Archive for January, 2007
Squeak, Squeak, Squeak
I've been trying to choose a programming language that I could use to learn together with my nephews. There are several different languages to choose from, and I generally feel that object-oriented languages should not be where someone begins, because I believe that (at least once you are doing it for money) you need an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )REBOL Opening Up
Personally, I am glad to see REBOL opening up. It seems that for most markets, closed software is gradually drying up and going away. Rather than going away as that market does, RT is doing a really smart thing, similar to what Sun is doing with Java. I hope that they will create a formal definition of the language, so that parallel implementors can develop compatible offerings. Looking at the business model of Red Hat, for example, almost everything that they distribute is freely available, but they do earn income from those who want support and reliability.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )REBOL Directions
The REBOL Technologies site has a look at their planned directions for 2007. I am hoping that this is not vaporware, but RT is a small company, so the community will have to get behind them in this. The Internet Operating System, the AltMe system, and the "viewtop" are being tied together, so that there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )REBOL Tutorial
I must admit, I have "messed around" with REBOL for many years. Yet, it has always been more of a "toy" language in my view. Sure, they had people that did some interesting things with it, but was it something that I could use to write applications that would be used in a small business? [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Linux Runlevels and Services
I recently installed Fedora Core 6 in a Qemu virtual machine with only 256MB of memory. To speed things up, I installed in text-mode. I did, however, want it to boot graphically (using KDM as the login screen).
I found the answer on the Linux.com site. The article provided the final piece of the puzzle.
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