0a builds had the same issue on my laptop.
So far, Flocks Linux version does not, and it is starting faster then Netscape or Seamonkey ever did. And the funky font issues of using Linux Firefox and friends on PC-BSD no longer seem to apply to PC-BSD v1.4.x systems:-)
The thing I enjoy the most about Flock is the web clipboard and services support, especially for ma.gnolia. Being based on Firefox, Flock is still pretty easy to use but I find most of its shortcomings are inherited from Firefox! All of which seem to relate to configuration options.... But it does add enough other capabilities to be a bit of an improvement over Firefox 2 and 3a imho. And like Netscape Navigator 9, should work fine on Google Doc's and friends hehe.
I think most of the Firefox extensions and add ons should work with Flock, doubt most themes would but Flock has a very nice default theme unlike Firefox. I have never really used much in the way of Firefox Extensions and Add Ons, although I keep several installed in my Desktop; I usually don't use them ^_^.
Now if only Flock didn't use the same crappy Spell Checking technology that Firefox does......... *sighs* I really wish Vim or Google would create a portable spell checking library based on their code, because they offer the best spell checking I've ever found =/
Dixie# pkg_add -r linux-flock Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/linux-flock.tbz... Done. Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5_1.tbz... Done.
And it is installed as linux-flock in my search path, very useful. I have used Mozilla based browsers for a long time. Years ago I started with Firefox 1.x, it was a great improvement over IE5 and 6, tabbed browsing - I was hooked instantly xD
As I got to spend a lot more time on the computer, I soon came to find Firefox less then perfect. The big bonus to using it had become greater portability between websites and OSes, some thing that is a bit of a must for me. I alos use Konqueror and Opera a lot among other browsers.
I tested Flock 0.7.x on my windows box awhile back and was rather impressed, while not perfect it was still pretty great. With a bit of that 'surfer' feel to it :-) I did not think though that it would scale to my laptops hardware quite well though. On a Pentium D 930 with 2GB of RAM, to a Sempron 3300+ with 512MB of RAM... But so far it has actually scalled a lot better then Seamonkey or Firefox 3.0 snap shots !
The main reason I discontinued working with Seamonkey and (Netscape) Navigator (9) was because while I liked them quite a lot, Navigator is actually a nice set up IMHO. The lack of responsfulness, particularly while editing text in fields like this and on forums made it less them ideal on my hardware. Even on the faster Desktop I occasionally noticed slow downs during text editing. On my laptop, even Firefox 2.0.0.x and 3.0a builds had the same issue on my laptop.
So far, Flocks Linux version does not, and it is starting faster then Netscape or Seamonkey ever did. And the funky font issues of using Linux Firefox and friends on PC-BSD no longer seem to apply to PC-BSD v1.4.x systems:-)
The thing I enjoy the most about Flock is the web clipboard and services support, especially for ma.gnolia. Being based on Firefox, Flock is still pretty easy to use but I find most of its shortcomings are inherited from Firefox! All of which seem to relate to configuration options.... But it does add enough other capabilities to be a bit of an improvement over Firefox 2 and 3a imho. And like Netscape Navigator 9, should work fine on Google Doc's and friends hehe.
I think most of the Firefox extensions and add ons should work with Flock, doubt most themes would but Flock has a very nice default theme unlike Firefox. I have never really used much in the way of Firefox Extensions and Add Ons, although I keep several installed in my Desktop; I usually don't use them ^_^.
Now if only Flock didn't use the same crappy Spell Checking technology that Firefox does......... *sighs* I really wish Vim or Google would create a portable spell checking library based on their code, because they offer the best spell checking I've ever found =/
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Night module
Unfortunitly it is 0430 and I've got to get up early for work :'(
Spent tonight doing some light but thoughtful work,
There is also a .neorc INI file for the testing :-)
My near-future to do list right now is, in no particular order:
I am lucky though, I've had almost 3 day's off and only light duties tomorrow.
Finally had free time to day to shave off that infernal beard.. After so many months it is kind of nice to be reminded I'm more human the Wookie haha.
Spent tonight doing some light but thoughtful work,
Terry@Dixie$ pwd; /bin/ls -1 9:26 /home/Terry/code/Python/src/neo/testing/alpha dialogs.py main.py neo.py options.py translate.py Terry@Dixie$ 9:29
I have arranged things from the testing directory to it's own work dir to clean up. Not to mention to continue work in a more module oriented pattern then the monolith and scratch files I have been using to test the first mock up of the programs UI.
- dialogs -> will hold code common to user interaction through 'pop up' windows.
- main -> the begining of it all, will probably be wrapped in a shell script
- neo -> the GUI's mock up code for the main window, need to split stuff off into sub modules when more work is done.
- options -> the option subsystem, currently part of a config parser; to be expanded greatly
- translate -> quick references to tools we will need later (subject to changes)
There is also a .neorc INI file for the testing :-)
My near-future to do list right now is, in no particular order:
experiment with improving the wrapping paper on pkg_info; regex might be an improvement to the current process what ever the possible speed changes are. It might also be beneficial to look into using a pipe in order to ease start up times.
expanding dialogs into some thing more complete, currently it only has a routine for an error message.
Figure out how we can create a suitable display area for the output of a shell command (such as 'make').
I think I could probably do double the amount of work per day on this, if I didn't have to do it before bed... Which has the bad limit of only being able to do things until my mind gets to the point that I just have got to sleep or the clock passes a point where I need to hit the hay, in order to get enough sleep for work in the morning.
I am lucky though, I've had almost 3 day's off and only light duties tomorrow.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
searchlet test level 7
Almost finished my work on npm from early this afternoon.
Took care of getting the mock up to actually search the ports tree for a given string, considering incorporating a simplified version of psearch but I can worry about that later.
Did most of the right view of installed software today, it still has a problem but this is good progress:
Click to enlarge
Some of the listings are screwed up and trigger a TypeError, I know I'm doing some thing wrong some where but not sure where yet.... At the moment I am about ready to hit the hay.
Some future tasks include fixing that, adding a toolbar to the mockup, a place holder (or working) msg display area. And moving on to other mock up's.
So far, it is not pretty but the mock up is doing quite well. Hopefully fiddling with layout management and spacers will not be to much heartache under QT3 without having to use the Designer tool. Hmm, you know it might even be possible to make things a bit more flexibble rather then choosing one of the mock ups as the basise of the final forms overall appearance.
Any way one slices it though, it is time for BED.
Took care of getting the mock up to actually search the ports tree for a given string, considering incorporating a simplified version of psearch but I can worry about that later.
Did most of the right view of installed software today, it still has a problem but this is good progress:
Click to enlarge
Some of the listings are screwed up and trigger a TypeError, I know I'm doing some thing wrong some where but not sure where yet.... At the moment I am about ready to hit the hay.
Some future tasks include fixing that, adding a toolbar to the mockup, a place holder (or working) msg display area. And moving on to other mock up's.
So far, it is not pretty but the mock up is doing quite well. Hopefully fiddling with layout management and spacers will not be to much heartache under QT3 without having to use the Designer tool. Hmm, you know it might even be possible to make things a bit more flexibble rather then choosing one of the mock ups as the basise of the final forms overall appearance.
Any way one slices it though, it is time for BED.
An automatic wall paper changer for wmakerAn automatic wall paper changer for wmaker
I recently switched to using Window Maker on PC-BSD, one of my favorite window managers actually. But it does have a few dis advantages over KDE when it comes to session management...
I went though my large wall papers collection and found several that I would like to use, the WMaker theme I have set is a dark one.
Many didn't scale right and I don't know of any batch image scaler, so I had my shell open each in kolour paint so I could do this. Using a graphical file manager I would have to double click each file at the least level of effort... With the shell, it was simple loop in my backgrounds directory:
This opened kolourpaint to a file, allowing me to do a quick ctrl+e and set it to smooth scale it to 1280x800 to match my LCD's native resolution. And then to ctrl+s save it, X out of it and volia, kolourpaint would start again with another file as it continued through the loop.
Having done this, I was thinking how to I get it to change after awhile? I thought about a symlink that would be changed to a different wall paper every now and then, tested it no go. Then I found wmsetbg and the -s (-scale) option, so yeah I wasted my time scaling them all lol.
So I removed them and made symlinks to the original files in my wall papers directory:
Like I am going to stand here and create 50++ shortcuts myself? NO WAY!
After that I set to look into hooking up a shell script that could run in the background and change the wall paper for me. I figured that I would want some thing acline to the sleep() function out of unistd.h but I didn't really want to use a C program or any other programming language to do it. Because while looping over the directory in C might be faster then /bin/sh by the time the compiler tried to optimize it. Having to invoke a shell for every call to system() (for running wmsetbg) would probably be a bit wasteful. At least in a shell script, there should be no need to create a new /bin/sh process on each pass. Didn't find a built in shell command for it but /bin/sleep works fine, so I wrote the following script to change my wall paper every 10 minutes:
And to run it on window makers start up, I added this line to my ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart file:
/usr/home/Terry/sh/setbg &
and Hooah ^_^
And here is a python script that displays it in a random order,
Hmm, I wonder if I could do this on Windows XP to,under explorer of course hehe.
I went though my large wall papers collection and found several that I would like to use, the WMaker theme I have set is a dark one.
Terry@Dixie$ ls ~/Pictures/Wall_Papers|wc -l 6:38
657
Terry@Dixie$ ls ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds|wc -l 6:40
57
Terry@Dixie$ 6:40
Many didn't scale right and I don't know of any batch image scaler, so I had my shell open each in kolour paint so I could do this. Using a graphical file manager I would have to double click each file at the least level of effort... With the shell, it was simple loop in my backgrounds directory:
for i in `ls`
do
kolourpaint $i
done
This opened kolourpaint to a file, allowing me to do a quick ctrl+e and set it to smooth scale it to 1280x800 to match my LCD's native resolution. And then to ctrl+s save it, X out of it and volia, kolourpaint would start again with another file as it continued through the loop.
Having done this, I was thinking how to I get it to change after awhile? I thought about a symlink that would be changed to a different wall paper every now and then, tested it no go. Then I found wmsetbg and the -s (-scale) option, so yeah I wasted my time scaling them all lol.
So I removed them and made symlinks to the original files in my wall papers directory:
for i in `ls` 6:40
do
ln -hfs /home/Terry/Pictures/Wall_Papers/$i /home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/$i
done
Like I am going to stand here and create 50++ shortcuts myself? NO WAY!
After that I set to look into hooking up a shell script that could run in the background and change the wall paper for me. I figured that I would want some thing acline to the sleep() function out of unistd.h but I didn't really want to use a C program or any other programming language to do it. Because while looping over the directory in C might be faster then /bin/sh by the time the compiler tried to optimize it. Having to invoke a shell for every call to system() (for running wmsetbg) would probably be a bit wasteful. At least in a shell script, there should be no need to create a new /bin/sh process on each pass. Didn't find a built in shell command for it but /bin/sleep works fine, so I wrote the following script to change my wall paper every 10 minutes:
#!/bin/sh
# A simple automatic wall paper changer for window maker.
while (true)
do
for p in `/bin/ls /home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/`
do
wmsetbg -u -s $p
sleep 600
continue
done
done
\And to run it on window makers start up, I added this line to my ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart file:
/usr/home/Terry/sh/setbg &
and Hooah ^_^
And here is a python script that displays it in a random order,
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import commands
import os
import random
import time
li = os.listdir('/home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/')
while (True):
x=random.choice(li)
commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/wmsetbg -u -s %s' % (x))
time.sleep(600)
Hmm, I wonder if I could do this on Windows XP to,under explorer of course hehe.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Since it's impossible to work....I hit up newegg.com to experiment with a few ideas.
The PC I wish I could buy: 1 * Thermaltake Armor Extreme Edition ATX Full Tower case ($180) ; drooling over the VA8004BNS !!! 1 * 600W Thermaltake PSU ($130) 1 * Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or E67x0 2.4/2.66Ghz ($190-$240) 1 * 1024MB DDR2 667Mhz (PC5300) ($22) ; Kingston preferred 2 * SATA 250GB HDD ($160 total) 1 * nVidia Geforce GPU (<=$130) 1 * Turtle Beach RIVIERA Sound Card ($30) ; ALSA support :-) 1 * 3.5" Floppy ($7 OEM / $20 retail) 1 * DVD Burner ($45 retail) 1 * CD || DVD Reader ($20 retail) 1 * 10/100MB Ethernet NIC ($12 at the local shop ;-)) 1 * 104 Normal Keys KB ($20) ; Logitech Access would be nice & cheaper 1 * Wired Laser Mouse ($40) 1 * 17" LCD Monitor, 4-5ms, No Widescreen! ($180-$200) Estimated Total: < $1350 depending on variables and RAM + Motherboard ($70-$120), any extra fans/cablesThis is a much better PC then the one I am sitting, $1600 worth !!! And I supplied my own Mouse (replacement), Monitor, and had a Keyboard when I bought it. Although I do admit, a PC Desk and sound card was necessary to add to the pre-build... Hehe The system I had originally planned to build was about the same price range as this custom list but with less specs and a complete system minus the monitor and kb... bloody thing even had a UPS in the price factors! In the end, I ended up having my mother raising all freaking heck, to the point that I had to concede to *not* build my own, or she would really drive me crazy until I did F'up. To which I had my brother raising hell at the very idea (the family gamer), to which I ended up shopping for a pre-build to shut them both up (compromise of no DIY but higher specs) and got stiffed on the core factors... Rather then building my ideal 'personal' machine, I got stuffed into a Gateway Multi-Media PC that I didn't want. Over a year later, that PC I bought has been a royal pain in the neck, often needing coercion to get it to do what I want. It has repeatedly failed to work with most tested Linux Distro's without a lot of kicking, although it does love FreeBSD 6.x as long, the only good thing I can say :-) Instead of the GF6600 I had planned for the prebuilt came with a GF6200 (A real POS but still a major upgrade) and a TV Tuner; shitty PSU, funky BTX Mobo, and a signle 500GB drive Vs the good PSU, standard ATX Mobo, and Dual Seagate drives (1 for Windows, 1 for BSD). And a card reader which I can't use (no media) vs the Floppy drive I wanted so badly. The sound card I had to buy to get the pre-built working properly for my needs was a $80 reck, it is a major POS under Windows... But works great under Linux and FreeBSD, which is why I bought it haha. If I ever could have that level of cash for a PC again, I'd hit Fry's and build it from parts there..... Rather then letting my family have any say in the matter.. *sighs*, why did I have to be diplomatic instead of exercise my right to freedom?
GET ME THE **** OUT OF HERE !
I'm sitting here across the building...
Trying to build a working mockup of my main widget that'll handle searching ports for the entered string through the GUI and volia !
Family is driving me out of my fsck'ing mind.
Just for once in my life, I would love it if I didn't have to stay up to after 4 in the damn morning just to get stuff done because I can't be left alone during the afternoon !!!!!
Every one else asleep == I can get stuff done
Any one else awake == 75% less chance of being able to hear my brains internal dialogue, let along get work done (much lower chances).
Trying to build a working mockup of my main widget that'll handle searching ports for the entered string through the GUI and volia !
Family is driving me out of my fsck'ing mind.
Just for once in my life, I would love it if I didn't have to stay up to after 4 in the damn morning just to get stuff done because I can't be left alone during the afternoon !!!!!
Every one else asleep == I can get stuff done
Any one else awake == 75% less chance of being able to hear my brains internal dialogue, let along get work done (much lower chances).
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Most of them are, good or bad, fun or horrible a like... My memory is just like that =/
A choice of one, would only be which one my brain recalls first.
Of dreams and actions
My dreams seem to have been plagued by the same things that often assail my mind....
Past today's have been a lot of work for me and I'm actualy very lucky to have today off work I spent a little time working with Pre Processor like program but didn't have time to get any thing done.
Today, I want to get back to work on NPM, I'm off (hopefully) till Tuesday so with luck I can get some work done!
Past today's have been a lot of work for me and I'm actualy very lucky to have today off work I spent a little time working with Pre Processor like program but didn't have time to get any thing done.
Today, I want to get back to work on NPM, I'm off (hopefully) till Tuesday so with luck I can get some work done!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Some where between merryment and torment, there lays the occasion =/
I'm definitally not looking forward to the holidays... but time stops for no man.
Not really in the mood for coding tonight, I'm tired.. Started work at like 0130 last night, finished and started reading about QT, then logged off for bed 'round 0400... And fell asleep after 0600 !!!
Looking over some of the first things I ever wrote programming wise. The creation dates are mostly november 2005 although the binary of dev-cpp is marked as feburary 2005 on my moms PC. To be honest, I have no real idea why I started learning programing =/ And it's been at least 2 years since day one with C++.
I probably decided, I'd been around PC's long enough and wanted to try taking it to the next level, maybe that is why... I don't really know but I am glad I did. I know what pushed me into the level of computer studies I have, was a little trip through the WWW in that direction and the fish, ehh spider was hooked. I think it was The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO that hooked me, I wanted to learn more.
It's December 2007 and I've come a long way. From a Windows XP user with no love of DOS. To practically living in a shell and thriving on *BSD systems. C++ I have not used in a long time, snored through Perl... nice tool but not my style. Java, from a book but never cared much for writing in it. C, because I wanted to see the differences between C++ and C, and what I found was a language I liked 10,000 * more lol. Always hated shell script... but came to value it as a great tool once I got used to it. Python and I didn't hit it off and Ruby I had scoffed at early on before I decided on C++ as my first language.
One day, out of boredom I sat down and said, "Ok I'm learning Ruby" and a love affair was bourne. For my current task, I've been cramming the Python and QT like a mad hatter!
HTML, I also muddled with fromtime to time but rarely used. Eventually, writing in XHTML kind of replaced my need for a word processor haha! I've also had a longing to learn Ada but have never had the time :@, Scheme syntactically I find a bit strange but I guess I'm not used to lisp like languages.
I wonder, where the next couple of years will lead me, GOD only knows.
I'm definitally not looking forward to the holidays... but time stops for no man.
Not really in the mood for coding tonight, I'm tired.. Started work at like 0130 last night, finished and started reading about QT, then logged off for bed 'round 0400... And fell asleep after 0600 !!!
Looking over some of the first things I ever wrote programming wise. The creation dates are mostly november 2005 although the binary of dev-cpp is marked as feburary 2005 on my moms PC. To be honest, I have no real idea why I started learning programing =/ And it's been at least 2 years since day one with C++.
I probably decided, I'd been around PC's long enough and wanted to try taking it to the next level, maybe that is why... I don't really know but I am glad I did. I know what pushed me into the level of computer studies I have, was a little trip through the WWW in that direction and the fish, ehh spider was hooked. I think it was The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO that hooked me, I wanted to learn more.
It's December 2007 and I've come a long way. From a Windows XP user with no love of DOS. To practically living in a shell and thriving on *BSD systems. C++ I have not used in a long time, snored through Perl... nice tool but not my style. Java, from a book but never cared much for writing in it. C, because I wanted to see the differences between C++ and C, and what I found was a language I liked 10,000 * more lol. Always hated shell script... but came to value it as a great tool once I got used to it. Python and I didn't hit it off and Ruby I had scoffed at early on before I decided on C++ as my first language.
One day, out of boredom I sat down and said, "Ok I'm learning Ruby" and a love affair was bourne. For my current task, I've been cramming the Python and QT like a mad hatter!
HTML, I also muddled with fromtime to time but rarely used. Eventually, writing in XHTML kind of replaced my need for a word processor haha! I've also had a longing to learn Ada but have never had the time :@, Scheme syntactically I find a bit strange but I guess I'm not used to lisp like languages.
I wonder, where the next couple of years will lead me, GOD only knows.
Thinking...
A few concept drawings of what I have in mind
Style #1: simple interface (emphasis on searching and ease of performing common actions)
Style #2: orthodox interface (commander like with toolbar, I like this one xD)
Style #3: balanced interface (I think it would be better with the left being a |installed software | build messages | tab-thingy).
Personally I think the first style is easier to use if your not familiar with what your doing, can you get more simple then 'search, click, click' with a big set of buttons?
The second I really like because I think it makes best use of space and presents the most important information quickly.
The third, I think is probably a better choice since it combines #1 and #2's ways of doing things into a fairly simple yet compact amount of space.
To be honest, I would kind of love docking / undocking elements and a very 'cool' look, like XFire or XMMS L&F with a Gimp or Designer style of operation but I think that would probably be a lot of work and a bit confusing to new people =/
Style #1: simple interface (emphasis on searching and ease of performing common actions)
Style #2: orthodox interface (commander like with toolbar, I like this one xD)
Style #3: balanced interface (I think it would be better with the left being a |installed software | build messages | tab-thingy).
Personally I think the first style is easier to use if your not familiar with what your doing, can you get more simple then 'search, click, click' with a big set of buttons?
The second I really like because I think it makes best use of space and presents the most important information quickly.
The third, I think is probably a better choice since it combines #1 and #2's ways of doing things into a fairly simple yet compact amount of space.
To be honest, I would kind of love docking / undocking elements and a very 'cool' look, like XFire or XMMS L&F with a Gimp or Designer style of operation but I think that would probably be a lot of work and a bit confusing to new people =/
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
searchlet prototypes
Oy'vey why does it have to be so easy to take a nap after chow with that dang couch =/
I suppose it is just as well that I'm finishing Dune tonight as I work because in this case the sleeper must awaken ;-)
I'm trying to finish work on a routine to search the ports tree and generate the necessary stuff for a widget to display. The next phase is to experiment with how signals and slots workout through Python. Then build a more complete 'searchlet' module that can be integrated once the rest of work on the GUI is done. When I get a chance I'll try to post a screen shot of the minimal searchlet in some portion of completion.
I'd also like to work on a few mock ups in designer or a few drawings in kolourpaint of possible configurations of the GUI.
edit:
I've basically finished the routine for searching the ports tree via psearch and getting it to display:
click to enlarge
I think I've also figured out how to connect a C++ signal to a slot in the Python code but I'm still testing with that. The Signals & Slots mechanism is one thing that I do like a lot about QT. I've yet to use the Designer tool for any of this but for ease of use I probably will beyond test modules like the one pictured above.
I am using C++ documentation for most of this, so I am pretty dang glad that the best docs I've ever found in my time aroung computers has been the OpenBSD Manual, Vim's :help stuff, and Trolltechs excellent offerings on qt documentation through the assistant program and the WWW. I also love that konqueror has qt, qt3, kde, and kde3 time saving web shortcuts like the wp (wikipedia) one I use so often.
I suppose it is just as well that I'm finishing Dune tonight as I work because in this case the sleeper must awaken ;-)
I'm trying to finish work on a routine to search the ports tree and generate the necessary stuff for a widget to display. The next phase is to experiment with how signals and slots workout through Python. Then build a more complete 'searchlet' module that can be integrated once the rest of work on the GUI is done. When I get a chance I'll try to post a screen shot of the minimal searchlet in some portion of completion.
I'd also like to work on a few mock ups in designer or a few drawings in kolourpaint of possible configurations of the GUI.
edit:
I've basically finished the routine for searching the ports tree via psearch and getting it to display:
click to enlarge
I think I've also figured out how to connect a C++ signal to a slot in the Python code but I'm still testing with that. The Signals & Slots mechanism is one thing that I do like a lot about QT. I've yet to use the Designer tool for any of this but for ease of use I probably will beyond test modules like the one pictured above.
I am using C++ documentation for most of this, so I am pretty dang glad that the best docs I've ever found in my time aroung computers has been the OpenBSD Manual, Vim's :help stuff, and Trolltechs excellent offerings on qt documentation through the assistant program and the WWW. I also love that konqueror has qt, qt3, kde, and kde3 time saving web shortcuts like the wp (wikipedia) one I use so often.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Enter the Dragon
Well, so for work goes well for day one.
I've spent most of the day working on the configuration system, at this point it would be a lot easier to have a configuration file, so I set about to work with Pythons SafeConfigParser class and the format of the config file and options, e.t.c. There is still more to do but it is a great start, especially considering that I am not entirely comfortable with OOP under Python
I'd say greater then half the code for installing and updating the ports tree is done enough for further testing, the only issue right now is the reaction to errors sup'ing or portsnaping.
I am some what tempted to try and have a wrapper of sorts that will abstact the issue of using QT or KDE specifics but I don't think there would be any point. I need to dig deeper into the PyQT/PyKDE, QT, and KDE documentation soon so I can work more gui_error.py.
widets ? qt : kde;
It would be nice to use as many elements of the KDE bindings as possible, so it fits better with systems running KDE, yet it would also be nice to keep to the QT bindings more strongly so it is less tied to KDE.. In the end it will probably be which ever I'm more comfortable with.
My primary goals in the coming days is to finish the options and errors modules while I start work on the 'searchlet', which should handle searching through ports. Until a concreate mock-up can be made of the entire main window, I think I should keep the search stuff as far away from the rest of the program as I can.
Work on the searchlet as I call it, shouldn't be to hard to keep self-contained since I prefer to work on smaller pieces and properly prototype things when I can, I'm not a real fan of monolithic masses =\
Basically 7 tenths of that battle will be wrapping my head around working with the KListView and QListView widgets. Once I've figured that out, it'll be simple enough (I hope) to figureout how to make it work with displaying a search through ports. It's just I need to get a grip on the ListView widgets before I can do that lol.
Either way, I think I have done enough for one day... 0700 Zulu Time and it would probably be nice to have a little sleep before work tomorrow 0.o
A little horsing around before bed, not pretty but considering I don't know QT from a hole int he ground... And I'm doing this with C++ documentation for Python, I think it's a nice 'Hmm, how do you make a QListView object?" test:
I don't like that QListViewItem(j[0], j[1], j[2]) line but I was trying to translate from the C++,
And I've yet to figure out how to better cook this up, still reading the docs here...
I've spent most of the day working on the configuration system, at this point it would be a lot easier to have a configuration file, so I set about to work with Pythons SafeConfigParser class and the format of the config file and options, e.t.c. There is still more to do but it is a great start, especially considering that I am not entirely comfortable with OOP under Python
I'd say greater then half the code for installing and updating the ports tree is done enough for further testing, the only issue right now is the reaction to errors sup'ing or portsnaping.
I am some what tempted to try and have a wrapper of sorts that will abstact the issue of using QT or KDE specifics but I don't think there would be any point. I need to dig deeper into the PyQT/PyKDE, QT, and KDE documentation soon so I can work more gui_error.py.
widets ? qt : kde;
It would be nice to use as many elements of the KDE bindings as possible, so it fits better with systems running KDE, yet it would also be nice to keep to the QT bindings more strongly so it is less tied to KDE.. In the end it will probably be which ever I'm more comfortable with.
My primary goals in the coming days is to finish the options and errors modules while I start work on the 'searchlet', which should handle searching through ports. Until a concreate mock-up can be made of the entire main window, I think I should keep the search stuff as far away from the rest of the program as I can.
Work on the searchlet as I call it, shouldn't be to hard to keep self-contained since I prefer to work on smaller pieces and properly prototype things when I can, I'm not a real fan of monolithic masses =\
Basically 7 tenths of that battle will be wrapping my head around working with the KListView and QListView widgets. Once I've figured that out, it'll be simple enough (I hope) to figureout how to make it work with displaying a search through ports. It's just I need to get a grip on the ListView widgets before I can do that lol.
Either way, I think I have done enough for one day... 0700 Zulu Time and it would probably be nice to have a little sleep before work tomorrow 0.o
A little horsing around before bed, not pretty but considering I don't know QT from a hole int he ground... And I'm doing this with C++ documentation for Python, I think it's a nice 'Hmm, how do you make a QListView object?" test:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Neo Ports Manager (NPM) -- refer to the LICENSE file for terms and conditions
"""
"""
import sys, os
from qt import *
def main( argc, argv ):
a=QApplication( argv )
listViews=QListView()
listViews.resize(640,480)
listViews.setCaption("Qt Example - Listview") # Sets window title
# Add some columns to the list view
listViews.addColumn('Qualified name')
listViews.addColumn('Namespace')
# element is how to create a new list view item for display
element = QListViewItem(listViews, 'qName', 'namespaceURI')
# Now lets populate an array of items into view
els=[ [listViews, 'dir1', 'descr1'], [listViews, 'dir2', 'descr2'],
[listViews, 'dir3', 'descr3'] ]
for j in els:
QListViewItem(j[0], j[1], j[2])
# And sort it descending by col 1
listViews.setSorting( 1, False )
a.setMainWidget(listViews)
# draw & exec
listViews.show()
a.exec_loop()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(len(sys.argv), sys.argv)
I don't like that QListViewItem(j[0], j[1], j[2]) line but I was trying to translate from the C++,
for ( int i = 0 ; i < attributes.length(); i++ ) {
new QListViewItem( element, attributes.qName(i), attributes.uri(i) );
}
And I've yet to figure out how to better cook this up, still reading the docs here...
Idiot spider
I am so stupid !!!
I'm sitting here working on a the configuration file stuff in my options class and BAM the laptop shuts down on me.
Battery firmly attached and not in use, laptops been on at least an hour and a half or more but it's still cool, no signs of blockages of ports and the fan was fine last I looked.
Rolled my chair around and made sure the power cable was in the socket check,
turned around to the other flank and saw that the light on the mobile surge protector was on, check, back to the poor laptop...
"Wait", I rolled back around and picked up the A/C Adopter and the surge protector/cable segment had come unplugged -- BINGO WE HAVE A WINNER !!!
I can't believe I've been sitting here using the battery the whole time, like a moron... But I am very glad that I save files often when editing and that vim keeps a swap file so I didn't lose any thing but the open tabs in knoqueror and the interipters history.
It would kind of suck to lose the entire projects files on day one =/
Saved by the editor... hehe
I'm sitting here working on a the configuration file stuff in my options class and BAM the laptop shuts down on me.
Battery firmly attached and not in use, laptops been on at least an hour and a half or more but it's still cool, no signs of blockages of ports and the fan was fine last I looked.
Rolled my chair around and made sure the power cable was in the socket check,
turned around to the other flank and saw that the light on the mobile surge protector was on, check, back to the poor laptop...
"Wait", I rolled back around and picked up the A/C Adopter and the surge protector/cable segment had come unplugged -- BINGO WE HAVE A WINNER !!!
I can't believe I've been sitting here using the battery the whole time, like a moron... But I am very glad that I save files often when editing and that vim keeps a swap file so I didn't lose any thing but the open tabs in knoqueror and the interipters history.
It would kind of suck to lose the entire projects files on day one =/
Saved by the editor... hehe
Saturday, December 1, 2007
backlog
This one made my day :-)
I've been brushing up on Python for a little projectI've got in mind, so I've been cramming like a student at finals week. Python is a nice language but one I never put to use when I originally started learning it.
The thing I love the most about Python, is the doc strings, it's such a great idea if you ask me.
A poor example yes, but in actual usage the doc strings can be very useful. I also like it because it can be used to move inline-documentation (some times aka comments) into the body of the function, rather then being above it. And they are accessible at runtime with the __doc__ special method.
One thing I do wish Ruby had, is Doc Strings for methods, b/c then in IRB I could do a simple obj.methods.sort and follow up with checking a methods docstring rather then an intermixing of playful testing in IRB with looking it up in TFM.
With Python, it's quite easy to go to interactive mode and use dir(obj) to get the methods an object responds to and any available __doc__ special methods to learn more about it, before we go RTFM hehe.
[15:11] [SAS]_LCpl_DUKE: Did you know: The Navy takes now only not-swimmers.
[15:11] [SAS]_RSM_Spidey01: ?
[15:11] [SAS]_LCpl_DUKE: Yeah, they defend the war-ships longer...
[15:11] [SAS]_RSM_Spidey01: LOL
[15:12] [SAS]_LCpl_DUKE: the newest joke i got 5 minutes ago... ;-)
I've been brushing up on Python for a little projectI've got in mind, so I've been cramming like a student at finals week. Python is a nice language but one I never put to use when I originally started learning it.
The thing I love the most about Python, is the doc strings, it's such a great idea if you ask me.
--- def test(params): ... """ Simple test ... ... More detailed info about it""" ... ... print params ... --- test.__doc__ ' Simple test\n\t\n\t More detailed info about it'
A poor example yes, but in actual usage the doc strings can be very useful. I also like it because it can be used to move inline-documentation (some times aka comments) into the body of the function, rather then being above it. And they are accessible at runtime with the __doc__ special method.
One thing I do wish Ruby had, is Doc Strings for methods, b/c then in IRB I could do a simple obj.methods.sort and follow up with checking a methods docstring rather then an intermixing of playful testing in IRB with looking it up in TFM.
With Python, it's quite easy to go to interactive mode and use dir(obj) to get the methods an object responds to and any available __doc__ special methods to learn more about it, before we go RTFM hehe.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Some how, I think if I was the type for it, I would be stone cold drunk tonight... but as it is, I am sober as a codfish =/ Getting lit never helped any thing and my Families history is enough that it is not a fond concept. Although I must admit, a nice mixture of wodka, rum, and a little lemon juice does sound like an interesting idea.. Oh well, a spider can think lol.
trying to see if I can get QT (and possibly KDE) bindings for Ruby installed, I've had no luck with qtruby yet but so far korundum-3.5.5 is doing good, hope I don't jinx it =/.
That's not why I feel like getting drunk though, but even if I was that kind of person I've got to much crap to get done then to worry about it.
It is strange, how being busy is a two edged sword, in that it does have it's advantages but it can be so damn exhausting some days !
damn, the build just blew, would be bloody nice if it would tell me *which* library is missing. Oh well, it's not important. Hmm, what else to work on...
trying to see if I can get QT (and possibly KDE) bindings for Ruby installed, I've had no luck with qtruby yet but so far korundum-3.5.5 is doing good, hope I don't jinx it =/.
That's not why I feel like getting drunk though, but even if I was that kind of person I've got to much crap to get done then to worry about it.
It is strange, how being busy is a two edged sword, in that it does have it's advantages but it can be so damn exhausting some days !
damn, the build just blew, would be bloody nice if it would tell me *which* library is missing. Oh well, it's not important. Hmm, what else to work on...
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Funky dreams
From taking part in a commando raid on an out post, gone bad....
To being stuck on an Air Craft Carrier in the middle of a typhoon with a very Hot Blonde, and oh yeah how could I forget the dozens of goons with MP5's trying to steal the ship! Oh well, what is a little adventure on the high sea without a woman that can fight?
All the way to being first mate on a rather super natural pirate ship =\ Like a cross between the Pirates of the Caribbean and a dark rendition of a old Peter Pan fairy tail.
I must admit, some times I have some very strange dreams.. Normally though it usually involves me coding, playing, or 'taking a role in' a Video Game or crack-pot adventure of some sort lol.
A more normal string of dreams for me would include joining the Colonial Marines for a bug hunt with a trusty M41A Pulse Rifle in hand. Once I even dreamed of fighting a Queen Alien one on one afther they took over a school building and chased me down... good thing Predators can make acid proof knifes ;-)
I still remember one from many years ago though, rofl After fighting my way through 5y3 hive. I had signed a peace treaty ending the hostilities ... and the Queen Alien endpushed me out an airlock xD
I don't have nightmares but I do have the craziest dreams when I do get any +S
To being stuck on an Air Craft Carrier in the middle of a typhoon with a very Hot Blonde, and oh yeah how could I forget the dozens of goons with MP5's trying to steal the ship! Oh well, what is a little adventure on the high sea without a woman that can fight?
All the way to being first mate on a rather super natural pirate ship =\ Like a cross between the Pirates of the Caribbean and a dark rendition of a old Peter Pan fairy tail.
I must admit, some times I have some very strange dreams.. Normally though it usually involves me coding, playing, or 'taking a role in' a Video Game or crack-pot adventure of some sort lol.
A more normal string of dreams for me would include joining the Colonial Marines for a bug hunt with a trusty M41A Pulse Rifle in hand. Once I even dreamed of fighting a Queen Alien one on one afther they took over a school building and chased me down... good thing Predators can make acid proof knifes ;-)
I still remember one from many years ago though, rofl After fighting my way through 5y3 hive. I had signed a peace treaty ending the hostilities ... and the Queen Alien endpushed me out an airlock xD
I don't have nightmares but I do have the craziest dreams when I do get any +S
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I've compiled all of my stored bookmarks (aside from the handfull on my laptop) into a single flat file...
One URL per line with a grand total of 662 lines.
Plenty are just enqueued to be read while others are perm storage.
Not bad for about 10 years of surfing =/
Now neatly redoing my bookmarks on ma.gnolia is the next big project of the day :'(.
And in the near future, properly using this for all my bookmarking needs.. lol.
One URL per line with a grand total of 662 lines.
Plenty are just enqueued to be read while others are perm storage.
Not bad for about 10 years of surfing =/
Now neatly redoing my bookmarks on ma.gnolia is the next big project of the day :'(.
And in the near future, properly using this for all my bookmarking needs.. lol.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Wasting time with the Euclidean Algorithm
The other night, I was very bored so... When I remembered reading about the Euclidean Algorithm on Wikipedia, which is a method of finding the greatest common denominator (gcd). I fed several implementations through ye ol'time(1) to get a rough idea of what differences they made.
At first I did it in Ruby and C for comparison, then I recompiled the *.c files with maximum optimization. Tonight I added a set of Java and Python files to the setup, I'll probably include Bourne Shell and Perl later for fun.
For any one interested,
C // no optimization
./iteration 0.00s user 0.00s system 50% cpu 0.003 total
./recursion 0.00s user 0.00s system 66% cpu 0.002 total
./original 0.00s user 0.00s system 57% cpu 0.003 total
Ruby
./iteration.rb 0.01s user 0.00s system 59% cpu 0.014 total
./recursion.rb 0.00s user 0.00s system 79% cpu 0.010 total
./original.rb 0.00s user 0.01s system 75% cpu 0.010 total
C // optimized, -O3
./iteration-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 48% cpu 0.003 total
./recursion-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 32% cpu 0.005 total
./original-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 37% cpu 0.004 total
Java
java EuclideanIteration 0.39s user 0.38s system 66% cpu 1.165 total
java EuclideanRecursion 0.48s user 0.30s system 72% cpu 1.066 total
java EuclideanOriginal 0.36s user 0.42s system 67% cpu 1.155 total
Python
./iteration.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 59% cpu 0.034 total
./recursion.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 65% cpu 0.032 total
./original.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 65% cpu 0.031 total
done with:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-freebsd6]
gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
javac 1.5.0
Python 2.5.1
The C versions were the same sources but compiled with -O3 for the optimized
version.
I've assigned each outcome a score, 3 for what I feel is fastest, 2 for the intermediate (often close) and 1 for the worst and totalled it:
And the code, which I tried to keep similar. Also the gcd()/mygcd() routines were always implemented as a function because of the recursive version in the tests.
At first I did it in Ruby and C for comparison, then I recompiled the *.c files with maximum optimization. Tonight I added a set of Java and Python files to the setup, I'll probably include Bourne Shell and Perl later for fun.
For any one interested,
C // no optimization
./iteration 0.00s user 0.00s system 50% cpu 0.003 total
./recursion 0.00s user 0.00s system 66% cpu 0.002 total
./original 0.00s user 0.00s system 57% cpu 0.003 total
Ruby
./iteration.rb 0.01s user 0.00s system 59% cpu 0.014 total
./recursion.rb 0.00s user 0.00s system 79% cpu 0.010 total
./original.rb 0.00s user 0.01s system 75% cpu 0.010 total
C // optimized, -O3
./iteration-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 48% cpu 0.003 total
./recursion-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 32% cpu 0.005 total
./original-o 0.00s user 0.00s system 37% cpu 0.004 total
Java
java EuclideanIteration 0.39s user 0.38s system 66% cpu 1.165 total
java EuclideanRecursion 0.48s user 0.30s system 72% cpu 1.066 total
java EuclideanOriginal 0.36s user 0.42s system 67% cpu 1.155 total
Python
./iteration.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 59% cpu 0.034 total
./recursion.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 65% cpu 0.032 total
./original.py 0.01s user 0.01s system 65% cpu 0.031 total
done with:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-freebsd6]
gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
javac 1.5.0
Python 2.5.1
The C versions were the same sources but compiled with -O3 for the optimized
version.
I've assigned each outcome a score, 3 for what I feel is fastest, 2 for the intermediate (often close) and 1 for the worst and totalled it:
method C RB C(-O3) Java Python Total iteration 2 1 3 2 2 10 recursion 3 2 2 1 1 9 original 1 3 1 3 3 11
And the code, which I tried to keep similar. Also the gcd()/mygcd() routines were always implemented as a function because of the recursive version in the tests.
#include <stdio.h>
#define A 1071
#define B 1029
int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
int t = 0;
while ( b != 0 ) {
t = b;
b = a % b;
a = t;
}
return a;
}
int
main(void) {
mygcd(A, B);
return 0;
}
#include <stdio.h>
#define A 1071
#define B 1029
int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
if ( b == 0 ) {
return a;
} else {
return mygcd( b, a%b );
}
}
int
main(void) {
mygcd(A, B);
return 0;
}
#include <stdio.h>
#define A 1071
#define B 1029
int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
while ( b != 0 ) {
if ( a > b ) {
a = a-b;
} else {
b = b-a;
}
}
return a;
}
int
main(void) {
mygcd(A, B);
return 0;
}
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
def gcd(a, b)
while b != 0
t = b
b = a % b
a = t
end
return a
gcd( 1071, 1029 )
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
def gcd(a,b)
if b == 0
return a
else
return gcd(b, a % b )
end
end
gcd( 1071, 1029 )
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
def gcd( a, b )
while b != 0
if a > b
a = a - b
else
b = b - a
end
end
return a
end
gcd( 1071, 1029 )
class EuclideanIteration {
static final int A = 1071;
static final int B = 1029;
public static int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
int t = 0;
while ( b != 0 ) {
t = b;
b = a % b;
a = t;
}
return a;
}
public static void
main( String[] args ) {
mygcd(A, B);
}
}
class EuclideanRecursion {
static final int A = 1071;
static final int B = 1029;
public static int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
if ( b == 0 ) {
return a;
} else {
return mygcd( b, a%b );
}
}
public static void
main( String[] args ) {
mygcd(A, B);
}
}
class EuclideanOriginal {
static final int A = 1071;
static final int B = 1029;
public static int
mygcd( int a, int b ) {
while ( b != 0 ) {
if ( a > b ) {
a = a-b;
} else {
b = b-a;
}
}
return a;
}
public static void
main( String[] args ) {
mygcd(A, B);
}
}
#!/usr/local/bin/python
def mygcd(a, b):
while b != 0:
t = b
b = a % b
a = t
return a
mygcd( 1071, 1029 )
#!/usr/local/bin/python
def mygcd( a, b ):
if b == 0:
return a
else:
return mygcd( b, a %b )
mygcd( 1071, 1029 )
#!/usr/local/bin/python
def mygcd( a, b ):
while b != 0:
if a > b:
a = a-b
else:
b = b-a
return a
mygcd( 1071, 1029 )
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