IBM Power Systems Buyer's Guide
IBM Power Systems Buyer's Guide
Nov 9, 2010, 12 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (840 reads)
(Other stories by Drew Robb)
"It isn't easy selling non-x86 equipment these days. According to IDC, that side of the server market has had five quarters in a row of decline -- while at the same time the x86 segment is picking up. On the IBM side, sales weren't helped by the fact that users were waiting for a new line of products.
""IBM experienced weakness in its Power Systems and System z servers as customers waited for the completion of a product refresh cycle for both product sets," said IDC analyst Jean Bozman.
"The release of the Power7 processor this year was accompanied by a new line of Power servers, which are broken out in the table at the end of this article. Now that these are on the market, IBM Power sales should pick up.
"But another factor may have been influencing sales. Two years ago, IBM brought its System i and p product lines under the IBM Power Systems umbrella."
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Behind KDE: Martin Eisenhardt
Behind KDE: Martin Eisenhardt
Nov 9, 2010, 17 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (460 reads)
"Martin Eisenhardt Ever wondered who is behind anonsvn.kde.org? Want to know what drives a person to provide that service to KDE for years and years? Martin Eisenhardt will tell you in this weeks behindkde's interview. As we speak he is setting up one of the first anongit.kde.org mirrors, which will be live later this week!
"Can you give an introduction of yourself?
"Well, I am Martin Eisenhardt, thirty-something years old, married to my lovely wife Claudia. We are living in a small town called Lauf, which is near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. I hold an advanced degree in Computer Science; my favorite pastimes are programming, reading, music, hiking, and photography.
"Can you tell us what you do for a living?"
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Create the tools to your next great novel
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November 1st kicks authors to put pen of national novel writing month a chance for budding to paper, or finger to keyboards and bang out a 50,000 word (or more) novel in 30 days. Sound like fun? Well, it can be. And unless you are really almost with a pen, most of the budding authors use some sort of software to write their novel.After all, at a minimum of 1,600 words a day, that is a lot of ink and paper.
But even if this is not your first NaNo, you might be wondering, is there a better program out there for me. The answer is probably yes, but....Over the past year I have been looking at some of the programs that are available for writing novels and are open source. I hope one of them will help you write your novel.
To begin, the packages break down into two styles: general word processors and dedicated story processors. The distinction is significant and will either help or frustrate your efforts to create a novel.
The two programs I have worked with are storybook and writer's Cafe. Both have the advantage of being cross platform so you can work on Linux or Windows. Since I do write on both a Linux and a Windows machine (depending on where I am and what machine is available to me) so the cross platform capability is critical to me.
Storybook
I found from an installation perspective that storybook was much more complicated to install, especially on Windows where a number of Java libraries were required. You must have at least version 6 (2.6) of Java installed on your system or it storybook will run not, but you also do not have to be root to run the program. If your Java libraries are up to speed, all you need to do is grab the tarball, and run the shell script
./storybook.sh
to start working.
Both storybook and writer's Cafe are designed for the plotting novelist. That is, the type of novelist that has done plot development and character drafts and even gone so far as to break their story down into a series of scenes.Storybook I the most found to be structured of the packages and if you are a structured writer you will find it to be a great tool, with places to keep all the little minutia of your novel.Overall, it has a steep learning curve but once you get used to the tool set and way it it expects you to write, has similar features to many of the commercial novel writing software you will find packages and allows you to maintain multiple plot threads without getting confused.
Writer's Cafe
Writer's Cafe comes in a tarball, or pre packaged for your OS, in both 32 and 64-bit flavours. Since I am running 64-bit Fedora, I grabbed the RPM and installed it in the usual way.
Writer's Cafe seemed a little more intuitive to me from the beginning with a couple of helpful tips on start up to get going. It also has the ability to track character sketches, plot lines and other things to help you write, but it also has a number of more free - form writing areas for more haphazard writing.
Writer's Cafe of so had a neat little autogenerator for names when you just stuck are and do not know what to call that swarthy gentleman at the bar. (Seems his name is Hassan beers).
Writer's Cafe has a number of useful novel-writing features but is again a steep curve if you are not used to using these sorts of tools, or the structured novel is not your writing style.
In short, both are useful tools, good for writing structured novels and for those used to using structured tool suits. But if this is your first shot at NaNo, or, like me, you apply structure as you go along, then you really want something more simplistic.
Kate
If you are a user of KDE, or just like a good text editor, I encourage you to get Kate. There are no fancy fonts, no plotting tools and no peg boards, but it does allow you to type without distraction. Kate also has a nice auto complete feature similar to that in open Office.So if you find yourself typing existentialism over and over, for example, it will offer to insert the word for you after only two or three times typing it this is useful for those of us that have problems spelling existentialism, the computer does it for us. The only really negative thing about Kate for this very difficult to keep track type is it of exercise is of how many words you have typed. But Kate is configurable and I am sure there is some way to add a word count function.
Open/Libre Office
Clearly, open/Libre Office would be the hands down winner for simply banging out a manuscript. I found that when I used it year, its cross-platform performance last what more than acceptable and it did count words for me, once I figured out how to tell it to do that. The problem with open/Libre Office is that it sometimes makes you stop and think about typography. And when you are trying hit a goal of so many words per session, dithering with fonts and layout can soon become a major distraction. The other problem that I had with it what the way it counts words.For open / Libre Office, every space is considered a word.Something I discovered as we were nearing the end of the month last year and my word counter say I had typed 55,000 words, but the official counter said I was at a little more than 47,000.Nothing like the cold dose of reality that you are 3,000 words behind where you thought you were.It was not until much later that I discovered this little foible.
LyX
LyX is a different type of word processor.In fact it calls itself a document processor.Specifically, it is a what you see is what you mean processor, rather than the traditional what style you see is what you get that are most familiar with.
Like Kate, LyX does not have a lot of interface to clutter up the work space.But it is also a different way of thinking if you are used to a WYSIWYG-style editor like open/Libre Office.LyX pre processor to LaTeX, and installing it will require a number of LaTex is a front end and TeX packages to make it work.Further, while there is not much of an interface to get in the way of you banging out your novel, you might find yourself frustrated at the end of the month when you try to print out your novel, as there are a number of templates and styles that you can wrap your text in, some quite robust and complicated.
On the whole, I find LyX to be a very sophisticated package that is not for the first time novelist, unless you also happen to be an expert in typography, LaTeX, and pre and post processing that go with the publishing industry.There are too many things that will distract you, especially if you are not used to the WYSISWYM meme.
In the end, there are a number of good packages out there to help you write you novel.The one you use is the one that will work best for you based on how you write.Good luck over the next 30 days.I have not started writing my novel yet, but come November 30, I hope to have my 50,000 words done and then some.See you at the end!
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