Mod me offtopic, but I'm still contemplating the subtle difference between "dis-enabling" and "disabling".
Disclaimer: no grammar-trolling intended. I'm just interested in the language itself. It sounds to me that "disabling foo" simply says opting out of foo, while "dis-enabling foo" implies an effort against the deliberate or default enabling of foo.
I knew a middle school teacher who was a sleep walker. He used to live in a dorm room in the school. At night he would get up, dress himself and walk to the classroom, open the door with his key and give a lecture to the empty space.
That's another example of sleepwalkers' repetition of their daytime behavior.
Now imagine the scary thing: a sleepwalking BOFH with root access to a mission-critical system.
Install NoScript. Remove googlesyndicatin, google-analytics and similar crap from its default whitelist (or just remove EVERYTHING from that crappy whitelist and explicitly whitelist sites when necessary). Disable all the dingy plugins/web elements, even for "trusted" sites (this is very important).
Remove the ~/.macromedia directory and symlink it to/dev/null (as suggested by a Slashdotter). You may also need to do the same thing for some subdirectories in ~/.adobe (I can't tell, because I also nuked the ~/.adobe one).
Install CustomizeGoogle. Use it to disable Google click tracking. If you want further anonymity, there's a option to use anonymous Google UID.
You can also substitute "wikipedia" in the above URL for Wikimedia Foundation's other projects to access them using SSL. e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Main_Page for Wikisource. To use them in other languages, simple replace "en" with another language code (e.g. "de" or "ja").
It seems some headers are not installed (BerkeleyDB? Dunno what's the Ubuntu package name for that. It's "db4-devel" here on Fedora). Just check them out and rebuild?
Anyway, I never expect some 3rd party source tarball to be able to "build right out of the box" for me. If you do something outside a distro's package management system, you'll have to manage the dependencies all by yourself.
I just did a Google search site:scipy.org ("2.6" OR "3.0") -"ipython" -"nipy" and there are a lot of results turning up (and of course lots of bogus ones).
It seemed things are much better that I thought of. Those guys are making progress every day and my news were old news...
The difficulty with numpy/scipy is they need a great amount of C-level coding. There's 2to3 for Python code but tweaking C code is not that easy...
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> Some kids are idiots, and will break stuff.
Kids break stuff because they are kids, not because they are idiots.
Google for "Stockholm syndrome" if you don't know what it is yet.
I don't mean to sound surprised, but a full-fledged browser in 27 millibits is just soooo great!
I really should get out more. Get out to see today's advancement of information technology.
Thank you for the info.
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The best (worst) argument for IE I've ever heard was "to save disk space".
Well, thanks a lot.
I really laughed my a$$ off when I saw the "APL is Scientology" line :D
I can't read it. Slashdotted already?
Mod me offtopic, but I'm still contemplating the subtle difference between "dis-enabling" and "disabling".
Disclaimer: no grammar-trolling intended. I'm just interested in the language itself. It sounds to me that "disabling foo" simply says opting out of foo, while "dis-enabling foo" implies an effort against the deliberate or default enabling of foo.
OTOH, what on earth is this "data binding" thing?
I knew a middle school teacher who was a sleep walker. He used to live in a dorm room in the school. At night he would get up, dress himself and walk to the classroom, open the door with his key and give a lecture to the empty space.
That's another example of sleepwalkers' repetition of their daytime behavior.
Now imagine the scary thing: a sleepwalking BOFH with root access to a mission-critical system.
Published by No Starch? Anybody got clue what that means?
At the first sight of the title I thought it was something about GNU Automake and car analogies on Slashdot.
Ni!
Also...
"I don't think, Sebastian, therefore I am."
Or "My wife's a toy. I *make* her." ...
wife: Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
Teaching gifted kids programming? Would *anyone* please think of the children?
We have already survived several cyber (holy) wars. Well, after all the losses and sacrifices, I still prefer VI to EMACS.
Or in segfaults.
Never accept cookies from 3rd party websites.
Install NoScript. Remove googlesyndicatin, google-analytics and similar crap from its default whitelist (or just remove EVERYTHING from that crappy whitelist and explicitly whitelist sites when necessary). Disable all the dingy plugins/web elements, even for "trusted" sites (this is very important).
Remove the ~/.macromedia directory and symlink it to /dev/null (as suggested by a Slashdotter). You may also need to do the same thing for some subdirectories in ~/.adobe (I can't tell, because I also nuked the ~/.adobe one).
Install CustomizeGoogle. Use it to disable Google click tracking. If you want further anonymity, there's a option to use anonymous Google UID.
Hope that helps.
... and not IP/domain based, can you guys in the UK use this HTTPS page?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page
You can also substitute "wikipedia" in the above URL for Wikimedia Foundation's other projects to access them using SSL. e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Main_Page for Wikisource. To use them in other languages, simple replace "en" with another language code (e.g. "de" or "ja").
Simply routes around it. This is what everybody does in China.
It seems some headers are not installed (BerkeleyDB? Dunno what's the Ubuntu package name for that. It's "db4-devel" here on Fedora). Just check them out and rebuild?
Anyway, I never expect some 3rd party source tarball to be able to "build right out of the box" for me. If you do something outside a distro's package management system, you'll have to manage the dependencies all by yourself.
Ummm. I should have piped my post to my grammar checker written in Python 3000 before I hit the "Submit" button :-P
The IPython (nothing Apple-related) interactive shell hacked the Python lexer to allow exactly this. You type this at the shell prompt:
foo a, b, c
it will be interpreted as a call foo(a, b, c).
IPython still has some bugs with this feature, though. It can be turned out, but I still prefer it in interactive use just as you've mentioned.
Anyway, I think the current Python syntax is OK.
I just did a Google search site:scipy.org ("2.6" OR "3.0") -"ipython" -"nipy" and there are a lot of results turning up (and of course lots of bogus ones).
It seemed things are much better that I thought of. Those guys are making progress every day and my news were old news...
The difficulty with numpy/scipy is they need a great amount of C-level coding. There's 2to3 for Python code but tweaking C code is not that easy...
I read it as: there will never be a 3.5.
It used to be "not a chance"...
Yes, there's the official tool "2to3" and an interpreter flag "-3" in the 2.6 release.
They work pretty well. However, you can't leave everything to the machine. They can't replace programmers' insights.