I also forgot to mention Terry Pratchett. He wrote quite a few books for his daughter.
There's Johnny Maxwell trilogy which is cool, Nome trilogy which is hilarious and cool, Carpet people which is also very funny, there are also Discworld novels for kids but I haven't read those.
I have to agree with this post. Jules Verne is what I started with when I was 10 and I still treasure those memories. The stories are always kiddy-safe and there's so many of them it'll take the little one a good year or two to go through them all.
I remember the shock when I read my first modern scifi books. Everything had so much sex in it, it made the 13 year old me feel really uneasy. I had to go back to classic scifi writers. But the problem with them is they're so old, the future they're describing (our present) feels embarrassingly childish. It's like Bill Gates' visionary book that forgot the little thing called internet. e.g. in the Foundation series, scientists were still wearing white lab coats, flipping two-credit coins and writing notes on paper.
I really hope you do not give up on Flash. I want Flash to live and I want it to be used everywhere. I love it, I love the idea of it, I love everything about it. I want as little web content to be written in html5 as possible.
I dread the day when I start my web browser and all that colourful flashing cpu hogging vomit that I avoid by NOT having installed flashplugin will have been converted to html5. It'll be like going back to 1996 when web was full of GIFs. Please do NOT do this to me; do not abandon Flash.
i can't agree. i used to but now i cannot afford to.
we recently experienced 2 catastrophes (datacentre-wide downtimes, you know things that NEVER happen) and the results were unbelievable. GRUBs failed to load OSes, machines were without a bootloader (due to emergency disk hotswaps), some machines simply didn't turn on, services didn't autostart, a few virtual servers autostarted on multiple hosts (instead of just one), fsck on some of our volumes took hours to finish, 30% of supermicro IPMI cards were unresponsive, etc. it revealed that almost nobody had followed procedures properly.
after that, every single service we have is built in a clustered manner with nodes spread across multiple datacentres. I now restart machines and pull cables at regular intervals to test bgp/ospf, clustering, recoveries, to check filesystems, etc. i am now also ABLE TO SLEEP.
I usually find the problem to be in the other direction and not necessarily due to foreign accents. The universal recipe for a support centre is: * find the cheapest voip provider * find the cheapest headsets * find people who claim to speak engrish/taglish/mangrish * make them memorise 100 technical questions/answers and 1000 salespitches for additional services * pay them 2 peanuts a month (to make them really enthusiastic)
if a newbie tries this, i should probably point out that to reverse this, just do the following: Ctrl + Alt + F1 sudo -i cat ~/gnome.desktop.BACKUP >/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop &&/etc/init.d/gdm restart
where are the times when gnu/linux users were different from windows users? (a.k.a. whining kids who can't sort out anything themselves) we used to be proud of our ability to sort out ANY problem.
i've just spent... hold your breath.... !!!2 minutes!!! looking around my system and voila! :
1 group will claim GNU/Linux doesn't need anti virus software. 2nd group will claim they use antivirus on their GNU/Linux already, but only to clean emails destined for MS Windows machines or to look after their Samba exported storage. 3rd group will say GNU/Linux needs AV software because it's only a matter of time before viruses (virii?) appear. 4th group will say viruses for GNU/Linux already exist and provide links to some sensationalist articles on the interwebs where researchers published some concepts. 5th group (partially composed of group 1 and 2) will claim they're not real viruses, but worms/snakes/butterflies/etc... 6th group will claim the threat aren't viruses but PPAs in ubuntu. 3rd/4th group will return saying it's all about users and not the OS. And because they're careful users, they've never in their life needed AV on their MS Windows. Does that about cover that? Let the holy war begin...
i really don't get why this has to be measured in feet. If you must use imperial system, wouldn't 8 furlongs, 5 chains and 10 yards sound nicer?
btw, my daily ride to work is 2 735 000 centimetres long.
most of these are just generic my-tribe-is-superior-to-yours insults... and are usually only used by people whose only life achievement is some kind of connection to the tribe making the insults. i wonder how may of them were originally intended for the group you aimed them at.
does anybody else remember the house cat flu episode from simpsons?
"We're here to come up with the next phony baloney crisis to put Americans back where they belong - in dark rooms, glued to their televisions, too terrified to skip the commercials."
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Interesting... Then why on earth would Xerox have sued Apple for blatantly stealing these features without properly licensing them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation
You DO know about Xerox PARC, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Accomplishments
(or does knowing about them equal being Apple hater?)
I also forgot to mention Terry Pratchett. He wrote quite a few books for his daughter.
There's Johnny Maxwell trilogy which is cool, Nome trilogy which is hilarious and cool, Carpet people which is also very funny, there are also Discworld novels for kids but I haven't read those.
I have to agree with this post. Jules Verne is what I started with when I was 10 and I still treasure those memories. The stories are always kiddy-safe and there's so many of them it'll take the little one a good year or two to go through them all.
I remember the shock when I read my first modern scifi books. Everything had so much sex in it, it made the 13 year old me feel really uneasy. I had to go back to classic scifi writers. But the problem with them is they're so old, the future they're describing (our present) feels embarrassingly childish. It's like Bill Gates' visionary book that forgot the little thing called internet. e.g. in the Foundation series, scientists were still wearing white lab coats, flipping two-credit coins and writing notes on paper.
Dear Adobe,
I really hope you do not give up on Flash. I want Flash to live and I want it to be used everywhere. I love it, I love the idea of it, I love everything about it. I want as little web content to be written in html5 as possible.
I dread the day when I start my web browser and all that colourful flashing cpu hogging vomit that I avoid by NOT having installed flashplugin will have been converted to html5. It'll be like going back to 1996 when web was full of GIFs. Please do NOT do this to me; do not abandon Flash.
Sincerely yours, world's biggest Flash fan
As far as I know, official Skype client won't run on armel. So until somebody ports android or writes an unofficial Skype client, this is not the way.
Why did this need a court decision? It seems pretty logical to me. Banks should be praised for providing free information about phishing attacks.
reduce this:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
def Function: return 42
the wikipedia article uses her linkedin profile as a source. according to that, she no longer works at zynga.
i can't agree. i used to but now i cannot afford to.
we recently experienced 2 catastrophes (datacentre-wide downtimes, you know things that NEVER happen) and the results were unbelievable. GRUBs failed to load OSes, machines were without a bootloader (due to emergency disk hotswaps), some machines simply didn't turn on, services didn't autostart, a few virtual servers autostarted on multiple hosts (instead of just one), fsck on some of our volumes took hours to finish, 30% of supermicro IPMI cards were unresponsive, etc. it revealed that almost nobody had followed procedures properly.
after that, every single service we have is built in a clustered manner with nodes spread across multiple datacentres. I now restart machines and pull cables at regular intervals to test bgp/ospf, clustering, recoveries, to check filesystems, etc. i am now also ABLE TO SLEEP.
I usually find the problem to be in the other direction and not necessarily due to foreign accents. The universal recipe for a support centre is:
* find the cheapest voip provider
* find the cheapest headsets
* find people who claim to speak engrish/taglish/mangrish
* make them memorise 100 technical questions/answers and 1000 salespitches for additional services
* pay them 2 peanuts a month (to make them really enthusiastic)
if a newbie tries this, i should probably point out that to reverse this, just do the following: /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop && /etc/init.d/gdm restart
Ctrl + Alt + F1
sudo -i
cat ~/gnome.desktop.BACKUP >
where are the times when gnu/linux users were different from windows users? (a.k.a. whining kids who can't sort out anything themselves) we used to be proud of our ability to sort out ANY problem.
i've just spent... hold your breath.... !!!2 minutes!!! looking around my system and voila! :
Ctrl+Alt+F1 /usr/share/xsessions && mv gnome.desktop ~/gnome.desktop.BACKUP && cat gnome-classic.desktop > gnome.desktop && /etc/init.d/gdm restart
sudo -i
cd
1 group will claim GNU/Linux doesn't need anti virus software.
2nd group will claim they use antivirus on their GNU/Linux already, but only to clean emails destined for MS Windows machines or to look after their Samba exported storage.
3rd group will say GNU/Linux needs AV software because it's only a matter of time before viruses (virii?) appear.
4th group will say viruses for GNU/Linux already exist and provide links to some sensationalist articles on the interwebs where researchers published some concepts.
5th group (partially composed of group 1 and 2) will claim they're not real viruses, but worms/snakes/butterflies/etc...
6th group will claim the threat aren't viruses but PPAs in ubuntu.
3rd/4th group will return saying it's all about users and not the OS. And because they're careful users, they've never in their life needed AV on their MS Windows.
Does that about cover that? Let the holy war begin...
and (of course) by 8, i mean 54 furlongs.
i really don't get why this has to be measured in feet. If you must use imperial system, wouldn't 8 furlongs, 5 chains and 10 yards sound nicer? btw, my daily ride to work is 2 735 000 centimetres long.
most of these are just generic my-tribe-is-superior-to-yours insults... and are usually only used by people whose only life achievement is some kind of connection to the tribe making the insults. i wonder how may of them were originally intended for the group you aimed them at.
Which eastern European countries are you talking about? Iran? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eS1zwfZQ0
does anybody else remember the house cat flu episode from simpsons? "We're here to come up with the next phony baloney crisis to put Americans back where they belong - in dark rooms, glued to their televisions, too terrified to skip the commercials."
i am not an Anonymous Coward