I think your site could really use an FAQ... I had trouble figuring out what it was all about, and I am hopefully more computer savvy than the average real estate agent.
I took a Java class last semester and decided to use Learning Java instead of the course textbook, the abysmal An Intro to Object Oriented Programming with Java (by T. Wu).
I knew I had made the right decision when I looked up the continue statement. The O'Reilly book said 'terminates the current iteration of the innermost loop and evaluates the boolean expression that controls the loop', whereas the Wu textbook said only 'reserved keyword -- do not name a variable continue'(!)
Hear, hear. If I had mod points they would be yours.
There was a bill called the Prison Rape Reduction Act put before congress, and I assume it was passed because it was jointly introduced. Whether the facilities respect it is another matter... they know what they're doing when they place new prisoners with rapists.
Non article readers should note that the systems was developed by Panasonic Nanotech Research Lab, for the purpose of powering bloodborne nanomachines.
The test Design was appropriate to win a results as possible as in line with standard usage by the direct use of the Desktop systems. In the Usability research worked satisfactorily and successful give up-based use tests formed thereby the core of the test Design. It makes an observing and an analyzing possible of use strategies and?problemen in dependence to different user types.
3.1 Methodology
The test consisted for each test person of three blocks:
Vorbefragung to experience background and demographic data.
use test with office-typical tasks.
Nachbefragung to favour, problems, change of the estimate, among other things with reference to ability to learn and authority feeling.
Altogether with 80 persons, of it 60 under Linux, 20 under Windows XP. usual was tested and sufficiently for a Usability test is usually a number from 10 to 20 test persons. The number of test persons, unusually high for a Usability test, was selected, so that between the different user types use samples can be discovered.
The tests found from 26.6.? 16.7.2003 in Berlin instead of. They were accomplished to 60% in the Teststudio of the relevantive AG and to 40% in particularly areas of the center of science for social research Berlin (WZB), prepared for it. The tests were accomplished as moderated single interviews.
Moderator/eine host introduced to the test and sat during the test beside the test person. The moderator gave assistance only, as far as it was necessary for the continuation of the task or if an understanding problem arose concerning a setting of tasks. Altogether four different moderators were used. The moderator wrote in each case a bilateral test log, which documented operating and understanding problems, procedure, error and completeness lacking during processing of the tasks of test during the tests.
The introduction consisted of the description of the situation, which the test should reflect. For instance the following wording was used: you forwards, in their enterprise introduced new computers with a new operating system. It is their first day at this system?
A one-sided overview (Handout) was given to the test persons over specific characteristics of the system. It essentially contained:
user name and password
indication of path for the personal listing
that under?K? and/or?Start? left down programs and attitudes to be found can.
reference to CD R/W drive assembly
names of most in the test used programs?
relevantive AG 2003 version 1.01 page 7 of 90 this overview should give a minimum introduction to the system, which would fail with a migration probably clearly more extensively. Setting of tasks were presented on a Notebook standing beside it. After each task the test person at the Notebook had to answer, how easily you fell the task, as well as (optionally) which you please or displeased and/or prepared problems. This second computer did not have influence on the test results after our realization. The inputs took place in a frame Browser, which did not make an operating system visible. All test persons could differentiate between the?Fragebogen? computer and the test computer clearly. The inputs were written directly into a data base, likewise the times, starting from which a task was presented and when it was settled.
The tests were transferred over VNC (Virtual network Computing) to another computer and noted there with clay/tone (ScreenCam). Thus all tests could be reconstructed and evaluated additionally.
Not sure where you are from, but in Australia, beer seems to put back in all the things beer leaches from my body - carbs, vitamins, essential minerals...
I know your post was intended as a joke, but the Aust. government actually looked into enriching beer with vitamins etc to offset the negative effects of Australians' incredible love of beer.
In the end they decided it would be easier just to put the same stuff into staple foods that people considered 'healthy', e.g. white bread and sweetened OJ. This is why the dodgier brands of orange juice have vitamin C added in Australia -- people think they're healthy, so by law they must become so, in order that we may keep guzzling Cooper's 24-7.
I take your point, and as a Perl fan I don't argue that it can be done. But Java is competing mainly with C and VB which don't port without at least some tweaking (or OS-specific code in the case of C).
For a lot of home users, 'free' isn't such a huge selling point since all their software is pirated or OEM (which they cannot distinguish from free) anyway. You didn't pay any more for IE than you paid for Mozilla, but you made the switch because Moz won on quality.
One way to get people using a new OS on home desktops is to introduce it in schools and offices. Apple makes a lot of sales to people who've learnt their OS on machines they'd sold to schools at a heavy discount. When they graduate and are looking for a home computer they remember Apple.
I'm not sure how this could be done with Linux (or in a corporate environment), but my best guess would be volunteer sysadmin support for schools and small businesses, combined with rehabilitation of unwanted / second hand i86 boxen. Anyone thinking of doing this should be aware that it's a long term commitment -- you have to provide ongoing support if you want it to work.
And I just kicked Solaris off my Ultra5 yesterday:D
Hey, me too! I inherited one from work and am using it as a Perl / web development box. A dual boot Solaris / Linux machine also makes a very good practice box for sysadmin newbies.
Some useful links for anyone wanting to whack Linux on an Ultra:
ultralinux.org - a site for the Sparc kernel port, including FAQs, supported distros etc
Cheer up, mate. I thought your book was pretty good (probably the best introduction to Perl for inexperienced coders that I've come across) and I know at least two people who have found it helpful.
Offering my ill-informed 0.02 (hey, it's Slashdot), maybe it's not doing well as you would have liked because Perl is a bit over-represented in the O'Reilly lineup. Also, your book is aimed at new coders but there's nothing to suggest that in the title (e.g. 'Learning', 'Introducing').
It's a shame, because your book is much more useful to the uninitiated than 'Learning Perl', IMO. Perhaps they should blend the two together for the next edition of 'Learning Perl' (as most new people learning Perl are probably web folks -- sysadmins and app developers being the target audience for the camel book).
tidbit: the concepts of karma and rebirth arose (partly) as a method of oppression of the underprivileged, as a tool to convince them that the misery they faced was the result of their own faults in "previous births".
This reminds me of the christian tropes of 'the meek shall inherit', 'render unto Caesar' and 'vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord' (i.e. wait for your heavenly reward, co-operate with those who enslave you, don't retaliate) encouraging black slaves in the US not to revolt.
(Note: This is not a flame against religion, it's just noting that oppressors sometimes twist religious ideas to their advantage).
In practice you don't even have to pay the fine. Almost any excuse is enough to get you out of the fine. In fact, I know people who have tried to 'do the right thing' and pay the fine, and been refused!
The fine notice may simply be a way of checking that you're alive, at the same address etc. Gets people's attention better than a survey.
A cool thing the OP forgot to point out about convection towers: not only do you generate power when hot air rises to turn the turbines, but you also get a bit of power from the cool air sinking back past the turbines when the sun goes down. Sweet, eh?
The foot of the tower is a big black plastic dome from memory, a greenhouse optimised for heat only rather than heat + plant-friendly light.
It's because spam is incredibly annoying as opposed to merely damaging. If a virus is a knife in the guts once a year, spam is a snotty finger in the eye, twenty times a day, forever. Not surprising that many people make stopping spam a higher priority.
Sometimes map companies put fictional cities on their maps as a sort of honeypot. If the city shows up on a competitor's map then they know it's a 'derivative work' and can sue. (Not that I think Bielefeld is fictional -- they would use a small village for this purpose rather than something on a major autobahn).
I just stay at uni after my classes until all my work is done. There's not much in the way of books or music or games to distract me in the lab, tho' if the internet is distracting you, you may want to disable your web browser / telnet etc somehow.
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I think your site could really use an FAQ... I had trouble figuring out what it was all about, and I am hopefully more computer savvy than the average real estate agent.
Sigh... modded down for opposing federally sanctioned prison rape. I really must shave that beard.
I took a Java class last semester and decided to use Learning Java instead of the course textbook, the abysmal An Intro to Object Oriented Programming with Java (by T. Wu).
I knew I had made the right decision when I looked up the continue statement. The O'Reilly book said 'terminates the current iteration of the innermost loop and evaluates the boolean expression that controls the loop', whereas the Wu textbook said only 'reserved keyword -- do not name a variable continue'(!)
Hear, hear. If I had mod points they would be yours.
There was a bill called the Prison Rape Reduction Act put before congress, and I assume it was passed because it was jointly introduced. Whether the facilities respect it is another matter... they know what they're doing when they place new prisoners with rapists.
Can I port the bit of Realplayer that takes over your browser and can only be removed with holy water and a complete reinstall?
Non article readers should note that the systems was developed by Panasonic Nanotech Research Lab, for the purpose of powering bloodborne nanomachines.
The test Design was appropriate to win a results as possible as in line with standard usage by the direct use of the Desktop systems. In the Usability research worked satisfactorily and successful give up-based use tests formed thereby the core of the test Design. It makes an observing and an analyzing possible of use strategies and?problemen in dependence to different user types.
3.1 Methodology
The test consisted for each test person of three blocks:
- Vorbefragung to experience background and demographic data.
- use test with office-typical tasks.
- Nachbefragung to favour, problems, change of the estimate, among other things with reference to ability to learn and authority feeling.
Altogether with 80 persons, of it 60 under Linux, 20 under Windows XP. usual was tested and sufficiently for a Usability test is usually a number from 10 to 20 test persons. The number of test persons, unusually high for a Usability test, was selected, so that between the different user types use samples can be discovered.The tests found from 26.6.? 16.7.2003 in Berlin instead of. They were accomplished to 60% in the Teststudio of the relevantive AG and to 40% in particularly areas of the center of science for social research Berlin (WZB), prepared for it. The tests were accomplished as moderated single interviews.
Moderator/eine host introduced to the test and sat during the test beside the test person. The moderator gave assistance only, as far as it was necessary for the continuation of the task or if an understanding problem arose concerning a setting of tasks. Altogether four different moderators were used. The moderator wrote in each case a bilateral test log, which documented operating and understanding problems, procedure, error and completeness lacking during processing of the tasks of test during the tests.
The introduction consisted of the description of the situation, which the test should reflect. For instance the following wording was used: you forwards, in their enterprise introduced new computers with a new operating system. It is their first day at this system?
A one-sided overview (Handout) was given to the test persons over specific characteristics of the system. It essentially contained:
- user name and password
- indication of path for the personal listing
- that under?K? and/or?Start? left down programs and attitudes to be found can.
- reference to CD R/W drive assembly
- names of most in the test used programs?
relevantive AG 2003 version 1.01 page 7 of 90 this overview should give a minimum introduction to the system, which would fail with a migration probably clearly more extensively. Setting of tasks were presented on a Notebook standing beside it. After each task the test person at the Notebook had to answer, how easily you fell the task, as well as (optionally) which you please or displeased and/or prepared problems. This second computer did not have influence on the test results after our realization. The inputs took place in a frame Browser, which did not make an operating system visible. All test persons could differentiate between the?Fragebogen? computer and the test computer clearly. The inputs were written directly into a data base, likewise the times, starting from which a task was presented and when it was settled.The tests were transferred over VNC (Virtual network Computing) to another computer and noted there with clay/tone (ScreenCam). Thus all tests could be reconstructed and evaluated additionally.
How about a convertible : )
Not sure where you are from, but in Australia, beer seems to put back in all the things beer leaches from my body - carbs, vitamins, essential minerals...
I know your post was intended as a joke, but the Aust. government actually looked into enriching beer with vitamins etc to offset the negative effects of Australians' incredible love of beer.
In the end they decided it would be easier just to put the same stuff into staple foods that people considered 'healthy', e.g. white bread and sweetened OJ. This is why the dodgier brands of orange juice have vitamin C added in Australia -- people think they're healthy, so by law they must become so, in order that we may keep guzzling Cooper's 24-7.
I take your point, and as a Perl fan I don't argue that it can be done. But Java is competing mainly with C and VB which don't port without at least some tweaking (or OS-specific code in the case of C).
For a lot of home users, 'free' isn't such a huge selling point since all their software is pirated or OEM (which they cannot distinguish from free) anyway. You didn't pay any more for IE than you paid for Mozilla, but you made the switch because Moz won on quality.
One way to get people using a new OS on home desktops is to introduce it in schools and offices. Apple makes a lot of sales to people who've learnt their OS on machines they'd sold to schools at a heavy discount. When they graduate and are looking for a home computer they remember Apple.
I'm not sure how this could be done with Linux (or in a corporate environment), but my best guess would be volunteer sysadmin support for schools and small businesses, combined with rehabilitation of unwanted / second hand i86 boxen. Anyone thinking of doing this should be aware that it's a long term commitment -- you have to provide ongoing support if you want it to work.
Portability? Yes.
This is the big one for me (any presumably many others) with any language used for large-scale web development.
One word: support.
That URL looks way too much like a goatse link for me to click at work : )
... if we could see the submissions so far on the site somewhere.
Bwah ah ha ha ha! Brilliant!
My nose cone is off to you, sir.
Hey, me too! I inherited one from work and am using it as a Perl / web development box. A dual boot Solaris / Linux machine also makes a very good practice box for sysadmin newbies.
Some useful links for anyone wanting to whack Linux on an Ultra:
Cheer up, mate. I thought your book was pretty good (probably the best introduction to Perl for inexperienced coders that I've come across) and I know at least two people who have found it helpful.
Offering my ill-informed 0.02 (hey, it's Slashdot), maybe it's not doing well as you would have liked because Perl is a bit over-represented in the O'Reilly lineup. Also, your book is aimed at new coders but there's nothing to suggest that in the title (e.g. 'Learning', 'Introducing').
It's a shame, because your book is much more useful to the uninitiated than 'Learning Perl', IMO. Perhaps they should blend the two together for the next edition of 'Learning Perl' (as most new people learning Perl are probably web folks -- sysadmins and app developers being the target audience for the camel book).
tidbit: the concepts of karma and rebirth arose (partly) as a method of oppression of the underprivileged, as a tool to convince them that the misery they faced was the result of their own faults in "previous births".
This reminds me of the christian tropes of 'the meek shall inherit', 'render unto Caesar' and 'vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord' (i.e. wait for your heavenly reward, co-operate with those who enslave you, don't retaliate) encouraging black slaves in the US not to revolt.
(Note: This is not a flame against religion, it's just noting that oppressors sometimes twist religious ideas to their advantage).
You either
1. Go to jail for short stay or
2. Pay a fine
In practice you don't even have to pay the fine. Almost any excuse is enough to get you out of the fine. In fact, I know people who have tried to 'do the right thing' and pay the fine, and been refused!
The fine notice may simply be a way of checking that you're alive, at the same address etc. Gets people's attention better than a survey.
A cool thing the OP forgot to point out about convection towers: not only do you generate power when hot air rises to turn the turbines, but you also get a bit of power from the cool air sinking back past the turbines when the sun goes down. Sweet, eh?
The foot of the tower is a big black plastic dome from memory, a greenhouse optimised for heat only rather than heat + plant-friendly light.
It's because spam is incredibly annoying as opposed to merely damaging. If a virus is a knife in the guts once a year, spam is a snotty finger in the eye, twenty times a day, forever. Not surprising that many people make stopping spam a higher priority.
here a map just for you
Sometimes map companies put fictional cities on their maps as a sort of honeypot. If the city shows up on a competitor's map then they know it's a 'derivative work' and can sue. (Not that I think Bielefeld is fictional -- they would use a small village for this purpose rather than something on a major autobahn).
I just stay at uni after my classes until all my work is done. There's not much in the way of books or music or games to distract me in the lab, tho' if the internet is distracting you, you may want to disable your web browser / telnet etc somehow.