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Submission + - Windows 10 gets a package manager for the command line (extremetech.com)

Submitted by aojensen on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:04AM

aojensen writes: ExtremeTech report that the most recent build of Windows 10 Technical Preview shows that Windows is finally getting a package manager. The package manager is built for the PowerShell command line based on OneGet. OneGet is a command line utility for PowerShell very similar to classic Linux utilities such as apt-get and yum, which enable administrators and power users comfortable with the command line to install software packages without the need for a graphical installer. ExtremeTech emphasise that "you can open up PowerShell and use OneGet to install thousands of applications with commands such as Find-Package VLC and Install-Package Firefox" — a missing feature, which Linux advocates for long have used to argue for Windows inferiority in terms of automation and scale. It appears that the package manage is open to any software repository and is based on the Chocolatey format for defining package repositories.

Comment Re:Just keep it off the servers.... (Score 1) 347

by aojensen on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @07:50PM (#48208697) Attached to: The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone

I actually thought this is what the Windows Server Manager was supposed to do away with - having to open the Control Panel/Computer Management in an RDP session in order to make significant system changes. How did you find using Server Manager in 2012?

Comment Re: I use my own reader (Score 1) 132

by aojensen on Saturday July 05, 2014 @09:00AM (#47387853) Attached to: Google Reader: One Year Later

Would you be so kind to share the source? This sounds interesting.

Comment Re: Choice is NOT ALWAYS good (Score 1) 128

by aojensen on Saturday June 21, 2014 @03:17PM (#47289541) Attached to: Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL

If I recall correctly, OpenSocial tried to solve exactly that problem? http://opensocial.org/

Comment Re: Choice is NOT ALWAYS good (Score 1) 128

by aojensen on Saturday June 21, 2014 @03:16PM (#47289537) Attached to: Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL

If I recall correctly, OpenSocial tried to solve exactly that problem?

Submission + - GitHub open sources Atom, their text editor based on Chromium (github.com) 1

Submitted by aojensen on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @01:07AM

aojensen writes: GitHub have decided to release Atom, a programmer's text editor based on Chromium. Atom is released under the MIT license. GitHub announced the following on their blog:

"Ten weeks ago we debuted Atom, the new text editor that's deeply programmable but also easy to use. Starting today, Atom is available for download to everyone–completely free and open source. Because we spend most of our day in a text editor, the single most important feature we wanted in an editor was extensibility. Atom is built with the same open source technologies used by modern web browsers. At the core of Atom is Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome. With that comes all the power and innovation being developed for the web. But more importantly, extending Atom is as simple as writing JavaScript and CSS, two languages used by millions of developers each day."

Apart from being extensible via HTML, Javascript, and CSS, Atom also offers out-of-the-box Node.js integration, a modular design with a built-in package manager (apm), and extensive features such as file system browser, themes, project-wide search and replace, panes, snippets, code folding, and more. Launched only 10 weeks ago, Atom seems to have a well-established ecosystem of packages and extensions already.

Atom is currently available for Mac (OS X 10.8) and can be downloaded from https://atom.io/.

Comment Re:The Psychology of Computer Programming (Score 1) 247

by aojensen on Friday April 25, 2014 @12:24AM (#46838497) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student?

Agree. Add to that: - Winograd & Flores: Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

Comment Paint .NET (Score 1) 373

by aojensen on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:10AM (#46582583) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code?

I find the source code for Paint .NET to be a good example of well written code (at least for a GUI driven application in a modern OO language).

Comment Networking, networking, networking... (Score 1) 173

by aojensen on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:27PM (#38141184) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Ph.D For Work In Applied Statistics / C.S.?

Coming from the enterprise IT consulting field, I can tell you that what is just as important is the network that you build up through your education and work. It sounds like the Ivy League University is going to give you better network opportunities plus a really good way of branding yourself in future interviews. From a career perspective, I would go with the Ivy League option.

Comment Once Again: The relevance of J. Searle (Score 2) 729

by aojensen on Thursday May 26, 2011 @11:16PM (#36259320) Attached to: Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness?

The journalist and prominent thinkers behind this article ought to read the paper 'Is the brain a digital computer' by John Searle (http://philosophy.wisc.edu/shapiro/Phil554/PAPERS/Is%20the%20Brain%20a%20Digital%20Computer.htm). Not only is it relevant to current research into strong/weak AI paradigms and philosophy of cognition --- it also provides a nice counterargument against physicalistic reductionism around human cognition.

Comment Re:TPG has the best plans (Score 1) 173

by aojensen on Saturday June 26, 2010 @09:45PM (#32706234) Attached to: Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror

Mod parent up. TPG even sports a flat-rate ADSL2 (called 'unlimited ADSL'), which is quite revolutionary for the Australian xDSL market. Now, I just can't wait to the NBN to be finished.

Comment As a Danish immigrant to Australia... (Score 5, Insightful) 154

by aojensen on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @06:09PM (#32596034) Attached to: Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal

... I have to say that this is nothing but seriously scary.

Comment Re:Firefox is a stinking pile of garbage (Score 1) 258

by aojensen on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @04:45AM (#27238409) Attached to: 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux

I completely forgot about the person who left Netscape with his last words "You can't polish a Turd" after Netscape open sourced their browser and morphed into Mozilla Foundation.

Besides the fact that your technical comparison is correct, it's incredible how fast people are at ditching Firefox for being slow -- while at the same time embracing Firefox when a new version of Internet Explorer is released. I'd call it the fallacy of browser competition.

I'd love to use Chrome. I actually tried the latest stable release on Win32 a couple of time, and it's incredibly fast. But I use Mac OS X on my desktop, and Google haven't ported the browser yet.

Google, keep up the good work and port the browser to Mac OS X as soon as possible!

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