I used the vector space model about a decade ago when I worked on the simple search engine for the company documents. Today the subject came up in the conversation and I was surprised as to how quickly I remembered this. I still think that this is rather elegant.
Month: August 2012
Fedora 18 features
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee has recently had a meeting where the upcoming Fedora 18 features were decided. Out of the whole list, I am actually really looking forward to just one – 256 color terminals:
Many terminal programs (like vim and ls for example) can take advantage of 256 color terminals, and all xterms I know of support at least 256 colors and sometimes more.
So let’s break through the artificial 8 color limit!Also when preparing this page, while searching the net I noticed that Mac OS X Terminal’s default $TERM value is xterm-256color since Lion 10.7 That will ease some of the compatibility issues noted below.
You can see vim’s default appearance using the above expanded palette at:
Sure, the upgraded Perl and Python, Samba4 and Active Directory integration, FedFs and even the MATE Desktop (based on Gnome 2.x) are all cool. But I don’t use any of them on a daily basis anymore. Most of my needs have moved beyond desktop and straight into the browser. But the colorful terminal still plays a major role in my daily routine, so I’m glad to see there will be an enhancement.
What’s your most expected feature?
Cypriots still heaviest smokers in EU
Cypriots still heaviest smokers in EU
CYPRIOTS are the heaviest smokers in the EU puffing 20.5 cigarettes daily, according to a survey conducted as part of the European Commission’s campaign ‘Ex-smokers are unstoppable.’
According to the survey – conducted by iCoach, a digital health platform aimed at helping smokers kick the habit – only one in ten Cypriot smokers have given up smoking, since 2011, and those who still smoked, consumed the highest number of cigarettes in the EU at 20.5 cigarettes daily.
However, most smokers in Europe – 46 per cent – consume 11-20 cigarettes daily, with the EU average amounting to 14.2 cigarettes daily.
Cyprus was also ranked eighth among European countries, with 30 per cent of its population currently smoking. Ranking first was Greece at 40 per cent and last was Sweden at 13 per cent.
quiglegant – a quick and elegant solution to the p…
quiglegant – a quick and elegant solution to the problem.
Metasyntactic variable
A “standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples” often used in the United States is: foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud. The word foo occurs in over 330 RFCs and bar occurs in over 290. […]
Due to English being the foundation-language, or lingua franca, of most computer programming languages these variables are also commonly seen even in programs and examples of programs written for other spoken-language audiences.