This sounds like a severe case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. We already have a fantastic image archival and replication system in http://clonezilla.org/ , any budding developers would better serve by contributing to the various projects that make it up.
I'm sure there's a Kernel of Truth in this article and if I found it I'd run it on my old Laptop Of Doom. But if Avast told me the sun was shining I'd have to take a walk to the nearest window before believing it. Seriously. This just reads like exaggerated marketing FUD for their Android app.
What Arrogant Bastard said. This was more like vandalism than an "upgrade". My best-working systems are the ones that have been left alone, and the ones that were "upgraded" have given me nothing but frustration and a poor user experience since. As many have said, offering a new UI is fine; throwing it in everyones faces was childish and extremely ill-considered. Major Fail, Ubuntu.
I agree; the treatment given this person could easily have been insulting treatment of a pariah rather than acceptance of a gay person. Assuming we understand the message and motive just because we see the action is an insupportable connection in this case. It is indeed very interesting but does not lend itself to a definite conclusion about the attitudes of the people who conducted the burial. Let's say for example... maybe he killed a woman, and her body was unrecoverable for some reason, but they knew who had done it. The family told him they were going to have a burial for her whether she could be recovered or not, and he was invited to stand in for her.;) No doubt there are hundreds of other possible scenarios.
I got my education on this issue early on, in the 80's. I was running a popular BBS and had a boner for one of those new-fangled ripping-fast 1200 baud modems. I just knew my life would be better if I could get one, but couldn't afford the prices. Then I went to a computer show and saw it in its plain white box: a Genuine "Hi-Fidelity" brand 1200 baud internal modem for no more than 80 or 90 bucks. Well Now! I went home that night and slipped it into an ISA slot on my Wells-American 12MHz '286 and It Worked! I was thrilled, until I started trying to tie it into the BBS software. Everything ran without a complaint, until it was time for the modem to actually behave as it was being told to do; setting for auto-answer, how many rings to wait before answering, setting a particular baud rate, anything of that sort that went beyond ATDT or ATA (dial a number or answer a call) just didn't seem to be working out.
I stayed up for hours into the night trying to figure out what I could possibly be doing wrong, issuing Hayes commands from a terminal, seeing them accepted and tearing my hair out while the system acted as if I had done none of the "right" things to make everything work. Around 2 or 3am with the beer and my patience running out, I sat down in front of the terminal and typed "ATFUCKYOU" and hit . The damnable thing answered back "OK" and I realized I had been had.
It would answer "OK" to -any- string as long as it had an AT in front of it. Us round-eye devils wanted Hayes command set compatibility and they'd give it to us... on their terms, and run away with the money. It was an expensive (in 1984 or so dollars) lesson in the psychology of Chinese technology vendors that I have never forgotten. Don't trust them, don't trust even what you see unless you can confirm it all the way to the end of the test chain, and then don't assume the next one out of the box is going to act anything like the one you just tested.
Threads is without a doubt the best nuclear holocast movie I've ever seen. It's very hard to find here in the US, and I was lucky to rent a much-abused VHS copy. As the IMDB comments attest, this film is an unforgettable work.
Windoze-only code, a closed source black box, and you're touting it as a "replacement" for open-source browsers that run on multiple platforms? Ummm... no thanks.
Those tombihn cases sure do look nice but if you need to spend less than $90 I'm doing OK with a large Victorinox brand laptop bag from the local office supply. I put some rolled up eggcrate at the bottom of the bag for shock. It could do two laptops plus gear easily, I think I paid $79.00.
Why did the WAP cross the street?
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> What's the best way to connect to a kind of weak -65db) signal?
Make it into a not quite as weak signal. Since you know exactly where your antennas will be, go directional at both ends. I don't have URL at my fingertips, but the web is loaded with instructions for building G band directional antennas.
Way back in the wentbefore we set up a connection across about 1200 feet of open space between a VT-xxx terminal and a PDP 11. The terminal got an acoustic coupler and a Radio Shark cordless phone headset with a tinfoil parabola aimed out the window. At the other end was the base set and another parabola. We could do 300 baud to the mainframe.
You can get this done as long as you can get the antenna out from behind the metal wall and pointed across the street. Do your homework and get started.
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As a small and simple tutorial guide I've enjoyed this book.
Most of the examples are for the command line. This will encourage you to experiment and play. Creative play is where good programmers come from. It's not going to teach you how to write a big app or become a graphics wizard. It's certainly not suitable as your only reference book. It will give you an excellent introduction to the language in simple prose. It's small, lightweight, inexpensive and brief. It'll get you started, and you'll occasionally go back to it when you want a simple understandable explanation of a concept. I've bought some other tomes that weigh 10 times as much, cost 3 times and came with a CD, that aren't as useful. I like it, maybe it'll help you. I suspect it would be ideal for anyone who has trouble with english.
I don't know wether Dee knows what she's about or not and don't care about her gender... I just know this article needed an editor to say "clean up this mess" and didn't get it. Throwing a few unknowns into a bowl and stirring in a nice dollop of "I don't follow instructions" just makes glop, not a review.
Here's what I posted at Linuxworld after reading her article...
Given she admits she's trying to do this in Fedora for some (to me) unfathomable reason, and specifically says she repeatedly resorts to 'killall wine' instead of rebooting as recommended, I'd say this 'review' is a waste of space. What failed? Fedora? WineX? We'll never know from reading this mess. The title and content of this article are unfair to Transgaming given the test environment. No doubt her comments about confusing readme's and missing docs are justifiable, but the idea that this misadventure is in any way a valid analysis of -any- of the softwares involved is laughable.
I especially disagreed with her assertion than an inexperienced user wouldn't have gotten as far as she did before giving up. Personally I think such a user might get -farther-... since they might actually follow directions. The Fedora project makes no bones about not being intended as a stable platform for testing third-party apps, since it -itself- is a moving target. WineX instructions told her to shutdown -r and she says she ignored their advice. Put even those two issues together and all I get out of this article is that "wet pockets + matches = you no smoke today".
I think you've done a great job of laying out most of the reasons this move will probably turn out to be viewed as a serious lapse of judgement, save one;
A lot of us ('us' being Linux advocates within the corporate world who have advocated for Gnu-Linux in general and the RH distro in particular) have been made to look like idiots by this move. We told our pointy-haired bosses that they could count on Red Hat for a consistent line of desktop-ready releases of ever increasing quality -at a LOW and reasonable- price. Many of us have sizeable projects ongoing that were funded based on our previously well-founded trust in advocating for Red Hat.
I can't even bring RH's new license model up as a proposal. We're way to small for it, our customers will revolt when told they have to pay that much for OS support over and above our fees, and too much is at stake for Fedora to be an option. I look like an idiot for trusting them to stay the course with their prior model, and will look even worse if I support the new model for our VAR boxes going out and our desktops and servers that we've been setting up with RH8 and 9 inhouse.
They'll just say "We might as well stick with M$oft at that price" and they'll be right. I hate it when that happens.
There are lots of ways RH could have tightened up their game without dropping their low-end and desktop share like a hot rock. Novell/Suse is laughing, Mandrake is smirking, and M$oft is doing whatever dragons do when they're pleased.
Anyway, my point is just that a lot of people -feel- burned by this, wether it's true or not, and in the long run that feeling is going to result in more market share and revenue going in someone elses pocket than they will ever gain by their present decision.
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This sounds like a severe case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. We already have a fantastic image archival and replication system in http://clonezilla.org/ , any budding developers would better serve by contributing to the various projects that make it up.
I'm sure there's a Kernel of Truth in this article and if I found it I'd run it on my old Laptop Of Doom. But if Avast told me the sun was shining I'd have to take a walk to the nearest window before believing it. Seriously. This just reads like exaggerated marketing FUD for their Android app.
What Arrogant Bastard said. This was more like vandalism than an "upgrade". My best-working systems are the ones that have been left alone, and the ones that were "upgraded" have given me nothing but frustration and a poor user experience since. As many have said, offering a new UI is fine; throwing it in everyones faces was childish and extremely ill-considered. Major Fail, Ubuntu.
I agree; the treatment given this person could easily have been insulting treatment of a pariah rather than acceptance of a gay person. Assuming we understand the message and motive just because we see the action is an insupportable connection in this case. It is indeed very interesting but does not lend itself to a definite conclusion about the attitudes of the people who conducted the burial. Let's say for example... maybe he killed a woman, and her body was unrecoverable for some reason, but they knew who had done it. The family told him they were going to have a burial for her whether she could be recovered or not, and he was invited to stand in for her. ;) No doubt there are hundreds of other possible scenarios.
I got my education on this issue early on, in the 80's. I was running a popular BBS and had a boner for one of those new-fangled ripping-fast 1200 baud modems. I just knew my life would be better if I could get one, but couldn't afford the prices. Then I went to a computer show and saw it in its plain white box: a Genuine "Hi-Fidelity" brand 1200 baud internal modem for no more than 80 or 90 bucks. Well Now! I went home that night and slipped it into an ISA slot on my Wells-American 12MHz '286 and It Worked! I was thrilled, until I started trying to tie it into the BBS software. Everything ran without a complaint, until it was time for the modem to actually behave as it was being told to do; setting for auto-answer, how many rings to wait before answering, setting a particular baud rate, anything of that sort that went beyond ATDT or ATA (dial a number or answer a call) just didn't seem to be working out.
I stayed up for hours into the night trying to figure out what I could possibly be doing wrong, issuing Hayes commands from a terminal, seeing them accepted and tearing my hair out while the system acted as if I had done none of the "right" things to make everything work. Around 2 or 3am with the beer and my patience running out, I sat down in front of the terminal and typed "ATFUCKYOU" and hit . The damnable thing answered back "OK" and I realized I had been had.
It would answer "OK" to -any- string as long as it had an AT in front of it. Us round-eye devils wanted Hayes command set compatibility and they'd give it to us... on their terms, and run away with the money. It was an expensive (in 1984 or so dollars) lesson in the psychology of Chinese technology vendors that I have never forgotten. Don't trust them, don't trust even what you see unless you can confirm it all the way to the end of the test chain, and then don't assume the next one out of the box is going to act anything like the one you just tested.
> I was quite disappointed when SubLogic sold out to MS.
Amen. Bruce Artwick, where are you when we need you?
I haul one of these back and forth to work with laptop, power supply, minidisk, books, USB trackball and USB hub, various cables, toiletries, lunch, etc. http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?p roduct_code=51077312&pfp=srch1
http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review_printerfr iendly1047.html
It's well constructed and I got a before-current model on closeout cheap at CompUSA.
Threads is without a doubt the best nuclear holocast movie I've ever seen. It's very hard to find here in the US, and I was lucky to rent a much-abused VHS copy. As the IMDB comments attest, this film is an unforgettable work.
Windoze-only code, a closed source black box, and you're touting it as a "replacement" for open-source browsers that run on multiple platforms? Ummm... no thanks.
If it doesn't include Mech Brigade http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=693 then it's not worth bothering with.
Those tombihn cases sure do look nice but if you need to spend less than $90 I'm doing OK with a large Victorinox brand laptop bag from the local office supply. I put some rolled up eggcrate at the bottom of the bag for shock. It could do two laptops plus gear easily, I think I paid $79.00.
> What's the best way to connect to a kind of weak -65db) signal?
Make it into a not quite as weak signal. Since you know exactly where your antennas will be, go directional at both ends. I don't have URL at my fingertips, but the web is loaded with instructions for building G band directional antennas.
Way back in the wentbefore we set up a connection across about 1200 feet of open space between a VT-xxx terminal and a PDP 11. The terminal got an acoustic coupler and a Radio Shark cordless phone headset with a tinfoil parabola aimed out the window. At the other end was the base set and another parabola. We could do 300 baud to the mainframe.
You can get this done as long as you can get the antenna out from behind the metal wall and pointed across the street. Do your homework and get started.
As a small and simple tutorial guide I've enjoyed this book.
Python: Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN:0201748843
Peachpit Press
Most of the examples are for the command line. This will encourage you to experiment and play. Creative play is where good programmers come from. It's not going to teach you how to write a big app or become a graphics wizard. It's certainly not suitable as your only reference book. It will give you an excellent introduction to the language in simple prose. It's small, lightweight, inexpensive and brief. It'll get you started, and you'll occasionally go back to it when you want a simple understandable explanation of a concept. I've bought some other tomes that weigh 10 times as much, cost 3 times and came with a CD, that aren't as useful. I like it, maybe it'll help you. I suspect it would be ideal for anyone who has trouble with english.
I don't know wether Dee knows what she's about or not and don't care about her gender... I just know this article needed an editor to say "clean up this mess" and didn't get it. Throwing a few unknowns into a bowl and stirring in a nice dollop of "I don't follow instructions" just makes glop, not a review.
Here's what I posted at Linuxworld after reading her article...
Given she admits she's trying to do this in Fedora for some (to me) unfathomable reason, and specifically says she repeatedly resorts to 'killall wine' instead of rebooting as recommended, I'd say this 'review' is a waste of space. What failed? Fedora? WineX? We'll never know from reading this mess. The title and content of this article are unfair to Transgaming given the test environment. No doubt her comments about confusing readme's and missing docs are justifiable, but the idea that this misadventure is in any way a valid analysis of -any- of the softwares involved is laughable.
I especially disagreed with her assertion than an inexperienced user wouldn't have gotten as far as she did before giving up. Personally I think such a user might get -farther-... since they might actually follow directions. The Fedora project makes no bones about not being intended as a stable platform for testing third-party apps, since it -itself- is a moving target. WineX instructions told her to shutdown -r and she says she ignored their advice. Put even those two issues together and all I get out of this article is that "wet pockets + matches = you no smoke today".
I think you've done a great job of laying out most of the reasons this move will probably turn out to be viewed as a serious lapse of judgement, save one; A lot of us ('us' being Linux advocates within the corporate world who have advocated for Gnu-Linux in general and the RH distro in particular) have been made to look like idiots by this move. We told our pointy-haired bosses that they could count on Red Hat for a consistent line of desktop-ready releases of ever increasing quality -at a LOW and reasonable- price. Many of us have sizeable projects ongoing that were funded based on our previously well-founded trust in advocating for Red Hat. I can't even bring RH's new license model up as a proposal. We're way to small for it, our customers will revolt when told they have to pay that much for OS support over and above our fees, and too much is at stake for Fedora to be an option. I look like an idiot for trusting them to stay the course with their prior model, and will look even worse if I support the new model for our VAR boxes going out and our desktops and servers that we've been setting up with RH8 and 9 inhouse. They'll just say "We might as well stick with M$oft at that price" and they'll be right. I hate it when that happens. There are lots of ways RH could have tightened up their game without dropping their low-end and desktop share like a hot rock. Novell/Suse is laughing, Mandrake is smirking, and M$oft is doing whatever dragons do when they're pleased. Anyway, my point is just that a lot of people -feel- burned by this, wether it's true or not, and in the long run that feeling is going to result in more market share and revenue going in someone elses pocket than they will ever gain by their present decision.