Look< son;/patronising>. PHP may be fine for some things, but for out and out management of data, as messy or as clean as you like, nothing beats perl. Unless it's a statistical programming language OK? Mind you, those cunts^H^H^H^H^H at NVIVO could make an effort and get off the microsoft juice too.
OK, I suggest you read Learning Perl Objects and References (O'Reilley) and check out Maypole. After a month or so of pain, you'll be wondering why you thought perl was defficient agian. Mod_perl is really the way to go, combined with all the stuff on CPAN (My favourites module groups are LWP:: and Lingua::) for doing real - non web - work, you won't look back.
I'm in roughly the same position as you by the way. Self taught, mostly I consider myself a scientist, not a programmer and I get to use the tools that I choose because of that. I'd learn python or ruby (but not php, I dabbled in that a few years ago and it was way too ugly) if I didn't have better things to do with my time.
I'm a perl guy (well, just lazy and I sometimes cut code for money but also have other ways of making a living too), but I appreciate that people in my position these days would be better off with Python.
I don't think it's that clear cut (link to abstract via Google Scholar). Now, I'm not a climate scientist (IANACS), so I don't really understand what that article is about. I am an ecologist though, and there's also an awful lot going on at the soil atmosphere interface that makes me think it's quite probable that there's a lot mineral carbon being turned into gas in the soil, especially under disturbance conditions. There's probably more carbon sequestered in the soil than there is in the trees anyway.
There was the infamous iMac gimee-carpal-tunnel-hockey-puck that stylisticaly was a good match for the iMac but, this was definitely not designed for human hands (chimpanzes maybe?).
You see a lot of these in Primary Schools where the main users do have really small hands... and don't use the computer for extended periods.
Manager[M]: We need this new piece of sofware that does [something open source does well like simple database server or intranet.] Nerd[N = you]: Well here are the alternatives [list alternatives]. This one's made by [propietary], this one's open source. M: How much will they cost N: Well for the propietary one, we need to buy a server, the licence for the server and the licence for the software and time to set it up and probably a new pc. So it will cost around about [amount]. For the open source one, we pull a redundant computer from store, install an easy to install version of linux [debian,ubuntu,knoppix etc - I did a clean install of debian the other day in about 20 minutes], install the server software at no charge except time and then there's the software setup time, so that will cost about [amount]. A difference of [amount] M: But there must be a catch? N: Yes, there are some gotchas with open source [examples], but there are gotchas for prop software too [examples]. It's not just servers you know. Pull out a quick [creative commons licenced] powerpoint/whatever presentation out about open source and present it on your linux laptop about open source software products for servers and desktops using open office or a full screen pdf viewer.
I've just been employed by a group of academics to come up with something like this over the next 6 months or so. My requirements were open source, perl and apache based with the flexibility to server copyright and draft material to group members, and public domain/less sensitive stuff to anyone. I'm now using Maypole and judicious use of the Template Toolkit, I'm hoping to open source it at the end, and get some employment in my field of choice using it as leverage too.
And the ABFriggingC - that's
Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the Imperialistically challenged among you.
The one thing that irritates me about podcasts is that if I download the realaudio file for a 1/2 hour show, it's typically 11Mb or so in size - about the same when I convert it to mp3 (via mlayer or vsound) at 48kbps to listen to on my mp3 players. In general podcasters are making their mp3 files far too big. 48 kbps is fine for anything except music - for a podcast which is basically ephemeral 64 / 96 kbps is fine for music too.
I've been using skype on Mac|Linux|Windex since it was beta on Linux/Mac, and one think I've noticed is that within the past couple of months, they must have started storing my contacts on a central server somewhere, as every time I install on a new machine, my contacts list is automatically updated. It used to be that I had to copy some xml files, and then get my contacts to re-authorize me for each new machine.
Slightly, but not hugely concerned about that one...
I'd really like to see a compatible GPL product - Skype is the one thing that I've recommended to my non-technical friends/family that they really get enthused about.
Yup, BibDesk is Gr8. BibTex mode in emacs is ok too. My institution has a site licence for Endnote, but BibDesk is much much better for all sorts of reasons.
So Jobs: Lock OSX to your machines, but leave your machines open to other operating systems. The world will thank you.
Couldn't agree more. Apple for the jobs that require flexibility and creativity, (L|W)in(ux|dows) for the secretaries. Perfect. Personally I can't abide windows - as clunky as linux and whenever anything goes wrong the solution generally supremely uneducational.
1 quantity of shrooms that you're comfortable with.
Ginger
Water
Honey
Simmer all together for some time, then pass around in cups to party attendees. The ginger and honey totally masks the taste, so your party goers are often just drinking it because it tastes nice! Fun ensues. (It seems to be a good bit less toxic than the mushrooms by themselves - less buzzing brain phenomenon).
"We dropped a whole bunch of acid to see where it's at"
"It's over there over there over there over there and in your hair also."
[Frank Zappa, song unknown].
Certainly cleans out the sluices and frequently good for you. I remember reading about the influence of LSD on modern technology - there are quite a few people out there who've made massive discoveries who attribute help from the LSD, and a few who found it something of a distraction too.
Anyone know where I can get some good stuff - my dealer retired.
All OSs/Window managers have defficiencies. I find windows and linux about as defficient as each other (in different ways - at least fixing linux issues is generally educational). OS X has far far fewer defficiencies than either of these two, and is full of unixy goodness unlike Windows.
And I'm not a zealot - moved from WinLux to Mac about 2 months ago.
Linux seems to get faster and more responsive with new releases, while Windows gets slower and more bloated.
Not in my experience. Until a fortnight ago when my employer bought me an emac at my request, I've exclusively used old hardware (pentium2 350 to pentium4 800), and patched Windows 2000 and various (updated) flavours of debian unstable and/or Knoppix with Xfce have started becoming slower and more unstable over the past few months.
So I bought an ibook. Style, usability and durability all in one box. Now people who want my computer help get the answer "buy a mac or be a nerd - otherwise don't expect my help."
I find the mac a pleasure to use execpt I can't figure out how to avoid using the mouse as much. My linux machines a pleasure to use, but
I'd like to see the whole Lintilla Allitnil thing, with the archaeologists. And Marvin saving everything again, by falling out of the cup into the archeaological digs. That's something that Adams wrote with John Lloyd who is still alive, for the radio series. It was removed from the books, but would I reckon make a really interesting piece of absurdist cinema.
Hotblack Desiato was done in the TV series, so I rekon they should go the other way.
Lets face it, if Adams was still alive, it would take another 26 years to get a sequel.
I'm just back from the cinema, and after anticipating the release of this film for the last 15 years with a excitment and trepidation, (not nescessarily at the same time), and my low expectations were surpased. I really enjoyed a lot of the new stuff, and thought that nothing fell really flat. Really hard job to top the radio series though.
I'm not sure that you get it. Consider the typical cryptographic scenario:
Alice (the sender) sends Bob (the recipient) an encrypted message via public key cryptography. Bob needs the public key and the private key to decrypt the message. Consider Charles (the atacker) - effectively he can't get the message unless he gets the private key.
Now consider the DRM scenario. The attacker and recipient are the same person! This is just not going to work as a cryprographic process. Human nature says that. All the ethical deliberation is fine, but it doesn't change the above fact.
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_%28board_ game%29">Junta! is a classic, but does require the wearing of fake beards and the smoking of Cuban cigars while playing.
Shouldn't it say at the beginning of the trailer that it's "Based on the celebrated radio series, novel, LPs [now there's a blast from the past], TV series and towel"?
My daughter (5) listenes to episodes from the radio series every night when she goes to bed. Boy is she going to be as stoked as me about seeing the movie!
Just get an oppinion that's evan remotely with the times, dickhead. (number of hyperlinks deliberately kept to a minimum to keep with the corporate cock-sucking, arse licking sub-literate whoopee we're all gonna die fucking stupid mentality of the parent poster).
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Look< son ;/patronising>. PHP may be fine for some things, but for out and out management of data, as messy or as clean as you like, nothing beats perl. Unless it's a statistical programming language OK? Mind you, those cunts^H^H^H^H^H at NVIVO could make an effort and get off the microsoft juice too.
OK, I suggest you read Learning Perl Objects and References (O'Reilley) and check out Maypole. After a month or so of pain, you'll be wondering why you thought perl was defficient agian. Mod_perl is really the way to go, combined with all the stuff on CPAN (My favourites module groups are LWP:: and Lingua::) for doing real - non web - work, you won't look back. I'm in roughly the same position as you by the way. Self taught, mostly I consider myself a scientist, not a programmer and I get to use the tools that I choose because of that. I'd learn python or ruby (but not php, I dabbled in that a few years ago and it was way too ugly) if I didn't have better things to do with my time.
And because it's everywhere, javascript.
Manager[M]: We need this new piece of sofware that does [something open source does well like simple database server or intranet.]
Nerd[N = you]: Well here are the alternatives [list alternatives]. This one's made by [propietary], this one's open source.
M: How much will they cost
N: Well for the propietary one, we need to buy a server, the licence for the server and the licence for the software and time to set it up and probably a new pc. So it will cost around about [amount]. For the open source one, we pull a redundant computer from store, install an easy to install version of linux [debian,ubuntu,knoppix etc - I did a clean install of debian the other day in about 20 minutes], install the server software at no charge except time and then there's the software setup time, so that will cost about [amount]. A difference of [amount]
M: But there must be a catch?
N: Yes, there are some gotchas with open source [examples], but there are gotchas for prop software too [examples]. It's not just servers you know. Pull out a quick [creative commons licenced] powerpoint/whatever presentation out about open source and present it on your linux laptop about open source software products for servers and desktops using open office or a full screen pdf viewer.
Voila.
I tend to concur, although Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules is a pretty good read and a good companion to the cookbook.
I've just been employed by a group of academics to come up with something like this over the next 6 months or so. My requirements were open source, perl and apache based with the flexibility to server copyright and draft material to group members, and public domain/less sensitive stuff to anyone. I'm now using Maypole and judicious use of the Template Toolkit, I'm hoping to open source it at the end, and get some employment in my field of choice using it as leverage too.
And that's exactly why I use mod_perl for this kind of stuff. That and perl is a more flexible language
The one thing that irritates me about podcasts is that if I download the realaudio file for a 1/2 hour show, it's typically 11Mb or so in size - about the same when I convert it to mp3 (via mlayer or vsound) at 48kbps to listen to on my mp3 players. In general podcasters are making their mp3 files far too big. 48 kbps is fine for anything except music - for a podcast which is basically ephemeral 64 / 96 kbps is fine for music too.
Slightly, but not hugely concerned about that one...
I'd really like to see a compatible GPL product - Skype is the one thing that I've recommended to my non-technical friends/family that they really get enthused about.
Yup, BibDesk is Gr8. BibTex mode in emacs is ok too. My institution has a site licence for Endnote, but BibDesk is much much better for all sorts of reasons.
Depends how drunk you are at the time I guess - it's been a long time.
- 1 quantity of shrooms that you're comfortable with.
- Ginger
- Water
- Honey
Simmer all together for some time, then pass around in cups to party attendees. The ginger and honey totally masks the taste, so your party goers are often just drinking it because it tastes nice! Fun ensues. (It seems to be a good bit less toxic than the mushrooms by themselves - less buzzing brain phenomenon)."It's over there over there over there over there and in your hair also."
[Frank Zappa, song unknown].
Certainly cleans out the sluices and frequently good for you. I remember reading about the influence of LSD on modern technology - there are quite a few people out there who've made massive discoveries who attribute help from the LSD, and a few who found it something of a distraction too.
Anyone know where I can get some good stuff - my dealer retired.
And I'm not a zealot - moved from WinLux to Mac about 2 months ago.
Not in my experience. Until a fortnight ago when my employer bought me an emac at my request, I've exclusively used old hardware (pentium2 350 to pentium4 800), and patched Windows 2000 and various (updated) flavours of debian unstable and/or Knoppix with Xfce have started becoming slower and more unstable over the past few months.
So I bought an ibook. Style, usability and durability all in one box. Now people who want my computer help get the answer "buy a mac or be a nerd - otherwise don't expect my help." I find the mac a pleasure to use execpt I can't figure out how to avoid using the mouse as much. My linux machines a pleasure to use, but
I'd like to see the whole Lintilla Allitnil thing, with the archaeologists. And Marvin saving everything again, by falling out of the cup into the archeaological digs. That's something that Adams wrote with John Lloyd who is still alive, for the radio series. It was removed from the books, but would I reckon make a really interesting piece of absurdist cinema. Hotblack Desiato was done in the TV series, so I rekon they should go the other way. Lets face it, if Adams was still alive, it would take another 26 years to get a sequel.
I'm just back from the cinema, and after anticipating the release of this film for the last 15 years with a excitment and trepidation, (not nescessarily at the same time), and my low expectations were surpased. I really enjoyed a lot of the new stuff, and thought that nothing fell really flat. Really hard job to top the radio series though.
I'm not sure that you get it. Consider the typical cryptographic scenario: Alice (the sender) sends Bob (the recipient) an encrypted message via public key cryptography. Bob needs the public key and the private key to decrypt the message. Consider Charles (the atacker) - effectively he can't get the message unless he gets the private key. Now consider the DRM scenario. The attacker and recipient are the same person! This is just not going to work as a cryprographic process. Human nature says that. All the ethical deliberation is fine, but it doesn't change the above fact.
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_%28board_ game%29">Junta! is a classic, but does require the wearing of fake beards and the smoking of Cuban cigars while playing.
Shouldn't it say at the beginning of the trailer that it's "Based on the celebrated radio series, novel, LPs [now there's a blast from the past], TV series and towel"? My daughter (5) listenes to episodes from the radio series every night when she goes to bed. Boy is she going to be as stoked as me about seeing the movie!
Just get an oppinion that's evan remotely with the times, dickhead. (number of hyperlinks deliberately kept to a minimum to keep with the corporate cock-sucking, arse licking sub-literate whoopee we're all gonna die fucking stupid mentality of the parent poster).