Domain: charter.net
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Wrong Problem, Wrong Tool.
What this guy is complaining about is that Error Handling code must reside at some point along the code that may encounter an error. He specifically mentions that he'd like to put all error handling in another file.
What he really wants is a tool for organizing code blocks in a more logical way.
What this guy wanta is something like the Leo editor. Of course Leo is not the only player in it's cathegory, see Outliners.
Now for the most interesting problem, singaling abnormal return conditions. Exceptions trully are the right contruct, specially for any code that is intended to be used in a larger program. Exceptions do the right thing and they do it better.
Code examples. For example, all these snippets of pseudocode are functionally the same:
# using out parameters
code = functionCall(argument1, argument2, OUT PARAMETER value)
if code != SUCCESS_CONST
return code
else
doSomething(value)
# using ad hoc structures
returnHandler = functionCall(argument1, argument2)
if not returnHandler.success
return returnHandler.errorCode
else
doSomething(returnHandler.value)
# using a resource object, basically same as above, but with more functions in the name space
resource = functionCall(argument1, argument2)
if not library_successTest(resource)
return library_getError(resource)
else
doSomething(library_getValue(resource))
# using exceptions
doSomething(functionCall(argument1, argument2))Yes, the last example is exception oriented code. No Try/Catch needed. Must exception oriented code include a stupid amount of superfluous try/catch. The first idea is that code that doesn't handle errors shouldn't care about errors. in this example `doSomething` doesn't do anything with the error values of functionCall so why should it take so much effort to feed the return of functionCall to doSomething or bail?
If you argument is that the calling code shouldn't return an error and should handle the error; think about it. Whatever the parent intended to do has failed, so the parent still has to handle the error but now it doesn't have any information about what went wrong. Unless of course, you intend the caller to fix everything, in which case you live in a perfect world where errors don't occur. Or, you intend functions to handle errors for their all their calling parents which is insane.
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Re:Bloatware turds with stupid keys
I just bought my first bilingual keyboard laptop and it is driving me nuts. I'm getting used to the Enter key placement, but that shift key is a pain. I came across this program which lets you remap the bottom-left backslash to shift.
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
It isn't perfect. It works well when typing words and paragraphs, but doesn't work for highlighting or some other functions.
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Charter.net offers this today
Hey everyone, thought I’d post as I work in the Product group at Charter and we actually launched a service to let you figure out where an asset is available for playback online. If you go to http://charter.net/tv/ just enter an episode or movie into “What Do You Want to Watch”, we aggregate feeds from Netflix, Hulu and Amazon among others
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Re:sales dampened themselves: the car sucks
diesel pretty poison crap. Even the filtered European fuel.
However, what will happen is they will come to the US, people will see it gets worse mileage and scream the american company's aren't any good and never take into consideration a gallon in Europe is the same as a gallon in the US.
Diesel emissions are still less dangerous that gasoline emissions.
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Re:Computer fraud?
I went to the two websites listed as examples in TFA and I couldn't find the iframe or javascript that they claim is checking on your browsing history.
Can anyone pastebin the relevant snippets of html or javascript links from http://www.flixster.com/ or http://charter.net/?
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Leo
Many of the responses here are good and point to good software options (some I'll be checking out), but perhaps many of the suggestions are over-kill for the OP's needs. For basic tracking and task lists, in a GTD way, I use Leo
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/screen-shots.html
It runs on the desktop, requires no cumbersome setup or configuration, can be used in a minimal way to create hierarchies of tasks (ideas, etc), yet offers sophisticated features for the advanced user.
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Leo
Many of the responses here are good and point to good software options (some I'll be checking out), but perhaps many of the suggestions are over-kill for the OP's needs. For basic tracking and task lists, in a GTD way, I use Leo
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/screen-shots.html
It runs on the desktop, requires no cumbersome setup or configuration, can be used in a minimal way to create hierarchies of tasks (ideas, etc), yet offers sophisticated features for the advanced user.
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Re:Will it make a dent?
Consider using KeyTweak. Not quite the same, I know, but if it's your only issue with the hardware, it seems a shame to let it spoil things. http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
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How annoying
My ISP has been doing the same thing for a while now. It fucks with the stored history in my browser. I make a mistake and every time I'm typing in the correct URL later, my mistake is shown as an option from my history.
My ISP is the American ISP Charter. When I type in a bad url, I get a search page like this.
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How annoying
My ISP has been doing the same thing for a while now. It fucks with the stored history in my browser. I make a mistake and every time I'm typing in the correct URL later, my mistake is shown as an option from my history.
My ISP is the American ISP Charter. When I type in a bad url, I get a search page like this.
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Why not remap keys with xmodmap?
I haven't typed on any these small keyboards, but based on photographs, I would think xmodmap/xkeycaps would be your friend. On every keyboard I use, I set the control key to be whatever is left of the A, and I put Alt in the lower left corner. xkeycaps, which is the program I use to generate the key remapping file, is showing its age, but it works, and you only need to use it once per computer.
If you're using windows, KeyTweak is great.
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Re:Windows: Key remappers
I use key tweak:
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Re:hmmmmm Vista... powershell ... winfs..... etc
I'd like to point out that DirectX 10 is arbitrarily tied to Vista explicitly for backwards incompatibility & to force upgrades. , but so far the difference is nearly indistinguishable and not a uniform "win" for DX10. Not only that, but because DX10 only runs on Vista, it tends to render slower than DX9. As of yet I haven't seen a single DX10 feature worth upgrading for, nor have I seen a DX10-only game yet. Killer feature indeed.
Sources: http://webpages.charter.net/bliss/ http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/directx-9-vs-directx-10-worth-upgrading-to-vista-for-243099.php http://www.gamespot.com/features/6171326/index.html -
"Customer Care" Response
I went to Charter's contact page and selected the option to chat live with a Customer Care Representative:
You have been connected to TTD Jomar .
Me: I just read an article stating that Charter has begun sending letters to its customers informing them that, in the name of an "enhanced user experience," it will begin spying on their traffic and inserting targeted ads. Is there any truth to this?
TTD Jomar : Thank you for contacting Charter High Speed Internet Technical Support. My name is Jomar. How may I assist you today?
TTD Jomar : I'm so sorry, but this is already beyond our scope of support. Please call 1-888-438-2427 for further assistance.
Me: Thank you.
TTD Jomar : Again I apologize for the inconvenience you've experienced, but if there is anything further I can help you with please, let me know.That kind of response doesn't sound like "Customer Care" to me.
Anyway, I called the number and spoke to someone who didn't have a clue what I was talking about. He transferred me to someone else.
The second phone rep said she hadn't heard about the new "enhanced user experience" feature, so she put me on hold to ask someone else. After she came back on the line, she said that she wasn't able to find out anything about it, so said to go to charter.net to stay informed about new features and services.
Naturally, there doesn't appear to be anything on Charter's site about the new "enhanced user experience."
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Re:rr is doing this too
And so does Charter: http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=www.gmasklgndhafqav.com
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Leo - Literate Editor and Outliner
Links:
Leo's Home Page .
A Tutorial Introduction to Leo.
Leo starts with the representation of source code that Knuth uses in The Art of Computer Programming and makes it work in an outliner that can round-trip source code.
The original post concerns analyzing existing source code. A reasonable approach within Leo would be to load it in, and start iterating over the resulting outline, refining it by breaking out chunks of the code into new nodes, each of which did a specific job. What makes this noteworthy is that the nodes one creates need not be an entire function, entire procedure, or even an entire statement within the language in which the code is written. The Leo user is free to create nodes that encompass chunks of the code as the human being sees them. The name of the node need not be legal within the language of the source code; it can be in natural human language (in my case, U.S. English). In the code from which the code was taken, the reference to that code is replaced by the name of the node.
Analyzing code this way produces an outline; any node in the outline contains source code that contains comments in natural language that express part of the source code without the syntactic requirements of the language in which the source code is written, and without the pedantic verboseness required to explain the algorithm to the computer.
But wait, there's more. A node can contain documentation that is not part of the program itself. The documentation can be anywhere in the outline (and in the source code).
An outline can contain nodes that are not part of a file of source code. These can contain design notes, to-do's, anything.
Mathematically speaking, Leo outlines are Directed Acyclic Graphs -- graphs without loops. Yet, Leo supports "clones" -- nodes that are references to other nodes. When displaying the contents of a clone, the body of the original node is displayed.
When I use Leo to organize the code I am writing, I clone nodes as I go, and move the clones to design notes and to-do's. The design notes incorporate the source code. The to-do's also incorporate the source code. When I work on a to-do, I modify the clones of the source code nodes within the to-do list -- and Leo propagates the changes to the original node and to all the other clones of it. When I am finished, I save... and Leo updates the source code that I feed to the C++ compiler, Python, or whatever processor.
But wait, there's more. Leo is scripted in Python. Leo scripts can iterate over an outline, creating or moving nodes, modifying the contents of a node. Leo scripts can add buttons to the Leo GUI.
But wait, there's still more. Leo is open source, under a Python license. It is cross-platform -- I can run it under Windows or OS X or Linux. I can add source code highlighting for a language that it doesn't support. -
Leo - Literate Editor and Outliner
Links:
Leo's Home Page .
A Tutorial Introduction to Leo.
Leo starts with the representation of source code that Knuth uses in The Art of Computer Programming and makes it work in an outliner that can round-trip source code.
The original post concerns analyzing existing source code. A reasonable approach within Leo would be to load it in, and start iterating over the resulting outline, refining it by breaking out chunks of the code into new nodes, each of which did a specific job. What makes this noteworthy is that the nodes one creates need not be an entire function, entire procedure, or even an entire statement within the language in which the code is written. The Leo user is free to create nodes that encompass chunks of the code as the human being sees them. The name of the node need not be legal within the language of the source code; it can be in natural human language (in my case, U.S. English). In the code from which the code was taken, the reference to that code is replaced by the name of the node.
Analyzing code this way produces an outline; any node in the outline contains source code that contains comments in natural language that express part of the source code without the syntactic requirements of the language in which the source code is written, and without the pedantic verboseness required to explain the algorithm to the computer.
But wait, there's more. A node can contain documentation that is not part of the program itself. The documentation can be anywhere in the outline (and in the source code).
An outline can contain nodes that are not part of a file of source code. These can contain design notes, to-do's, anything.
Mathematically speaking, Leo outlines are Directed Acyclic Graphs -- graphs without loops. Yet, Leo supports "clones" -- nodes that are references to other nodes. When displaying the contents of a clone, the body of the original node is displayed.
When I use Leo to organize the code I am writing, I clone nodes as I go, and move the clones to design notes and to-do's. The design notes incorporate the source code. The to-do's also incorporate the source code. When I work on a to-do, I modify the clones of the source code nodes within the to-do list -- and Leo propagates the changes to the original node and to all the other clones of it. When I am finished, I save... and Leo updates the source code that I feed to the C++ compiler, Python, or whatever processor.
But wait, there's more. Leo is scripted in Python. Leo scripts can iterate over an outline, creating or moving nodes, modifying the contents of a node. Leo scripts can add buttons to the Leo GUI.
But wait, there's still more. Leo is open source, under a Python license. It is cross-platform -- I can run it under Windows or OS X or Linux. I can add source code highlighting for a language that it doesn't support. -
Re:I'm actually thinking of upgrading to Vista tod
There are several VERY notable games that look far better under DirectX 10. Crysis, Bioshock, Lost Planet
I checked what you said.
With Crysis the snapshots did not look 'far better'. In some instances like the 'paradise' pictures on that page, I actually preferred the directx9 shots.
With Bioshock the snapshots did not look so 'far better' either and even articles pointed it out.
I also looked at Lost planet and the same pattern occured (some cases I again preferred the dx9 renderings).
I don't really think the slight 'improvements' in the games Vista is very justifiable.According to wikipedia, that's been deprecated and replaced by Live since 2004. I personally don't know of any software that uses it.
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Re:Exactly, thank you!
>However, with maille, it's basically impossible to tell from a drawing or carving if
>maille is butted or riveted. The fact that there are so many examples of riveted maille
>could be attributed largely to its cost since it would have been used by the very rich who don't do most of the actual fighting.
This debate has been put to bed years ago, my friend. It is the generally unanimous opinion of all experts in the field that maille armour intended for actual battle use was almost always riveted.
I don't want to come across as a braggart here but I have researched this heavily for nearly 10 years, and I have lectured on the subject internationally, as well as appearing on television. None of this makes one an expert, of course, but I can assure you, having discussed this topic in depth with professional arms and armour experts around the world of much higher abilities than my own amateur efforts, for all practical purposes, all maille was riveted, or alternating rows of riveted and solid links. The only exception to this has been parade armour. This conclusion is what all current research and surviving items support.
Concerning the tightness of the weaves: I have handled a pair of maille braise (essentially underwear) in the reserve collection of the Royal Armouries that was woven so tightly you could not poke the point of a pencil through it. It was riveted.
If you are interested in pursuing the subject of armour in more detail there is an awesome bulletin board, www.armourarchive.org. If you are interested in maille in particular, perhaps one of the most knowledgeable in the field today is Mr. Erik D. Schmid. His web page is here: http://webpages.charter.net/erikdschmid/
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Re:Sigh...
With the avilability of cheap digital cameras, that can be bought and disposed of. The idea that it will lead to someone being caught is simply bad. You can even buy a disposable and mod it http://webpages.charter.net/tvickers89/PV2mods.ht
m for $20 then throw it away.http://webpages.charter.net/tvickers89/PV2mod s.htm -
Re:Hosts fileYou need to send a Host: HTTP header (which isn't www11.charter.net unless the URI has args) in order to get a meaningful reply from www11.charter.net; it then uses the requested URI for the search. Charter can clearly keep track of your typos.
64.158.56.56 The server (64.158.56.56 or unknown.level3.net) gives different replies based on the request:
http://64.158.56.56/ -- plaintext "404 Not Found"
http://unknown.level3.net/ -- bold "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
http://www11.charter.net/ -- what looks like an MS HTTP server error (though, nmap says it is linux)
http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=moo&rn=y1D0mGq
A mobwd75 -- the intercept search page; Powered by Yahoo!What is also interesting is the "opt-out" feature on the "About this page" link sets a cookie which causes subsequent visits to the intercept page to direct you to search.msn.com.
Very odd setup; but easy to figure out how the set it up.
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Re:Hosts fileYou need to send a Host: HTTP header (which isn't www11.charter.net unless the URI has args) in order to get a meaningful reply from www11.charter.net; it then uses the requested URI for the search. Charter can clearly keep track of your typos.
64.158.56.56 The server (64.158.56.56 or unknown.level3.net) gives different replies based on the request:
http://64.158.56.56/ -- plaintext "404 Not Found"
http://unknown.level3.net/ -- bold "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
http://www11.charter.net/ -- what looks like an MS HTTP server error (though, nmap says it is linux)
http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=moo&rn=y1D0mGq
A mobwd75 -- the intercept search page; Powered by Yahoo!What is also interesting is the "opt-out" feature on the "About this page" link sets a cookie which causes subsequent visits to the intercept page to direct you to search.msn.com.
Very odd setup; but easy to figure out how the set it up.
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Customer notification and experience...
I'm not surprised ISPs are doing this. More will be doing this. What does surprise me is how ISPs try to do this silently and behind closed-door without informing their customers, or even their tech support in some cases.
Think about it this way: Any change an ISP makes that results in 1% (or more) of their customer base calling in for technical support is a cost nightmare. Customer Service is a (*the*) major cost center for ISPs. I guess we have to imagine that they are making more money than the pain of doing the customer service is costing them.
The other thing that surprises me (and obviously I'm biased since I run OpenDNS) is that the search results page linked above is 100% ad-driven. There are no no organic search results for my typo (as far as I can tell). Moreover, when I click on a category to "refine" my results they totally remove the typo'd domain that I had there in the first place instead just giving me generic ads for a category (which is a mediocre CPC on their side) and a crappy search experience on the user side. There is absolutely no user-benefit to what Charter has done here.
I'm proud to say that our page is getting better and better every single day. Compare and contrast. Not only that, but we're driving more and more innovation in both user navigation and fundamental DNS operations. These things go hand in hand. Fundamentally the DNS is about navigation. It's about helping users get where they are trying to go. That's exactly what we intend to help our users do. We know that the changes we have made to how our DNS servers operate aren't for every user which is why we are so clear about how our system works and is why make sure we can manage account settings on a per IP basis (CIDR-style preferences down to /32's).
As usual, I'm happy to answer questions where I can.
-david ulevitch
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Waiting to hear back from them...
I talked to their tech support a few days ago about this shadiness. He had no idea this was going on, and rightfully thought it was a malware/spyware problem at first, until I explained a little more clearly what was going on, and he did some poking around and found other blog and forum posts about this. He seemed somewhat surprised that Charter would engage in such a practice and that no one had been told about it.
He was talking with level 2 support while he was on with me and said that they just kept telling him it was probably malware/spyware. Hilarious that they at least see it that way too, but sad that their company pulls this shit on them without telling anyone first. I asked him for a followup, he said he'd pass it along to level 2, I gave him my email address, and that was that. I don't exactly expect to ever hear back from them, so I'll probably have to make a stink at a city Cable Board meeting to get any response.
In the meantime, I hope other folks out there start repeatedly and publicly asking Charter:
- Were they ever going to make an announcement/disclosure to allow customers to opt-out, or at least tell their staff about it?
- Will they provide options for customers who don't allow or regularly clear cookies, such as a non-redirecting DNS?
- Why were they pointing people towards http://optin.charter.net/ , which doesn't exist?
- How much information do they gather about visitors to their link farm?
- Is there a third-party involved providing Charter the redirect (like Barefruit did for Earthlink?)
- How much money are they making from their link farm affiliates?
- Most importantly, do we have any guarantees that they aren't redirecting or degrading other network traffic?
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Re:Gamma
I just use KeyTweak to swap my left windows key and my caps lock key. Then I use AutoHotkey to make up all sorts of exciting and time-saving key combinations using the left windows key. (left windows + f brings firefox to the front. leftwin + e brings my email client to the front, checks for new messages, and moves to the next new message, etc).
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Re:Why would anyone want an aftermarket cable box?
In some cases, the Cable company determines the specific features and functions available to its consumers on its DVR. While I have no problem with a cable company wanting to restrict access to premium content, I do have a problem when it comes to them restricting features that are otherwise user-definable on other competing platforms.
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Re:Tailgating
I have 20 years of driving under my seatbelt, with 0 accident and 0 ticket.
For me, 21 years. No tickets and 1 accident in which I was determined to not be at fault at all. This is what happens when the driver of the semi that you are passing decides that he wants to be in the same lane you are in for no reason whatsoever (he was speeding, doing around 70 where the posted limit for trucks is 60, and there was no one directly ahead of him in the right lane), and wasn't paying attention to the world around him, and my car ended up wedged underneath his back trailer. Good thing I didn't have anyone riding with me. -
Re:Microsoft
Try KeyTweak, you can even remap another key to the MS key if you want:
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Results of detailed measurements
I clipped AC current sensors onto my house's main lines, and used an old serial-port A/D converter to sample twice a second for a couple weeks. You can tell a lot just from the gross current draw, because most of the big power users have recognizable fingerprints: refrigerators have startup transients, the microwave oven has no startup transient and a precise duty cycle, the electric range (at 220V) draws from both sides simultaneously, et cetera.
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So just remap it already.
So remap the key and quit whining.
In Linux under X:
http://www.columbia.edu/~djv/docs/keyremap.html
In windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.msp x
or http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
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Key Tweak for Windows users solves the problemUse Key Tweak (found here: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/) if you use Windows.
It's a great, FREE, little app that will also allow you to remap any of your others keys, so if you don't like the Windows key or have a hatred for the number 9, you can remap them to whatever you want.
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Re:gOOD lUCK
I too am in data mining, but I use EMACS to write all of my code, and my case sensitive programs all prefer lower case. So caps-lock has been re-mapped using keytweak to CTRL. The only problem is when I use someone elses computer I usually end up over-writing anything I try to copy with C while turning on caps-lock.
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For those that like the best of both worlds
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Re:This sounds...
Read the fine print: "Merrill Lynch does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report."
Also read this earlier ML report on Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3, gushing about how Microsoft has so much money ("nearly unlimited ability to loss-lead".) ML might be able to swing the stock prices in their favour, but FUDing for dollars is a well known way to get Microsoft to "loss-lead" in their direction. -
Re:Rotary
Rotax may have at some point or another in their 80+ year history built a rotary engine (none come to mind, but I could be wrong), they however do not build any currently.
As an owner of two Aprilia (a 2001 RSV Mille and a 1999 RS250), I can tell you the Rotax built V990 (998cc 60deg V-Twin) in my RSV is not a Rotary engine. RS250 doesn't matter as it uses a Suzuki VJ22 (250cc 90deg two-stroke V-Twin) engine.
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Re:Rotary
Rotax may have at some point or another in their 80+ year history built a rotary engine (none come to mind, but I could be wrong), they however do not build any currently.
As an owner of two Aprilia (a 2001 RSV Mille and a 1999 RS250), I can tell you the Rotax built V990 (998cc 60deg V-Twin) in my RSV is not a Rotary engine. RS250 doesn't matter as it uses a Suzuki VJ22 (250cc 90deg two-stroke V-Twin) engine.
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Re:Do not go gently into that goodnight....
This interperation is quite different than yours. I quote "The subject matter which is the command to the father not to accept death so easily
..." and "Even though wise men know that they cannot keep death away forever and especially if they have not accomplished their goals in life, they don't accept death easily; they "Do not go gentle . . . ." -
Re:Okay, here's a standard I'd like to see:
I'm thankful it isn't that way. If it was, I would have been killed late last year when the driver of the semi I was passing decided that he wanted to be in the same lane I was in, which wedged the right side of my car underneath his back trailer: http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/XFers/Geo
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It's easy
Here's a game I recently designed and put up on the web just a couple of days ago - and it's for *real* money, not "virtual" money:
http://webpages.charter.net/rsdotson/
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awesome
They will probably keep all the six sigma blackbelts because they are totally sweet!
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Re:Similar, but possibly OT
I agree. Here are the steps I did.
1) Use Nero, make this a bootable cd. El Torito 1.44mb floppy.
http://webpages.charter.net/kabewm/files/pc/usbboo t.img
md5: 2fe0913d4e60360f391e39224e98c549 usbboot.img
2) Plug a blank formatted (fat/fat32) usb stick into your usb port, and boot off of the cd.
3) This boot will assign a drive letter to the usb stick, simply type format /s d: (or whatever drive).
4) Unzip this file onto your usb stick.
http://webpages.charter.net/kabewm/files/pc/dosuti ls.zip
md5: fb63980160fb0cd75491d6bfba35387b dosutils.zip
Congrats, your usb stick is now dos bootable. (Make sure you have Legacy USB Support enabled in your BIOS before attempting to boot off of this).
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Re:Similar, but possibly OT
I agree. Here are the steps I did.
1) Use Nero, make this a bootable cd. El Torito 1.44mb floppy.
http://webpages.charter.net/kabewm/files/pc/usbboo t.img
md5: 2fe0913d4e60360f391e39224e98c549 usbboot.img
2) Plug a blank formatted (fat/fat32) usb stick into your usb port, and boot off of the cd.
3) This boot will assign a drive letter to the usb stick, simply type format /s d: (or whatever drive).
4) Unzip this file onto your usb stick.
http://webpages.charter.net/kabewm/files/pc/dosuti ls.zip
md5: fb63980160fb0cd75491d6bfba35387b dosutils.zip
Congrats, your usb stick is now dos bootable. (Make sure you have Legacy USB Support enabled in your BIOS before attempting to boot off of this).
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Re:I personally use Leo
Oh, another thing.
While I was surfing for a better alternative to Leo I found there was no better alternative to Leo.
I also found out from this page that you CAN, sort of, put pictures and other kinds of files in Leo documents by naming a node:
@url [URL]
can be a http,mailto,ftp,file,etc.
I'm going to put my Leo files in a directory which also has an "images" folder. That way I can put images into my notes and still keep that wonderful cloning feature.
I'm also going to switch my bookmarks organizing over to Leo, that way I can finally have my URLs in multiple folders/views but still have them synchronized.
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Re:I personally use Leo
Oh, another thing.
While I was surfing for a better alternative to Leo I found there was no better alternative to Leo.
I also found out from this page that you CAN, sort of, put pictures and other kinds of files in Leo documents by naming a node:
@url [URL]
can be a http,mailto,ftp,file,etc.
I'm going to put my Leo files in a directory which also has an "images" folder. That way I can put images into my notes and still keep that wonderful cloning feature.
I'm also going to switch my bookmarks organizing over to Leo, that way I can finally have my URLs in multiple folders/views but still have them synchronized.
I really recommend Leo -
I personally use Leo
Leo is an "outliner" for programmers but it doesn't have to be used like that. On your screen it just looks like a Windows or Mac folder browser, only they're not called folders but outlines or nodes. Every outline has text inside of it, or you can "hang" other outlines under it for more organization.
The reason I use it instead of folders to organize my notes is that I can "clone" a node (CTRL-`). This will duplicate a node and you can drag it into another part of your Leo document. The reason cloning is better than making a copy is because Leo will automatically keep cloned notes identical.
If you made a note about something and it's also helpful to have this information filed at another part of your notes collection, close to another subject, you make a clone. If you'd made a copy and you updated 1 copy, the other copies would be out of date. With clones, you don't have to worry about that.
As an example, I have a node with
"All my hardware"
and I also have a node called
"My FreeBSD server documentation"
One of my boxes is part of both categories of information. It's a cloned node ofcourse.
Now, everytime I change something on my server's hardware, I only have to update 1 of the cloned nodes and the other will automatically have the same update.
That's one of the good features about Leo. Unfortunately, nodes contain only text, not formatted text or images. However, because it's open source you could add that yourself when you can program in Python. Python is also the reason it's cross-platform.
I use it for both my to-do/task document and my general notes (as 2 seperate files).
However, with .html files you could ofcourse keep notes identical by only organizing links as you would organise Leo nodes, every document you'd edit, even if that document would show it's link in multiple categories, would be editing the original document. So that way wouldn't introduce synchronisation difficulties either. It might be a little more cumbersome in exchange for gaining images and text with typefaces.
It's just a suggestion, give it a try. Just put the word "@nocolor" in the root node and hang all the other nodes under that to supress Leo's programming syntax coloring.
For easy HTML editing I'd use Dreamweaver or the open-source clone Nvu, it's about to go version 1.0 -
Re:Calculator key?
My problem was always the insert key. Very easy to hit if you use home/end/del a lot, which I do. I used to rip it out on every keyboard I owned. Someone else has mentioned keytweak, so I might use that in future.
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Re:a tip
Try KeyTweak
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Check out this crazy wanker!
I cannot believe this shot Hahaha!
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I just finished a similiar projectJust yesterday I completed a bluetooth conversion of a payphone handset.It has a range of 30-50 feet and is much easier to hold and shoulder than a regular mobile. Theres just something about gripping a ceramic handset and metal coil shielding.
Someone said I should sell these.
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I just finished a similiar projectJust yesterday I completed a bluetooth conversion of a payphone handset.It has a range of 30-50 feet and is much easier to hold and shoulder than a regular mobile. Theres just something about gripping a ceramic handset and metal coil shielding.
Someone said I should sell these.