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This was a piece I had rattling around in my head for some time. It gets weak at the end, and has no real flow to it, but it's interesting enough in places that I thought I'd clean it up and publish it. Enjoy my dark sarcasm!
In a mass-market scenario, the larger the population the higher the chance for one or more free software projects to appear.
Since software can, in theory, be inherited by additional programmers and indefinitely updated, even the smallest chance for a free software project to be created becomes an inevitability over time. This means that even a niche market scenario can have competition from free software.
A crowd of hobbyists will have more time and expertise for a general-purpose piece of software than a development house can bring to bear. Simply put, they can do it better.
It goes without saying that cheaper, better and more supported free software will eventually out-compete proprietary equivalents, displacing established businesses and markets.
How can this problem be addressed?
Starting this March (early), I will be pursuing Rotating immersion again. In no particular order, the things I am primarily interested in working on during March, April, May and June are:
This page will be regularly updated and will have links to all these major topics.
Continues with 2013 third-quarter immersion.
Software for running a program.
You probably want Application launchers
Computers > Data, Files > Storage >
update 2 - this is basically pointless with contemporary hardware and software. Just use the defaults for something like cgdisk or GParted:
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment
Use MiB alignment for modern operating systems.
...The Cylinder/Head/Sector values reported by modern disk devices no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on the disk device. Hence it is no longer valid to use this alignment setting to achieve enhanced performance.
update: cgdisk, when beginning with a new partition table, when creating the first partition, automatically creates a small empty partition before it, and thus is said to align everything properly. I haven't double-checked this.
was https://sites.google.com/site/tstyblo/wmctrl
A command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. Get information, resize, move, etc.
A good tool for what it does.
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Abandoned - Not updated
- As of 2020-12-30 Last updated 2005-10-10 (1.08)
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When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I'm finding myself becoming more and more luddite.
I've learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It's something I'm always interested in. However, the one thing that I've learned - and sometimes the hard way - is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.
Yes, I actually had to look this one up. Apparently nobody thinks DVD menus and using your mouse for them) would be a sensible default.
mplayer -mouse-movements dvdnav://
And no, this doesn't work with gmplayer. That would be crazy. =/
https://github.com/brandt/symlinks
Mark Lord's 'symlinks' utility.
Scans directories for symbolic links, and identifies dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links. Can optionally change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem. Recommended for use by anyone developing and/or maintaining a Linux FTP site or distribution or CD-ROM.
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A Unicode VGA font.
- DOSEMU's vga font is an equivalent non-Unicode font.
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See also 9x15 versus DOSEMU's vga font
