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From: David Kennedy on 5 Nov 2009 12:54 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:14:21 +0000, David Kennedy > <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > >> This is all I could find >> >> <http://www.malcom-mac.com/home/?s=nemo> >> >> which gives 0.2.9 supposedly released June of this year >> >> But lower down - Nemo is Back he says >> >> " >> Nemo is back >> >> Finalmente dopo parecchio tempo sono riuscito a pubblicare una nuova >> build di Nemo. Si tratta della nuova riscrittura, che comprende almeno >> l�80% del codice totalmente nuovo (a partire dal layer di networking e >> quello di storage). Iniziano da oggi i lavori di test e debug per la >> versione 1.0. >> Trovate maggiori info qui.' >> >> i.e. V1.0 of Nemo is under testing... >> >> There doesn't seem to be anyway to download any of these versions though. > > 0.2.9 is under the link labelled {title}, at > http://nemox.googlecode.com/files/Nemo_0.2.9.zip > > Cheers - Jaimie So it is. I wonder why I didn't think of that... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Kennedy on 5 Nov 2009 12:56 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:14:21 +0000, David Kennedy > <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > >> This is all I could find >> >> <http://www.malcom-mac.com/home/?s=nemo> >> >> which gives 0.2.9 supposedly released June of this year >> >> But lower down - Nemo is Back he says >> >> " >> Nemo is back >> >> Finalmente dopo parecchio tempo sono riuscito a pubblicare una nuova >> build di Nemo. Si tratta della nuova riscrittura, che comprende almeno >> l�80% del codice totalmente nuovo (a partire dal layer di networking e >> quello di storage). Iniziano da oggi i lavori di test e debug per la >> versione 1.0. >> Trovate maggiori info qui.' >> >> i.e. V1.0 of Nemo is under testing... >> >> There doesn't seem to be anyway to download any of these versions though. > > 0.2.9 is under the link labelled {title}, at > http://nemox.googlecode.com/files/Nemo_0.2.9.zip > > Cheers - Jaimie It's also available - and somewhat more clearly - here <http://code.google.com/p/nemox/downloads/list> -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Chris Ridd on 5 Nov 2009 13:16 On 2009-11-05 17:56:26 +0000, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> said: > Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: >> 0.2.9 is under the link labelled {title}, at >> http://nemox.googlecode.com/files/Nemo_0.2.9.zip >> >> Cheers - Jaimie > > It's also available - and somewhat more clearly - here > > <http://code.google.com/p/nemox/downloads/list> There's zero code in the repo at google, and only trivial changes have been made to his Wiki around the start of the year. It's dead, Jim. Er, David. -- Chris
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Nov 2009 13:56 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Nemo looked promising, but the author seemed to have an on-again/off-again > > approach to development, plus he wanted to charge people for betas. > > I may be quite wrong, but it seems to me that authoring software is an > extremely hard way to earn a living unless (a) you are employed by an > organisation that has other revenue streams (b) you have a serious in > with a business that wants to use your software or (c) you can induce > somebody to buy you out. One could try `writing' software - being less illiterate about it might work out better, you never know. Authoring, I ask you! > Of course, you can also use it to demonstrate your skills, although that > feels a bit like (c) above. > > The internet, with the way it has of making punters believe that > everything should be free, is an additional and huge problem. ....which permitted the idea of shareware to flourish, so it looks like the Internet makes it easier to make money from software if you're not in category a, b, or c above. > But at > least it makes publicity very cheap, verging on free. Same with > delivery, although funds transfer (aka payment) can cost real money. > > I know little or nothing about this; but is all that even approximately > right? Server space isn't remotely free, so any popular downloadable software is going to cost real money to `keep up and serve to the punters'. Don't forget, Peter, that 0.0000000000000000001 is infinitely bigger than zero. Verging on free? Nah, wrong way of looking at it, leads you into inaccurate conclusions. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 5 Nov 2009 15:06
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > One could try `writing' software - being less illiterate about it might > work out better, you never know. Authoring, I ask you! I was including 'publishing' in that. 'Writing' is insufficient. 'Authoring' seems the closest word. -- Peter |