Monday, September 28, 2009

Zero Install: Goals

Zero Install: Goals: "You don't have to be root just to install a word-processor, or its documentation. Most packaging systems only allow the root user to install software.
Traditionally, if a user needs a package that isn't installed, they just get an error message. In the screenshot, the system administrator must install the openoffice.org-help package before the user can read the documentation, or the user must install from source and handle any dependencies themselves. On a Zero Install system, Zero Install would have offered to download the documentation when the user selected Help.
Of course, Debian could fix this particular problem by making the OpenOffice package depend on the documentation package. But then, installing OpenOffice would require far more disk space if you didn't need the documentation (and most of the time, for most versions of most software packages, you don't need the documentation... but an administrator can't know ahead of time what will be needed by their users). Also, users still wouldn't be able to install OpenOffice itself in the first place."

Pico Lisp Download

Pico Lisp Download: "Pico Lisp"

FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments: "Fail, Owned and Pwn moments in pictures and videos. Share fails, pwns, and owns with the world on FAIL Blog.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

PowerGUI.org - Free Windows Powershell Community

PowerGUI.org - Free Windows Powershell Community: "Welcome to PowerGUI.org - a free community for PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell!"

Friday, September 11, 2009

LegalTorrents™

LegalTorrents™

About LegalTorrents
LegalTorrents is an online digital media community.

We discover and distribute high quality open-licensed (Creative Commons) digital media and art, and provide support to Content Creators. We host creative content in its entirety, ensure fast, reliable downloads, and enable users to directly sponsor Content Creators and their work.

We distribute content with the full permission of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology called Bittorrent.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Internet Archive: Free Download: The Dhammapada

Internet Archive: Free Download: The Dhammapada: "The Dhammapada"

The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Buddha on various occasions, most of which deal with ethics. It is is considered one of the most important pieces of Theravada literature. Despite this, the Dhammapada is read by many Mahayana Buddhists and remains a very popular text across all schools of Buddhism. - Excerpted from Wikipedia