Heh. I used to have DD coffee every morning, and often at night. It's good stuff, just not available around here.
A friend used to get DD large coffee with cream "up to the Donuts"... cream up to the bottom of the word Donuts imprinted (rather high up) on the cup. That always amazed me.
Not being able to get Dunkin Donuts, I've switched to iced coffee, which is much more palatable. As always, cream, no sugar, although if I'm out at a coffee shop to work (yay free wifi), I'll often load the last one with sugar, almost as a dessert.
I would highly recommend using anything non-real world strictly as a supplement to real world teaching. You have to learn how to hold your body, how to express notes...
It's a bit like learning acting over the net. Not useless, but insufficent to teach what is necessary.
Unless you just want to "fake" some songs - then you can likely just buy a couple fakebooks (check your local music store for fakebooks), some of which come with DVDs. Learning a song or two is very different than learning to play the guitar.
As I said, something will be done. It's just not done yet because there is no pressing reason to, as Apache2 offers nothing substantial over Apache 1.x. (Yes, I know there *are* differences, just not enough for the majority of PHP people to switch).
It should be noted that I run a group of servers on the high end of a small installation (12 production plus 4 dev), and PHP is our language of choice. Half of dev runs Apache/2.0.49, while the rest run Apache 1.3.x. We have encountered no problems directly related to PHP.
Really, people. This is like telling people not to switch from a 2.2 kernel to 2.6, because your app breaks under everything newer than 2.2.19 or something, and you can't be bothered to find out why and fix it.
No, it's like having a large software project that mostly works on the next version but there are sufficient third party portions that potentially break (some of which are commercial) and saying "it appears to work, but we haven't verified everything yet".
Which is a pretty damn common note in changelogs no matter what software you're looking at whenever a major dependancy changes versions.
Several of the libraries are commercial software interfaces. I have no idea how many (if any) are unsafe, but they are things like interfaces to Oracle, commercial layout software, etc.
As for putting a lock around them, I'd imagine that when that happens, it would be considered thread safe *except*...
PHP has a user contributed library system similar to CPAN called PEAR. Some of the libraries in PEAR aren't threadsafe... and even if somebody went through and updated them, next week there will be several new one that are not threadsafe.
Now, all of this would be moot if there were a compelling reason to push to Apache2. The impetus would be there to do the work. But, right now, the last of the 1.x series is just as stable and performs as well as Apache2. That means that there's simply no reason to do the work, and Open Source doesn't like to do unnecessary work.
When there is a benefit to the ongoing work necessary to make it and *keep* it threadsafe, it will likely be done.
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They are company of branded labels and services (meaning they are all franchises) that includes Togos subs, Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin Donuts.
Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts are available (much like Baskin-Robbins' ice cream) in a variety of non-Dunkin Donuts locations.
For the record, I don't like Starbucks because of the "burned edge" flavor they have. I prefer Dunkin Donuts (aka 'American Diner' coffee)... of course, they don't have them within a full days drive from where I live, so I go with Cafe Espresso Roma.
Never did the chestnuts, but then I grew up without a fireplace (and snow, for that matter... or the temperatures that would make a fireplace more than silly vanity). But then, I've never seen a "white Christmas" either, and that's common to plenty of kids today. Saw frost for the first time about a week ago.
But the sleigh rides I did on many many occasions with various groups, singing carols and having a great time. Of course, they were wheeled, but the horse was there, the hot chocolate, and the great time. All the young kids watching for road apples behind us, all the older kids (when there were no adults in the sleigh), up against the front making out with their dates.
I've done two as an adult, once with friends with kids. I'd imagine that as more and more of my friends have kids (and as I approach that milestone), it'll start happening again.
There have also been a couple times with the modern version: a gaggle of people singing carols in the back of a pickup truck driving around to look at Christmas lights.
I've read them all a few times through. While Gabe uses wang periodically (such as the infamous wang clip), when he uses "wang", it tends to be intentional. When he makes a Freudian slip, he is much more likely to use "penis".
Because people with work visas aren't immigrants? Because people who walked across a border in southern California aren't immigrants? People who came to America to get citizenship either by flying here or on a makeshift raft are.
The first is a visitor. The second is a criminal. The last is an American. Welcome the first, boot the second, and the third is equal in all measure to those who came before.
Reread my message. I was pointing out that it's easy to pay for an upgrade in seats, and if it is important to him, he can pay for it. If he's too cheap to buy the right seat, he shouldn't complain.
It's like walking into McDonalds and bitching about the lack of metal utensils. You're paying cutrate, you get corners cut. It doesn't mean "restaurants don't have metal utensils" - it just means you're scraping the bottom of the barrel to save a few bucks and then complaining about the lack of quality.
If you want the amenities of business class, fly business class. Don't pay coach and then bitch that you don't have the stuff that is available in the next class up.
Well, now you know why it is called coach. For the price of a airport meal, you can have electricity for an entire cross country flight. Or you can add up the difference over a year and buy a extended external battery. If you are intentionally buying the seats with stripped down features to save money, don't complain (or complain to whoever is getting you the tickets).
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I'm not complaining about your development methods, merely explaining mine.
vi-family editors will certainly edit on a word by word basis - hit right and then 'w' (see above for searching on a word), and I'm fairly certain that vim will allow you to specify what constitutes a word break.
I agree that vi is pretty powerful. I used it for most of a decade when I was on Unix variants.
Most editors have a search that takes into account the various word breaks. Most programmers editors are smart enough to automatically identify the language and know where "words" break in variables (i.e, car->door is one word, while truck>car is two words split by an operator... although I hate spaceless operators myself). Very helpful when you're using word by word selectors to cut and paste.
Aside: I generally use c for my incrementing variables, and foo for my unknown type variables (common in returns in un- or loosely typed languages.
OnTopic: Looking at the code, Google likely has a more verbose code base and runs it through a stripper that minimizes the code and removes comments and excess whitespace. Since they use Python internally, especially in their GMail site, it would be a likely choice for such an app.
While the one and two letter variable names are not at all unmaintainable, I'd imagine that comments and most importantly, indentation are maintained in the original.
Works here for 3.3.2 on SUSE (standard YaST auto-update packages).
I'm guessing that whoever had crashes was running an old version.
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If it makes you feel any better about Slashdot, there are plenty of people who knew exactly what you're asking and haven't responded because they know enough to know that they don't know the answer. Thus you're only getting responses from people who didn't understand the question.
I'd guess that n will vary between now and when they release as they grow their database.
Interestingly, they seem to clamp down on search phrases that are synonyms and start with the same beginning. For instance, the search for "Rocky Horror" is more common than "Rocky Horror Picture Show", but only the latter is listed. In this case, for reasons that are specific to the search, using RHPS over Rocky Horror can cause problems as it eliminates "Rocky Horror Show", which is the stage production, and often swapped by the public for RHPS.
Heinlein applied the quote to current American politics and how the media and fashion can obscure the true movement of a society. It certainly is a reference to an older quote, but Heinlein most famously applied it to modern American politics. I'd personally accept either attribution when used specifically in this manner.
Personally if I lived in a house with all flourescent lighting, I would just want to go outside all the time, and I would be kind of grossed out by how people, artwork, and even food looked...but that's me. Let's talk about you.
The new ones that replace regular bulbs have a much more balanced spectra. They look much more like natural light. They also don't cause CRT flicker (although I have found some that do).
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Some of your questions are SUSE related rather than KDE related. SUSE provides a few extra KDE programs that do things like hardware management that are "features" that I dislike as well.
For instance, to disable KsCD popping up for disks, look to your system tray. There are a couple SUSE icons there. One is SUSEwatcher, and there's another (I've disabled them - you can too). In one of them, you can associate system events (like an audio CD being inserted) with an application. Turn off KsCD. In the latest version, I think you can also right click on the CD icon on your desktop and change preferences (a location that makes sense).
If you bought SUSE, you get support. Call the toll free number and ask. If you like IRC, there are several helpful channels as well (on openprojects.net, for one). Same goes for usenet. Also see if there is a Linux Users Group near you.
There are also several books written (some online, some available at your local book retailer) covering specifically KDE. It's not like it is a new or niche environment anymore. Joe Sixpack and Mom are starting to use it - you can often find help in the typical computer help places.
KDE is not a windowmanager - it is an environment. It is, by intent, a complete set of userlevel tools (including CLI tools, scripting and libraries) that provide a user's environment.
KDE developers seem to be fairly concerned about interoperability. Some more than others, but freedesktop.org gets cited quite a bit. GStreamer and DBUS are both discussed quite a bit as potential technologies for KDE 4 (major revisions can break binary compatability, so there has already been quite a bit of discussion on what should be changed vs. what should be incrementally improved).
The tendancy runs: if it is an open standard and runs on all POSIX systems, it is preferred by KDE. It will be interesting to see what changes happen. aRts is almost certain to be removed, as it's poorly maintained and not very well regarded (powerful but laggy and high load).
There has also been a tendancy towards making KDE trimmer over time; each version runs faster and requires less hardware even as it does more. KDE 4 will likely introduce new tech that will bulk up the release, and will likely be trimmed down and made faster over the minor releases. Or at least that's what I predict.
Well, think of it this way - the OS provides basic hardware access. The userspace increasingly provides application level drivers (sound drivers, X provides mouse, keyboard and graphics). This allows the user to customize their system without the need to run or access kernel level processes. That makes things more stable and simple in the core kernel and allows the user more flexibility in their space. The system's access control cannot be bypassed by userland processes, so keeping as much high level stuff in the user side of things is a Good Thing To Do, IMO.
Plus, it allows for the (aforementioned) system portability. KDE aims for POSIX/X compatability, with X being a loose requirement (KDE NoX exists, but the thing from X that KDE depends on most is the inter-application communication framework rather than anything having to do with graphics or input).
Even more to the point, Konqueror is a container app, similar to... say/bin/sh. It loads various KViews for different document types. These KViews are equally available to any app, and can be replaced. For instance, you can use Gecko instead of KHTML when viewing html. You can remove the file KView and wind up with just a browser (okay, it will also let you view Audio CDs with virtual mp3 and ogg directories so you can drag and drop rip, and a whole slew of other KViews - you've have to remove all but KHTML).
Basically, KDE is written under the *nix philosophy of "many small apps working together". DCOP allows anything - even bash scripts - to be KDE apps.
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I don't think this will happen. Not only will it cast on Apache rather than PHP, PHP is the number one non-core module.
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A friend used to get DD large coffee with cream "up to the Donuts"... cream up to the bottom of the word Donuts imprinted (rather high up) on the cup. That always amazed me.
Not being able to get Dunkin Donuts, I've switched to iced coffee, which is much more palatable. As always, cream, no sugar, although if I'm out at a coffee shop to work (yay free wifi), I'll often load the last one with sugar, almost as a dessert.
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Evan
It's a bit like learning acting over the net. Not useless, but insufficent to teach what is necessary.
Unless you just want to "fake" some songs - then you can likely just buy a couple fakebooks (check your local music store for fakebooks), some of which come with DVDs. Learning a song or two is very different than learning to play the guitar.
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Evan
As I said, something will be done. It's just not done yet because there is no pressing reason to, as Apache2 offers nothing substantial over Apache 1.x. (Yes, I know there *are* differences, just not enough for the majority of PHP people to switch).
It should be noted that I run a group of servers on the high end of a small installation (12 production plus 4 dev), and PHP is our language of choice. Half of dev runs Apache/2.0.49, while the rest run Apache 1.3.x. We have encountered no problems directly related to PHP.
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No, it's like having a large software project that mostly works on the next version but there are sufficient third party portions that potentially break (some of which are commercial) and saying "it appears to work, but we haven't verified everything yet".
Which is a pretty damn common note in changelogs no matter what software you're looking at whenever a major dependancy changes versions.
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My point remains valid, at any rate.
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As for putting a lock around them, I'd imagine that when that happens, it would be considered thread safe *except*...
PHP has a user contributed library system similar to CPAN called PEAR. Some of the libraries in PEAR aren't threadsafe... and even if somebody went through and updated them, next week there will be several new one that are not threadsafe.
Now, all of this would be moot if there were a compelling reason to push to Apache2. The impetus would be there to do the work. But, right now, the last of the 1.x series is just as stable and performs as well as Apache2. That means that there's simply no reason to do the work, and Open Source doesn't like to do unnecessary work.
When there is a benefit to the ongoing work necessary to make it and *keep* it threadsafe, it will likely be done.
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Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts are available (much like Baskin-Robbins' ice cream) in a variety of non-Dunkin Donuts locations.
For the record, I don't like Starbucks because of the "burned edge" flavor they have. I prefer Dunkin Donuts (aka 'American Diner' coffee)... of course, they don't have them within a full days drive from where I live, so I go with Cafe Espresso Roma.
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But the sleigh rides I did on many many occasions with various groups, singing carols and having a great time. Of course, they were wheeled, but the horse was there, the hot chocolate, and the great time. All the young kids watching for road apples behind us, all the older kids (when there were no adults in the sleigh), up against the front making out with their dates.
I've done two as an adult, once with friends with kids. I'd imagine that as more and more of my friends have kids (and as I approach that milestone), it'll start happening again.
There have also been a couple times with the modern version: a gaggle of people singing carols in the back of a pickup truck driving around to look at Christmas lights.
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Since this is a slip, I chose "penis".
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Penis. I mean Evan.
Tycho: "I know! Gabe... you can draw, and I can write, and we can make a Christmas webcomic!"
Gabe: "Yeah! And I have an uncle Taco with a barn! We can host it there!"
Tycho: "..."
Gabe: "Did I say barn? I meant penis."
Gabe: "Website! I meant website!"
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The first is a visitor. The second is a criminal. The last is an American. Welcome the first, boot the second, and the third is equal in all measure to those who came before.
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It's like walking into McDonalds and bitching about the lack of metal utensils. You're paying cutrate, you get corners cut. It doesn't mean "restaurants don't have metal utensils" - it just means you're scraping the bottom of the barrel to save a few bucks and then complaining about the lack of quality.
If you want the amenities of business class, fly business class. Don't pay coach and then bitch that you don't have the stuff that is available in the next class up.
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Well, now you know why it is called coach. For the price of a airport meal, you can have electricity for an entire cross country flight. Or you can add up the difference over a year and buy a extended external battery. If you are intentionally buying the seats with stripped down features to save money, don't complain (or complain to whoever is getting you the tickets). --
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vi-family editors will certainly edit on a word by word basis - hit right and then 'w' (see above for searching on a word), and I'm fairly certain that vim will allow you to specify what constitutes a word break.
I agree that vi is pretty powerful. I used it for most of a decade when I was on Unix variants.
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Aside: I generally use c for my incrementing variables, and foo for my unknown type variables (common in returns in un- or loosely typed languages.
OnTopic: Looking at the code, Google likely has a more verbose code base and runs it through a stripper that minimizes the code and removes comments and excess whitespace. Since they use Python internally, especially in their GMail site, it would be a likely choice for such an app.
While the one and two letter variable names are not at all unmaintainable, I'd imagine that comments and most importantly, indentation are maintained in the original.
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I'm guessing that whoever had crashes was running an old version.
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I'd guess that n will vary between now and when they release as they grow their database.
Interestingly, they seem to clamp down on search phrases that are synonyms and start with the same beginning. For instance, the search for "Rocky Horror" is more common than "Rocky Horror Picture Show", but only the latter is listed. In this case, for reasons that are specific to the search, using RHPS over Rocky Horror can cause problems as it eliminates "Rocky Horror Show", which is the stage production, and often swapped by the public for RHPS.
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The new ones that replace regular bulbs have a much more balanced spectra. They look much more like natural light. They also don't cause CRT flicker (although I have found some that do).
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For instance, to disable KsCD popping up for disks, look to your system tray. There are a couple SUSE icons there. One is SUSEwatcher, and there's another (I've disabled them - you can too). In one of them, you can associate system events (like an audio CD being inserted) with an application. Turn off KsCD. In the latest version, I think you can also right click on the CD icon on your desktop and change preferences (a location that makes sense).
If you bought SUSE, you get support. Call the toll free number and ask. If you like IRC, there are several helpful channels as well (on openprojects.net, for one). Same goes for usenet. Also see if there is a Linux Users Group near you.
There are also several books written (some online, some available at your local book retailer) covering specifically KDE. It's not like it is a new or niche environment anymore. Joe Sixpack and Mom are starting to use it - you can often find help in the typical computer help places.
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Evan
KDE developers seem to be fairly concerned about interoperability. Some more than others, but freedesktop.org gets cited quite a bit. GStreamer and DBUS are both discussed quite a bit as potential technologies for KDE 4 (major revisions can break binary compatability, so there has already been quite a bit of discussion on what should be changed vs. what should be incrementally improved).
The tendancy runs: if it is an open standard and runs on all POSIX systems, it is preferred by KDE. It will be interesting to see what changes happen. aRts is almost certain to be removed, as it's poorly maintained and not very well regarded (powerful but laggy and high load).
There has also been a tendancy towards making KDE trimmer over time; each version runs faster and requires less hardware even as it does more. KDE 4 will likely introduce new tech that will bulk up the release, and will likely be trimmed down and made faster over the minor releases. Or at least that's what I predict.
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Plus, it allows for the (aforementioned) system portability. KDE aims for POSIX/X compatability, with X being a loose requirement (KDE NoX exists, but the thing from X that KDE depends on most is the inter-application communication framework rather than anything having to do with graphics or input).
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Basically, KDE is written under the *nix philosophy of "many small apps working together". DCOP allows anything - even bash scripts - to be KDE apps.
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