If you're developing web/database apps, you don't need virtualization. Just work with different user accounts, "dev" and "test" for instance, then have virtual hosts and point these to directories owned by those accounts.
Use SVN to check in code/database dump from the dev account, then log in as test and do a check-out and database-upload. Commence testing.
As an aside, you're a project manager so you probably have some feeling for the commercial side as well. Why not up the stakes a bit and get a small paid project as a freelancer? Get some designer to get you a PSD, get it sliced/based by a HTML guy and then proceed to code in the dynamic parts. Don't overdo it, a project in the $1000 to $2000 range is excellent for exercise.
No, this is NOT true. Python does not use system calls as common, lower languages do. Python uses MAGIC to make the OS do its bidding. Upon opening a file, Python waves its digital wand and the file is summoned in a puff of smoke. A church bell is heard and a choir of little cherubs appear, sitting on the top of your monitor. And they all sing the same refrain in their tiny, angelic voices: "HAIL PYTHON!!"
I'm going to bitch like hell about this month's bill, though
Bitch? What about not paying that part of the bill about which there is a dispute?
All around me, I hear consumers complain about this or that bill. The funny thing is that I've got customers myself who happily don't pay me when my business is not treating them right.
Yeah I see your point. I have to agree on that not being helpful security-wise but isn't the yes/no prompt the result as being logged in as an administrator?
As a normal user, I always get a password-prompt. I'm a Linux user so I'm used to the idea of a restricted user, but AFAIK after installing, Vista creates a restricted user, not an admin account.
No, the UAC password/confirmation prompt comes up when any of the above actions occur, otherwise not. Now, you could say that when such an action is repeated, then the user shouldn't be bothered by another yes/no prompt. I might agree with you on that point.
However, that's not quite my experience. I'm using Vista for testing purposes and general stuff and I hardly get a prompt. What exactly are your daily activities that that UAC prompt keeps getting up?
In the pre-Vista age perhaps, but with UAC [...] Joe Sixpack is going to just click allow
I wish this myth would die. UAC fires off a dialogue in the following instances:
- Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
- Installing and uninstalling applications
- Installing device drivers
- Installing ActiveX controls
- Changing settings for Windows Firewall
- Changing UAC settings
- Configuring Windows Update
- Adding or removing user accounts
- Changing a user's account type
- Configuring Parental Controls
- Running Task Scheduler
- Restoring backed-up system files
- Viewing or changing another user's folders and files
Now I ask you, is any of the above something a normal user (without administrative rights) should be able to do?
The technically literate can use both, and the technically illiterate can't use either.
Why do you think you've covered the spectrum with just these two?
There's a whole lot in between and for people somewhere on that line, Linux is too much of an investment to learn anew.
[...] they have different interests. Why can't people just accept that?
Well, I'm a man and I was lured into engineering because they said it'd give me power, authority, respect and women. So you can imagine my difficulty in accepting the current status quo.
Hm that's a really good suggestion. Both approaches can be tried and it makes for a nice bargaining tactic: first ask to make broad strikes in the contract and expect to be denied. Then make a small request (an extra paragraph) which will be harder for them to deny.
In my opinion, it totally depends on how the company behaves. In the Netherlands, a flat-screen TV was advertised by a mail-order retailer for 100 euros. Many people ordered and the company proceeded to leave the advertisement online for more than a week.
Despite that, the judge agreed with the retailer that they didn't need to respect the extremely low price.
Later that same retailer made other errors. For example, when you'd order a printer with a PC, the printer would cost, say, 25 euros. When you proceeded to remove the PC from your shopping cart, the printer would still have the reduced price. Same outcome.
Your whole post says "I don't use it and I couldn't even begin to imagine why others would."
Well hello there, I'm a happy user. The data I store on Google Apps is:
Not confidential enough not to trust Google with it
Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
I'm a small business owner and I'm very mobile in my daily routine. Whenever a client asks for a price quote, I use Google Apps for its spreadsheet. There's not a lot of functionality, but I don't need much either.
Vim works wonderful together with X. Besides the graphical version (gvim), it's also possible to start vim in a terminal like xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal. With the right options, it's still aware of the X clipboard, the mouse, et cetera. However it's quite a pain in the ass to find out what's wrong when it doesn't work. Here's a guide for using and fixing it.
vim has one default clipboard, but has an extra one under any a-z character. The two X clipboards are available too, but under a special character. To paste the X clipboards, paste either the + or * clipboard:
This is the X clipboard for which you just select something with the mouse: [Escape]"+p
The star buffer contains the X clipboard for which you selected with the mouse, then right-clicked and selected 'copy', or pressed a shortcut like CTRL-C or similar: [Escape]"*p
If this doesn't work, check the following things:
Vim is started in compatibility mode. Solution: don't use 'vi' to start, use 'vim'. On RedHat and CentOS, it's not enough to start 'vim', use 'vimx'. If this program is not present, be sure to install the package 'vim-X11'.
Vim is not compiled with the right options. To check: 'vim --version | grep xterm', and the output must show '+xterm_clipboard'.
You used SSH to log into a remote machine and X11 is not forwarded. To check: start a simple X program like 'xclock'. Solution: start ssh with option '-X'.
You used SSH with -X and X11 is still not forwarded. To check whether the system administrator has configured the SSH daemon to deny X11 forwarding, add the -v option, and check whether the following line shows up and the request is not denied. If this is the problem, ask your sysadmin to add the line 'X11Forwarding true' to/etc/ssh/sshd_config.
$ ssh -v -X remotemachine...
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing....
You used SSH with -X and X11 is still not forwarded. Use the -v option as above, and check for the following line. If it appears, ask your sysadmin to install the xauth program.
debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
Hehheh, yeah it's not easy to go back to the old ways. Fixing such issues on Windows, you immediately miss sudo, tail -f/var/log/messages, lsmod, et cetera.
Point is, her first impulse was to return it rather than attempt the learning curve.
I used to diagnose computer problems myself as well. Then I started my own business and realised I don't have the time for this anymore. The minute something's broken, I pick up the phone for warranty, support or returning it.
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If you're developing web/database apps, you don't need virtualization. Just work with different user accounts, "dev" and "test" for instance, then have virtual hosts and point these to directories owned by those accounts.
Use SVN to check in code/database dump from the dev account, then log in as test and do a check-out and database-upload. Commence testing.
As an aside, you're a project manager so you probably have some feeling for the commercial side as well. Why not up the stakes a bit and get a small paid project as a freelancer? Get some designer to get you a PSD, get it sliced/based by a HTML guy and then proceed to code in the dynamic parts. Don't overdo it, a project in the $1000 to $2000 range is excellent for exercise.
No, this is NOT true. Python does not use system calls as common, lower languages do. Python uses MAGIC to make the OS do its bidding. Upon opening a file, Python waves its digital wand and the file is summoned in a puff of smoke. A church bell is heard and a choir of little cherubs appear, sitting on the top of your monitor. And they all sing the same refrain in their tiny, angelic voices: "HAIL PYTHON!!"
I'm going to bitch like hell about this month's bill, though
Bitch? What about not paying that part of the bill about which there is a dispute?
All around me, I hear consumers complain about this or that bill. The funny thing is that I've got customers myself who happily don't pay me when my business is not treating them right.
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Yes I'm being pedantic here ;-)
Yeah I see your point. I have to agree on that not being helpful security-wise but isn't the yes/no prompt the result as being logged in as an administrator? As a normal user, I always get a password-prompt. I'm a Linux user so I'm used to the idea of a restricted user, but AFAIK after installing, Vista creates a restricted user, not an admin account.
No, the UAC password/confirmation prompt comes up when any of the above actions occur, otherwise not. Now, you could say that when such an action is repeated, then the user shouldn't be bothered by another yes/no prompt. I might agree with you on that point. However, that's not quite my experience. I'm using Vista for testing purposes and general stuff and I hardly get a prompt. What exactly are your daily activities that that UAC prompt keeps getting up?
In the pre-Vista age perhaps, but with UAC [...] Joe Sixpack is going to just click allow
I wish this myth would die. UAC fires off a dialogue in the following instances:
- Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
- Installing and uninstalling applications
- Installing device drivers
- Installing ActiveX controls
- Changing settings for Windows Firewall
- Changing UAC settings
- Configuring Windows Update
- Adding or removing user accounts
- Changing a user's account type
- Configuring Parental Controls
- Running Task Scheduler
- Restoring backed-up system files
- Viewing or changing another user's folders and files
Now I ask you, is any of the above something a normal user (without administrative rights) should be able to do?
The technically literate can use both, and the technically illiterate can't use either.
Why do you think you've covered the spectrum with just these two? There's a whole lot in between and for people somewhere on that line, Linux is too much of an investment to learn anew.
[...] they have different interests. Why can't people just accept that?
Well, I'm a man and I was lured into engineering because they said it'd give me power, authority, respect and women. So you can imagine my difficulty in accepting the current status quo.
Hm that's a really good suggestion. Both approaches can be tried and it makes for a nice bargaining tactic: first ask to make broad strikes in the contract and expect to be denied. Then make a small request (an extra paragraph) which will be harder for them to deny.
Even the lowliest peon can easily ask to have a clause put in along the lines of[...]
Why not just strike out said section. At one time, I got such a contract. Striked out the offending section and put my paragraph at the left. Done.
I'd then proceed to order it, and see what happens.
In my opinion, it totally depends on how the company behaves. In the Netherlands, a flat-screen TV was advertised by a mail-order retailer for 100 euros. Many people ordered and the company proceeded to leave the advertisement online for more than a week. Despite that, the judge agreed with the retailer that they didn't need to respect the extremely low price. Later that same retailer made other errors. For example, when you'd order a printer with a PC, the printer would cost, say, 25 euros. When you proceeded to remove the PC from your shopping cart, the printer would still have the reduced price. Same outcome.
It took a significant amount of work and sometimes bending the "rules" to get a lot of this hardware to work
"Rules"?
There is only one rule about Winmodems. You just broke it.
One more year of further suffering
There's no point of fucking bluffing
Open up your birthday present
It's a box of fucking nothing
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Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
I'm a small business owner and I'm very mobile in my daily routine. Whenever a client asks for a price quote, I use Google Apps for its spreadsheet. There's not a lot of functionality, but I don't need much either.
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(No, that's not a regex at all. And no, I don't even have a single girlfriend.)
Heh, you're right!
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/intro.html#mode-switching
Hmyeah not really necessary if you assume you're in command mode.
Vim works wonderful together with X. Besides the graphical version (gvim), it's also possible to start vim in a terminal like xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal. With the right options, it's still aware of the X clipboard, the mouse, et cetera. However it's quite a pain in the ass to find out what's wrong when it doesn't work. Here's a guide for using and fixing it.
vim has one default clipboard, but has an extra one under any a-z character. The two X clipboards are available too, but under a special character. To paste the X clipboards, paste either the + or * clipboard:
This is the X clipboard for which you just select something with the mouse: [Escape]"+p
The star buffer contains the X clipboard for which you selected with the mouse, then right-clicked and selected 'copy', or pressed a shortcut like CTRL-C or similar: [Escape]"*p
If this doesn't work, check the following things:
Vim is started in compatibility mode. Solution: don't use 'vi' to start, use 'vim'. On RedHat and CentOS, it's not enough to start 'vim', use 'vimx'. If this program is not present, be sure to install the package 'vim-X11'.
$ ssh -v -X remotemachine
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
Hehheh, yeah it's not easy to go back to the old ways. Fixing such issues on Windows, you immediately miss sudo, tail -f /var/log/messages, lsmod, et cetera.
Point is, her first impulse was to return it rather than attempt the learning curve.
I used to diagnose computer problems myself as well. Then I started my own business and realised I don't have the time for this anymore. The minute something's broken, I pick up the phone for warranty, support or returning it.