New term coined: Hybrid posting

Abstract

hybrid posting: use top posting to mark a leaf on the conversation thread, use bottom posting to receive a response.

Interleaved style: an extension of hybrid posting.

Some examples

Hybrid posting


From: god@heaven.org
To: gloob@litio.org
Subject: start thread

Will you have bought a new car before summer?

I was thinking in buy a toyoya \"hybrid\" prius.

case A: Use top posting to mark a leaf on the conversation thread


From: gloob@litio.org
To: god@heaven.org
Subject: RE: start thread

i don\'t think so.

> Will you have bought a new car before summer?

>I was thinking in buy a toyoya \"hybrid\" prius.

Result One email to close the thread with one response.

case B: Use bottom posting to receive a response.


From: gloob@litio.org
To: god@heaven.org
Subject: RE: start thread

> Will you have bought a new car before summer?

>I was thinking in buy a toyoya \"hybrid\" prius.

Toyota is a good brand of cars, I\'m very happy with it.

Did you check Lexus, too?

Result One email to continue the thread and inviting others to response it.

Creating video with codeswarm

A very fast recipe to do a video with codeswarm (Relative to codeswarm home)


#!/bin/sh

mkdir project_build

svn log -v https://urltoprojectsvn/svn/project > project_build/activity.log

python convert_logs/convert_logs.py -s project_build/activity.log -o project_build/activity.xml

ffmpeg -f image2 -r 24 -i ./project_build/frames/code_swarm-%05d.png -sameq ./project.mov -pass 2

ffmpeg on osx 10.6 (snow leopard)

(using MacPorts 1.8.2)

Update MacPorts

dendrita:~ gloob$ sudo port selfupdate
dendrita:~ gloob$ sudo port upgrade outdated

Install ffmpeg :)

dendrita:~ gloob$ port variants ffmpeg
ffmpeg has the variants:
darwin_10: Platform variant, selected automatically
no_gpl: disallow use of GPL code, license will be LGPL
no_mmx: disable all x86 asm optimizations
speex: enable Speex decoding via libspeex

dendrita:~ gloob$ port install ffmpeg +speex

on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

sunbeam
Consider again that dot. That\’s here, that\’s home, that\’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \”superstar,\” every \”supreme leader,\” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

May 11, 1996 Carl Sagan

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