Vision Research (company)

Vision Research is an international company that manufactures high-speed digital cameras based in Wayne, New Jersey. Their cameras are marketed under the Phantom brand, and are used in a broad variety of industries including: defense, industrial product development,[1] manufacturing, automotive, scientific research,[2] and entertainment.[3] Vision Research is a business unit of the Materials Analysis Division of Ametek Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices.[4]

Source: Vision Research (company) – Wikipedia

Vision Research (company) was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

SATA problem – disk, controller or other?

I’m having some grief. I’ve posted elsewhere about a disk that is going faulty on my system, which is based on an MSI K8M Neo-V m/b. My current strategy is to try to add a new disk by adding a new controller. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that everything’s detected and sometimes works. The bad news is that it doesn’t work all the time 🙁 I’ve borrowed a Sweex PU102 – SATA Card PCI – PU102 – which uses the Sil 3512 chip and I’ve bought a Samsung HD103SJ 1 TB SATA disk –

Source: SATA problem – disk, controller or other?

SATA problem – disk, controller or other? was last modified: July 13th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Future of Gnome and GTK when whole world is moving to Qt : linux


Future of Gnome and GTK when whole world is moving to Qt from linux

LXDE is switching to Qt as well. Also the KDE folks reworked their libs making them draw similar dependencies as a 3rd party Qt lib. This means Projects like LXDE and Unity can make use of portions of Frameworks 5 without exploding their dependecy lists. The KDE folks also are creating a new website and framework to make it easy to find, fetch and use 3rd party Qt libs. The project is InQlude.org. This is opening up the Qt ecosystem for devlopers and making things easier I don’t think GTK has an equivalent. Desktop wise many of the Qt based DEs such as LXQt and KDE have standardized on a shared display manager SDDM which brings these projects even closer together. This is the opposite of the way thing end up in the GTK world where people branch off quite a bit more.

Furthermore Qt 5 is landing on Android and iOS bridging the way for porting of your favorite apps to these platforms. Where is GTK in these respects? Things are moving fast and Qt devs and projects are working more together to solve problems while GTK is fracturing. If you have a GTK 2 based app you will have to port anyway making it attractive to just port to Qt, projects such as Subsurface have all ready done this and it improved their maintainability and appearance on other platforms making it a win win for them.

Future of Gnome and GTK when whole world is moving to Qt : linux was last modified: July 13th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Create a package for Android — Kivy 1.9.2.dev0 documentation

You can create a package for android using the python-for-android project. This page explains how to download and use it directly on your own machine (see Packaging with python-for-android), use the prebuilt Kivy Android VM image, or use the Buildozer tool to automate the entire process. You can also see Packaging your application for the Kivy Launcher to run kivy programs without compiling them.

For new users, we recommend using Buildozer as the easiest way to make a full APK. You can also run your Kivy app without a compilation step with the Kivy Launcher app.

Kivy applications can be released on an Android market such as the Play store, with a few extra steps to create a fully signed APK.

The Kivy project includes tools for accessing Android APIs to accomplish vibration, sensor access, texting etc. These, along with information on debugging on the device, are documented at the main Android page.

Note

Python 3 support on Android is now available experimentally.

Source: Create a package for Android — Kivy 1.9.2.dev0 documentation

Create a package for Android — Kivy 1.9.2.dev0 documentation was last modified: July 13th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

How to Quickly Resize, Convert & Modify Images from the Linux Terminal

ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images. ImageMagick can quickly perform operations on an image from a terminal, perform batch processing of many images, or be integrated into a bash script.

Source: How to Quickly Resize, Convert & Modify Images from the Linux Terminal

How to Quickly Resize, Convert & Modify Images from the Linux Terminal was last modified: July 13th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Nick Szabo

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in computer science.[1]

The phrase and concept of “smart contracts” was developed by Szabo with the goal of bringing what he calls the “highly evolved” practices of contract law and practice to the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet.[2][3] Smart contracts are a major feature of cryptocurrency[4] and the programming language E.[5]

Szabo influentially[6] argued that a minimum granularity of micropayments is set by mental transaction costs.[7][8]

Source: Nick Szabo – Wikipedia

Nick Szabo was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic