Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Open Text Summarizer

I stumbled upon an interesting tool – Open Text Summarizer. It is a small utility which reads provided text, analyzes it, decides what is important and gives it out either in text, or in HTML as highlighted text. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. I have tried it on a couple of blog items and articles. And good news are that this tool is a part of Fedora distribution. Check it out.

Run it as /usr/bin/ots somefile.txt. If you don’t have it installed, than apt-get install ots.

In fact, it is so good that I might incorporate it into my email client for all incoming English languaged messages. Leaving just 5% of the original message, highlights just a single sentence with all the essence of the letter. /usr/bin/ots -r 5 email.txt for that.

“format C:” versus “rm -rf /”

Jokes about “format C:” and “rm -rf /” are pretty frequent in the computer universe. These two commands will supposedely remove all data from the hard disk – one on DOS/Windows and another on UNIX operating systems. While widely used, this might not be exactly true. This guy has tried both and documented the results.

BLOG:CMS 3.5 Final is out

By means of Freshmeat.net I’ve learned that BLOC:CMS (NucleusCMS on steroids) version 3.5 Final came out. It has an amazing set of new features and bug fixes. Here is a quote from Freshmeat announcement:

This release adds support for MySQL 4.0 (mysql), MySQL 4.1 (mysqli), and SQLite (PHP5). An integrated Dokuwiki engine was added. Singapore Photo Gallery, PunBB Forum, Atom and RSS readers and aggregators, an “About me/Contact” section, two WYSIWYG editors, and new support for sub-categories were added.

I will hold my urge to upgrade, since it has barely been half a year since I’ve installed the whole thing. I don’t want to lose a week or two now playing with new features, configuring and reconfiguring stuff, etc. I doubt though that I will be able to skip two versions in a row…