Yes, this is that peppy blonde lady that you see on PBS.
She writes good, down to earth, easy to understand books on finances which clarify issues and simplify many financial concepts (which aren't actually that complex, once you think about them the right way).
Not a "make money fast" type of author, but she writes alot on "make and save money for retirement", or "How to save money for when you are laid off and can't find work for 8 months".
Most places I've worked alias rm to something else. My favorite is the 'move things to the./.gone directory, and purge the directory later on. It's saved me a hundred times.
Anyone else getting sick of these "My Gentoo is so superior to your distro" responses?
You know, I'm sure gentoo is a good distro, I like the idea of a ports-based system, and maybe I'll try it in the future; but what do you Gentoo folks expect me to do? Rip up and replace my entire system?
I actually need my computer for work. My work on Gnome doesn't require a whole new paradigm... Gentoo does.
I'm pretty sure that Ximian doesn't make alot of money by selling Ximian Desktop to end users (I bought it, but most people don't buy, they download for free). Many of Ximian's recent headlines talk about their deals with large companies like HP and Sun. Now that HP is dropping out, will Ximian lose some of the planned contracts?
I hope not. Ximian are some of the best contributors to the Gnome project.
Are you kidding? That has to be one of the top complaints regarding alot of OSS development, including Gnome.
I do alot of testing and bug stomping for some Gnome packages, and I've frequently heard Gnome developers describe many Gnome and Linux libraries such as GTK as "moving targets". By the time you finish developing for version a.b.c, version a.e.f was released, and it breaks compatability with version a.b.c.
As a Gnome user, I've tried to compile everything from Source on a number of occasions. The dependancies drive me up the wall.
I use prepackaged products such as Gargnome, but it only solves some of the dependancy hell. If I want that new version of software X, I need to go and find and compile the newest version of several other packages.
If your site is already running, monitor it's ranking on Alexa [alexa.com] and see where you stad.
Wow, Alexa has come a long way since I last saw them.
I really question the quality of some of this infomation. Their measure of "Page views", "hits" only comes from people who install the Alexa Toolbar. Spyware anyone?
Tough subjects, tight deadlines, and the profit-first additude lead to bad books.
I recently purchased Learning Java from Oreilly. Usually I've had a good experience with Oreilly books, but this one was horrible. Several of the examples in the first chapter of the book didn't work because they had typos!
Few things are more frustrating then debugging a "Hello World" program that doesn't work. I went over every character, bit by bit, and my program matched their text exactly. I couldn't find the damn bug. Was I so stupid that I couldn't see the obvious? No! I viewed the Online Errata, and found that a zillion other people were having similar problems with examples throughout the book! Typos galore!
If there are too many mistakes in the book, then let the publisher note. Return the book, get your money back, send a note to the publishers, and buy an alternative book.
Bah, it's not a case mod unless you use Neon, and a blue-LED fan in the shape of a biohazard symbol...
So can someone explain these things?
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If there is one reason where Crypto-folks have failed, it's in explaining why key-signing is important to non-Crypto-folks. My friend signs the key of some stranger he met at Starbucks in Alameda. Why should I care?
I've had a PGP key for about 8 years, and it's been used by others to send a sekret mezage to me less then a dozen times. Off of the top of my head , I can think of dozens of people who have a Key, and only 1 other person who does have a key.
then offering to clamp down on such comments if he bought advertising with them.
On the other hand, they make some valid points in the article, and historically, the ability to express your opinions freely online is one aspect of the internet that arguably should never be curtailed."
For those of you who are still lost, this is the stuff that Cordelia fell on in 'Lover's Walk', an episode from the second or third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Does that help?:-)
I find that the following explanation is a better example:
When you were a kid, it was the metal bars you stole from the new house next door to play "Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker".
It was jsut a series of phot ops and something to build his legacy on
And yet, the bombs and tanks stopped for a short while. Each side quit killing each other for a bit while their leaders talked it out. It was the best step towards peace in almost 20 years.
There was some success, and it was quickly lost when our current president decided to not capitalize on the sucess of the previous administrations.
It was tyhe fact he lied under oath
True, but his tactics were no less honorable then those of his enemies. Why the hell were the Republicans questioning him about his sex life in the first place? It was none of their business. What did that have to do with ANYTHING??
Christ, it all started out as a fairly legitimate investigation into Clinton's real-estate buisness, and ended up as a sex scandal. What the hell happened?
Lastly, re-check your data backups, do you have everything, is it error free, do you have more than one copy. If you have the data your company can recover.
And something else as important: Where are your backup tapes?
If they are sitting in a locked cabinet right next to the computers, they won't survive the asteroid blast either.
Off site backups. A pain to maintain, but good idea for any contigency plan.
A friend of mine once gave a response that was less gentle:
Sir, you just laid off half the developers, and half of the support staff, but you didn't reduce the marketing staff.
There is one manager for every 5 non-manager, we're still not meeting our financial targets, our new "Premium services" campaign is earning $1 for every $1000 we invested, we don't have enough tech staff to fix the bugs, the QA department was reduced to a single person and can't even find the bugs, and tech support is dealing with a growing number of irate customers every day.
We can barely keep up with the endless list of new tasks that you assign, sir, and you want me to waste my time daydreaming about asteroids?
We don't need a contigency plan sir, we ARE IN the contigency plan.
Get real, sir.
Still kept his job. Ok, maybe he wasn't that snotty...
For PHP public www information is better that 99% of the books out there, and in the case of this book... 100%
This book isn't oriented to you. You obviously have some PHP programming experience.
Pretend I'm new to PHP programming, and am looking looking for a good PHP book.
You say "This book sucks, go visit these URLs", but those pages are horrible.
Gee, I know that the first PEAR Meeting is in Amsterdam on May 9th at 17:30, but what the heck is PEAR. How is it related to PHP? Why should I care? I can't find a description anywhere, and the "What is PEAR" link is broken. Ack, is this a good example of good PHP development?
The phpclasses.org may be a good repository for PHP classes, but again, those are of little use to a PHP beginner.
Sure, maybe PHP for beginner books should focus more on OOP, maybe it's better then PHP structured.
But most people that I know consider OOP on PHP to be a joke and point me in the direction of something like Java or C# to learn OOP.
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Yes, this is that peppy blonde lady that you see on PBS.
She writes good, down to earth, easy to understand books on finances which clarify issues and simplify many financial concepts (which aren't actually that complex, once you think about them the right way).
Not a "make money fast" type of author, but she writes alot on "make and save money for retirement", or "How to save money for when you are laid off and can't find work for 8 months".
Unix with rm
./.gone directory, and purge the directory later on. It's saved me a hundred times.
RedHat 7 & 8 aliases 'rm' to 'rm -i'.
Most places I've worked alias rm to something else. My favorite is the 'move things to the
In otherwords, throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Anyone else getting sick of these "My Gentoo is so superior to your distro" responses?
You know, I'm sure gentoo is a good distro, I like the idea of a ports-based system, and maybe I'll try it in the future; but what do you Gentoo folks expect me to do? Rip up and replace my entire system?
I actually need my computer for work. My work on Gnome doesn't require a whole new paradigm... Gentoo does.
According to HP, Ximian GNOME for HP-UX was developed under a partnership with Ximian Inc.
I'm pretty sure that Ximian doesn't make alot of money by selling Ximian Desktop to end users (I bought it, but most people don't buy, they download for free). Many of Ximian's recent headlines talk about their deals with large companies like HP and Sun. Now that HP is dropping out, will Ximian lose some of the planned contracts?
I hope not. Ximian are some of the best contributors to the Gnome project.
What does "stabilize" mean, anyway?
Are you kidding? That has to be one of the top complaints regarding alot of OSS development, including Gnome.
I do alot of testing and bug stomping for some Gnome packages, and I've frequently heard Gnome developers describe many Gnome and Linux libraries such as GTK as "moving targets". By the time you finish developing for version a.b.c, version a.e.f was released, and it breaks compatability with version a.b.c.
As a Gnome user, I've tried to compile everything from Source on a number of occasions. The dependancies drive me up the wall.
I use prepackaged products such as Gargnome, but it only solves some of the dependancy hell. If I want that new version of software X, I need to go and find and compile the newest version of several other packages.
If your site is already running, monitor it's ranking on Alexa [alexa.com] and see where you stad.
Wow, Alexa has come a long way since I last saw them.
I really question the quality of some of this infomation. Their measure of "Page views", "hits" only comes from people who install the Alexa Toolbar. Spyware anyone?
Drop a phone book on you desk and see who pops up :)
And for extra giggles, make sure you set up a webcam beforehand, and record the whole thing.
What companies that resell advertising space are -reliable- in their payments?
This is the wrong place to ask. I highly recommend that you contact the experts!
Tough subjects, tight deadlines, and the profit-first additude lead to bad books.
I recently purchased Learning Java from Oreilly. Usually I've had a good experience with Oreilly books, but this one was horrible. Several of the examples in the first chapter of the book didn't work because they had typos!
Few things are more frustrating then debugging a "Hello World" program that doesn't work. I went over every character, bit by bit, and my program matched their text exactly. I couldn't find the damn bug. Was I so stupid that I couldn't see the obvious? No! I viewed the Online Errata, and found that a zillion other people were having similar problems with examples throughout the book! Typos galore!
If there are too many mistakes in the book, then let the publisher note. Return the book, get your money back, send a note to the publishers, and buy an alternative book.
Jesus, this is just like High School all over again!
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Your popularity score: 0. This is the number of members who have you on their lists.
Popularity ranking: 143044 (percentile: 16.29).
143043 people are more popular, 27837 are less popular.
Unfortunately, not all developers sign their work
And alot provide an md5 signature instead.
So much encryption, so little time.
Bah, it's not a case mod unless you use Neon, and a blue-LED fan in the shape of a biohazard symbol...
If there is one reason where Crypto-folks have failed, it's in explaining why key-signing is important to non-Crypto-folks. My friend signs the key of some stranger he met at Starbucks in Alameda. Why should I care?
I've had a PGP key for about 8 years, and it's been used by others to send a sekret mezage to me less then a dozen times. Off of the top of my head , I can think of dozens of people who have a Key, and only 1 other person who does have a key.
Why is this important? Why should I care?
Hello Drunk Person, I am also drunk.
Sure, I didn't know you 3 hours ago, but after a few rounds, I'll sign your key right away!
then offering to clamp down on such comments if he bought advertising with them.
On the other hand, they make some valid points in the article, and historically, the ability to express your opinions freely online is one aspect of the internet that arguably should never be curtailed."
Is Blackmail or Libel protected speech?
For those of you who are still lost, this is the stuff that Cordelia fell on in 'Lover's Walk', an episode from the second or third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Does that help? :-)
I find that the following explanation is a better example:
When you were a kid, it was the metal bars you stole from the new house next door to play "Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker".
It was jsut a series of phot ops and something to build his legacy on
And yet, the bombs and tanks stopped for a short while. Each side quit killing each other for a bit while their leaders talked it out. It was the best step towards peace in almost 20 years.
There was some success, and it was quickly lost when our current president decided to not capitalize on the sucess of the previous administrations.
It was tyhe fact he lied under oath
True, but his tactics were no less honorable then those of his enemies. Why the hell were the Republicans questioning him about his sex life in the first place? It was none of their business. What did that have to do with ANYTHING??
Christ, it all started out as a fairly legitimate investigation into Clinton's real-estate buisness, and ended up as a sex scandal. What the hell happened?
It's a tool, not a dick measurer.
No no, it's a toool measurer...
Lastly, re-check your data backups, do you have everything, is it error free, do you have more than one copy. If you have the data your company can recover.
And something else as important: Where are your backup tapes?
If they are sitting in a locked cabinet right next to the computers, they won't survive the asteroid blast either.
Off site backups. A pain to maintain, but good idea for any contigency plan.
'I'm on it, Sir' was my response
A friend of mine once gave a response that was less gentle:
Sir, you just laid off half the developers, and half of the support staff, but you didn't reduce the marketing staff.
There is one manager for every 5 non-manager, we're still not meeting our financial targets, our new "Premium services" campaign is earning $1 for every $1000 we invested, we don't have enough tech staff to fix the bugs, the QA department was reduced to a single person and can't even find the bugs, and tech support is dealing with a growing number of irate customers every day.
We can barely keep up with the endless list of new tasks that you assign, sir, and you want me to waste my time daydreaming about asteroids?
We don't need a contigency plan sir, we ARE IN the contigency plan.
Get real, sir.
Still kept his job. Ok, maybe he wasn't that snotty...
For PHP public www information is better that 99% of the books out there, and in the case of this book... 100%
This book isn't oriented to you. You obviously have some PHP programming experience.
Pretend I'm new to PHP programming, and am looking looking for a good PHP book.
You say "This book sucks, go visit these URLs", but those pages are horrible.
Gee, I know that the first PEAR Meeting is in Amsterdam on May 9th at 17:30, but what the heck is PEAR. How is it related to PHP? Why should I care? I can't find a description anywhere, and the "What is PEAR" link is broken. Ack, is this a good example of good PHP development?
The phpclasses.org may be a good repository for PHP classes, but again, those are of little use to a PHP beginner.
Sure, maybe PHP for beginner books should focus more on OOP, maybe it's better then PHP structured.
But most people that I know consider OOP on PHP to be a joke and point me in the direction of something like Java or C# to learn OOP.
Yeah, their eyes always glaze over when I talk about the differences between the Linux 2.2 & Linux 2.4 Kernel!
Those nerds!
Can I use these to go between work and home faster?
Sadly, in most corporate environments, all wormholes only lead to the boss's office... or to the marketing department meeting.
Can one classify the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a hoax? Welles did not in fact mean to fool anybody; it was supposed to be just a radio play.
Chris Mattern
Or so he says after then men with the baseball bats and guns showed up at his door one day.
"Gee guys, I, uh, didn't mean to scare everyone that bad...