What is it specifically that is giving you so much trouble if I may ask?
Typical environment, with several apps open (firefox, chrome, filezilla, terminal x 2, nautilus x 2, vi x 6)
Gnome2 has a task-bar with one tab per process. To switch to, say my makefile, I just click on the task/tab that is labelled "Makefile". Or maybe just "Makef" if I'm on a small monitor.
With unity, these tasks get grouped into apps. So, all my vi tasks become one. Then, these apps added to the bottom of thel list of apps the left. All *my* apps are noew concertina'd together at the bottom. So, mouse over the squashed "vi" app, and the concertina jumps about. I move my mouse to the new location of the "vi" app, and it moves again. Only on the third attempt to play "whack-a-mole" can I actually click on the thing I want.
Then, it shows me six minaturised text windows - which all look the same. I need to move my mouse over each of them in turn, to see which one is called "Makefile".
This inability to switch between tasks easily is why I ditched ubuntu for mint on my home machine.
BTW - why is the menu is hidden when not in use. It's not as if Unity puts something else in its place. It is just gone. So, instead of moving your mouse to the menu item you want, you have to move it to the "menu area", wait briefly for the menu to appear, and then select the menu item you want. An extra mouse movement every time I want to use a menu.
Disclaimer first - I am the project manager of webtrees, and was previously the project manager of PhpGedView, from which it forked at the start of 2010....
You have three real choices.
(1) a desktop application (2) a web-based application (under your control) (3) a web-based application (managed by someone like ancestry)
I'd be tempted to steer away from (3). Most make it very difficult to apply proper sources/citations to your research, and genealogists tend to get pretty obsessed with their sources.
I tried ancestry once, but found it very limiting. For example, it only allows you to enter "simply connected" trees, so if any of your ancestors married their cousins, you cannot link the common ancestors. It is also difficult to add sources that do not come from ancestry itself.
If you are going to publish on the web, privacy is pretty important. In some countries, privacy laws apply only to living people. In others, privacy extends for a certain number of years after death. The online services tend to operate with the privacy rules of their host country - which may be different to yours. So, check what options are available before signing up to any provider.
This leaves (1) and (2).
Whatever you do, pick an application that can read/write to the (de-facto standard) GEDCOM format. Bear in mind that many applications will either extend the specification or lose some data when saving to it, so interoperability is rarely 100%.
Web-based solutions offer the obvious advantage that the whole family can work on this together. You'll get far greater commitment from the rest of the family if they can update it diretly, rather than send updates to a central person for data entry.
Even if you use a desktop application for your main research and data entry, you'll probably still want a web-based application to publish it.
A web-based system also allows you (presumably the geek of the family) to maintain the site, perform backups, etc., while allowing your (presumably less IT literate) family members to do the fun part - researching your history.
For all its faults, ancestry.com does have a huge amount of data. So, buy your relative a subscription, and set them up an open-source, web-based system on your favourite web-hosting provider.
It's because you're paying for a capacity to be made available for you as well as the power itself.
As a simple example, suppose your peak power consumption is the same as the peak output of the local power-station.
Given that you could want 100% of the power plant output at any one time, the power ocompany has to effectively reserve it for you. Even if you just want 1% of it, it can't sell the other 99% because you might need it.
DISCLAIMER - yes I do work in the electricity industry.
: one assumes the license plate images are easy to : OCR and that can be done in real time soon enough
The company I used to work for had this working 15 years ago. Not only could it read the licence number of traffic moving at 70-100mph, it could also pick out small text along the bottom of the licence plate, such as "Supplied by XXX Garage".
The traffic-flow monitoring system in the UK (www.trafficmaster.co.uk) works by reading licence plates of passing traffic and measuring the time taken to reach the next monitor, which is a mile or two down the road.
For "privacy" reasons, they claim to discard the first and last digits of the licence number.
They say that while they *could* track individual vehicles, they do not.
I've no idea what the full battery life is on my P800. It rarely goes more than 2 or 3 days between crashing. (i.e. backlight comes on and an animated logo tells you to hold the power button for 10 seconds).
A couple of my colleagues have the same phone and same problems.
: Junk mail may still be delivered to : 'The Occupier' by the Royal Mail. : Someone a while ago mentioned there : was a service to stop this too - haven't : been able to find that one. Anybody know?
Write to the nice people here.
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This optional layer of filtering sits above the mandatory "cleanfeed" filtering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_system)
Anything judged to be illegal is already blocked.
Well, fuck you, MySQL can't do that.
Yes you can - since version 5.6.6 (2012-08-07)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-6.html
What is it specifically that is giving you so much trouble if I may ask?
Typical environment, with several apps open (firefox, chrome, filezilla, terminal x 2, nautilus x 2, vi x 6)
Gnome2 has a task-bar with one tab per process. To switch to, say my makefile, I just click on the task/tab that is labelled "Makefile". Or maybe just "Makef" if I'm on a small monitor.
With unity, these tasks get grouped into apps. So, all my vi tasks become one. Then, these apps added to the bottom of thel list of apps the left. All *my* apps are noew concertina'd together at the bottom. So, mouse over the squashed "vi" app, and the concertina jumps about. I move my mouse to the new location of the "vi" app, and it moves again. Only on the third attempt to play "whack-a-mole" can I actually click on the thing I want.
Then, it shows me six minaturised text windows - which all look the same. I need to move my mouse over each of them in turn, to see which one is called "Makefile".
This inability to switch between tasks easily is why I ditched ubuntu for mint on my home machine.
BTW - why is the menu is hidden when not in use. It's not as if Unity puts something else in its place. It is just gone. So, instead of moving your mouse to the menu item you want, you have to move it to the "menu area", wait briefly for the menu to appear, and then select the menu item you want. An extra mouse movement every time I want to use a menu.
Disclaimer first - I am the project manager of webtrees, and was previously the project manager of PhpGedView, from which it forked at the start of 2010....
You have three real choices.
(1) a desktop application
(2) a web-based application (under your control)
(3) a web-based application (managed by someone like ancestry)
I'd be tempted to steer away from (3). Most make it very difficult to apply proper sources/citations to your research, and genealogists tend to get pretty obsessed with their sources.
I tried ancestry once, but found it very limiting. For example, it only allows you to enter "simply connected" trees, so if any of your ancestors married their cousins, you cannot link the common ancestors. It is also difficult to add sources that do not come from ancestry itself.
If you are going to publish on the web, privacy is pretty important. In some countries, privacy laws apply only to living people. In others, privacy extends for a certain number of years after death. The online services tend to operate with the privacy rules of their host country - which may be different to yours. So, check what options are available before signing up to any provider.
This leaves (1) and (2).
Whatever you do, pick an application that can read/write to the (de-facto standard) GEDCOM format. Bear in mind that many applications will either extend the specification or lose some data when saving to it, so interoperability is rarely 100%.
Web-based solutions offer the obvious advantage that the whole family can work on this together. You'll get far greater commitment from the rest of the family if they can update it diretly, rather than send updates to a central person for data entry.
Even if you use a desktop application for your main research and data entry, you'll probably still want a web-based application to publish it.
A web-based system also allows you (presumably the geek of the family) to maintain the site, perform backups, etc., while allowing your (presumably less IT literate) family members to do the fun part - researching your history.
For all its faults, ancestry.com does have a huge amount of data. So, buy your relative a subscription, and set them up an open-source, web-based system on your favourite web-hosting provider.
A better defence would be to coat the surface of the missile with a layer of microscopic cubic crystals.
Each crystal will act as a corner reflector. This will direct a significant proportion of the laser energy back to the laser source.
It's because you're paying for a capacity to be made available for you as well as the power itself.
As a simple example, suppose your peak power consumption is the same as the peak output of the local power-station.
Given that you could want 100% of the power plant output at any one time, the power ocompany has to effectively reserve it for you. Even if you just want 1% of it, it can't sell the other 99% because you might need it.
DISCLAIMER - yes I do work in the electricity industry.
The official secrets acts are not things you "sign up to".
They are just acts of parliament (laws), and you wouldn't sign it in the same way that you wouldn't sign the "Theft" act or the "Murder" act.
Under common law, a person can legally commit an offence, if they do so to prevent a greater crime taking place.
In this case, the person believed that releasing the information was justified in an attempt to stop an illegal war which would kill thousands.
The government would have ended up in court trying to justify that the Iraq war was legal.
Rather than "not having the will", I suspect the government dropped the case because it felt it would lose.
Call it .mobile in the UK .gsm in Europe .cell in the US .whatever in other parts of the world
Call it
Call it
Call it
: one assumes the license plate images are easy to
: OCR and that can be done in real time soon enough
The company I used to work for had this working
15 years ago. Not only could it read the licence
number of traffic moving at 70-100mph, it could
also pick out small text along the bottom of
the licence plate, such as "Supplied by XXX Garage".
The traffic-flow monitoring system in the UK
(www.trafficmaster.co.uk) works by reading licence
plates of passing traffic and measuring the
time taken to reach the next monitor, which is
a mile or two down the road.
For "privacy" reasons, they claim to discard
the first and last digits of the licence
number.
They say that while they *could* track individual
vehicles, they do not.
There *is* a firmware update that gives full-screen video.
My P800 (R2A16) doesn't have it. I know that R2B03 does have it. I'm getting mine updated soon.
It should be available in the US. Ask your local friendly phone shop.
I've no idea what the full battery life is on my P800. It rarely goes more than 2 or 3 days between crashing. (i.e. backlight comes on and an animated logo tells you to hold the power button for 10 seconds).
A couple of my colleagues have the same phone and same problems.
: Junk mail may still be delivered to
: 'The Occupier' by the Royal Mail.
: Someone a while ago mentioned there
: was a service to stop this too - haven't
: been able to find that one. Anybody know?
Write to the nice people here.
Royal Mail Door to Door
Streamline House
Sandy Lane West
Oxford
OX4 5ZZ