Condensing with Open Text Summarizer
December 21, 2008
Properly speaking, Nadav Rotem’s Open Text Summarizer (OTS) is not a summarizer at all. True summaries generally involve rewording contents at a higher level of generality while preserving the meaning, not just producing a condensed version of the original the way that OTS does. However, within its limits, OTS is an efficient tool for automatically producing abstracts of non-fiction, that, in the last 15 months, has received favorable mention from at least four academic publications, including one in which it outperformed similar utilities, including commercial ones such as Copernic and Subject Search Summarizer.
Tracking build status with Pulse
December 21, 2008
Pulse is a build server that can monitor your source repository and trigger a build and test cycle every time somebody does a commit. With Pulse you will always know if the most recent sources in your revision control system compile and if they pass your unit and system tests. Better yet, Pulse allows you to build and test your current working copy of checked-out source, during a so-called Personal Build, so you can see if your code breaks things before you commit your changes to the central repository.
How to Best Utilize Screen Real Estate in Gnome
December 21, 2008
TuxTraining: “But in Gnome icons are too large. Buttons and fonts are too large. The panels are too thick. The toolbar buttons in Nautilus are far too big. And apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so.”
WFTL Bytes! for Dec 19,2008:Good/Google/Microsoft Live Search OS, Linux Toys, Spare Change For Palm
December 21, 2008
WFTL Bytes!: “This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 19, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. This is episode 40. In today’s stories, we get a breath of fresh Air from Adobe, montrously huge losses at Palm, the sudden dematerialization of Novell’s Brainshare, a disturbing shot of reality from Good OS, and some fantastic Linux toys for the geek on your shopping list.”
