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Ubuntu 9.10 released [Ubuntu 9.10 released]

Bass — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:35:17 GMT

Newest installment of the Ubuntu operating system is out today. You can download it for free if you feel a little adventurous.

Main page:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Guided tour:

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features

I'm also taking bets on how long it will take this thread to turn into a giant flame war. ;)

Edit:

If you are trying to download it and having problems, it could be that the servers hosting it are slammed. You can download via BitTorrent, which will be extremely fast:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#bt

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Recommend lecture series [Recommend lecture series]

Bass — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:35:43 GMT

Besides Erik's Functional Programming series, any recommendations?

Here is ones I really liked:
Intro to Algorithms from MIT

Linear Algebra from MIT

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C9 Lectures [C9 Lectures]

Bass — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:31:10 GMT

I love this idea, it's brilliant really. Microsoft has a level of expertise in MSR that rivals the elite CompSci/Engineering universities.

So if this going to be a long term thing, here are some ideas for future lectures:

Image Processing

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Robotics

Queuing Theory

Bioinformatics

Wavelet / Fourier Transforms and their Applications

There are people in MSR (Redmond even) with expertise in these areas. It's just a matter of convincing them (and their superiors).

Anyways this is partly a suggestion part commendation. :) Thanks Erik and Charles!

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Resizing ext4 partition? [Resizing ext4 partition?]

Bass — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:45:16 GMT

Can the Windows 7 installer resize an ext4 partition?

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Company who owns patent on Interwebs goes nuclear [Company who owns patent on Interwebs goes nuclear]

Bass — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:13:01 GMT

Eolas, a company that invented claims to invent the Interwebs (sorry Al Gore) is feeling a little poor after their $585M settlement with Microsoft.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/company-that-won-585m-from-microsoft-sues-apple-google.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

I wonder how many of you thieves are stealing Eolas's valuable intellectual property.

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Windows 7 Ultimate [Windows 7 Ultimate]

Bass — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:53:26 GMT

So I have a Windows7 Ultimate Disc I got for going to that MSFT launch event. On the disc it says "32-bit". So this means if I want to install 64-bit Windows, I am screwed?

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What is the nerdiest thing you own? [What is the nerdiest thing you own?]

Bass — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:20:47 GMT

For me it's a collection of rocks and semiprecious gems acquired from around the world. :)

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Setting up a Windows box [Setting up a Windows box]

Bass — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:05:09 GMT

I'm setting up a Windows machine. What are the typical things you install/configure after installing Windows?

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Google Wave invite? [Google Wave invite?]

Bass — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:19:26 GMT

Anyone get a Google Wave invite?

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TechCrunch interviews Ballmer [TechCrunch interviews Ballmer]

Bass — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:44:58 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OpRQMRa270

Interesting video.

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HOWTO: .NET development on Ubuntu [HOWTO: .NET development on Ubuntu]

Bass — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:50:42 GMT

History:

0.1: Initial draft

This post will discuss how to develop .NET applications using Linux, specifically the Ubuntu distro. Mostly we will be using Mono, but in the future I will talk about how we can get Visual Studio and .NET proper.

Topics to cover:

Setting up Mono

History of Mono

Differences between Mono and .NET

Using MonoDevelop (Console)

Using MonoDevelop (GTK# - Mono GUI toolkit similar to WinForms/WPF)

Using MonoDevelop (ASP.NET)

Setting up Visual Studio 2008 / Windows toolchain on Linux

Deploying to Linux, Mac OS X and Windows in one step using CMake (cross-platform make)

Possible other topics: Embedded Mono, Mono.SIMD, Mono garbage collection, Mono.VirtualMachine, Mono.Addins, OpenTK

Getting Mono set up

Step 1: Install the Mono development toolchain.

Step 2: Install an IDE. I recommend MonoDevelop.

How to launch MonoDevelop

Launch MonoDevelop by hitting Applications -> Development -> MonoDevelop

More to come..

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Some Linux news!!1 [Some Linux news!!1]

Bass — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:56:17 GMT

Over on YouTube:

Ubuntu 10.04 announced via Markcast, codename "Lucid Lynx"

Over at OMG! UBUNTU!:

A preview of Gnome 3, the revolutionary new desktop environment from the gnome people (underpants).

http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-3-quick-visual-tour.html

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Some ideas of groups to interview [Some ideas of groups to interview]

Bass — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:12:13 GMT

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ml/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/mlpbio/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/

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Awesome video Charles [Awesome video Charles]

Bass — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:59:34 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Butler-Lampson-Abstraction-Security-Embodiment/

^ That was the best video I've ever seen on Channel 9.

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An interesting use for dynamic functionality [An interesting use for dynamic functionality]

Bass — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:44:59 GMT

I know this is somewhat old but..

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Aug-11.html

Dynamic P/Invoke. It's similar to functionality in Python, and it's coming to .NET thanks to the DLR and C# 4.0 :)

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Boo 0.92 released [Boo 0.92 released]

Bass — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:13:47 GMT

Might seem like a minor update but they added language features like unsafe code support & regex literals.

Boo is a first class .NET language which is 100% made by the community. IMO it's one of the most underrated .NET projects in existence.

Some features:

Has a Python inspired syntax!
Statically type, with optional dynamic types
First class type inference (no type predicates at all)!
Syntax macros! (Language extendability, very useful for DSLs)
OO is optional!
Functions are optional! (making it useful as a simple scripting language)
Interactive interpretation!
Exclamation points!!

Check it out at the codehaus.

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This video - in English [This video - in English]

Bass — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:03 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/codefest/Windows-7-Compatiblity-Screencast-Windows-7-VHD-Boot/

Anyone know where I can find that video or something similar in English?

If I am not mistaken it is talking about how to boot a VHD image.

Question: Can you boot a VHD image stored on an ext4 filesystem?

Sorry this should have probably been in Tech Off.

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Microsoft-themed Linux distro [Microsoft-themed Linux distro]

Bass — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:05:04 GMT

I had some weird idea. Start with a distro like Ubuntu or SuSE, and then integrate as much Microsoft-esque stuff into it as possible.

It might be a interesting hobby project.

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IronRuby kicking ass and taking names [IronRuby kicking ass and taking names]

Bass — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:49:24 GMT

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Aug-03-1.html

Looks like IronRuby is already signifantly faster then Ruby 1.8, and very close to Ruby 1.9 (the graph is apperently wrong).

On top of this, it's passing 85%+ of the Ruby spec.

It's seems very likely this will become a complete Ruby implementation, but with the added benefit of full first-class BCL access. Ruby on Rails + .NET baby!

With all these languages being .NET'ified, pretty soon the CLR will be the one runtime to rule them all. :)

This will do so much for code reuse it's not funny.

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Converting a large VB.NET project to C# [Converting a large VB.NET project to C#]

Bass — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:26:22 GMT

I have recently acquired a fairly large VB.NET project (30,000 LoC). I would like to integrate this in my primarily C# project. I know I could leave it all as VB code, but I vastly perfer C#.

Do you think this is plausible?

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Interview Ballmer or Gates with questions asked by the community [Interview Ballmer or Gates with questions asked by the community]

Bass — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:32:38 GMT

See subject. :)

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Mozilla Firefox reaches one billion downloads [Mozilla Firefox reaches one billion downloads]

Bass — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:06:26 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8177829.stm

Congrats Mozilla Foundation.

In other news, it's not too late to take advantage of Microsoft's offer to donate 8 meals to the hungry or homeless on your behalf for every download of IE8. Download IE8 here.

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Best way to learn WPF [Best way to learn WPF]

Bass — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:22:49 GMT

I am interested in learning WPF, especially the fancy special effects/boom explosions side of it. Anyone have any good (perferably online) resources you can recommend?

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HTML5 Video tag stripped out of posts [HTML5 Video tag stripped out of posts]

Bass — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:23:51 GMT

If I do in HTML view:

<video src="http://www.geeksoc.org/gcds/Till%20Adam,%20In%20it%20for%20the%20Money.ogv">Error!</video>

Channel 9 strips out the video tag.

It would be useful if this didn't occur, but I understand if you are not ready to support this new HTML tag.

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HTML5 video on Firefox 3.5 [HTML5 video on Firefox 3.5]

Bass — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:57:45 GMT

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/video/

First real video I've ever seen that is using HTML5's <video> tag. Very interesting to be able to see a video running natively by a web browser for first time. :)

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