Epiphany-browser 1.6.1 (Default branch)
Grok Headline matches for Epiphany-browser 1.6.1 (Default branch)
Epiphany-browser 1.6.2 (Default branch)
Epiphany-browser 1.6.2 (Default branch)
04/15/2005 12:19 AM
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the
Mozilla rendering engine. Its goals are
simplicity, standards compliance, and integration
with GNOME.
Changes:
This release fixes a small issue with the location bar, and
adapts to changing Mozilla APIs.
Epiphany-browser 1.7.1 (Development
branch)
Epiphany-browser 1.7.1 (Development
branch)
06/05/2005 11:23 PM
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the
Mozilla rendering engine. Its goals are
simplicity, standards compliance, and integration
with GNOME.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features integrated Python bindings, and a find toolbar
similar to the one found in Firefox.
Epiphany-browser 1.0.5
Epiphany-browser 1.0.5
11/06/2003 07:21 PMA GNOME Web browser.
Epiphany-browser 1.0.6
Epiphany-browser 1.0.6
11/11/2003 05:40 PMA GNOME Web browser.
Epiphany-browser 1.3.0 (Development)
Epiphany-browser 1.3.0 (Development)
06/02/2004 12:03 PMA GNOME Web browser.
DB Browser 1.4.0 (Default branch)
DB Browser 1.4.0 (Default branch)
03/24/2005 08:05 AM
DBBrowser is a program that can be used to
run queries and view the structure of
databases. It was designed to work with as
many RDBMS systems as possible using JDBC.
It uses a plugin API and can connect to any
system for which a JDBC driver exists.
Changes:
A minimally tested data import feature that allows the import of data
from a CSV file was added. The table can either already exist or be
created during the import process.
DBL Browser 2.0a (Default branch)
DBL Browser 2.0a (Default branch)
04/15/2005 03:24 PM
The DBL-Browser (Digital Bibliographic Library
Browser) offers the user the ability to browse a
digital library, like the DBLP
(http://dblp.uni-trier.de), while offline. It
provides a user-friendly interface, smart search
functions, and several textual and graphical
visualization models to assist the user in
retrieving desired publications.
Changes:
Improved visualisations. Better search capabilities. A rewritten
database interface. This release works with JRE. Some bugfixes.
ttb teletekst browser 0.9 (Default
branch)
ttb teletekst browser 0.9 (Default
branch)
03/27/2005 01:45 PM
ttb is a dedicated browser to view teletekst
pages, the videotext system used in The
Netherlands. ttb offers "clickable" pages (meaning
that page numbers work like hyperlinks) and drag &
drop to the desktop.
Changes:
This release has support for zooming of teletekst pages and some small
fixes.
ttb teletekst browser 0.9.1 (Default
branch)
ttb teletekst browser 0.9.1 (Default
branch)
04/03/2005 03:37 PM
ttb is a dedicated browser to view teletekst
pages, the videotext system used in The
Netherlands. ttb offers "clickable" pages (meaning
that page numbers work like hyperlinks) and drag &
drop to the desktop.
Changes:
Updates for the changes in the teletekst website, bugfixes in refresh
and error handling, support for an error page, and most importantly,
an icon has been added.
GNOME Hardware Browser 0.6 (Default
branch)
GNOME Hardware Browser 0.6 (Default
branch)
04/02/2005 06:56 AM
GNOME Hardware Browser (GHB) displays information
about hardware devices found in your system. It
uses the detect library. GHB is a part of the
XLine project.
Changes:
Devices are now displayed in a tree.
GNOME Hardware Browser 0.5 (Default
branch)
GNOME Hardware Browser 0.5 (Default
branch)
03/28/2005 09:54 AMGNOME Hardware Browser (GHB) displays information
about hardware devices found in your system. It
uses the detect library. GHB is a part of the
XLine project.
Default browser madness
Default browser madness
12/30/2003 01:30 AMPaul R. Brown: "The only place in [Mac OSX] 10.3 ("Panther") to set
the default browser is from a menu inside Safari." Clearly, the last
place you'd want to have to tell your computer which browser to use
would be...
Mac Tip: Change Default Browser
Mac Tip: Change Default Browser
07/11/2004 01:48 AMG4 Tech TV Jul 11 2004 5:14AM GMT
do they call it an epiphany?
do they call it an epiphany?
10/29/2003 12:11 AMIn my vicodin state of mind I had a thought that most of the things
that happen in our lives...
A Design Epiphany
A Design Epiphany
05/20/2004 07:06 PMDescribing Dr. John Maeda’s Simplicity Design Workshop at the MIT
Media Lab, Jessie Scanlon writes in the New York Times, “They
considered examples of simplicity: the iPod for its minimalist form
and intuitive interface … Apple Keynote (rival to PowerPoint) for
its subtle pop-up indicators that help you align and position elements
like a pro … From the first year’s efforts, some tenets of
simplicity have emerged: 1. Heed cultural patterns. The iPod, for
instance, succeeded not just because of its sleek form, but because,
in conjunction with iTunes, it solved so many of the problems of
buying and storing music.” [May 20]
Epiphany 1.0.7 Released
Epiphany 1.0.7 Released
01/18/2004 06:02 PMFalconer's pre-epiphany
Falconer's pre-epiphany
07/11/2004 09:22 AMTimothy Falconer — who has been working on ways to knit people,
pictures and words together for a while now — blogs an
edge-of-an-epiphany idea that somehow we, collectively, are going to
invent new ways to tell stories. Here's what I know so far: there will
be a new art form, a new way to tell our stories, a new way to
entertain and enlighten each other. Its defining characteristic will
be interconnectedness. It won't be sequential, but it won't be
haphazard. It won't be some kind of "you choose the ending" lame-o
branching crap either. It'll be engaging, involving...
A Starbucksian Epiphany
A Starbucksian Epiphany
05/13/2004 09:24 AMIt all started with a trip to Italy. But what keeps this coffee
powerhouse chugging?
Epiphany Extensions 1.1.0 (Development)
Epiphany Extensions 1.1.0 (Development)
06/02/2004 12:03 PMA collection of extensions for Epiphany.
A Design Epiphany: Keep It Simple
A Design Epiphany: Keep It Simple
05/19/2004 06:04 PMA professor has spent eight months putting forward his own one-word
vision of the future: simplicity.
Reg reader in Intel Shroud epiphany
Reg reader in Intel Shroud epiphany
07/22/2004 06:02 AMThe Register Jul 22 2004 10:23AM GMT
Breakfast with Dave Snowden and an
Epiphany
Breakfast with Dave Snowden and an
Epiphany
06/05/2005 11:12 PM
A
synopsis of a recent breakfast meeting with Dave Snowden, head of the
Cynefin Centre and thought leader on complex systems and narrative and
their application in business.
Last week I attended a
breakfast
presentation by Da
ve Snowden
of the Cynefin Centre in Toronto. He provided us with an entertaining
recounting of his disenchantment with traditional consulting and his
realization why most of what management and experts and consultants
try
to do in organizations has no significant, durable impact whatsoever.
As he described his learnings and discoveries about complex adaptive
systems and how pervasive they are in our business and personal lives,
I began to realize that appreciating
enterprises, organizations and systems as (mostly) complex rather than
merely complicated is more than just a basis for re-framing business
methodologies, it is a completely different way of sensing and dealing
with the world. It changes everything. Here are just a few of the extraordinary
paradigm shifts that this reframing provokes:
Complicated World
|
Complex World
|
Assumption of order ("research this to find
out if there's a market for it"
|
Realization of unorder ("let's explore what might happen if we did this")
|
Importance of aggressiveness and charisma to
"lead the change"
|
Importance of collaboration and humility to
participate in the evolution
|
Actions driven by authority-based
direction
|
Actions based on learnings from
conversations, consensus and freedom to act bounded by personal
responsibility
|
Top-down hierarchical communication and
knowledge transfer
|
Peer-to-peer (networked) communication and
knowledge transfer |
Military win/lose competitiveness
|
Natural win/win cooperation and
coexistence
|
Emphasis on action (making decisions quickly
and 'expertly')
|
Emphasis on paying attention (making
decisions continuously, improvisationally)
|
Assumption of rational choice ("tell people
why they should buy X")
|
Realization of entrained behaviour ("study
people to discover if they might buy X")
|
Primacy of objective reality ("what's
happening here")
|
Primacy of perception ("what do people think
is happening here")
|
Changing the way things are
|
Understanding why things are the way they
are
|
Assumption of intention ("why did this
happen")
|
Realization of meaning ("what do we learn
from this")
|
Assess causality
|
Look for pattern and correlation
|
Focus
|
Experiment
|
Leadership is everything
|
Membership is everything
|
Strive for stability
|
Strive for resilience
|
Exploit weaknesses, opportunities, needs via
speed-to-market
|
Explore weaknesses, opportunities, needs via
continuous environmental scan
|
| Mechanistic (machine) models of behaviour,
relationship, order, connection |
Organic (natural) models of behaviour,
relationship, order, connection |
How do we solve the problem
|
How do we deal with the situation
|
Set "go-to-market" mission, objectives,
strategies, actions
|
Understand the market and actors' identities
and influence the attractors and barriers that bring the market to you
|
Market as rational
|
Market as emotional
|
Here are some of the highlights (to me) of his presentation:
- Innovation today is driven by networkers, not by
scientists or marketers
- Networks are only as good as their
perceived trustworthiness, reciprocity and quality (personal value of
contacts)
- 'Edge Cultures' like Singapore, New Zealand and
Canada are
using the networked economy to become highly innovative, both because
they can and because they must
- Management science is finally
getting more like real
science, through the use of complex adaptive systems theory, cognitive
science, and anthropology etc.
- Taylor's mechanistic view of
organizations and markets
dominated management science for a century, and was still evident
recently in the passion for business process reengineering
- Senge et al (learning organization, systems dynamics)
challenged the mechanistic aspects but not the hierarchical aspects of
Taylorism (people were still expected to align themselves to the
strategy, not the other way around); DNA and information ecology
metaphors were first used by this group
<>Then knowledge management challenge the Taylorist
model
further (saying people can't be 'reengineered'), but too much of the
initial KM focus was on the futile effort to make tacit knowledge
explicit ("expecting you to learn how to ride a bicycle by reading the
manual"), and because codifying knowledge erases most of its context
("You can teach in three days what it takes three years to write in a
book" (and the context-rich hands-on teaching is more effective)- KM
began to realize that informal networks are far more important than
the
ones on the organization chart, and to realize that the most
innovative
people are under 25 (few preconceptions on how things should be done)
and over 45 (time and perspective to become aware of
alternatives)
- Narratives (stories) are the only effective
mechanism for
translating concrete (hands-on) knowledge into abstract (codifiable)
form, and are also very motivating (e.g. power of myths)
- KM
has recently spawned a new discipline Narrative Inquiry
to understand through large collections of anecdotes the true nature
of
the market (they catch 'weak signals' that questionnaires and focus
groups etc. miss)
- KM has also spawned a new surge in
Non-Hypothesis Based
Research, where direct observation with no preconception is used (a
form of anthropology) to acquire learnings
- There is an increasing awareness that dominant
companies
lose their position because their cultural filters blind them to much
real knowledge, as happened to IBM when they passed up early adoption
of the PC and the innovations that led to Sun's and Microsoft's
successes (this is entirely consistent with Lakoff's and Lappe's
framing theories, except it is applied to organizations and management
rather than to individuals)
- This use of narrative-based,
Non-Hypothesis Based Research
actually costs less than traditional analytical hypothesis-testing
methods, and produces far more innovation opportunities
- Such research can be made even more powerful by the
use of
Alternative Simulations, a technique that involves asking people to
imagine what would have resulted if something happened in history that
didn't really happen, and which allows preconceptions and blind spots
to be overcome, so participants can begin to 'think ahead' from the
patterns found in the true anecdotes that come out of Non-Hypothesis
Based Research
- Such thinking is needed to deal with what Dave
calls the
impending "demographic time bomb" (far too few companies are thinking
ahead to the needs of a much older market population)
- There is
a big difference between creativity and innovation
-- the latter requires starvation because it entails risk and
unorthodox thinking that are rarely tolerated until there is no
alternative (this is consistent with Christensen's observations about
disruptive innovations, which I wrote
about on Wednesday)
- The adoption of complex adaptive systems
theory seems to be
currently strongest in the pharma, telecom, defence and banking
industries
- The current focus of this theory is on what Dave
calls
ABIDE: Attractors, Boundaries, Identities, Dissent, and Environment;
its objective is to get executives thinking about how to have an
impact
on complex systems by changing attractors (the people, groups,
qualities and benefits that attract stakeholders) and removing or
changing barriers (the conditions that impede or inhibit stakeholders)
in stakeholders' various personal identities, rather than focusing on
traditional 'complicated' systems approaches like missions, strategies
and objective-setting
Dave uses this story to illustrate why ABIDE works better than
traditional approaches in complex situations::
Imagine organising a birthday
party for a group of young children. Would you agree a set of
learning
objectives with their parents in advance of the party? Would you
create
a project plan for the party with clear milestones and empirical
measures of achievement? Would you start the party with a motivational
video or use PowerPoint slides? No, instead like most parents you
would
create barriers to prevent certain types of behaviours ("the bedrooms
are off-limits"), you would use attractors (party games, toys, videos)
to encourage the formation of beneficial, largely self-forming
identities; you would disrupt negative patterns early to prevent the
party becoming chaotic or necessitating the draconian imposition of
authority. At the end of the party you would know whether it had been
a
success, but you could not define (in other than the most general
terms) what that success would look like in advance.
If you think the example is unfair because it refers to children, just
substitute 'cocktail party' for 'children's party'. The point is that
we see a complex situation as a merely complicated one, we form an
exaggerated sense of our understanding of the system and what could
happen, our knowledge of all the variables and their causal
relationships, and our control over the situation, and so our
behaviour
doesn't 'make sense', sometimes with terrible consequences. In every
situation there are attractors and barriers over which we have some
control and many others over which we have none. So rather than being
presumptuous, making inaccurate assumptions and setting naive
objectives, we should focus on the attractors and barriers we have
some
control of, pay attention to
what's happening, what's possible and what's needed, and improvise
sensibly to optimize the situation. As in the party example above, we
often have a lot more control over the initial conditions than we have over eventual outcomes, and we should
use that to advantage.
I hope to be able to write about some specific business applications
of
this approach soon, and I suspect it will play an important role in
the
design and operation of AHA! The Discovery and Learning Centre.
|
Why I chose Firefox over Epiphany for my
GNOME desktop
Why I chose Firefox over Epiphany for my
GNOME desktop
05/17/2004 04:21 AMAfter all the recent announcements concerning cooperation and
integration between the Mozilla Foundation and the GNOME Foundation, I
decided to compare GNOME's Ephiphany Web browser to Mozilla's Firefox.
I installed Epiphany 1.0.6 and Firefox 0.8 on a Debian "Sarge"
GNU/Linux system. After about a week, I came away feeling that Firefox
is unquestionably the better browser.
svk 0.29 (Default branch)
svk 0.29 (Default branch)
02/01/2005 09:45 PM
svk is a decentralized version control system.
While Subversion (svn) aims to take over the CVS
user base, svk attempts to take over the user base
of the other version control systems, including
people who have already switched to another
version control system, as well as people who have
not yet started using a version control system. It
is written in Perl and uses Subversion's
underlying filesystem.
Changes:
This release improves performance on larger repositories, notably on
preparing smart merge.
XC-AST 0.8.2 (Default branch)
XC-AST 0.8.2 (Default branch)
04/04/2005 10:23 AM
XC-AST analyzes data about call queues maintained
by an Asterisk PBX. After selecting one or more
queues, it provides information on agent logon and
logoff, taken calls, and lost calls in formatted
reports. It is designed to be used for monitoring
call centers that require real-time activity reports.
Changes:
Real time visualization of waiting time and/or
current call duration was added on the realtime
monitoring page. Real time visualization of call
duration was added on the agent's page. Minor
bugfixes were made.
Vex 1.2.0 (Default branch)
Vex 1.2.0 (Default branch)
03/23/2005 05:18 AM
Vex is a visual editor for XML. It features a
word processor-like interface.
Changes:
This release features easier extension with new doctypes
and styles via the new plug-in project mechanism, basic
DITA support, the ability to specify which style a document
should be shown with, and improved CSS support.
x48 0.4.2 (Default branch)
x48 0.4.2 (Default branch)
04/11/2005 05:14 PM
x48 is an emulator of the HP48 sx or gx
calculator. This is a very nice RPN calculator.
Changes:
Two bugs were addressed: the cursor not flashing on input, and the
arrow key repeat problem.
Ivy 1.0-rc1 (Default branch)
Ivy 1.0-rc1 (Default branch)
04/12/2005 05:18 PM
Ivy is a simple but powerful dependency manager.
Its key features are ease of use, extreme
flexibility, easy extensibility, Ant integration,
and transitive dependencies. It is ready to use
with the Maven ibiblio repository. It eases
continuous integration, and makes your software
component a lot simpler to use.
Changes:
A new report that indicates all the dependencies resolved, direct and
transitives, with the status and place in the dependency graph for
each. A new graph report showing all dependencies as a graph. A better
include/exclude feature, helping to get only what you need from a
dependency you do not control.
STL AVL Map 1.0 (Default branch)
STL AVL Map 1.0 (Default branch)
03/22/2005 06:29 PMThis is a fully STL-compliant C++
map/set/multimap/multiset implementation for g++.
It uses an AVL tree instead of a Red-Black tree.
It currently works only with g++ 3.4.
Tor 0.0.9.8 (Default branch)
Tor 0.0.9.8 (Default branch)
04/08/2005 03:11 PM
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and
groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
It also enables software developers to create new
communication tools with built-in privacy features. It
provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow
organizations and individuals to share information over
public networks without compromising their privacy.
Individuals can use it to keep remote Websites from tracking
them and their family members. They can also use it to
connect to resources such as news sites or instant
messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet
service providers (ISPs).
Changes:
This release has a workaround for a rare bug that makes servers stop
processing new circuits.
CVS 1.11.19 (Default branch)
CVS 1.11.19 (Default branch)
03/22/2005 03:52 PM
CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. Unlike the simpler systems,
CVS does not just operate on one file at a time or one directory at a
time, but operates on hierarchical collections of directories
consisting of version controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases
and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple
authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control various operations
and works well over a wide area network.
Changes:
This release fixes a few serious bugs in both the
CVS client and server. An intermittent assertion
failure on checkout was fixed. A final fix for the
infamous "Red File" bug on Windows was included.
An upgrade is recommended for all clients and
servers.
qGo 1.0.1 (Default branch)
qGo 1.0.1 (Default branch)
03/31/2005 07:22 AM
qGo is a Go board, SGF editor, and client for the Internet Go Server.
You can review and edit games, connect to IGS, and play against a
computer program supporting GTP (like GnuGo). Go is an ancient board
game which is very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
Changes:
IGS rooms and better handling of GNUgo.
SoC GDS 5.5.0 (Default branch)
SoC GDS 5.5.0 (Default branch)
03/30/2005 06:14 PM
SoC GDS is a platform for enabling hierarchical SoC integration and
verification across traditional EDA frameworks based on Virtual
Components per the VSIA guidelines. It is also a fast viewer and
processor for native GDSII files. It encompasses a set of powerful
functions allowing automatic cell renaming, grid verifications, GDS II
files merging (AND), physical comparison (XOR), hierarchy
modifications, and conversion to text format.
Changes:
This release provides extended management of technology files through
design kits and Cadence techfile compatibility; LEF reading,
validation and display; and hierarchical LEF/GDSII comparison as well
as DRC annotation display.
joe 3.2 (Default branch)
joe 3.2 (Default branch)
03/22/2005 03:51 PM
JOE (Joe's own editor) has the feel of most IBM PC text editors: The
key-sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo-C. JOE is much
more powerful than those editors, however. JOE has all of the features
a UNIX user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, excellent
screen update optimizations, simple installation, and all of the
UNIX-integration features of VI.
Changes:
This version includes many bugfixes and feature
enhancements, including xterm mouse support, hex
edit mode, a scientific calculator, the ability to
jump between XML tags/word delimiters by pressing
^G, file locking, and support for perforce and
arch.
pyc 0.5 (Default branch)
pyc 0.5 (Default branch)
06/05/2005 11:22 PMpyc compiles Python source code to Python
bytecode. Since it is written entirely in Python,
it is easy to modify and add new features to the
Python programming language.
Tor 0.0.9.7 (Default branch)
Tor 0.0.9.7 (Default branch)
04/01/2005 11:58 AM
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and
groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
It also enables software developers to create new
communication tools with built-in privacy features. It
provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow
organizations and individuals to share information over
public networks without compromising their privacy.
Individuals can use it to keep remote Websites from tracking
them and their family members. They can also use it to
connect to resources such as news sites or instant
messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet
service providers (ISPs).
Changes:
This release fixes another server race crash bug and a bug which
caused
a refusal to extend to an unknown server.
Xen 2.0.5 (Default branch)
Xen 2.0.5 (Default branch)
03/23/2005 07:00 PM
Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that
supports execution of multiple guest operating
systems in isolated environments.
Changes:
Various minor bugfixes and code cleanups were
done.
nut 10.17 (Default branch)
nut 10.17 (Default branch)
04/03/2005 07:54 AM
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your
meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA
Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 17, which contains
6,839 foods and 128 nutrients. This database contains values for
vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber,
etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and
Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily
Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States,
but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or
food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is
completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Changes:
This release corrects the formatting of the man page and restores the
correct alpha-linolenic acid reference value, which was too low in the
last release.
VCD-db 0.971 (Default branch)
VCD-db 0.971 (Default branch)
02/06/2005 03:08 AM
VCD-db is Web-based movie catalog software. It supports
multiple users to collect, manage, and work with their media
catalog. New movies can easily be added through several
methods, for example by fetching data straight from
websites such as imdb.com and dvdempire.com.
Changes:
In this release, two new language files are included (Dutch
and French), direct play from the Web is now
possible, and the user can now personalize their front page
with selected RSS feeds. There were also some minor fixes.
Grok Description matches for Epiphany-browser 1.6.1 (Default branch)
GrokA matches for Epiphany-browser 1.6.1 (Default branch)
Epiphany-browser 1.6.1 (Default branch)
