You'll have to point me out to where they're catching up with the other browsers.
IE9 is catching up, in the sense that it's vastly better than previous versions of IE. It's not close to the alternatives, in my opinion, but it's a whole lot closer than it had been.
Now please excuse me while I go tack a shower for having written that.
The article pushes the use of TrueCrypt rather heavily, but while it is nice for most people on a Mac it's a lot easier to just turn on FileVault (which stores your whole home directory in an encrypted disk image) and then make sure you require a login when you wake the computer.
The last time I looked (which was fairly recently), FileVault conflicted with Time Machine in that TM would only back up your home directory while you were actually logged out of the machine if you had FileVault enabled. Is that still the case?
How come, out of curiosity? You're going through the trouble of defining the tables with it, then using raw SQL. There are a bunch of problem in the current snapshot, though, like Storage.__init__ not defining self.db, then self.db being used in other methods. I didn't really want to pollute your bugtracker with a bunch of little problems that might all have the same root cause, like perhaps you not having commited a working version recently.
I cloned the project but I can't get it to even minimally execute without a lot of changes. What versions of Python and SQLAlchemy are you using? I have Python 3.1.2 and SA 0.6.3 as shipped with Ubuntu 10.10.
I think you would enjoy Neil Gaiman's work less if it weren't edited and I'm sure you like cover art too.
Editing: sure. Cover art: I couldn't care less. Since getting a Nook, the front cover is the black-and-white picture I glimpse for however long it takes the screen to refresh after I hit the "next page" button.
And your wife is now a legislator who passes laws (or a bureaucrat who issues regulations) "for the children", plural, which is the context of my statement?
Our 'me first' attitude of competition is coming home to roost. Don't like bullying, well guess what, it's been taught to us from day one to 'win' and to kick someone when they're down so we can stay on top.
Every successful society in the history of civilization had those traits; the non-competitive ones were subsumed by their neighbors. Do you have a plan for switching to another set of behaviors that would not result in genocide within a generation?
If you'd have the autodidacts go to a Montessori school (I only know it from my education, I haven't been to one myself) you could have them blossom to their maximum capacity, but normal kid's can't function in a Montessori school.
My city has a public Montessori school. My kids go there, and I assure you there's little difference between the average Montessori kid and the average "regular" school student. The primary difference is that you have to request to transfer your kid there from their "home school", so the Montessori students are from families who have at least enough interest in their child's education to bother with the paperwork. Still, there are brilliant kids and below-average kids in those classrooms. I'm not sure why you think a "normal" child can't function in a Montessori school when every scrap of evidence is to the contrary.
Montessori doesn't mean "kids do whatever they want all day". It means they have a set of goals - a "contract" - they that need to accomplish and have a fair amount of leeway regarding the order they do them in. If my son breezes through math but needs a little extra time in social studies, then that's how he allocates his day. He isn't stuck bored in math class while the slower kids catch up, or scrambling to follow along in social studies while the other kids race by.
Raise your hand if you truly, sincerely believe that this will never be used to punish kids who gripe about their teachers or administration. After all, if Johnny tells his parents that Mrs. Smith is mean and picks on him, then he's clearly usurping her authority and disrupting her teaching and the school must put a stop to it.
Remember, "it's for the kids" is always a lie. Always. Without exception.
The $4.99 is simply an accounting fee due to Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
And that's simply a lie. Google gives away almost all of their services, Microsoft gives away versions of Visual Studio, Red Hat gives away darn near everything, but Apple has to charge for a completely optional download that a tiny percentage of users will want to use? Nope, I don't buy it for a second. Either Apple has the most incompetent accountants in the technology sector, or they're charging because they want to for whatever reason.
As a person who has fixed more relative's and friend's computers than I care to mention I have to say I think we need a union.
As a person who has politely, cheerfully, and helpfully steered extended family and distant social relations toward the appropriate tech support channels, I have to say that you need to grow a pair. At the least, come up with some stock excuses. My personal favorite (which happens to be 99% true): "I wish I could help, but I mainly work on the big computers that run websites and banks and stuff like that, and I'm not very good with Windows PCs. I can help you find a good local shop who can help you, though."
I still do stuff for my immediate family whenever they need it; like I'm going to tell the woman who raised me that I'm not going to spend 10 minutes running a software update for her? But if I haven't hung out with someone for other reasons, and had a meal or a beer or watched a football game with them, then I'm not likely to spend a Saturday disinfecting their PC.
Side note: I never get asked to fix a Mac, even though a lot of my friends have them, know that I know a bit about them, and know that I wouldn't mind helping them. I'd be interested in seeing the average number of support requests per PC versus Mac owner.
My son's orthodontist office called me in a panic one afternoon: "Can you fix our network, like, today?" Long story short, I now handle whatever computer or networking problems they have in barter for my boy's braces. I'm thrilled to death to get a price break on their services and they feel the same way. It's a great arrangement that I hope to continue for a long time.
Really, I've tried all of those (and a few tiling WMs, too). I'm not ignorant of the options - I just don't really like what I've found. I'm currently compiling Gnome Shell to see what that's all about.
What kind of Linux user are you, if you don't know there are other options that KDE or GNOME with all the default settings and default components such as window managers?
I came to Gnome via WindowMaker, Enlightenment, XFCE, and KDE. I'm aware of the options, but they suck for me. Others obviously love them, and that's cool! Want to live on ratpoison? I'm glad you found a choice that suits you!
But none of the current options suit me, so I'm switching to a non-Linux desktop that I actually enjoy using.
Oh. I guess the kind of Linux user who switches to a Mac...
You have withered my soul with your rapier-like wit, sir.
I've tried XFCE and it was pretty great on an old laptop I have. I like the heavier desktop environments, though, and I'm not fond of any of the Free options. I wholeheartedly agree about the difference between UI and kernel, but given that I can't use OS X's interface on a Linux distro, the choice of IU is strongly affecting my choice of OS.
I love Linux, but it's like everyone mutually agreed to abandon desktop sanity. KDE never met an option they didn't like, and Gnome never met one they did. I've used both extensively and recently but both make me spend more time cussing at the screen than I want to. I've held on to Linux (and FreeBSD) desktops for over a decade but I give up. It's not going to happen. I'm still going to work on a Unix all day, but I'm switching to the pretty one.
Try FreeBSD. I'm completely serious. Its documentation and community are exactly what you've been missing. I switched my work PC from FreeBSD to Ubuntu a few months ago (tar -cf home.tar/home; install; tar -xf home.tar) because 1) Flash didn't run well under FreeBSD, 2) neither did Chrome, 3) my ATI drivers were a PITA that week, and 4) it sounded fun. Ubuntu is nice and all, but I never felt as comfortable and in control of it as I did with FreeBSD.
Again, try it. Maybe you'll love it, or maybe you'll hate it. Who knows? But it's free for the downloading, and you might just find that it's exactly what you've been looking for.
I think you missed the point. Say you've installed Ubuntu on a reiserfs partition inside a VM. The VM's harddisk file is stored at/var/tmp/ubuntu.vdi. For some reason, you need to fsck/var. It reads each block in/var's partition and looks for things that look like inodes and merges them back into the directory structure tree. Guess what happens when it starts scanning blocks that are inside ubuntu.vdi? It finds a lot of things that look like inodes and merges them back into the directory structure tree. Don't believe me? Fine. Maybe Theodore Ts'o can convince you.
If you want to wipe a hard disk, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
I don't think there's a single modern SSD or HDD where that will clear every bit of storage on the device. Both drive types keep spare blocks to swap into rotation whenever old ones become damaged and it's impossible to wipe those blocks with dd. Hence the need for a native drive command to do it. Apparently the drive designers thought so, too, and made a command to do that.
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Challenge accepted.
You'll have to point me out to where they're catching up with the other browsers.
IE9 is catching up, in the sense that it's vastly better than previous versions of IE. It's not close to the alternatives, in my opinion, but it's a whole lot closer than it had been.
Now please excuse me while I go tack a shower for having written that.
The article pushes the use of TrueCrypt rather heavily, but while it is nice for most people on a Mac it's a lot easier to just turn on FileVault (which stores your whole home directory in an encrypted disk image) and then make sure you require a login when you wake the computer.
The last time I looked (which was fairly recently), FileVault conflicted with Time Machine in that TM would only back up your home directory while you were actually logged out of the machine if you had FileVault enabled. Is that still the case?
Reference to an example discussion of the issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa;jsessionid=49AFF6673807DC58FD81B4150F261932.node0?messageID=11535839&
That's OK. I added a whole lot back in to a fork. :-)
How come, out of curiosity? You're going through the trouble of defining the tables with it, then using raw SQL. There are a bunch of problem in the current snapshot, though, like Storage.__init__ not defining self.db, then self.db being used in other methods. I didn't really want to pollute your bugtracker with a bunch of little problems that might all have the same root cause, like perhaps you not having commited a working version recently.
I cloned the project but I can't get it to even minimally execute without a lot of changes. What versions of Python and SQLAlchemy are you using? I have Python 3.1.2 and SA 0.6.3 as shipped with Ubuntu 10.10.
I think you would enjoy Neil Gaiman's work less if it weren't edited and I'm sure you like cover art too.
Editing: sure. Cover art: I couldn't care less. Since getting a Nook, the front cover is the black-and-white picture I glimpse for however long it takes the screen to refresh after I hit the "next page" button.
You're a Python programmer, aren't you.
And your wife is now a legislator who passes laws (or a bureaucrat who issues regulations) "for the children", plural, which is the context of my statement?
Our 'me first' attitude of competition is coming home to roost. Don't like bullying, well guess what, it's been taught to us from day one to 'win' and to kick someone when they're down so we can stay on top.
Every successful society in the history of civilization had those traits; the non-competitive ones were subsumed by their neighbors. Do you have a plan for switching to another set of behaviors that would not result in genocide within a generation?
If you'd have the autodidacts go to a Montessori school (I only know it from my education, I haven't been to one myself) you could have them blossom to their maximum capacity, but normal kid's can't function in a Montessori school.
My city has a public Montessori school. My kids go there, and I assure you there's little difference between the average Montessori kid and the average "regular" school student. The primary difference is that you have to request to transfer your kid there from their "home school", so the Montessori students are from families who have at least enough interest in their child's education to bother with the paperwork. Still, there are brilliant kids and below-average kids in those classrooms. I'm not sure why you think a "normal" child can't function in a Montessori school when every scrap of evidence is to the contrary.
Montessori doesn't mean "kids do whatever they want all day". It means they have a set of goals - a "contract" - they that need to accomplish and have a fair amount of leeway regarding the order they do them in. If my son breezes through math but needs a little extra time in social studies, then that's how he allocates his day. He isn't stuck bored in math class while the slower kids catch up, or scrambling to follow along in social studies while the other kids race by.
Raise your hand if you truly, sincerely believe that this will never be used to punish kids who gripe about their teachers or administration. After all, if Johnny tells his parents that Mrs. Smith is mean and picks on him, then he's clearly usurping her authority and disrupting her teaching and the school must put a stop to it.
Remember, "it's for the kids" is always a lie. Always. Without exception.
The $4.99 is simply an accounting fee due to Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
And that's simply a lie. Google gives away almost all of their services, Microsoft gives away versions of Visual Studio, Red Hat gives away darn near everything, but Apple has to charge for a completely optional download that a tiny percentage of users will want to use? Nope, I don't buy it for a second. Either Apple has the most incompetent accountants in the technology sector, or they're charging because they want to for whatever reason.
Probably not,but there are a couple of kids in the pipeline behind him. :-)
As a person who has fixed more relative's and friend's computers than I care to mention I have to say I think we need a union.
As a person who has politely, cheerfully, and helpfully steered extended family and distant social relations toward the appropriate tech support channels, I have to say that you need to grow a pair. At the least, come up with some stock excuses. My personal favorite (which happens to be 99% true): "I wish I could help, but I mainly work on the big computers that run websites and banks and stuff like that, and I'm not very good with Windows PCs. I can help you find a good local shop who can help you, though."
I still do stuff for my immediate family whenever they need it; like I'm going to tell the woman who raised me that I'm not going to spend 10 minutes running a software update for her? But if I haven't hung out with someone for other reasons, and had a meal or a beer or watched a football game with them, then I'm not likely to spend a Saturday disinfecting their PC.
Side note: I never get asked to fix a Mac, even though a lot of my friends have them, know that I know a bit about them, and know that I wouldn't mind helping them. I'd be interested in seeing the average number of support requests per PC versus Mac owner.
The real question how do they feel after a year?
The real question exactly how drunk are you?
My son's orthodontist office called me in a panic one afternoon: "Can you fix our network, like, today?" Long story short, I now handle whatever computer or networking problems they have in barter for my boy's braces. I'm thrilled to death to get a price break on their services and they feel the same way. It's a great arrangement that I hope to continue for a long time.
Really, I've tried all of those (and a few tiling WMs, too). I'm not ignorant of the options - I just don't really like what I've found. I'm currently compiling Gnome Shell to see what that's all about.
Better idea - why not make it a levy on iPods and other music players. Why should I have to pay a royalty when I don't download music?
Better idea - they can kiss my ass. Why should I have to pay a royalty when I purchased all the music I possess?
What kind of Linux user are you, if you don't know there are other options that KDE or GNOME with all the default settings and default components such as window managers?
I came to Gnome via WindowMaker, Enlightenment, XFCE, and KDE. I'm aware of the options, but they suck for me. Others obviously love them, and that's cool! Want to live on ratpoison? I'm glad you found a choice that suits you!
But none of the current options suit me, so I'm switching to a non-Linux desktop that I actually enjoy using.
Oh. I guess the kind of Linux user who switches to a Mac...
You have withered my soul with your rapier-like wit, sir.
I've tried XFCE and it was pretty great on an old laptop I have. I like the heavier desktop environments, though, and I'm not fond of any of the Free options. I wholeheartedly agree about the difference between UI and kernel, but given that I can't use OS X's interface on a Linux distro, the choice of IU is strongly affecting my choice of OS.
I love Linux, but it's like everyone mutually agreed to abandon desktop sanity. KDE never met an option they didn't like, and Gnome never met one they did. I've used both extensively and recently but both make me spend more time cussing at the screen than I want to. I've held on to Linux (and FreeBSD) desktops for over a decade but I give up. It's not going to happen. I'm still going to work on a Unix all day, but I'm switching to the pretty one.
Try FreeBSD. I'm completely serious. Its documentation and community are exactly what you've been missing. I switched my work PC from FreeBSD to Ubuntu a few months ago (tar -cf home.tar /home; install; tar -xf home.tar) because 1) Flash didn't run well under FreeBSD, 2) neither did Chrome, 3) my ATI drivers were a PITA that week, and 4) it sounded fun. Ubuntu is nice and all, but I never felt as comfortable and in control of it as I did with FreeBSD.
Again, try it. Maybe you'll love it, or maybe you'll hate it. Who knows? But it's free for the downloading, and you might just find that it's exactly what you've been looking for.
Sounds like it would be murder on your drive's directory structure.
Your humor slays me.
I think you missed the point. Say you've installed Ubuntu on a reiserfs partition inside a VM. The VM's harddisk file is stored at /var/tmp/ubuntu.vdi. For some reason, you need to fsck /var. It reads each block in /var's partition and looks for things that look like inodes and merges them back into the directory structure tree. Guess what happens when it starts scanning blocks that are inside ubuntu.vdi? It finds a lot of things that look like inodes and merges them back into the directory structure tree. Don't believe me? Fine. Maybe Theodore Ts'o can convince you.
If you want to wipe a hard disk, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
I don't think there's a single modern SSD or HDD where that will clear every bit of storage on the device. Both drive types keep spare blocks to swap into rotation whenever old ones become damaged and it's impossible to wipe those blocks with dd. Hence the need for a native drive command to do it. Apparently the drive designers thought so, too, and made a command to do that.