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Apr 11, 2014 4:43 PM PT
Help Wanted: computer programmers needed to code and maintain Linux systems.
The Linux operating system and Linux servers are so widely used today that not enough Linux-trained coders and system techs exist. Software developers and enterprise IT departments have jobs but no takers.
To fill this shortage, the Linux Foundation has partnered with edX to offer a free online course to help computer engineers learn Linux.
The growing shortage of Linux-capable programmers is a big contributor to the general unawareness of open source procedures in the software developer community. On the academic front, some universities and secondary school systems are introducing courses developed by the Stem Education Coalition. STEM's mission is to inform federal and state policymakers about the critical role that science, technology and engineering play, and the benefits available to schools from open source technology.
On the job front, some industry leaders are joining forces to jumpstart a Linux of Learning movement to help ease the growing shortage of qualified programmers to take waiting jobs.
"This shortage goes beyond merely not having enough Linux programmers. It is pervasive and goes across every sector of technology -- mainly because Linux is pervasive. Part of the issue is that you can not just take programmers proficient in one area, such as Windows, and have them work on Linux code," Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider.
Historical Accident
Today, Linux and the Linux platform are running society. It is staggering how the demand for Linux is growing, noted Zemlin.
For example, literally thousands of televisions sold every day are controlled by Linux. It runs financial systems. It runs the Internet and air traffic control systems. High performance computing -- you name it -- all of this runs on Linux, he explained.
"This is an accident of history. For many years, Windows dominated enterprise technology. Linux has grown so quickly that it caught IT people off guard," said Zemlin.
Growth Factor
Enterprise and software developers are facing a growing shortage of software engineers who know Linux coding. The adoption of Linux and open source software has outstripped the supply of people trained to innovate, create and service these systems.
The Linux Foundation's surveys among enterprise respondents show the No. 1 hiring priority for IT managers is Linux skills. Linux programmers also get paid more than other programmers, according to Zemlin.
"This is a critical shortage. Any scalable way we can lower that market, the Linux Foundation wants to get behind it," he said.
MOOCs to the Rescue
One of the first solutions the Linux Foundation is backing involves bringing free introductory training directly to potential job takers worldwide. If the online learning method proves successful, advanced course offerings will follow.
The Linux Foundation and edX are partnering to develop a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) program that will help to bridge the training gap for IT talent. The basic Linux training course and materials will be available to all enrolled students for free. So will be the cost of taking what, until now, was a US$2,500 course.
EdX recently open-sourced its online education platform and will host the Linux Foundation course. edX is a nonprofit online learning destination created by MIT and Harvard University.
The free Linux course will be paid out of the group's own funding. For example, MIT and Harvard have invested $15 million in edX, and there are other funding streams, according to Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX.
Crowd Pleaser
"The Linux course the Linux Foundation is offering is fast becoming one of the five most popular courses we offer," Agarwal told LinuxInsider.
The 170 other online programs edX hosts completely online serve more than 2 million students from 196 countries and that number is growing dramatically. The Linux course had 100,000 students sign up in the first 10 days, he said.
The online course approach is making a huge impact on the world. So it is a very natural progression to offer the Linux course. The idea was to experiment with this one, Agarwal added.
Learning Linux Lessons
Many computer users and some enterprise executives are not aware of the proliferation of Linux and open source. That is part of the education process the Linux Foundation is addressing. People who do not know about the Linux OS or Linux servers are generally clueless about open source software as well.
Still, the demand for Linux and other open source tools has been growing for years. As a result, there is a need for developing associated skills across multiple industries, said Shravan Goli, president of Dice.
"There is a shortage of software developers in the U.S. The employment rate for these jobs is down to 2.3 percent in the last quarter. The opportunity for jobs is now there for people who come in to get this training," Goli told LinuxInsider.
Linux Driving Jobs
That is part of the motivation behind getting more training available online. The need is not just for open source training but for other aspects of software programming as well. These MOOC courses will put a lot of emphasis on open source, the data cloud and Linux, Goli said.
"We are starting to see an increased awareness for the opportunities in the field for learning about software programming. But initiatives are also starting for grass roots efforts to get more people involved, excited and learning coding at a very early stage and ultimately to develop those skills," he noted.
Job ads on Dice are showing career paths for a widespread adoption of technologies at all sorts of companies. Whether it is a retail company or telecom, finance company or automobile company, all kinds of companies beyond the traditional technology firms are leveraging software technologies, Goli explained. That is heightening demand for Linux skills.
More Linux Leanings
Two other technology developments are driving the need for Linux programmers. One is the availability of -- and the ability to collect -- lots of data. The other is the growth of mobile devices, Goli said.
When you combine mobile with data collection and the idea that all kinds of devices need to be available for enterprises all the time, it also is spurring the movement toward cloud technology, he added.
"All of these components have both a combination of a proprietary platform and open source. All of these new demands are consuming the existing computer engineers, so there is a growing vacancy for replacements and new positions," he said.
Changing Times
The shortage in computer programmers for open source software development and Linux programs is not all that surprising. Any time you have a change in the technology landscape, professionals have to change their skills, noted Zemlin.
"Really, it's the changing of the guard. It is a pervasive changing of the guard -- not just limited to the skills needed for Linux. We are also seeing a demand for a second set of skills. This involves what it takes to work across companies and across industries," he added.
This new skill set is needed for those programmers already in the industry, as well as those looking to start their programming careers. It involves how you present your skill sets in a resume when you participated in open source projects.
"If you are able to get your patch in for the Linux kernel, the odds are you are going to get a job. That requires not only knowing the programming skills to get that code into the kernel, but also knowing how the open source development process works. It also involves knowing how to collaborate with others, which is equally important," Zemlin said, noting that is what Linux of Learning is all about.
Where It Is Headed
The response to the Linux Foundation's first free course offering through edX surprised both Zemlin and Agarwal, and both said the results would need solid analysis before they could point to what should happen next.
"That is very cool. It is not that often we get to fill several football stadiums with Linux fans. I do not know where we will go after this. We will cross that bridge when we get to it," Zemlin said.
Success will be measured by looking at three factors, according to Agarwal. The first one, the volume of people signing up for the course, clearly has already been met.
The next step is to determine whether students feel they have learned significantly from taking the course and can pursue job opportunities. The third part is learning what potential employers feel about the qualifications of the students who have completed the course.
"The hope is that more of the Foundation's Linux courses will be added to our platform," said edX's Argarwal.
Proof Still Needed
The MOOC model has not been proven yet. Ultimately, its success will depend on the end-users' motivation to learn and apply themselves and then to go find the opportunities, said Dice's Goli.
The availability of an online medium to learn Linux is definitely providing the opportunity to many more people than five years ago. Still, it is going to take time to see an impact, he cautioned.
"I do not see this as a perfect solution. It is more of a ground level, grass roots, cultural movement that is happening," Goli remarked. "Ultimately, we are going to see the benefits -- but the overall shortage of professionals, I think, we are going to continue to see."


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If they don't like ambient, then they don't like it. There's not much else you can do, I'm not a fan of opera, I would imagine if someone tried to promote it's virtues to me I may like it even less.
I was more surprised by his response to those paintings thinking they were some kind of "work of a genius" and the fact that he couldn't see that they were all the same :-)
Greetings Tomas :-)
Ambient music is not for common people, some call it ''Elevator Music'' or ''Airport Music'', how can you teach these people, how can you feed them with a fine gourmet meal, if all they want is a greasy Big Mac and a beer?Well I also agree that is a lost cause, you can't show sublime music to a death metal listener, basically a Neanderthal gorilla, just watch some live death metal concert and you will see ''how friendly'' they are to each other.It's a clash of cultures, peace and introspection vs brutality/stupidity.Of course this an exaggeration and obviously grey zones exist.


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The decision came less than a fortnight after the French food safety standards agency, AFSSA, produced a report concluding that British beef imports posed "a negligible risk" of causing the human form of mad cow disease, variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.
"Given these facts, the prime minister has decided to lift the embargo," the recently elected centre-right government said in a brief statement. The French agriculture minister, Hervé Gaymard, said the necessary legislation would be passed "in the next few days".
The environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, said she was pleased the issue was being resolved. "It has been a completely unwarranted shadow hanging over our beef industry for more than three years."
The European Union lifted the export ban on British beef in mid-1999, more than three years after it was imposed during the epidemic of mad cow disease, or BSE, that swept through the UK cattle herd.
France resisted lifting its ban, arguing that its scientific experts believed the beef still carried health risks. It continued to defy a ruling by the European court of justice that the ban was illegal and faced hefty fines of up to £100,000 a day if it persisted.
David Byrne, the European health commissioner, said the decision meant "the validity of the EU scientific opinion has been vindicated". Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers' Union, said the European commission must take action to safeguard against another breach of its rulings.
"It is unacceptable that such a clearly illegal ban has been able to be imposed for this length of time," Mr Gill said. "It is equally unacceptable that the French can walk away from this disgraceful situation at the last possible moment before fines are imposed."
France said yesterday it wanted all EU member states to conduct BSE tests on cattle aged more than 24 months, the practice in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Other countries test only animals over 30 months.
Until the EU ban in 1996 France had been Britain's biggest export market for beef.
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After being strongly influenced by The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer in about 2004, I've had the strong belief that money needs to be something people decide amongst themselves and not the managed fiat currencies we have in place today.
The most obvious way to achieve this is to once again allow gold and, to a lesser extent silver to fulfill this role as they have done for thousands of years in the history of civilisation. In 2006-07, I made my own first foray into exploring this via the book How to Invest in Gold and Silver. In that book, I made the quite accurate comment that :-
contrary to popular opinion, banks often go bust..
Something which became tellingly accurate in 2008, although some drastic and I think it's fairly easy to argue, incorrect, decisions were made which bailed out a lot banks at the the expense of the taxpayers, their children, their grandchildren and most probably, their great-grandchildren unless this modern day slavery cycle can somehow be broken. The best prediction I made though was the rise of gold and silver. Something which although it is stalling in 2013, I expect to once again rise strongly for several years versus fiat national currencies.
Now that the internet has matured, there are now a variety of companies out there offering through the medium of online, opportunities to save at low cost in Gold and Silver and at the same time make those savings outside any jurisdiction of their own government. So for example, a Cypriot foreseeing the problems that led to the forced confiscation of Euros in their bank could place some of their savings into Gold in Singapore at great benefit to himself. Two of my favourites are GoldMoney and BullionVault.
The next step to me, seems quite logical, yet right now those companies are too scared to offer it because it will put them right in the firing line of the US Government, who has an alarming track record of bringing down perceived threats to its monetary dominance. One only needs to see the stories of e-gold and the Liberty Dollar to understand they will not tolerate anyone undermining their right to manufacture dollars out of thin air and use them to pay for real goods from overseas, such as oil.
However, considering some states within the US are now quietly remonetising gold and silver, things are definitely changing. I think it's only a matter of time that people place more of their savings outside of their government's influence, into Gold and Silver. If you believe that, then it's fair to say that you also agree they will rise in value while national currencies decline. The major thing that will reinforce the change however is if people can then use the remote precious metal they hold as promises to pay for goods and services. If that seems somehow similar to how trade was conducted once upon a time, it is. What's different is how the internet provides a truly global, streamlined solution to many age old questions as to how to avoid forgery of money, trust the purity of the coinage and conduct trade internationally without pricing issues.
How might that happen, exactly? To me, the solution is simple. One will pay using a credit card, let's say a BitCard. On this Bitcard, you will have the option of paying with BitSilver or BitGold, using a service that might be called SilverPay or GoldPay. The BitGold or Silver will then be denominated in individual units, which could be the bits themselves as an agreed amount of metal, or it could be a traditional metric measure such as, say, a SilverGram or GoldGram.
You could even one day then have private banks competing against each other for your savings. Let's say I wanted to appeal to the British market. Then, I could stock my vault with nothing else but gold sovereigns, logically divide those sovereigns into smaller weights and offer a unit of currency called a BitSovereign. Let's then remember that up until 1947, shillings also contained silver. I could then have a second vault full of pre-1947 British silver coinage, logically divided up into units and call that a BitShilling.
With government out of the equation, the money itself will never then be anything but trustworthy. The unfortunate thing of course is that inflation is going to all but disappear and governments can't play with an elastic currency to engineer booms to win votes or drive the populace further into the slavery of debt. What a shame!
Of course, this puts the onus on the individual to ensure the private company they buy gold and silver from actually does have that gold and silver in a vault to back their purchase. This requires a lot of due diligence on the part of the consumer and is where governments then demand the right to protect their citizens and make the precious metals seller comply with many regulations to confirm they are sound. The irony is that all of the banks that did or nearly went bust in 2008 were fully government-compliant. That applies to the US, UK, Cyprus, Iceland or any other country you care to mention. Furthermore, talking about audits of gold held in vaults should embarass the US Government greatly. They have not allowed an audit of the gold allegedly held at Fort Knox for years. Don't believe me? Read here.
Now, given that, would you trust your savings to an organisation that has to offer a superior service and complete trust in order to obtain your investment, or, do you trust your own government? It's closer than you originally thought, isn't it?


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For a solo exhibition, Free Beer & counter-game Strategies, at Galeria Vermelho in Sao Paulo, a version of the Free Beer was brewed and distributed in collaboration with local brewery Germania. At the exhibition, apart from free beer, the visitors could engage in a series of games based on rules reflecting upon copyright, patent-law, trademarks and freedom of speech. Free Beer is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer. The project, originally conceived by SUPERFLEX and students at the Copenhagen IT University, applies modern free software / open source methods to a traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved and enjoyed globally, and commonly known as beer.
SUPERFLEX is part of the exhibition Send in The Clowns at Nils Stærk
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By Story and photos by Staff Sgt. Patrick CaldwellAugust 25, 2011
Charlie Company faced and overcame a series of hurdles during its deployment to central Iraq by putting a sharp focus on the missions said Capt. Seth Musgrove, the commander of Charlie Company, and a native of La Grande., Ore.
"Nothing comes easy," he said. "You have to look at it fresh every day." Musgrove said the deployment to central Iraq proved to be a learning experience for everyone in his unit, including himself.
The statistics highlight Charlie Company's heavy workload. Musgrove's unit escorted more than 500 convoys and traveled more than 50,000 miles on Iraqi roadways while dodging the occasional roadside bomb. That feat was accomplished because of the dedication of the unit, Musgrove said.
"They've exceeded my expectations. I'm extremely proud of them. We will come home now with a real sense of accomplishment," he said.
The operational tempo the unit embraced was hectic, said 1st Lt. Mike Sattem, a platoon leader for C Co., and a native of La Grande, Ore. The unit and his platoon took the busy work schedule in stride, he added.
"They've done everything they've been asked to do," Sattem said.
Sattem's platoon also encountered its fair share of enemy contact.
"Some pretty significant events occurred. But these guys continued to give everything. A lot of them want to stay and keep doing it," Sattem said.
Musgrove said pinning down the magic combination that made Charlie Company. successful is difficult. There is not one single factor that contributed to the unit's success, he said.
"It is a combination of a lot of things. Work ethic, a good moral compass, the small town eastern Oregon ethos, a sense of pride and dignity," he said.
Sattem said that small town mentality produced a level of professionalism that paid dividends on convoy escort missions.
"Everyone is interconnected in some way because every one comes from such small communities. It creates a common bond right off the bat," he said.
One challenge that never evaporated, Musgrove said, was ensuring his Soldiers stayed alert. Because of the very nature of the convoy escort mission -- miles of roadways punctuated occasionally by an improvised explosive device ambush -- made the fight against complacency critical.
"Keeping Soldiers focused is always something you have to have your thumb on as a commander," Musgrove said.
Musgrove said the company's leaders are well aware of the danger of complacency.
"Complacency is definitely at the forefront of our concerns. It takes a lot of leader engagement to fight it," he said.
In a real way Musgrove personifies the kind of officer forged during the 10-year war on terror. He first arrived in Iraq in 2004 as a lieutenant. He was placed in charge of a platoon where finding and destroying the enemy was the main objective.
When he came back to Iraq with Charlie Company, he was a company commander and the job his Soldiers tackled did not resemble the one he encountered during his first deployment. The mission changed and the key focus was protecting convoys moving up and down the roads of Iraq and a responsible reposturing of coalition forces. When he arrived in Iraq in 2004, he was newlywed. Now he and his wife have two children, both under the age of five.
"I'm missing a lot of family time. But I think those struggles, being away from home, are shared by all Soldiers who deploy," he said. "Being in the military you inherit those sacrifices," he said.
Reviewing his family's sacrifice is one of perspective, he said.
"You have to look at what you've accomplished on behalf of your country," he said.
Another crucial element of the unit's success revolved around the support it received from home, he said.
"The city of Ontario [Oregon] has been very selfless in their support of the families and we appreciate everything they've done for us," he added.
This fall, Musgrove will lead his unit back to Oregon. He will then close the chapter on his experience in Iraq.
"I'm looking forward to getting back home and starting a new chapter," he said.
Sattem said he will stay with the 3rd Battalion after it redeploys to Oregon. He said the ethos of the 3rd Battalion is something special.
"There is a mentality and a brotherhood among all the guys in the battalion. There is much more of a bond in this battalion than I've seen in other units," Sattem said.


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Just noticed a tiny issue with the systray patch: when in monocle mode, it shows the border of the monocle window under the systray. I have the monocly-no-border patch so it shouldn't. Here's a scrot:
What part of the systray patch do I have to edit so it won't show?
Here's my patch:
I had the same issue. Try monocle-no-border patch from my github page. I modified it so the border color in monocle mode is the same as background color - ugly, but worked for me.
Unia wrote:
Just noticed a tiny issue with the systray patch: when in monocle mode, it shows the border of the monocle window under the systray. I have the monocly-no-border patch so it shouldn't. Here's a scrot:
What part of the systray patch do I have to edit so it won't show?
Here's my patch:
I had the same issue. Try monocle-no-border patch from my github page. I modified it so the border color in monocle mode is the same as background color - ugly, but worked for me.
Thanks, will give it a go tonight!
If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
Does anyone have a patch which limits the number of clients that can be opened on a particular tag, and when the tag is full, the client is opened on a different tag? I've seen there is an old clientspertag patch, but it doesn't allow a different tag to be specified when the tag is full, it just hides the client behind the visible windows.
I'd like to use this with the pertag patch and window rules. So for example, I could have tags 8 and 9 with grid layouts, and have rules to open XTerm windows on tag 8, but if there are already 6 clients open on tag 8, then open new windows on tag 9.
If the clientspertag patch still works, it should be easy to modify it. Just change the line that hides the client to a call to the function to move it to a new tag. I don't recall the name of the function off the top of my head, but it can be found in the default key bindings.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
I don't think this qualifies as a patch or a hack, but it's a tip I think some of you may find useful:
I like icons in my statusbar, but I don't want to use a separate app like dzen2 just to show xbm icons when dwm already has a status bar, and I don't know how to patch dwm with xbm support. I've solved this problem by editing my dwm font (I use artwiz cure) and drawing icons in the font itself:
1) If your font is a pcf font, use pcf2bdf (available in AUR) to convert it to a bdf font
2) Install gbdfed (available in AUR) and xorg-font-tools
3) Open your bdf font in gbdfed and replace the glyphs you want with icons. It may be possible to use empty glyphs beyond 0xFF instead, but I haven't tried this.
4) Change the font name if you want (Edit > Font Info > Font Properties), and save the font
5) Use bdftopcf to compile the bdf font to pcf, and gzip it (this step is optional)
6) Copy/move the font to an Xorg font dir, run fc-cache -vf and restart X
7) Insert the symbols in your status bar script or in config.h if you want. I've made some symbols to indicate the layout mode that I use in config.h (see screenshot).
Here's a screenshot of the tip in action (note that I've patched dwm with statuscolors to add some color to the icons):
Edit: Check out my GitHub repo for an updated bdf font with various symbols.
I edited DinaMedium9.pcf and restarted X, but nothing has changed - all of the spaces that were empty ( square ) still produce the same output.
static const char font[] = "-*-dina-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
What could be wrong ?
Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.
^^If you just want a few icons, you could maybe try replacing a few glyphs that you won't use (if there are any) in the 00A0 - 00FF section.
Hey everyone, I'm back with yet another "project".
I'm using the XFT patch for my DWM so statuscolors can't be applied cleanly. That got me to think that actually, I don't need the whole statuscolors patch (I already have the urgentcolor one working):
I just want to color some parts of my statusbar in the selfgcolor. I started looking at the statuscolors patch and stripped everything I think I don't need to accomplish this and in the end, I got down to what you see below. Now comes my question: How can I edit this bit to make the statusbar show some parts in selfgcolor?
--- dwm.c.orig 2012-06-21 23:38:04.045848195 +0200
+++ src/dwm-6.0/dwm.c 2012-06-21 23:39:37.622513296 +0200
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@
static Monitor *dirtomon(int dir);
static void drawbar(Monitor *m);
static void drawbars(void);
+static void drawcoloredtext(char *text);
static void drawsquare(Bool filled, Bool empty, Bool invert, XftColor col[ColLast]);
static void drawtext(const char *text, XftColor col[ColLast], Bool invert);
static void enternotify(XEvent *e);
@@ -863,7 +864,7 @@
dc.x = x;
dc.w = m->ww - x;
- drawtext(stext, dc.norm, False);
+ drawcoloredtext(stext);
dc.x = m->ww;
@@ -891,6 +892,36 @@
+drawcoloredtext(char *text) {
+ Bool first=True;
+ char *buf = text, *ptr = buf, c = 1;
+ unsigned long *col = dc.colors[0];
+ int i, ox = dc.x;
+ while( *ptr ) {
+ for( i = 0; *ptr < 0 || *ptr > NUMCOLORS; i++, ptr++);
+ if( !*ptr ) break;
+ c=*ptr;
+ *ptr=0;
+ if( i ) {
+ dc.w = selmon->ww - dc.x;
+ drawtext(buf, col, first);
+ dc.x += textnw(buf, i) + textnw(&c,1);
+ if( first ) dc.x += ( dc.font.ascent + dc.font.descent ) / 2;
+ first = False;
+ } else if( first ) {
+ ox = dc.x += textnw(&c,1);
+ }
+ *ptr = c;
+ col = dc.colors[ c-1 ];
+ buf = ++ptr;
+ }
+ if( !first ) dc.x-=(dc.font.ascent+dc.font.descent)/2;
+ drawtext(buf, col, True);
+ dc.x = ox;
drawsquare(Bool filled, Bool empty, Bool invert, XftColor col[ColLast]) {
int x;
I already looked at some parts of my dwm.c to see how I could achieve this, but it didn't bring me that far. Can you give me some pointers?
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Why do the floating window loses focus ? I am using dwm-6.0.
It seems a bug: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.m … kless/5270
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This is a hacking thread - for general support, please start a thread in Newbie Corner and include some more detail, like any customizations to your config.
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How can I define two commands in a 'static const char'?
I tried something, but I didn't work (and I think it's a bit dirty):
static const char *volup[] = { "amixer", "-q", "-c", "0", "set", "Master", "4+", "unmute", "&&", "vol", NULL };
Ypnose, because of how the spawn function is written, that cannot work. I don't think there is a way to put two commands into a single const char * and pass them to spawn().
The easiest solution would be to put those commands in a script and call the script.
I suspect it may also be possible to have one key press make two separate calls to the spawn function ... but a script would be far easier.
I use a volume script that takes one of three parameters "up", "down", and "toggle" (for muting). This script can be bound to the approrpiate keys easily.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
There are many such scripts out there - basically just put those commands you want into a script. Here's mine
case "$1" in
up) amixer set Master 4%+ > /dev/null ;;
down) amixer set Master 4%- > /dev/null ;;
toggle) amixer set Master toggle > /dev/null ;;
I also have a couple lines after that to get the current volume settings and put it in a file read by my status bar program, but these lines do all the setting of volume.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
How can I define two commands in a 'static const char'?
I tried something, but I didn't work (and I think it's a bit dirty):
static const char *volup[] = { "amixer", "-q", "-c", "0", "set", "Master", "4+", "unmute", "&&", "vol", NULL };
The '&&' is a builtin shell-command, so for the above to work then you would need to preced it with 'bash -c', or 'sh -c'...
"bash", "-c", "foo", "&&", "bar"
Of course *headslap*
mhertz suggestion should work well.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
Hey, could someone refresh my memory on what to comment out of dwm.c to remove the little square indicators on active tags? I can't seem to find the very brief mention of it I found on some mailing list when configuring DWM on my old system ... Of course, not being sure what their proper name might be isn't helping my search, heh. Thanks!
github ○
It'd be in the "drawbar" function somewhere near line 730. I say somewhere near as I have made many modifications, particularly to that function.
You should be able to search for it in that area though, there is a call to the "drawsquare" function which is what you are looking for.
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Success. Drawsquare seems so obvious now, feels like that should have rung a bell when I was skimming through. Thanks a bunch.
github ○
I am using uselessgaps patch, but it doesn't seem to work the way I expected. Firefox and Thunar ( the only ones I have encountered having this issue so far ) have no gaps by default, but if I open and close a new terminal window ( in the same workspace ), gaps appear and everything is fine.
Except getting rid of this patch, is there a way to fix it ?
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I am having trouble getting icons to work for me, the whole statusbar seems to break after an icon character? i have the font installed and working when i try it in the terminal but however i try it doesn't seem to work in dwm for some reason. I am using the patches, config and font from w0ng's repo just to try it out: https://github.com/w0ng/dwm/blob/master/config.h
What might i be missing? locale has en_US UTF-8 and en_US ISO8859-1
EDIT: forgot to add locale to rc.conf >< stupid mistake.
Last edited by eldamar (2012-07-24 03:14:16)
I've set up Conky to pipe information to xsetroot for the DWM statusbar. However, I have two monitors, and I dislike that the statusbar text only draws on the selected monitor. I'd prefer that it displays on both simultaneously.
I've made some progress in fixing this (note that I have the statuscolors patch):
In the drawbar() function, there's an if-statement beginning with
if (m == selmon)
I commented out all but the parts that were to be executed 'if (m == selmon)', thus making the statusbar draw on any monitor regardless of whether it is selected.
Under the drawcoloredtext() function, I replaced
dc.w = selmon->ww - dc.x;
dc.w = mons->ww - dc.x;
Because my monitors were of different sizes, the unmodified version would cut off the statusbar text on the larger monitor if the smaller one were selected. I changed 'selmon' to 'mons' in the hope that this issue would not occur, and it seems not to cut off now. I do not know whether this 'fix' will affect anything else negatively, it doesn't appear to for now.
I have one issue that I cannot resolve, however: although the statusbar renders on both monitors, it will only update consistently on the selected one. If I switch the monitor selection, the other monitor's statusbar will update, but the unselected one will "freeze" until reselected. I cannot find a piece of code pertaining to this behavior. What can I do to modify this behavior? (and additionally, are my previously-described changes decent solutions to the other parts of the problem?)
A patch already exists: statusallmons
Ah, so it does-- should have checked there first! However, it actually patches the file in exactly the same way I did, so the problem with statusbar updates still persists. Any insight into that?
If it helps, I've also noticed that the bar on the unselected screen will still update at the point when I create a new window on the selected screen. Not sure what that entails, though.
Last edited by DrKillPatient (2012-07-28 04:32:52)
@Jokerboy: Saw your new patch called center window. http://hg.punctweb.ro/dwm/src/e78d596ad … indow.diff
I don't get what is the difference with center floating? Could you help me please.


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With Automator you can automate much of what you do with your computer. Create and print a family directory of family members in your Contacts. Find and add images from your favorite websites to iPhoto. Print your documents to your iPad. Instantly rename dozens of files in the Finder. Even perform scheduled backups of important information. There's no limit to what you can do, and Automator can do in seconds and minutes what could take you hours to do by hand.
"Instant snapshot" workflow sample
Have you ever wanted to take a quick snapshot of yourself to add to an email, message, or chat? As an example of how easily you can use Automator to create your own automation tools, here's a sample workflow you can build and install as a system-wide service for using your portable Mac's or iMac's built-in camera to instantly take and add a snapshot of you into your iPhoto library. ("System-wide service" means you'll be able to access it from an application's menu, under Services, as shown at the end of these steps.)
Follow these steps on your computer to make the same service for yourself:
The Automator icon in Launchpad
- Open Launchpad and type Automator in the search field. Click the icon of "Otto" the Automator robot. A new Automator workflow window will appear.
- Select Service from the new window's drop-down template sheet (as shown above) as the type of workflow document to create, and then click Choose. The template sheet will recede to reveal a new workflow document, ready for editing:
You choose the type of Automator workflow document you want to create from the template picker sheet
Elements of the Automator workflow window
An Automator window (see the image above) contains:
- (1) A Library column on the left, sorted by application or category, containing a list of all of the Automator actions installed on your computer
- (2) An Action column in the middle displaying the available actions for the selected application or category
- (3) A search field for quickly locating actions to add to the workflow
- (4) An information box on the bottom-left to provide helpful information about a selected action
- (5) A workflow pane on the right side of the window, where you drag actions to build your "automation recipe"
- (6) The "Service receives" pop-up menu
Let's continue creating the snapshot-taking workflow:
- Service workflows are often designed to work with files or text, selected in other applications, such as image files selected in the Finder. In this example workflow, the service will generate a new photo for you, so there's no need to accept any other files as input for the workflow. Set the service workflow to ignore any existing selected items by choosing "no input" from the Service receives pop-up menu (6) at the top of the window (see the image above).
- Now that the input settings for the service workflow have been set, let's construct the workflow by finding and adding actions from the Actions Library to the workflow area. We'll begin by locating an Automator action for taking a camera snapshot. In the search field (1) enter the term snapshot and any Automator actions related to that search term will appear in the Actions list below the search field (see below).
- According to its description at the bottom left of the workfow window (see above), the Take Video Snapshot action, is perfect for automating the quick snapshot of a photo using the computer's built-in camera. Drag the action title from the Actions list (2) into the workflow area (3).
- Release the cursor to finish adding the action to the workflow:
- When an action is added to the workflow area (see above), it displays a rectangular view containing controls for setting the values of any parameters it uses. In the view for the Take Video Snapshot action, there is a checkbox, titled Take picture automatically, for indicating whether you want to require the user to click a button to take the photo snapshot. Select the checkbox (1) to have the workflow take the picture automatically. All you'll need to do is smile.
- Using the same search and add process you used for locating and adding the Take Video Snapshot action to the workflow, search for the term import, and locate and add the Import Files into iPhoto action to the end of the workflow:
- Finally, as a bit of cleanup, we'll indicate we want to delete the original image file taken by the camera, after it has been imported into iPhoto, by selecting the Delete Source Images… checkbox (2) in the action view (see above).
That's all there is to creating a simple workflow for taking a camera snapshot and adding it to iPhoto! Now you're ready to save and install the workflow.
- To save and install the service workflow, choose File > Save…. In the naming sheet, enter Instant Snapshot as the name for the service, and click the Save button. The new service workflow will automatically be installed as part of the System-wide Services architecture, and be available from any application's Services menu. You can now close the workflow window.
Dragging an action into the workflow area
Automator actions display their parameter controls in the action's inline view
Notice that the two actions in the workflow (see above) are linked together (1), indicating that the results of the first action, the new photo file taken by the computer's camera, will be passed to the second action as its input. This is generally how Automator workflows function, passing information and items between each step (action) in the workflow.
Using the service
To use your new service, center yourself in front of the computer, and select Instant Snapshot from the Services menu, which is available from within any application:
Your Mac will beep three times and then take a picture, which will be automatically added to your iPhoto library:
The new snapshot is added to iPhoto
Using Automator, you have now created a useful tool for making it easy to take and add a snapshot of yourself to your iPhoto library.


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Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome?
Jun 28, 2012 5:00 AM PT
There are many topics that tend to come up in a recurring manner around water coolers throughout the Linux blogosphere, and not just the great "Year of" debate, either.
No indeed, another shining example more than a little familiar to most of us who spend any time here is the much-abused command line -- specifically, whether it's outlived its usefulness in this era of the GUI.
Well guess what? The debate is back!
'A Crusty Old Relic?'
That's right -- "Is the command line a crusty old relic?" was the name of the Open Ballot posted recently by the excellent team over at TuxRadar, and the conversation hasn't died down since.
So what shall it be? Has the command line interface outlived its usefulness? Or is there still a place for this trusty old tool?
Linux bloggers haven't held back expressing their opinions.
'More Power and Versatility'
"The Command Line is far from being a crusty old relic," opined Google+ blogger Linux Rants, for example. "It still holds more power and versatility than can be found in any GUI on the planet."
It's true that "GUIs are pretty and have great eye candy," Linux Rants conceded. "They make computers easy to use for people that don't want to actually get to know their computer, but they hold only a fraction of the power that you can get from a command line."
GUIs are also significantly slower to use, he added: "Just the simple task of separating two kinds of files from a single directory, 'mkdir GIF;mkdir JPG;mv *.gif ./GIF;mv *.jpg ./JPG' and I'm done -- five seconds to accomplish that. How long would it take in a pretty looking GUI?"
'The CLI Is Far From Dead'
Indeed, "as soon as someone shows me a way to efficiently construct a for-next loop in the GUI that lets me manipulate a series of files in a particular set of ways, I'm there," agreed Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. "Until then, there's bash.
"Cute pattern-renaming tricks in file managers just don't cut the mustard compared to being able to use xargs, sed, tr and so on to allow one program to act on the output from another program, and having to use a whole bulldozer when you just want to reinvent the wheel slightly doesn't make any sense, either," Espinoza added.
"The CLI is far from dead, and nothing can beat it for complex tasks," echoed consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. "Even Microsoft has realized that and pushed a better command line for their servers for the last few years."
'Different Tools for Different Jobs'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, took a similar view.
"Saying that GUIs obsolete CLIs is like saying word processors obsolete Emacs or VIM," Travers opined. "They are different tools for different jobs."
Travers sees it as a matter of information density.
"A GUI is very good at providing dense info to the user, but very poor at receiving dense info from the user," he explained. "A CLI is a bit more rounded but will never be as good at providing dense info to the user as a GUI is. Where it really excels is in receiving dense information from a user."
'Keystrokes Are Just a Better Way'
Case in point: "Imagine how many mouse clicks and keyboard strokes it takes to tell a GUI ftp program, 'download file.txt but into myfolder, not the current local directory, and rename it to myfile2.txt,'" he suggested. "Last time I tried this it was at least 8 clicks plus typing."
In a command line ftp tool, on the other hand, "you just type: get file.txt myfolder/myfile2.txt," he pointed out. "Much easier, and the typing better flows from thought."
So, "there are many tasks, including many sysadmin tasks, where GUIs do provide better tools," Travers concluded. "But there are many more areas where keystrokes are just a better way to tell the computer exactly what you want done.
"Just as surfing the web in elinks (a terminal, text-only browser) can be a bit painful, so too can managing computers at the GUI be needlessly painful," he said.
'Keep It as an Option'
Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor, wasn't convinced.
"Using the Command Line evokes a sense of pride, so I expect to get flamed by your readers," Lim told Linux Girl. "But I have to admit, I usually wind up typing commands from a guide without fully understanding their import."
The Command Line Interface has its uses, Lim acknowledged, "but no piece of technology targeted at the consumer market should ever require that something be done via CLI; keep it as an option or you can take it out all together.
"If it is there, it should just be there for the IT people or tech support to use when you encounter a problem," he opined.
Put another way, "it is like creating a website via gedit," Lim concluded. "It's cool. But in this day and age, who really wants to type '< P >' instead of just pressing the 'Enter' key?"
So, "is it a 'crusty old relic?' Most people do not even know that it is still there," he added.
'It Is a Server OS'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet took an even stronger view.
"YES YES YES!" hairyfeet began. "There are only TWO reasons to use CLI -- repetition and scripting -- and how many desktop or laptop jobs require writing scripts or repeating the same actions constantly? That would be pretty much none, which is why I say as long as CLI is the dominant way to do anything in Linux, it is a SERVER OS and not a Desktop OS."
To wit: "If you think Linux is ready to take on the desktop, then accept my challenge," hairyfeet said. "Take ANY distro and REMOVE CLI for a period of one year. Make your OS behave as does every actually modern OS does on the planet.
"Sadly I doubt you'll even be able to get most Linux distros to boot at all without Bash or some other shell," he predicted. "It has become such a crutch for everything that I doubt you'll even get to a desktop without it."
'Gold and Diamonds Are Ancient, Too'
That view, however, was far from undisputed.
"BASH commands and scripts are a wonderful tool for system administrators," blogger Robert Pogson offered. "Few others users need to bother with them."
That said, "such things may be crusty, but they work very well," Pogson opined. "I can type a command and check the time on every machine on my network, or update software, or add a particular application to a particular list of PCs or all of them.
"That's priceless," he added. "Gold and diamonds are ancient, too, but they are valuable."
'A Unifying Force in GNU/Linux'
In fact, "one thing that I find valuable with scripts and commands in GNU/Linux is that with hundreds of distros, it's all but impossible for a system administrator to be conversant enough with all the distros to do all the basic operations without commands and scripts," Pogson pointed out. "The same goes for helping novice system admins or remotely administering a PC."
So, "I like to call that language the lingua franca of GNU/Linux, covering all distros on all PCs with any installation," he said. "A Debian guy can help a Red Hat guy or vice versa, even if one uses GNOME and the other uses Xfce.
"Can an XP guy help a '7' guy?" Pogson added. "Maybe. Maybe not. Can a Debian Sarge guy help a Debian Squeeze guy? Yes. Commands are the right way to do IT. It's a unifying force in GNU/Linux."


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SAG Awards 2014 Articles
2014 SAG Awards hilights, gossip, photos, and video.
Nothing's going on here, right?
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So...you remember a few years ago, Ewan McGregor was papped with Melanie Laurent and they weren't shooting at the time and, well, it looked like they were...together? Click here for a refresher. McGregor and Laurent were working on Beginners. And they were clearly close. Full Story
Kerry's pregnancy crop-top
Look, if Rita Moreno hadn't come in with her leather jacket and adolescent cleavage, Kerry Washington would have been Best Dressed at the SAGs because holy sh-t the pregnancy crop top was all of it and more. YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! This is what I'm talking about. But…WHYYYYY does she have to keep belly-cupping?!? Many of you have emailed to tell me that it comes from not knowing where to put your hands. Full Story
No pressure Jennifer Lawrence
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Lupita Nyong'o is now the frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress Oscar. And she's playing the pole position perfectly. Which means Jennifer Lawrence's chances are pretty sh-t and, unlike, say, someone like Jonah Hill, she doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it actually seems like she's happy the pressure is off her. Full Story
SAG Best Dressed: Rita Moreno
Come on. Come ON. All the elements of my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken's style, but not tacky and Asian flea markety. Right??? Everyone else can just stand down. Even Mimi has to stand down. And Mimi was there. But we're not giving any play to Mimi today because Rita Moreno, period. 82! 82, ok? Full Story
Cate, Sandy, Julia – the Actress fashion
None of them…really… non? Hated Julia Roberts's SAG pink pantsuit. Hated the side ruching, hated the colour, hate the fact that it belongs on a reality show second wife and not a Movie Star. Not crazy about Sandra Bullock's Lanvin either. (And can Giuliana Rancic please learn how to pronounce is properly? It's not LON-VONN. Full Story
Lupita rising
The Screen Actors Guild made some stupid choices at the SAG Awards the other night. Like, I love Helen Mirren but even she knew that shouldn't have been hers. And HOW is Maggie Smith the best over Kerry Washington and Anna Gunn? F-cking Downton Abbey. So it's not just the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that votes out of their asses. Full Story
Bradley & Suki's bad hair go public
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Bradley Cooper did not bring his mother to the SAG Awards on Saturday… WHY??? She better be coming to the Oscars. I need to see her at the Oscars. Instead of his awesome mom, Coop had his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse with him – which is the first time she's joined him so publicly at a major event. Full Story
Jeremy Renner's forgotten hustle
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Jeremy Renner was at the SAG Awards, nominated for best ensemble along with the rest of the cast for American Hustle. Let's take a moment to celebrate a victory over his Shiny Suit Problem—he looked great in a non-shiny pewter tux (so great that Rita Moreno hit on him during her lifetime achievement speech). Full Story
The Batch is back as Sherlock returns
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Benedict Cumberbatch was enjoying himself at the SAG Awards. I mean that sincerely, no side-eye. Every time I caught a glimpse of him in the audience, he was smiling and laughing, sitting at the 12 Years a Slave table but making time for his August: Osage County co-stars, too. It had to feel nice, being a double nominee as part of the 12 Years and Osage County ensembles—it's a positive footnote to the year that didn't go quite as originally planned Full Story
Jared Leto wants to eat the Khaleesi
I called Jared Leto's the Worst Speech at the Golden Globes. Brazilian waxing wasn't cutting it. For anyone. So he's worked on it since. And his SAG winning speech was much better, dedicating his award to those living with HIV/AIDS, James Gandolfini, and his "hot" mother. Full Story
Is Rob Lowe an incubus?
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It isn't that Rob Lowe is aging gracefully—Matt Damon is aging gracefully. Rob Lowe doesn't appear to be aging AT ALL. There has to be an explanation for how he looks so impossibly young and fresh on the cusp of his fiftieth birthday. I've narrowed it down to five things. 1) Rob Lowe is drinking unicorn blood. Full Story


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Out with the old...
What Windows users need is an API and window manager designed for today's (and tomorrow's) hardware.
Our low-level graphics API needs to be resolution-independent so that it works just as well with the 96 dot-per-inch screens we have on our desktops, the 120 dot per inch screens we have on our laptops, and the 200 dot per inch screens we see on the Internet and drool over. It also needs to use vectors, so that transforming objects happens quickly and without losing fidelity.
The windowing API needs to be clean and simple to use; it should be easy to create an interface and plumb it all together with the rest of the application.
The window manager needs to be composited; that is, each window needs to be drawn in full and "memorized" by the OS so that we don't see redraw flicker when windows are moved about or animated. Remembering all the windows should allow it to blend them together (for transparency/translucency effects) and animate them smoothly.
And this is exactly what Windows Vista will do. There is a new graphics API, based on Direct3D. It has support for 2D and 3D shapes, which will be vector-based and hardware-accelerated. This new graphics API is combined with a new windowing API, which will, it's hoped, make creating attractive, easy-to-use user interfaces a doddle. And this all operates in conjunction with a new window manager, a window manager that will be able to perform feats that will make even OS X users "oooh" and "ahhh" with excitement. Maybe.
The new API is called "Windows Presentation Foundation" (formerly known by its codename "Avalon"); the new window manager is called the "Desktop Window Manager" (formerly called the "Desktop Composition Engine," or DCE). We'll look at both in some detail.
Windows Presentation Foundation
Managed Code
Even though WPF drags Windows GUI development kicking and screaming into the 21st century, it's not the powerful features—Direct3D-accelerated vector graphics and simple programming model, for instance—that really set it apart from other APIs on other platforms. The really unusual feature is that the new API depends heavily on managed code. That is to say, the native, standard way of using it is through .NET.
.NET has had windowing and graphics APIs before; the current framework has a windowing library called Windows Forms, which wraps Win32's User API to provide as clean and easy an API as possible whilst still subject to the constraints of the underlying system. It has a similar wrapper for GDI (or rather, it has a wrapper for GDI+, which is itself a wrapper for GDI). In both of those cases, the underling design and capabilities of the libraries were restricted by GDI and User. Though Windows Forms and GDI+ make it much easier to write GUI applications on Windows than using User and GDI directly, they can't offer any new capabilities, so the same old limitations—no vectors, limited animation, primitive acceleration—all apply.
But WPF is new. The .NET classes that make up WPF are not wrappers of some lower-level API; they are the API. If you want to use WPF, the .NET classes that make it up are your first port of call.
This is a big change. It would be big even without all the other things that WPF will do. It means that to get a first-class experience in Windows Vista, to fully exploit the new display subsystem, to utilize all the new features that Vista will provide, applications will have to be .NET applications. At the moment the .NET environment is nice—but you can do without it. Anything you can do in .NET, you can do with native Win32 code. .NET certainly makes some thing easier (Windows Forms are much nicer to work with than the User API), but it's all the same stuff behind the scenes. With Vista, this will no longer be the case. .NET won't simply be a nicer way of doing the same old stuff. It'll be the only way to do things. If you want the new, easier-to-use, more powerful graphics APIs—and I think that most developers who have used Win32 for GUI apps do—you'll have to write a .NET application.
What this means for existing applications isn't clear. Thus far they could afford to ignore .NET—the easier development afforded by that environment doesn't matter when the application has already been written. Whether they can continue to do so into the future is less certain. That's because GDI and User aren't going away any time soon. Although they won't gain new features or undergo any future development, they will still be in Vista for reasons of backwards compatibility. But if an application wants to take advantage of the new media framework, or better acceleration, or resolution independence, or simply look prettier, .NET will be the only way to go. If you as a developer don't migrate your application, there's a good chance that your competitor will migrate theirs, making you look bad.
Being managed code is not WPF's only notable feature. Traditionally, when creating user interfaces, the different elements of the interface—buttons, text, images, list boxes, scroll bars, etc.—must be placed and manipulated in code. Though there are many design tools to assist in the creation of user interfaces without this donkey work, they're always limited in comparison to what can be achieved through code. They also make it more difficult to split responsibilities between designers and developers. Developers must in practice perform all tasks, because only developers are in a position to actually create and lay out user interface elements. WPF supports this code-driven model for interface creation, but it provides an alternative to it, called Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).
XAML is a language for describing user interfaces using XML. Instead of writing code to lay out the various elements of an interface, developers can use a language similar to HTML to draw shapes and text and buttons and all the other elements an interface needs. If developers really want to do so, they can embed code into XAML documents, but the preferred way of using it will be to keep the XAML and the code completely separate. What this should mean is that people (and tools) will be able to concentrate on the interface without needing any great knowledge of, or interaction with, the code which drives that interface. The result should be greatly simplified development.
A similar style of developing has already been used quite successfully for some years with ASP.NET; the separation it provides between the interface and the code that drives the interface has proven popular amongst developers, so providing that same improved development model to regular desktop applications should be a good move.
Vector graphics
The vector-based nature of the desktop manifests itself subtly; there's no obvious change in appearance that is uniquely attributable to being vector-based. In Win32, drawing is generally done with dimensions specified in pixels (pixels are the bread and butter of bitmapped graphics), and obviously these pixels get smaller as the resolution goes up. In WPF, there are no pixels. Instead, sizes are specified in real units—a button half an inch tall, 8-point text, a 1mm line—and WPF takes care of converting that to an appropriate number of pixels. Though the number of pixels required to realize these dimensions may go up, the actual on-screen size dimensions will remain constant.
Another practical repercussion of using vector graphics is with "magnifier"-type applications; those utilities that enlarge some area of the screen (typically that part under the mouse) as an aid to the partially sighted. Such utilities have been available for Windows for years, and the OS even ships with a simple magnification tool. But they all share a common characteristic: the magnified portion of the screen is ugly. Because it's magnifying a bitmap, such tools look blocky. The normal text may appear nice and crisp, but the magnified version is awash with jagged lines and bumpy diagonals:
Not so in Vista. The magnifier shows a scaled-up version of the screen, looking as sharp as the regularly sized view, only larger. Needless to say, this only works for new WPF applications. Boring old Win32 just gets blocky, as it always has done.
A more subtle feature that the new display system provides to the magnifier is shown when you try to magnify the magnifier itself. Traditionally on Windows, if you attempted to magnify the magnifier, you'd either see a kind of "hall of mirrors" visual feedback (as the magnifier would magnify the magnified image, which would then be magnified over and over). This was because the magnifier could only "see" what was on-screen; any information covered by the magnifier window itself would be lost, so the magnifier had no choice but to just magnify itself. In Vista, all the windows are drawn in full into their off-screen buffers, even if on screen they're partially covered. The magnifier leverages this so that it can magnify what's "underneath" the magnifier window itself. Magnifying the magnifier is no longer an issue. This means that the magnifier can be used almost like a real magnifying glass. The magnifier window can be placed over the material of interest and will contain an enlarged version of that material.


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Turkistan or Turkestanboth: tûrk˝ĭstăn´, –stän´ [key], historic region of central Asia. Western, or Russian, Turkistan extended from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Chinese frontier in the east and from the Aral-Irtysh watershed in the north to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the south. Eastern, or Chinese, Turkistan comprised the western provinces of China, now the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Southern, or Afghan, Turkistan referred to a small area of N Afghanistan. Politically, what was formerly called Russian Turkistan and Soviet Central Asia includes the nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the southern portion of Kazakhstan. Much of the western part of this region is composed of two deserts, the Kara Kum and the Kyzyl Kum. The eastern part, rough and hilly, rises to include the mountains of part of the Pamir highland and of the Tian Shan system. Athwart the eastern section extends the Fergana Valley, one of Asia's most fertile regions.
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More than 35 years ago, Neil Young wrote a song known as "I Am a Child."
It's a plaintive, misty acoustic ballad hovering around a D minor tonality, with occasional surprising shifts into D major. More significantly, perhaps, the tune's lyrics offer a telling glimpse into Young's psyche, his way of viewing the world, and his relationship with the Muse. ("I am a child/I last a while/You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile.")
In "Waging Peace: A Hippie Dream," Young's first book, that relationship with the Muse is revealed to be the very thing that tethers Young to this planet. Less conventional autobiography than extended prose-poem penned with no regard for a linear sense of time, the memoir is a paean to the Muse herself, and a testament to Young's lifelong insistence on maintaining the wide-eyed wonder of a child in her presence.
It's also a book imbued with the sense of a man looking back over his life and seeking to settle accounts, while simultaneously dreaming big for the future.
"I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to succeed and deliver the cargo I so carefully have carried thus far to the outer reaches," Young writes. "Not that that's my only job or task. I have others, too. Sacred things that I need to protect from pain and hardship, like careless remarks on an open mind."
This passage is a revelatory one, though it's cloaked in mildly cryptic innuendo, despite the tendency toward an economy of language and "plain-speak" Young displays throughout most of the book. The "cargo," it turns out, is both Young's spirit, (or soul, or whatever you need to call it), and the future of recorded music itself.
Young is a private man who has not suffered fools – or journalists – willingly over the course of his career.
He is not at all the type of "rock star" one would peg to be writing some sort of "tell-all," late-career cash-in. Unsurprisingly, "Heavy Peace" isn't one of those. Instead, it's a book with several recurring themes, one of which is likely the very reason Young agreed to write a book in the first place – PureTone, or as it has since come to be known, Pono, the audio system Young has developed to provide high-quality master recordings in the cloud-based digital realm.
Young's long-held disdain for the sound of digital recordings and MP3s is no secret. But, as it turns out, his real problem is with the quality of these digital files themselves – low-resolution, highly compressed little buggers that deliver even the most grandiloquent, highly textured sounds as flat, mono-dynamic representations of the original master recordings.
The technology exists for consumers to hear the music the way it was intended to be heard by the artists themselves, but very few people in the industry want to be bothered, and consumers who have known no different world aren't even aware of what they're missing.
"The record companies are sort of held hostage in a weird way by the Internet's dominance in their industry," Young writes. "But because (they) still hold the gold, their high-quality music masters, it's time for them to step up and take control of their own destiny … I think public opinion and social networking could win over money, just as it has upset the status quo in the Arab Spring and all of the other revolutions around the world organized through social networking. This is just another revolution. Quality sound can make a return and be re-established for those who want the best … The Sound revolution could bring it back, if the cards the record companies hold are played. That is the big If. Will they have the balls to stand up and take care of the music?"
Much of "Waging Heavy Peace" – its title a reference to Young's attempts to take on the music industry in the name of vastly improved sound quality – finds Young ruminating on the fate of both Pono, and the music he so dearly loves.
At the same time, Young addresses the reader in the present tense, as he wonders if his current songwriting dry spell will end soon; if his friends in Crazy Horse will answer the call to crank up the machine for a new album/tour cycle (they do, and they did); and if his relationship with the Muse will be altered now that he has given up the marijuana he employed for decades to reach the trance-states that produced his best-loved songs.
Throughout, Young writes with dry eloquence in a voice that is clearly his own, and not the product of some embedded ghost writer's tape recordings.
Like his father, the late Scott Young, a revered Canadian author and journalist, Young does not favor artful subterfuge, instead routinely stripping away the verbal fat to reveal the heart of the matter. His narrative voice is like his music – direct, emotional, hopeful, sometimes funny, willfully naïve, and often, quite beautiful.
Longtime fans will find enough Young-ian history to fulfill their needs.
The author writes graciously and with a generosity of spirit on his time with friends in the Squires, the Mynah Birds, Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, Crazy Horse, the Stray Gators and his various "side-bands."
His reminiscences on fallen friends – among them, producer David Briggs, pedal-steel player Ben Keith and filmmaker Larry Johnson – are profoundly emotional without ever venturing toward the maudlin. He has nice things to say about peers Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen, and treats Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Sonic Youth in a similar fashion.
There are plenty of amusing anecdotes, a few tales of excess and some new light cast on long-held popular myths.
But at its core, "Waging Heavy Peace" is a story about love of the enduring variety. Young's love for the music itself, and his passionate desire to see that music protected and nurtured, certainly. Even more apparent, however, is his love for his family – his wife of 35 years, Pegi, and his children Amber, Ben and Zeke.
The middle son, always referred to by the author as "Ben Young," never just Ben, born in 1978, is a nonverbal quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. Young refers to him as the family's "spirit guide," and makes it plain that this son has always been central to the Young family's conception of itself.
These passages are particularly moving, as are Young's uniformly adoring references to his wife. (None of this comes off as emotional string-pulling – Young writes in starkly honest terms, embracing once again that sense of childlike wonder that seemingly has never left him.)
Looking back over 45 years as a musician and songwriter, noting the blessings bestowed upon him both commercially and artistically, and pondering the meaning of success, Young comes to this conclusion near the book's end:
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ESRC DTP: End of Michaelmas Term Social and Soapbox (ESRC DTP Students Only) Prerequisites
The Director of the Cambridge ESRC DTP warmly invites all Cambridge ESRC DTP students to our first D'Tea'P Socials at the end of Michaelmas Term. This will be a great opportunity to catch-up with fellow DTP students and to receive an update on current opportunities.
We are delighted that Dr Miles Parker will be joining us on this occasion, who will be getting on his soapbox to speak. Miles is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy. He was formerly Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Director in the international office of the OST. He is a marine scientist with long-standing connections to MAFF, Defra and Cefas. He was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List 2013.
Following Miles, there will be time for a Q&A and also a chance to talk with him one to one over drinks and nibbles.
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