Comments on: 2007-12-11: just a quick roundup

By: reinouts

reinouts — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:27:58 +0000

There was an OS/2 utility called NPS WPS Enhancer that created all sorts of wireframe animations when closing or minimizing windows. Unfortunately I don’t know if a description of these animations or a screencapture of them can be found anywhere on the ‘net (a quick bit of Googling didn’t turn it up for me).

By: Ted Percival

Ted Percival — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:55:02 +0000

@Thomas, I think it’s because blogs and software are so different, there are huge benefits in collaborating on software but it doesn’t really matter whether there are a thousand different blogs on the same topic. Perhaps because collaborating on code is so much easier, certainly in part because of revision control – but because the end goal is different too. A blog tends to be a series of essays and there’s no need for there to be One True Essay, whereas with software it’s good to have a single application that everybody can use.

And as Rusty points out, most reuses of blogs falls within copyright exceptions such as fair use anyway. (http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/2005-08-03.html, still mainly about avoiding -nc and -nd.)

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:25:11 +0000

@Ted: Thanks for the link; I hadn’t seen it. I think it’s odd that he compares his choice of blogging licences to the decision to switch Linux to GPL-only, yet doesn’t discuss the implications of that for share-alike. It seems to me that if you leave off share-alike your blog will be more BSD-ish than GPL-ish.

By: Ted Percival

Ted Percival — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:03:21 +0000

Attribution is the best license, Rusty Russell explained why:

“Why not share-alike? Because I want to maximize the usefulness of my work, and others have chosen more restrictive licenses: this would block them from copying. They’d just end up wasting their own time because they can’t just copy my work: it’s unlikely to force them to change their license.”

Full post: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/2005-07-05.html

By: sb

sb — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:44:56 +0000

I do!! I want it! Maximize-vertically-on-double-click sounds fantastically useful to me. Finally, here is a reason to double-click a window’s title bar.

I never maximize windows anymore. It’s useless on today’s large displays (unless you like seeing gigantic white margins on either side of your document of course). But I maximize vertically all the time.

Will maximize ever understand the natural width of a document?