I use an iWeb dedicated server... $99 per month, 10TB bandwidth / 100Mbit connection, on a dual core server with 320GB hard drive and 4gb ram. That would probably work great for starters.
Really? Having a consistently-available UI is "a wall"? Or even the "foundations of a wall"? I think we've forgotten what a "walled garden" actually means.
How can there be a debate about scientific results? This always confuses me. One can have a debate about moral or ethical issues, but not about scientific results.
Then I would say your understanding of how science works is somewhat limited. We could have a debate about: a) whether the assumptions made at the outset were good assumptions, b) whether the data was collected in a reasonable way, c) whether the statistics were chosen and applied correctly, d) whether you've done a good enough job controlling other variables and excluding competing hypotheses, e) the magnitude and directionality of various sources of error, and whether they could confound the data, etc.
Not saying that these are problems with the study in question, but I've read studies in which each of the above (among other things) were certainly open for debate!
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I have it on second-hand authority that, while the kids at Kibaale Children Centre don't regularly use vim, they at least don't use emacs either...:)
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I think his name's Moolenar, but I second your thanks to Bram - especially his commitment to the Kibaale Children's Centre. I work at the school in Vancouver, Canada that played an instrumental part in starting KCC, and many of my colleagues have worked there over the years. KCC is still doing fantastic work for the poorest of the poor in Uganda.
Nope, the numbers in the sentence right after the one you quoted just wouldn't make sense. 200,000 YEARS of playing time on 500,000 downloads? I think not. It's 500 million, or half a billion.
Darn it. Wish I'd thought of birds launching into pig-forts first.:(
According to it's MSDS, capsaicin has an LD50 (lethal dose to 50% of pop'n) of 47.2 mg/kg when taken orally. So, for a 70kg person, 3.2 grams of pure capsaicin should be lethal about 50% of the time... This isn't anything new, the data has been published for a long time.
Good points - I was thinking along the lines of a VPS where there's no physical access to the console (since that what I generally use for projects like this). I generally keep two to four SSH sessions running, along with my web browser and whatever other software I'd like on the client side (usually a text editor for keeping my cheat-sheet), so I do use a GUI - just not on the server itself.
If you were actually working on the server itself, it would make a lot of sense to have a GUI for exactly the reasons you suggest.
I agree with the suggestion to use Ubuntu, especially due to the massive amount of old forum posts online that will answer most questions. However, installing ubuntu-desktop will certainly give you a GUI, but that GUI won't particularly help you to administer your LAMP stack.
Going completely CLI isn't as bad as you might think - there's a relatively small number of commands you'd need to use. My advice is to find a tutorial or small book on setting up an Ubuntu LAMP server, and then keep a personal "cheat-sheet" of the commands you've been using, because you'll probably want them again at some point. And, on the plus side, you learn something new!
And stylus input so it would be useful for writing. Oh, I'd love that.
Just had our "Meet the Teacher" night at school. Had to recommend to a bunch of parents not to buy their kids an iPad, which was odd since I was holding mine in my hands at the time. But without pen input, there's too many things they just can't do efficiently.
The bulk discount is about $10 per iPad, I'd guess. The case might be $50, they're hopefully budgeting a good chunk of cash for apps from the Volume Purchase Programme, and then there's infrastructure (perhaps they've bought AirPrint printers for classrooms so kids can print their artwork, etc). They're probably using some sort of cart to store iPads / charge / sync them to a bunch of MacBooks or iMacs they also would have had to buy. It adds up pretty quick.
Actually, both I and the lawyer are in Canada (ironically, their offices are about a 10 minute drive from my house). And I have contacted them - spoken to one of their lawyers in person, actually, when my realtor used them to execute my paperwork when I bought my house... but, as other commenters have pointed out, they aren't too quick on the uptake with things like PGP...
I get the same situation. I've got a ".ca" with my last name, and a Canadian lawyer with the same last name has the ".com". I get a bunch of their email on my "catch-all", which is awkward, given the confidential nature of things you may discuss via email with your lawyer.
Have any of these 7-inch tablets done well? When I last held a Playbook, it just felt awkwardly stuck between a phone screen and a screen that I'd actually want to look at for extended periods of time.
Except that it wasn't Harper. Maxime Bernier (a Member of Parliament, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs) comes off looking not so well, as does the bureaucrat Zoe Addington.
And it's Windows-only, which is going to exclude a good chunk of my students. The browser-based version beats it on that count - although it would seem to only support Chrome and Firefox, so it doesn't win quite as soundly as I'd like. Also, for introductory-programming-course purposes, speed really doesn't matter much (if at all).
The problem is that it's much more effective for them to get instant feedback from the interpreter. I'm not overly concerned if they mistype something on the first-go-round, just so long as they spot the problem and correct it before they submit.
It's not so much that I "send homework home with kids", as that some kids always seem to push up against the limits of the amount of class time I'm able to give for a project. Having an easy way for them to keep working at home gives them an option that they may not have had. We're a private school that requires all of our students to have some sort of web device (iPad, laptop, etc) - clearly, things would be different in a situation where we had to assume someone may not have access.
Actually, one really useful benefit of this will be for education. When my introductory programming class starts in a week's time, I'll be able to send them here for the first few weeks, while they're figuring out Python basics, and before they've got a proper Python installation on their own computers (high school kids, some of whose parents lock down computers pretty tightly). It should help us get around the "I can't do my homework, because my dad won't let me install software on the computer" nonsense.:)
I didn't get the sense from reading the linked analysis that it was necessarily a single key-press. It reads like this:
This was to be a paper only, hands off the keyboards exercise until the playbook was reviewed. Unfortunately, at 10:15am PDT, one of the operations engineers developing the playbook touched the keyboard. This resulted in a full outage of the network infrastructure sitting in front of Cloud Foundry. This took out all load balancers, routers, and firewalls; caused a partial outage of portions of our internal DNS infrastructure; and resulted in a complete external loss of connectivity to Cloud Foundry.
My sense is that "touched the keyboard" doesn't literally mean "touched a single key on the keyboard", but actually means "ignored the hands-off-the-keyboard part of the exercise, and executed some commands".
But who knows, I could be wrong... I'm sure hoping I'm not!
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I use an iWeb dedicated server... $99 per month, 10TB bandwidth / 100Mbit connection, on a dual core server with 320GB hard drive and 4gb ram. That would probably work great for starters.
What did YOU think it was about?
Bah doo n doo n doo dot... dool-ya dot vah skwee-dot?
Clearly fecal.
Really? Having a consistently-available UI is "a wall"? Or even the "foundations of a wall"? I think we've forgotten what a "walled garden" actually means.
How can there be a debate about scientific results? This always confuses me. One can have a debate about moral or ethical issues, but not about scientific results.
Then I would say your understanding of how science works is somewhat limited. We could have a debate about: a) whether the assumptions made at the outset were good assumptions, b) whether the data was collected in a reasonable way, c) whether the statistics were chosen and applied correctly, d) whether you've done a good enough job controlling other variables and excluding competing hypotheses, e) the magnitude and directionality of various sources of error, and whether they could confound the data, etc.
Not saying that these are problems with the study in question, but I've read studies in which each of the above (among other things) were certainly open for debate!
I have it on second-hand authority that, while the kids at Kibaale Children Centre don't regularly use vim, they at least don't use emacs either... :)
I think his name's Moolenar, but I second your thanks to Bram - especially his commitment to the Kibaale Children's Centre. I work at the school in Vancouver, Canada that played an instrumental part in starting KCC, and many of my colleagues have worked there over the years. KCC is still doing fantastic work for the poorest of the poor in Uganda.
Nope, the numbers in the sentence right after the one you quoted just wouldn't make sense. 200,000 YEARS of playing time on 500,000 downloads? I think not. It's 500 million, or half a billion.
Darn it. Wish I'd thought of birds launching into pig-forts first. :(
According to it's MSDS, capsaicin has an LD50 (lethal dose to 50% of pop'n) of 47.2 mg/kg when taken orally. So, for a 70kg person, 3.2 grams of pure capsaicin should be lethal about 50% of the time... This isn't anything new, the data has been published for a long time.
He is a unicorn.
Perhaps even more likely:
"I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."
Good points - I was thinking along the lines of a VPS where there's no physical access to the console (since that what I generally use for projects like this). I generally keep two to four SSH sessions running, along with my web browser and whatever other software I'd like on the client side (usually a text editor for keeping my cheat-sheet), so I do use a GUI - just not on the server itself.
If you were actually working on the server itself, it would make a lot of sense to have a GUI for exactly the reasons you suggest.
I agree with the suggestion to use Ubuntu, especially due to the massive amount of old forum posts online that will answer most questions. However, installing ubuntu-desktop will certainly give you a GUI, but that GUI won't particularly help you to administer your LAMP stack.
Going completely CLI isn't as bad as you might think - there's a relatively small number of commands you'd need to use. My advice is to find a tutorial or small book on setting up an Ubuntu LAMP server, and then keep a personal "cheat-sheet" of the commands you've been using, because you'll probably want them again at some point. And, on the plus side, you learn something new!
And stylus input so it would be useful for writing. Oh, I'd love that.
Just had our "Meet the Teacher" night at school. Had to recommend to a bunch of parents not to buy their kids an iPad, which was odd since I was holding mine in my hands at the time. But without pen input, there's too many things they just can't do efficiently.
The bulk discount is about $10 per iPad, I'd guess. The case might be $50, they're hopefully budgeting a good chunk of cash for apps from the Volume Purchase Programme, and then there's infrastructure (perhaps they've bought AirPrint printers for classrooms so kids can print their artwork, etc). They're probably using some sort of cart to store iPads / charge / sync them to a bunch of MacBooks or iMacs they also would have had to buy. It adds up pretty quick.
Actually, both I and the lawyer are in Canada (ironically, their offices are about a 10 minute drive from my house). And I have contacted them - spoken to one of their lawyers in person, actually, when my realtor used them to execute my paperwork when I bought my house... but, as other commenters have pointed out, they aren't too quick on the uptake with things like PGP...
I get the same situation. I've got a ".ca" with my last name, and a Canadian lawyer with the same last name has the ".com". I get a bunch of their email on my "catch-all", which is awkward, given the confidential nature of things you may discuss via email with your lawyer.
Have any of these 7-inch tablets done well? When I last held a Playbook, it just felt awkwardly stuck between a phone screen and a screen that I'd actually want to look at for extended periods of time.
Except that it wasn't Harper. Maxime Bernier (a Member of Parliament, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs) comes off looking not so well, as does the bureaucrat Zoe Addington.
> Couldn't you describe any star in such a fashion?
No.
For any range X there is a "youngest star" within that range. The reverse is not true.
Sure it is! You just have to define the range so narrowly that only that star falls in the range. :)
And it's Windows-only, which is going to exclude a good chunk of my students. The browser-based version beats it on that count - although it would seem to only support Chrome and Firefox, so it doesn't win quite as soundly as I'd like. Also, for introductory-programming-course purposes, speed really doesn't matter much (if at all).
The problem is that it's much more effective for them to get instant feedback from the interpreter. I'm not overly concerned if they mistype something on the first-go-round, just so long as they spot the problem and correct it before they submit.
It's not so much that I "send homework home with kids", as that some kids always seem to push up against the limits of the amount of class time I'm able to give for a project. Having an easy way for them to keep working at home gives them an option that they may not have had. We're a private school that requires all of our students to have some sort of web device (iPad, laptop, etc) - clearly, things would be different in a situation where we had to assume someone may not have access.
Actually, one really useful benefit of this will be for education. When my introductory programming class starts in a week's time, I'll be able to send them here for the first few weeks, while they're figuring out Python basics, and before they've got a proper Python installation on their own computers (high school kids, some of whose parents lock down computers pretty tightly). It should help us get around the "I can't do my homework, because my dad won't let me install software on the computer" nonsense. :)
Crap... Tried to moderate "insightful", accidentally got "redundant". Undoing...
I didn't get the sense from reading the linked analysis that it was necessarily a single key-press. It reads like this:
This was to be a paper only, hands off the keyboards exercise until the playbook was reviewed. Unfortunately, at 10:15am PDT, one of the operations engineers developing the playbook touched the keyboard. This resulted in a full outage of the network infrastructure sitting in front of Cloud Foundry. This took out all load balancers, routers, and firewalls; caused a partial outage of portions of our internal DNS infrastructure; and resulted in a complete external loss of connectivity to Cloud Foundry.
My sense is that "touched the keyboard" doesn't literally mean "touched a single key on the keyboard", but actually means "ignored the hands-off-the-keyboard part of the exercise, and executed some commands".
But who knows, I could be wrong... I'm sure hoping I'm not!