Actually that comment is from over a year & a half ago. From TFA it looks like Guido now recommends learning 3.0 if you can:
It's easier to learn the differences between 2.6 and 3.0 after you've learned 3.0 than to go the other way. If you learned Python 2.6, you'd probably use a book that had 2.5 on the cover and it was written for 2.2 or 2.3 and sort of somewhat updated by the author. A lot of those textbooks actually still use idioms that already were deprecated in the 2.3 or 2.4 timeframe. It's quite possible that if you're using 2.6 that you're actually writing a dialect of the language that is mostly compatible with 2.3 or something that old which is I think about five years old by now.
On the other hand, if you learn 3.0, in order to be able to work with 2.6, you only have to unlearn a few things because many 3.0 features have actually been backporte to 2.6, or were already available. There's a handful of things that are essentially different like print statement versus print function.
I'd switch tracks to 3.0 if possible as you'll be a bit more future-proof:)
Re:WARNING!!! 10.4.3 render iBook G4 not bootable!
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It looks like this is not an apple issue, the user had their own version of/etc/ttys that 10.4.3 had an issue reading:
I think I found the culprit: the updated system didn't like my version of/etc/ttys (that used to work under 10.4.2). Therefore, loginwindow couldn't start. I figured that out when adding my extensions file by file...
I had/etc/ttys configured to open a LoginHook, and seems there somehow was an additional newline character.
All seems to be working fine, now. Thanks for all your suggestions.
I'd be very wary anytime I updated if I'm changing stuff in/etc. Do you have any local modifications going on that could be the cause of your issues?
I'd say pick up a copy of David Pogue's excellent Missing Manual: Panther Edition. Amazon has it for about $20, and I'm sure you could find it cheaper. Pogue has special sections in just about every chapter for people like yourself who are coming over from the windows world. Even after you've gotten used to OS X, the book is a very handy reference.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive everything is on the Mac Platform. When I switched (about a year ago now). I'd say within a week I'd totally forgotten all of my windows ways and was happily hitting up the Apple key to get at the context menus.
Congratulations on your iBook purchase, you'll be one of us "holier than thou" Mac snobs that you've always hated in no time!
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My anonymous friend, please provide some proof behind your claims. I'm a pretty avid reader of Nick dePlume's Think Secret and can't remember these predictions ever appearing on the site.
Nick actually keeps a running archive of all the articles, here are the one's that are pertinent to your post:
In 1984, back in the Stone Age of the internet, a message was distributed to the members of Usenet (the online messaging community that was one of the first forms the internet took) announcing that the Soviet Union was joining Usenet. This was quite a shock to many, since most assumed that cold war security concerns would have prevented such a link-up. The message purported to come from Konstantin Chernenko (from the address chernenko@kremvax.UUCP) who explained that the Soviet Union wanted to join the network in order to "have a means of having an open discussion forum with the American and European people." The message created a flood of responses. Two weeks later its true author, a European man named Piet Beertema, revealed that it was a hoax. This is believed to be the first hoax on the internet. Six years later, when Moscow really did link up to the internet, it adopted the domain name 'kremvax' in honor of the hoax.
On a similar topic in the "non-slashdot" world. I was watching the CBS broadcast and they had a live caller come in saying that a piece of the shuttle debris had landed in his back yard.
So Dan Rather began the interview process, and the guy detailed hearing the sonic boom follwed by pieces falling from the sky. At the end he described as looking like "pieces of Bobba Bouey's teeth".
Dan Rather was not too quick to pick up that he was being had, and followed up with "So when did this all occur?" Which prompted the guy to answer Dan Rather with "you know you're a real idiot".
What has America come to, prank calling national tv on an event such as this.
"...three girls...engineering course...One of them was a Star Wars fan...not to mention gorgeous...found us lying on my bed in my darkened room."
I dunno about the rest of you, but the little voice in my head screams "highly delusional".
I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. --Jack Handy
Question to NYC area astronomers
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Meet The Leonids
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For those of us living in the biggest lightbulb on the east-coast (New York City), where's a good place for us to go to view the showers?
Since most of us living in the city are without wheels to get away from the "light pollution" Are there any helpful hints from astronomers who are stuck in the city as well?
This story was originally posted on MacSlash, with a thread of opinions on this as well.
Biggest optimizations he missed: turning off Aqua! I kind of have to take this whole test with a grain of salt, you're not really doing justice to a spec test when you have two gui's running taking away performance from what your trying to test: the server.
Since for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to shut down the GUI environment of OS X, I configured a simple VGA X server for Linux and started KDE, just to have a fair basis for comparison.
Come on Moche, do a little research and login as "> console".
Sure the name sounds a little cheesy, but my bank for the past 3 years is VirtualBank experience with it has been amazing. They're a little different than your "run-of-the-mill" internet bank, in that they give you a personal account administrator. A real person with a direct line is there when you need questions, etc. answered. And the contact info is always prominently displayed.
Time for a little story...Without going into to much detail, I had a problem with a transaction on my account (the merchant used an extremely non-intuitive chargeback code that I didn't realize), within an hour my administrator had gotten in touch with me, and gave me a contact with the disputed claims department, and within two days they had given me all the information on the charge. I couldn't get kind of response with a "real" bricks & mortar bank. Oh! And the site is beautiful, and comes up perfectly in my browser of choice: Mozilla. But don't take my word for it, check it out yourself: http://www.virtualbank.com
Is it just a coincidence that microsoft ads started popping up above this post? Looks like the editors have been taking some classes in "strategic marketing":)
Interesting Financial Times article on the Subject
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Great article on the topic of Globalization and the effects it has on fundamentalist societies which reject the movement was just written today by the CEO of Wall Street Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs. Take a look at it here:
Slashdot Mirror
I'd switch tracks to 3.0 if possible as you'll be a bit more future-proof :)
I think I found the culprit: the updated system didn't like my version of /etc/ttys (that used to work under 10.4.2). Therefore, loginwindow couldn't start. I figured that out when adding my extensions file by file...
I had /etc/ttys configured to open a LoginHook, and seems there somehow was an additional newline character.
All seems to be working fine, now. Thanks for all your suggestions.
I'd be very wary anytime I updated if I'm changing stuff inI think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive everything is on the Mac Platform. When I switched (about a year ago now). I'd say within a week I'd totally forgotten all of my windows ways and was happily hitting up the Apple key to get at the context menus.
Congratulations on your iBook purchase, you'll be one of us "holier than thou" Mac snobs that you've always hated in no time!
"I would, however, like to see Apple truly create a market."
:)
Like, ummm, perhaps the personal computer market?
If you're a fan of Risk, check out iConquer, which is a bit more full featured, has lots of plugins to add extensibility, and is cheaper than Lux.
:)
I'm thoroughly addicted at this point
"Microsoft Research...major breakthrough in security."
It's official hell hath frozen over. I just read an article on Slashdot lauding a Microsoft security advance. I kid you not.
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There is no way this deserves to be a +5 post.
My anonymous friend, please provide some proof behind your claims. I'm a pretty avid reader of Nick dePlume's Think Secret and can't remember these predictions ever appearing on the site.
Nick actually keeps a running archive of all the articles, here are the one's that are pertinent to your post:
June 2001
August 2001
September 2002
Course he could be secretly deleting any false claims in the archives, but I really doubt it.
I think the ThinkSecret's track record speaks for itself!
I dunno man, the Treo brings images of Michael Douglas in Wall Street on his "cell phone".
The form factor seems to be just too big.
One word:
woopideedoo
yeah, but if you switch those m's to n's you've got your music management being done by yanni!
;)
That alone should discourage you from such use
Hoax #16: Kremvax
On a similar topic in the "non-slashdot" world. I was watching the CBS broadcast and they had a live caller come in saying that a piece of the shuttle debris had landed in his back yard.
So Dan Rather began the interview process, and the guy detailed hearing the sonic boom follwed by pieces falling from the sky. At the end he described as looking like "pieces of Bobba Bouey's teeth".
Dan Rather was not too quick to pick up that he was being had, and followed up with "So when did this all occur?" Which prompted the guy to answer Dan Rather with "you know you're a real idiot".
What has America come to, prank calling national tv on an event such as this.
"...three girls...engineering course...One of them was a Star Wars fan...not to mention gorgeous...found us lying on my bed in my darkened room."
I dunno about the rest of you, but the little voice in my head screams "highly delusional".
I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. --Jack Handy
For those of us living in the biggest lightbulb on the east-coast (New York City), where's a good place for us to go to view the showers?
:)
Since most of us living in the city are without wheels to get away from the "light pollution" Are there any helpful hints from astronomers who are stuck in the city as well?
Thanks in advance!!
This story was originally posted on MacSlash, with a thread of opinions on this as well.
Biggest optimizations he missed: turning off Aqua! I kind of have to take this whole test with a grain of salt, you're not really doing justice to a spec test when you have two gui's running taking away performance from what your trying to test: the server.
Since for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to shut down the GUI environment of OS X, I configured a simple VGA X server for Linux and started KDE, just to have a fair basis for comparison.
Come on Moche, do a little research and login as "> console".
Time for a little story...Without going into to much detail, I had a problem with a transaction on my account (the merchant used an extremely non-intuitive chargeback code that I didn't realize), within an hour my administrator had gotten in touch with me, and gave me a contact with the disputed claims department, and within two days they had given me all the information on the charge. I couldn't get kind of response with a "real" bricks & mortar bank. Oh! And the site is beautiful, and comes up perfectly in my browser of choice: Mozilla. But don't take my word for it, check it out yourself: http://www.virtualbank.com
Currently, it is impossible for me to switch to Mozilla/Netscape7, I've become addicted to the Google Toolbar which is only supported on IE.
The toolbar is worse than cocaine. I mean it.
"I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away."
--Jack Handy
Is it just a coincidence that microsoft ads started popping up above this post? Looks like the editors have been taking some classes in "strategic marketing" :)
Great article on the topic of Globalization and the effects it has on fundamentalist societies which reject the movement was just written today by the CEO of Wall Street Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs. Take a look at it here:
. html?id=011113001449&query=paulson
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article