good points. Documentation does suck, and is at about the level of Windows 3.1
When I was a newbie I found the the O'Reilly books a bit intimidating. 'Running Linux' is good, though.
The only book that I found that 'spoke' to me was Mohammed Kabir's RedHat Server.
Another suggestion which I found helpful is to install Webmin, it makes playing with linux easy for beginners, and has a java filemanager interface which gives you a windows explorer type look and feel. When you have got some confidence using this, then you can go and play by directly editing the files.
Dear Mr Morse
Unfortunately your patent application for a serial binary code device (RFC 1) has not been accepted, as a company called SCO claim prior art.
The democrats are usually a non-event, being third party in a two party state, like the liberal party in the UK.
However their founding motto is "keep the bastards honest", and I hope their new policy will include looking for Microsoft payback (election campaign contributions anybody?) as I am sure this will be fruitful.
interesting if it's true, although the article does specify a redmond source.
vmware is a great product for developing using a virtual network, and I'm sure they must have done their sums (they are Germans, after all)
My guess is that they must have a lot of legacy apps that they can't afford to update now, and that in the future they will use linux clients, but that they can start moving everyone to linux now to make the later switch easy.
I thought it said "Freshman class at an English public university" instead of "Freshman English class at a public university".
All flames gratefully received.
also introduces them to concept of open source, open peer review.
As they can get at the source, they can build new functions onto it. This could be an assignment.
some of the worst problems e.g. register globals on as the default setting has disappeared in the latest versions, but I generally agree.
I have this book, and it has got some good examples I have been able to adapt and use, but it does need a good understanding of PHP, SQL and HTML to get the most out of it.
If you want a starter/ reference book, wait a few weeks until PHP5 comes out, and I will be spending my dollars on Leon Atkinson's latest edition in the Core series.
I'm sorry to say that as a [fairly] law abiding citizen, I am pleased about this.
I recently returned to the UK from Australia, and Australia is far more peaceful and safe.
I would rather live in a place with more equitable social standards, and pay for these with higher taxes. However if I am going to live in the UK, I need to feel safe, and I am happy to pay this price in civil liberty.
Some diseases do produce characteristic smells.
Uncontrolled diabetes makes the breath smell a bit like nail varnish.
Infections, liver disease and cancer also make distinct smells.
There is a big danger in using a test like this inappropriately for screening, as has already been aluded to.
Breast screening, prostate screening and even cervical cancer screening are all not good screening tests (as they stand at the moment). For cervical cancer, which is probably the best of the three for screening, you have to screen 1000 women for 35 years to prevent one death. You think about the extra cost, extra tests and all the pain and anxiety of all the people who get false positive results.
Screening is like wearing an elastic seatbelt. It gives you illusion of security, when in fact it gives you no real protection, and just adds inconvenience. Unlike an elastic seatbelt, there is no 'real' substitute. yet.
Some decent quality properly blinded listening tests would be more interesting than a graph though.
When VHS established dominance of the video market, there were high barriers to change - your player and media were committed to that format.
There are far less barriers to change in the ripped audio format, although there will still be some inertia, but there is nothing* to stop ogg vorbis becoming the dominant format.
This is a typical Australian head-in-the-sand position (IAAA): 'ban' it and it will go away.
Unfortunately Senator Alston does not seem to appreciate that we are connected to the rest of the world by this internet thing, and it may just be that courts in Russia and China will not recognise Australian juristiction in this matter.
It would be better if they saved their breath and did something useful like investigate some sort of token-based email, and maybe funded its development.
LAN parties are good, you should always see a sample monitor before buying. Never buy on spec alone.
For LCDs, take a laptop to the showroom, and insist on testing it there for dead pixels. I use simple HTML and opera's full screen function to test a completely black screen (for stuck pixels) and a completely white screen (for dead pixels).
Reject any with any dud pixels (stuck is worse than dead). They can sell them to someone else who doesn't care/ is less informed. Do not accept any crap about that 1-2 dead pixels are acceptable. They are not acceptable to you.
The other thing is that now media is so cheap, it may just force people to swap CDs and DVDs with their ripped music.
While this has always happened, it has not been the mode of choice. At least with the p2p networks, they could monitor them and do something about the worst excesses. Maybe they could even have worked out a way of taxing the university for the amount of fileswapping. This would have made the university admins keep things under control.
By forcing this activity further underground, they will have even less idea how much is going on
Being a good parent is very difficult. It is much easier to start off with good habits and enforce them, rather than duck them and try to sort them out later.
Sleep is absolutely critical- both yours and theirs.
If you can't get sleep right, you get an over-tired irritable child which develops a whole lot of other problems e.g. behavioural problems. People always say to us "aren't you lucky, your children sleep really well". It's not luck. We worked hard at it, it was difficult, but it was well worth it.
Here are some books for someone looking for something a little less rose tinted.
The silent nights book is the most important single book/ advice we had. It saved our sanity, and made our children happier and much nicer. Good luck !
From an educational viewpoint it is early success and plenty of positive re-inforcement that is critical.
Therefore the most important thing is that you (the tutor) should pick a language that you know well, so that you can help them debug, which is actually the most critical skill to learn.
Python is good, but kids know understand web pages, and if they do something cool, then they can upload it, and their friends can see it. This gives them the peer approval (positive reinforcement) that keeps them going.
Therefore I would chose a web-based language - any of the above would be good but for me, PHP is the pick.
One you have not mentioned is Ilias. Not pretty (yet), but it works well.
The rotisserie that they describe does not seem to be a collaborative tool, but rather an asynchronous discussion tool.
The obvious comparison is not other [expensive] courseware type systems, but Slashdot. Slashdot's system of open, anonymous graded peer review is probably at least as good a way of refining knowledge in this way. A side by side comparison would be very interesting.
Just think, if they had dropped a million on slashcode - it might even be able to spot dupes!
if you are going to do that, you should also factor in the grief of trying to install a bleeding edge card with bleeding edge drivers.
Having wasted a lot of time and multiple re-installs, I now stick to "not quite bleeding, but still a bit bloodstained" edge products, where at least the drivers are mature.
it says that GDDR3 is going to be the standard, not GDDR2 - which sounds like it has multiple different implementations.
(I know it is against the spirit of/. to actually read the article - sorry)
While it obvious that the claim is a pile of shite, Microsoft have won, because the advertising standards body just slaps it on the wrist, and nothing happens. No damages.
I am a doctor and the 'controls' on the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practice are the same - 'self regulation' = no regulation. (applies to doctors as well though;-])
Being a sad php-geek, I buy pretty much all the PHP books which come out, but the ones I use the most are the O'Reilly ones, (partly because they are written by the PHP team).
However the best one [IMHO, IANAL etc] for learning and as a reference is the one by Atkinson, by Core.
Well edited, with well thought out examples.
Slashdot Mirror
good points. Documentation does suck, and is at about the level of Windows 3.1
When I was a newbie I found the the O'Reilly books a bit intimidating. 'Running Linux' is good, though.
The only book that I found that 'spoke' to me was Mohammed Kabir's RedHat Server.
Another suggestion which I found helpful is to install Webmin, it makes playing with linux easy for beginners, and has a java filemanager interface which gives you a windows explorer type look and feel. When you have got some confidence using this, then you can go and play by directly editing the files.
So the message I am getting is
'Listen to good music, and the RIAA will leave you alone'.
I don't have a problem with that.
Legal action is justified and actually desirable if it stops someone listening to 'Destiny's Child'.
I rest my case, M'lud
Dear Mr Morse
Unfortunately your patent application for a serial binary code device (RFC 1) has not been accepted, as a company called SCO claim prior art.
The democrats are usually a non-event, being third party in a two party state, like the liberal party in the UK.
However their founding motto is "keep the bastards honest", and I hope their new policy will include looking for Microsoft payback (election campaign contributions anybody?) as I am sure this will be fruitful.
interesting if it's true, although the article does specify a redmond source.
vmware is a great product for developing using a virtual network, and I'm sure they must have done their sums (they are Germans, after all)
My guess is that they must have a lot of legacy apps that they can't afford to update now, and that in the future they will use linux clients, but that they can start moving everyone to linux now to make the later switch easy.
Also, MS are sitting on a cash mountain ($40 bn +) like the world has never seen, allowing them to ride out the storm.
I thought it said "Freshman class at an English public university" instead of "Freshman English class at a public university".
All flames gratefully received.
also introduces them to concept of open source, open peer review.
As they can get at the source, they can build new functions onto it. This could be an assignment.
some of the worst problems e.g. register globals on as the default setting has disappeared in the latest versions, but I generally agree.
I have this book, and it has got some good examples I have been able to adapt and use, but it does need a good understanding of PHP, SQL and HTML to get the most out of it.
If you want a starter/ reference book, wait a few weeks until PHP5 comes out, and I will be spending my dollars on Leon Atkinson's latest edition in the Core series.
I'm sorry to say that as a [fairly] law abiding citizen, I am pleased about this.
I recently returned to the UK from Australia, and Australia is far more peaceful and safe.
I would rather live in a place with more equitable social standards, and pay for these with higher taxes. However if I am going to live in the UK, I need to feel safe, and I am happy to pay this price in civil liberty.
Some diseases do produce characteristic smells.
Uncontrolled diabetes makes the breath smell a bit like nail varnish. Infections, liver disease and cancer also make distinct smells.
There is a big danger in using a test like this inappropriately for screening, as has already been aluded to.
Breast screening, prostate screening and even cervical cancer screening are all not good screening tests (as they stand at the moment). For cervical cancer, which is probably the best of the three for screening, you have to screen 1000 women for 35 years to prevent one death. You think about the extra cost, extra tests and all the pain and anxiety of all the people who get false positive results.
Screening is like wearing an elastic seatbelt. It gives you illusion of security, when in fact it gives you no real protection, and just adds inconvenience. Unlike an elastic seatbelt, there is no 'real' substitute. yet.
Just to make it more difficult, their is an entire industry set up around producing and promoting these 'elastic seatbelts'.
Some decent quality properly blinded listening tests would be more interesting than a graph though.
When VHS established dominance of the video market, there were high barriers to change - your player and media were committed to that format.
There are far less barriers to change in the ripped audio format, although there will still be some inertia, but there is nothing* to stop ogg vorbis becoming the dominant format.
Where's my ogg pod then?
* apart from the silly name.
This is a typical Australian head-in-the-sand position (IAAA): 'ban' it and it will go away.
Unfortunately Senator Alston does not seem to appreciate that we are connected to the rest of the world by this internet thing, and it may just be that courts in Russia and China will not recognise Australian juristiction in this matter.
It would be better if they saved their breath and did something useful like investigate some sort of token-based email, and maybe funded its development.
Check out the HP 41 emulator
There is a lot of software available here as well.
There are more HP calculator emulators for different platforms here.
LAN parties are good, you should always see a sample monitor before buying. Never buy on spec alone.
For LCDs, take a laptop to the showroom, and insist on testing it there for dead pixels. I use simple HTML and opera's full screen function to test a completely black screen (for stuck pixels) and a completely white screen (for dead pixels).
Reject any with any dud pixels (stuck is worse than dead). They can sell them to someone else who doesn't care/ is less informed.
Do not accept any crap about that 1-2 dead pixels are acceptable. They are not acceptable to you.
The other thing is that now media is so cheap, it may just force people to swap CDs and DVDs with their ripped music.
While this has always happened, it has not been the mode of choice. At least with the p2p networks, they could monitor them and do something about the worst excesses. Maybe they could even have worked out a way of taxing the university for the amount of fileswapping. This would have made the university admins keep things under control.
By forcing this activity further underground, they will have even less idea how much is going on
Being a good parent is very difficult. It is much easier to start off with good habits and enforce them, rather than duck them and try to sort them out later.
Sleep is absolutely critical- both yours and theirs.
If you can't get sleep right, you get an over-tired irritable child which develops a whole lot of other problems e.g. behavioural problems. People always say to us "aren't you lucky, your children sleep really well". It's not luck. We worked hard at it, it was difficult, but it was well worth it.
Here are some books for someone looking for something a little less rose tinted.
Up the duff
and
Silent Nights
The silent nights book is the most important single book/ advice we had. It saved our sanity, and made our children happier and much nicer. Good luck !
on PostgreSQL and MySQL.
why should the market forces that apply to MS not apply to Oracle?
Build those yachts while the sun shines, Larry!
From an educational viewpoint it is early success and plenty of positive re-inforcement that is critical.
Therefore the most important thing is that you (the tutor) should pick a language that you know well, so that you can help them debug, which is actually the most critical skill to learn.
Python is good, but kids know understand web pages, and if they do something cool, then they can upload it, and their friends can see it. This gives them the peer approval (positive reinforcement) that keeps them going.
Therefore I would chose a web-based language - any of the above would be good but for me, PHP is the pick.
One you have not mentioned is Ilias. Not pretty (yet), but it works well.
The rotisserie that they describe does not seem to be a collaborative tool, but rather an asynchronous discussion tool.
The obvious comparison is not other [expensive] courseware type systems, but Slashdot. Slashdot's system of open, anonymous graded peer review is probably at least as good a way of refining knowledge in this way. A side by side comparison would be very interesting.
Just think, if they had dropped a million on slashcode - it might even be able to spot dupes!
if you are going to do that, you should also factor in the grief of trying to install a bleeding edge card with bleeding edge drivers.
Having wasted a lot of time and multiple re-installs, I now stick to "not quite bleeding, but still a bit bloodstained" edge products, where at least the drivers are mature.
it says that GDDR3 is going to be the standard, not GDDR2 - which sounds like it has multiple different implementations.
(I know it is against the spirit of
While it obvious that the claim is a pile of shite, Microsoft have won, because the advertising standards body just slaps it on the wrist, and nothing happens. No damages.
;-])
I am a doctor and the 'controls' on the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practice are the same - 'self regulation' = no regulation. (applies to doctors as well though
I agree, I don't like the wrox style either.
Being a sad php-geek, I buy pretty much all the PHP books which come out, but the ones I use the most are the O'Reilly ones, (partly because they are written by the PHP team).
However the best one [IMHO, IANAL etc] for learning and as a reference is the one by Atkinson, by Core.
Well edited, with well thought out examples.
If you can hold out, PHP5 is not that far off.
there are some people who should be forced to use Windows?