OFSET Planet (English only)

Atention, our liberties are in danger

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:20:35 +0200

Some politician in Europe are putting in danger our liberties one more time with excuses. They attack the liberty and the privacy with bad laws for all but few interested persons. Now, the important things, the ones that they can't establish in our Parliaments because of the noise that this will p ....

Original post on Lets go, there is not time to loose.

Software Freedom Day & New UI

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:58:10 +0200

Yesterday we were at the Software Freedom Day kickoff in Baarn, the Netherlands. We gave a presentation there on Freedom on the Brave New Web, and on LogiLogi.org, and a bit on our current efforts to make it usable to the max. It went well, and there also was a nice discussion afterward ....

Original post on The LogiLogi Foundation - Home

DrGeo II wins ESUG 2008 Innovation Technology Awards

Hilaire Fernandes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:29:00 +0200

It looks like I did it! Among 21 competitors, Dr. Geo II was ranked #1 by the attendees of the ESUG 2008 Conferences at Amsterdam. The participants to the contest were invited to present their product in a large show room where the attendees could discover the products and discuss with the dev ....

Original post on Education 0.2

SqueakNOS, faster than light

Hilaire Fernandes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:31:00 +0200

The fastest Smalltalk booting operating system of this side of the galaxy has landed in the OLPC Association XO notebook. The landing took place under the guidance of captain in chief Girardo Richarte (a.k.a Richie) while we were all attending the ESUG 2008 conferences at Amsterdam. The lan ....

Original post on Education 0.2

DrGeoII screencasts

Hilaire Fernandes — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:40:00 +0200

To demonstrate the use of DrGeoII, I have produced about 60 screencasts. Each screencast is pretty small and highlight the use of one specific DrGeoII tool. The documents cover both basic tools and advanced tools usages. http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Screencast_DrGeo ....

Original post on Education 0.2

Please Sell Us Diskless Computers

HUNG Chao-Kuei — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:51:00 +0200

We are an unorganized group of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) advocates. We would like to ask you to provide two classes of computer products so that we can market them for you while fulfilling our own advocacy objectives as well as marketing our own products -- 20 gram notebook computers. ....

Original post on Chao-Kuei's Notes | 資訊.人.權.貴隨便記

More fun with Smalltalk script

Hilaire Fernandes — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:48:00 +0200

In a previous article, I introduced the Smalltalk script system used in DrGeoII. I exposed how a simple script with argument can be used to generate random numbers. Here I will demonstrate the use of script with arguments. When using argument with your script you can do complex computation and plug ....

Original post on Education 0.2

Fun with Smalltalk script

Hilaire Fernandes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:10:00 +0200

In DrGeo 1.1, I implemented a Scheme script plugged into a geometric figure. These scripts are written with the Scheme language and they are used to do user computation over geometric items. They are plugged into the area and they display the computed script value. See examples. I took a fresh view ....

Original post on Education 0.2

DrGeo II macro-construction

Hilaire Fernandes — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0200

Macro-constructions are construction template depending on input items and output items. They are built according to a model defined by the user. Then the user can quickly repeat this construction sequence by only providing input items. I took a fresh view on reimplementing this feature in Smalltalk ....

Original post on Education 0.2

DrGeoII reloaded

Hilaire Fernandes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:29:00 +0200

This summer I am revisiting DrGeoII. The revisiting will consist on the usual refactoring effort, bugs hunting but also in implementing new features as the macro-construction and Smalltalk scripting. I will regularly post there about progress. ....

Original post on Education 0.2

G33M-S Motherboard Deliberately Crashes Linux?

HUNG Chao-Kuei — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:06:00 +0200

It is no big deal to learn that some hardware does not support Linux. It is rather interesting to find that a product claiming not to support Linux actually does contain a piece of code in its BIOS which has some "bug" specifically targeting Linux. (In response to TheAlmightyCthulhu's request, thi ....

Original post on Chao-Kuei's Notes | 資訊.人.權.貴隨便記

Testing my weblog

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:12:46 +0200

This is the first note in my general blog. It's a concept probe to see if its good idea. I have been thinking on it some weeks, I wanted to test one blog in a external system compared to my own in PHP. It's a matter of time, you know, the most valuable resource. I need to improve my writen english, ....

Original post on Lets go, there is not time to loose.

Traslations of the web of GPG-tools

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:12:14 +0200

I have translated to Spanish and Catalonian the web of PGP tols. With this note I give beginning to my blog of computer science in Slashdot. Greetings to all. Traslations (of this blog): francais, castellano, català orthographic errors

Original post on Lets go, there is not time to loose.

Clouds and birds

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:11:44 +0200

I have been investigating in my blog Todo de las nubes (Everything about clouds, [in spanish] ) on the relation between clouds and the birds. I have exposed a pile of photos that I have taken enough time in compiling. Clouds and birds in cristal, in oil, perspectives, some ideas and a selection of ....

Original post on Lets go, there is not time to loose.