e-Sword Polls

Back on 24 February, 19 polls regarding operating systems that people run e-Sword on were created at the eSword list on yahoogroups. These were the results on 25 Fevbraury, prior to me resetting all totals to zero.

001: What Operating System do you use e-Sword on? Please answer this
poll and the operating specific poll as well

* Windows: 29;
* Macintosh: 2;
* Linux:2;
* Rest: 0 votes;

002: Which of the following versions of Windows do you use e-Sword on?
Please answer this poll and, if applicable, the Version Specific poll
as well.

* Windows 2000: 3 votes;
* Windows XP: 19 votes;
* Windows VIsta: 11 votes;
* Rest: 0 votes;

003: Which of the following versions of Windows 95 do you use e-Sword on?

* No votes;

004: Which of the following versions of Windows NT 4.0 do you use e-Sword on?

* No votes;

005: Which of the following versions of Windows NT 3.x do you use e-Sword on?

* No votes;

OO6: Which of the following versions of Windows XP do you use e-Sword on?

* Windows XP Home Edition: 16 votes
* Windows XP Professional Edition: 22 votes
* Windows XP Media Center Edition: 8 votes
* Windows XP Tablet Edition: 1 votes
* Rest: 0 votes;

007: Which of the following versions of Windows 2003 do you use e-Sword on?

* No votes;

008: Which of the following versions of Windows 2000 do you use e-Sword on?

* Windows 2000 Professional 3 votes;
* Rest: 0 votes;

009: Which of the following versions of 64 Bit Windows do you use e-Sword on?

* Windows Vista Home Premium Edition x64 2 votes;
* Rest: 0 votes;

010: Which of the following versions of Windows Server 2008 do you use
e-Sword on?

* No votes;

011: Which of the following versions of 32 Bit Windows Vista do you
use e-Sword on?

* Windows Vista Home Basic Edition x86: 2 votes;
* Windows Vista Home Premium Edition x86: 7 votes;
* Windows Vista Business Edition x86: 2 votes;
* Windows Vista Ultimate Edition x86: 3 votes;
* Rest: 0 votes;

012: Which of the following versions of 64 Bit Windows Vista do you
use e-Sword on?

* No votes;

013: Which of the following versions of OS/2 Warp do you use?

* No votes;

014: Which version of the Macintosh Operating System do you use e-Sword on?

* Macintosh OS X 10.4 Tiger 1 vote
* Macintosh OS X 10.2 Jaguar 1 vote
* Other Macintosh Version 1 vote
* Rest: 0 votes;

015: What Version of Linux do you use

* Mandrivia Based: 1 vote;
* Gentoo Based: 1 vote;
* Debian Based: 1 vote;
* Ubuntu Based: 1 vote;
* Rest: 0 votes;

016: Which Christian Orientated Linux distribution do you use?

* Other distro: 1 vote;
* Rest: 0 votes;

017: Which Ubuntu derived Linux distribution do you use e-Sword with.

* No votes;

018: This is the top 10 list of Linux distros according to
DistroWatch. Which, if any, do you run e-Sword one?

* Ubuntu 7.10 1 vote;
* SimplyMEPIS 7.0 1 vote;
* Rest: 0 votes;

019: Which BSD distribution and version do you use e-sword with?

DebianGNU/NET BSD: 1 vote;
Other BSD Distribution: 1 vote;
* Rest: 0 votes;

BibleTech 2008

I've pondered upon what to write about BibleTech 2008.

Most of the sessions are now available for downloading in mp3 format.

The first talk I attended was Tauber's talk "MorphGNT and the building of Linguistic Databases for New Testament Greek". It was gratifying to learn that he used basic Unix command line tools for his analysis, when he started the project. One other point is that he maintains a Greek morphological analysis dictionary based upon Strong's, which is in the public domain. So now I can point people to a text taht can be freely translated, if they want Strong's in a specific language.

Andy Wu's talk "Treebacks of Biblical Texts" was about something I'd wondered about creating for e-Sword. Specifically, if a tool that autogenerated Tree Diagrams would be useful after it created one for every verse. The answer here is "yes". The reason: Use the sentence diagrams to determine how closely a translation matches the source text. One thing I'm curious about, is how they created their rules for Chinese grammar.

Rick Brannan's "Locating New Testament Cross-References: Some Strategies" has a more practical effect. One resource that I think e-Sword lacks, is a comprehensive gratis set of cross-references. This talk gave me a set of starting points to create such a resource. I don't know if I'll be able to generate the 500 000 cross-references that one hard copy Bible claims to have.

There were several other very good talks. Those three are the ones that set me wondering about how to create their specific information into resources for e-Sword.