From 3bdbdd684795f1910f7420675830f8d1b12cd97b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 23:29:16 -0400 Subject: misc notes --- software/misc.page | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/software/misc.page b/software/misc.page index b75abd0..62147d3 100644 --- a/software/misc.page +++ b/software/misc.page @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/wiki/GrokDiscovery http://txt2re.com/ -Executable Compression ------------------------ +Compression for Executables +--------------------------- UPX: Ultimate Packer for Executables http://upx.sourceforge.net/ @@ -67,3 +67,50 @@ PHP Problems LISP Visualization ------------------ Nested boxes instead of nested parens: http://pretty-lisp.org/ + +Webmail +------- + +Squirrel mail is ok, CiderWebmail looks better. Have had problems deploying +Alpine Webmail. + +Structured Wikis +---------------- + +Circa May 2012 there are a few options for structured data in wikis: + +*[Semantic MediaWiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki)* is +probably the best option, though it is unfortunately in PHP. This is a series +of plugins/extensions to vanilla MediaWiki, which add editing (with or without +forms), querying, visualization, import/export, etc. + +*MediaWiki with the [WikiDB](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiDB)* +(PHP) + +*DokuWiki with [data plugin](http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:data)* (PHP) + +*eLog* could be used to collaboratively edit simple data. + +*TWiki* has structured data features and an input form (Perl). + +DBPedia uses [custom extraction +tools](http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation?v=6hz) for MediaWiki written in +Scala. dbpedialite uses just calls the Wikipedia API (Ruby). + +You can [search](http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=54395) wikimatrix for +wiki engines which have a "structured data" feature. + +Semantic Data Publishing +------------------------ + +[OntoWiki](http://ontowiki.net/Projects/OntoWiki/Features) + +[Google Refine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine) (formerly known as +Freebase Gridworks) seems pretty useful for "cleaning up" datasets. It's a Java +"workstation" app with a web/http interface. + +USB Performance Issues +---------------------- + +Parallelized mass storage transfers are much slower than serialized: +http://blog.dinkevich.com/why-usb-transfers-are-slow/ -- cgit v1.2.3