The point of google groups is that a bunch of smart people have already discussed nearly anything you ask (and nearly anything that's been asked here). In many cases, it includes smarter, more informed people than post here. It may not have moderation, but you also don't need to depend on the moderators being unbiased and informed enough to accurately judge things.
Yes in many cases you can go "ask google" however...you might get a page or two with in formation on the howto's...you will not get the life expirence information on how everyone did do it
How do you mean that the NavTech dataset sucks? Are you talking about accuracy, details, or what? Also, what version are you talking about?
I'm interested because I have Garmin maps based on the NavTech maps, and they seem pretty accurate in my (limited so far) experience. And NavTech does now have street-level coverage of non-major metro areas, but I don't know where it came from or how good it is. (Seems to be pretty good visually for my in-laws in rural OH, but I haven't driven there with the GPS yet.)
When I look at the info at the Census Bureau's website about the Tiger data, it looks really scary. There have been almost no considerations for accuracy in updates in years, though they look like they're trying to fix it.
Interested in any more details you can share, as someone who's actually gotten a detailed look at the datasets.
You can load the Garmon topo maps on it, but I haven't so I have no experience with them.
My experience is with the City Select map set which came with the GPS V. CS is based on NavTech data and very detailed streetwise, but it doesn't have many topographic features (beyond "lake here, river here").
To take a look at the garmin topo maps, go to Garmin's site and try out the map viewer in the upper right.
My GPS V makes it much easier to route from point A to point B, because I don't have to sit pouring over the maps while I'm trying to drive. If I get caught in traffic, I pick a random side road and the GPS recalculates my route and tells me where to turn. I don't have to try to read the street signs they place (which are often missing, too small, or decorative and thus hard to read) because my GPS knows where I am and tells me where to turn. If it's wrong (which it hasn't been yet), I'll tool around till it figures out where I am, and again recalc and tell me where to go.
Let the computer do the work it's good at.
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There are a lot of parts auctions put on by people who buy sets and part them out. You can get mass quantities of specific pieces cheaper than buying the entire sets that way. I have an army of LEGO skeletons using this technique.
For a few hundred bucks, you can pick up a standalone GPS unit with mapping and routing capabilities, and the maps on CD to download to the unit. Either the Garmin GPS V or StreetPilot III will give you far more detailed maps and better navigation than anything I've found on Linux.
There are downsides. You will need windows capabilities to download maps to the unit, but you won't need to do it while driving. You'll have all the maps on CD, so they won't be autoupdated but you won't need an internet connection to upload maps. It won't integrate into the rest of your systems beyond waypoint, route and track, and position transfer.
But if you want navigation, it's a better solution.
Actually, WP8 was usable, but did have a number of bugs (mostly graphics and printing related), had very annoying and limited printing setup, required libc5 when many people had libc6 and didn't even know what to install to get libc5, and had basically no support from Corel beyond the C_Tech program. And when there were bugs, all we could do was report them to Corel and tell users "There's been no schedule announced for a service pack at this time."
There never was a service pack. Fixes were made, but the only way to get them was to get Corel Linux OS deluxe, and if you were using WP8/Server edition, you were screwed, as the fixes weren't released for that.
You may not be able to find a good job telecommuting. In all likelyhood, you'll have to do one of three things:
Forego your opportunities at career advancement so that your wife can have the best career she can find.
Force your wife to make do with whatever is available so that you can have the best career that you can find.
Both you and your wife compromise so that you can both have satisfying careers, even though neither is optimal.
You should both forget the notion that your job is very portable and that you will be able to find a satisfying job wherever her tenure track takes you. You've already started on this track by realizing you may not find on-site jobs that work. But you probably won't find telecommuting jobs that work perfectly either, and being uprooted every couple years to an arbitrary place won't help your career either.
You and your wife need to realize that both of your careers are equal in importance. As such, to keep the marriage intact, you will both need to evaluate offers and locations in terms of what they offer both of you, and you will both need to settle for something reasonable, because you probably won't find a place ideal for both of you.
If you don't compromise, one of you will probablyu be very bitter and it'll put huge stresses on your marriage. My wife chose a location for grad school that has no jobs that I find enjoyable. I'd explained that I didn't think this area had anything to offer me, but I allowed myself to be overruled. I'm employed, but my job is exactly what I promised myself I would never do. I've come extremely close to movinjg out and on several occasions. For our next move, we're both looking at areas, and we're not going to choose a location that both can't agree on.
Nope, Coke doesn't own Dr Pepper. Neither does Pepsi. Dr Pepper may be bottled by Coke or Pepsi in different areas, depending on the agreements made with local bottlers. In some areas like St. Louis, Dr Pepper/7up has their own bottling plant.
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I'll agree with those. I'd also suggest just trying to be more active in day-to-day life. I've started biking to work. It's only 40 minutes more a day, but that's a pretty decent amount of time each week.
The reason you need a standalone TiVo for cable is that the DirecTiVo doesn't have a normal channel tuner or MPEG encoder. It just writes the MPEG stream from DirecTV to disk.
You could build a box that had all of that built in, but it would cost more and TiVo probably doesn't think there's enough of a market for it.
You will be able to do something like this in subversion. Since it supports file copies with history, you could copy the file to separate files, then remove the stuff you don't want in each file.
They are cute, but they look extremely hazard prone. All the posts about having to plan your life for the next 15 years around your two glider (can't get just one, they'll be depressed), watching over them constantly because they are small, fragile and keep getting into things that are dangerous for them. A pet that can be seriously injured by a sock sounds like a ton of work.
I have to admit, reading those pages I'm glad I have a cat. He's smart, fast, and I don't have to babyproof the house.
The Constitution doesn't guarantee that you have the right to not be annoyed by other people. You have no right to take my personal freedoms away because of the occasional dumb-ass.
What personal freedoms? You are not being forced to see a movie with your cell phone. Nobody is shutting down the entire telephone network while a movie is in session. (Talk about a woefully incorrect analogy.) They're blocking it in one specific place, on private property.
You don't like it? Don't go to those theaters. If lots of people don't like it, the theaters will change their mind.
Does Xft give me access to ligatures and kerning pairs? Does it give me access to outlines for my drawing app? Does it give me access to full fonts I can embed in my PS/PDF output?
There are a bunch more features that would be nice, but the mere ability to do AA fonts on screen does not equal real font support.
There's still lots to be done. Not all software supports AA fonts. Those that do don't always support it well, for example all those programs which do AA by theirselves and don't use the render extension.
Having been an RCC at Wash U in Stl (home of a formerly great archive, before the useful people left), I've got some tips for this type of situation.
Your geek buddy is a great idea. Leave the RCC out of it if at all possible, because he's got an entire dorm full of people calling him.
Know what the RCC's responsibilities are. At Wash U, general problems with a student's PC were not part of them. Network problems were.
If you have a problem that isn't the responsibility of the RCC, bribe them. Food, alcohol, whatever, they work. The RCC gets so many requests that aren't his problem that if you ask and offer a bribe, you'll be helped.
Find out who you can escalate to. Each Rescomp department has at least one or two people who can fix just about everything. The key is getting in touch with them. Note: they also accept bribes.
Distinguish yourself from the self-righteous students with a feeling of entitlement. Then the RCC would rather deal with you than one of the others, who calls Daddy to call the head of Rescomp to complain.
We have an employee flying to Tallahassee as I write this because a version of RH6.0 had an old version of ssh on it, which was perfectly safe because it was behind a firewall. Until, of course, the firewall is changed to allow ssh... and someone needs to relay the OS because the machine was hacked.
Seriously, how much space did using a version of ssh with security holes save you? Was it significant, or are you rationalizing your negligence?
The article is clear that this is just part of their business taxes, which is a tax on a business's gross receipts. It's clear that it doesn't apply to non-businesses or "perceived value" and clear that it does apply to revenue.
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At 3am when their pager doesn't go off... when there is in fact no pager, sysadmins will give a great cry of thanks at being rendered obsolete.
The point of google groups is that a bunch of smart people have already discussed nearly anything you ask (and nearly anything that's been asked here). In many cases, it includes smarter, more informed people than post here. It may not have moderation, but you also don't need to depend on the moderators being unbiased and informed enough to accurately judge things.
Yes in many cases you can go "ask google" however...you might get a page or two with in formation on the howto's...you will not get the life expirence information on how everyone did do it
Yes, you will. Ever heard of Google Groups?
How do you mean that the NavTech dataset sucks? Are you talking about accuracy, details, or what? Also, what version are you talking about?
I'm interested because I have Garmin maps based on the NavTech maps, and they seem pretty accurate in my (limited so far) experience. And NavTech does now have street-level coverage of non-major metro areas, but I don't know where it came from or how good it is. (Seems to be pretty good visually for my in-laws in rural OH, but I haven't driven there with the GPS yet.)
When I look at the info at the Census Bureau's website about the Tiger data, it looks really scary. There have been almost no considerations for accuracy in updates in years, though they look like they're trying to fix it.
Interested in any more details you can share, as someone who's actually gotten a detailed look at the datasets.
You can load the Garmon topo maps on it, but I haven't so I have no experience with them.
My experience is with the City Select map set which came with the GPS V. CS is based on NavTech data and very detailed streetwise, but it doesn't have many topographic features (beyond "lake here, river here").
To take a look at the garmin topo maps, go to Garmin's site and try out the map viewer in the upper right.
I've had road atlases for years.
I've had my Garmin GPS V for a week.
My GPS V makes it much easier to route from point A to point B, because I don't have to sit pouring over the maps while I'm trying to drive. If I get caught in traffic, I pick a random side road and the GPS recalculates my route and tells me where to turn. I don't have to try to read the street signs they place (which are often missing, too small, or decorative and thus hard to read) because my GPS knows where I am and tells me where to turn. If it's wrong (which it hasn't been yet), I'll tool around till it figures out where I am, and again recalc and tell me where to go.
Let the computer do the work it's good at.
There are a lot of parts auctions put on by people who buy sets and part them out. You can get mass quantities of specific pieces cheaper than buying the entire sets that way. I have an army of LEGO skeletons using this technique.
For a few hundred bucks, you can pick up a standalone GPS unit with mapping and routing capabilities, and the maps on CD to download to the unit. Either the Garmin GPS V or StreetPilot III will give you far more detailed maps and better navigation than anything I've found on Linux.
There are downsides. You will need windows capabilities to download maps to the unit, but you won't need to do it while driving. You'll have all the maps on CD, so they won't be autoupdated but you won't need an internet connection to upload maps. It won't integrate into the rest of your systems beyond waypoint, route and track, and position transfer.
But if you want navigation, it's a better solution.
Actually, WP8 was usable, but did have a number of bugs (mostly graphics and printing related), had very annoying and limited printing setup, required libc5 when many people had libc6 and didn't even know what to install to get libc5, and had basically no support from Corel beyond the C_Tech program. And when there were bugs, all we could do was report them to Corel and tell users "There's been no schedule announced for a service pack at this time."
There never was a service pack. Fixes were made, but the only way to get them was to get Corel Linux OS deluxe, and if you were using WP8/Server edition, you were screwed, as the fixes weren't released for that.
Maybe, if you're a Nielson family. If you aren't, how you watch a show will have no impact
You should both forget the notion that your job is very portable and that you will be able to find a satisfying job wherever her tenure track takes you. You've already started on this track by realizing you may not find on-site jobs that work. But you probably won't find telecommuting jobs that work perfectly either, and being uprooted every couple years to an arbitrary place won't help your career either.
You and your wife need to realize that both of your careers are equal in importance. As such, to keep the marriage intact, you will both need to evaluate offers and locations in terms of what they offer both of you, and you will both need to settle for something reasonable, because you probably won't find a place ideal for both of you.
If you don't compromise, one of you will probablyu be very bitter and it'll put huge stresses on your marriage. My wife chose a location for grad school that has no jobs that I find enjoyable. I'd explained that I didn't think this area had anything to offer me, but I allowed myself to be overruled. I'm employed, but my job is exactly what I promised myself I would never do. I've come extremely close to movinjg out and on several occasions. For our next move, we're both looking at areas, and we're not going to choose a location that both can't agree on.
Nope, Coke doesn't own Dr Pepper. Neither does Pepsi. Dr Pepper may be bottled by Coke or Pepsi in different areas, depending on the agreements made with local bottlers. In some areas like St. Louis, Dr Pepper/7up has their own bottling plant.
Check here for some more information.
I'll agree with those. I'd also suggest just trying to be more active in day-to-day life. I've started biking to work. It's only 40 minutes more a day, but that's a pretty decent amount of time each week.
Every bit helps.
No, Verizon was Bell Atlantic (before it merged with some other corps).
The reason you need a standalone TiVo for cable is that the DirecTiVo doesn't have a normal channel tuner or MPEG encoder. It just writes the MPEG stream from DirecTV to disk.
You could build a box that had all of that built in, but it would cost more and TiVo probably doesn't think there's enough of a market for it.
This isn't completely true. The Kodak DCS line is a line of digital cameras built on standard film camera bodies. It's not an interchangable back.
There are interchangable backs for medium format cameras, but not 35mm.
You will be able to do something like this in subversion. Since it supports file copies with history, you could copy the file to separate files, then remove the stuff you don't want in each file.
They are cute, but they look extremely hazard prone. All the posts about having to plan your life for the next 15 years around your two glider (can't get just one, they'll be depressed), watching over them constantly because they are small, fragile and keep getting into things that are dangerous for them. A pet that can be seriously injured by a sock sounds like a ton of work.
I have to admit, reading those pages I'm glad I have a cat. He's smart, fast, and I don't have to babyproof the house.
The Constitution doesn't guarantee that you have the right to not be annoyed by other people. You have no right to take my personal freedoms away because of the occasional dumb-ass.
What personal freedoms? You are not being forced to see a movie with your cell phone. Nobody is shutting down the entire telephone network while a movie is in session. (Talk about a woefully incorrect analogy.) They're blocking it in one specific place, on private property.
You don't like it? Don't go to those theaters. If lots of people don't like it, the theaters will change their mind.
Font support: NOT fixed yet.
Does Xft give me access to ligatures and kerning pairs? Does it give me access to outlines for my drawing app? Does it give me access to full fonts I can embed in my PS/PDF output?
There are a bunch more features that would be nice, but the mere ability to do AA fonts on screen does not equal real font support.
There's still lots to be done. Not all software supports AA fonts. Those that do don't always support it well, for example all those programs which do AA by theirselves and don't use the render extension.
Then you don't need wires in the bathroom....
We have an employee flying to Tallahassee as I write this because a version of RH6.0 had an old version of ssh on it, which was perfectly safe because it was behind a firewall. Until, of course, the firewall is changed to allow ssh... and someone needs to relay the OS because the machine was hacked.
Seriously, how much space did using a version of ssh with security holes save you? Was it significant, or are you rationalizing your negligence?
The article is clear that this is just part of their business taxes, which is a tax on a business's gross receipts. It's clear that it doesn't apply to non-businesses or "perceived value" and clear that it does apply to revenue.