Quicksilver
There’s an interview with Neil Stephenson posted at his website, cool.
Mandala RC2 launched last night, it’s great. I’m really proud. Most of the DJs are figuring it out. I actually had one girl tell me “this is a dream come true!” Wow. As soon as things are cleaned up to my liking, I’ll post the source. I wish I could figure out Horde, so I could get Chora working, so I could enable anonymous CVS… guess I could just tarball it. #
September 17th, 2003 at 9:10 pm
While I was reading your post, specifically the last line, I felt like I was reading a Mad Lib… Mostly ’cause I didn’t understand it
September 17th, 2003 at 9:39 pm
Right, let’s see. Horde is an application framework for web tools. One such tool is the popular IMP, a webmail tool. Another is Chora, which is a program used to browse a certain kind of database called a CVS repository. A CVS (concurrent versioning system I think?) is a program that holds source code for yet more programs. It is used most by the open-source community (think Linux) because you can enable anonymous CVS access, so that anybody can view the source code.
Tarball is a kind of archive popular among UNIX/Linux folk. Kind of like ZIP in how it makes one file out of many, but there’s no compression with tar. For that, most people in the community use gzip, so you get files that end in .tar.gz.