reorder the tabs for optimum browsing (by click+draw), then you select the first (or last) tab, read it, close it, and Hey! Presto! find yourself already reading the tab that is now first (last)
save all tabs and windows as sessions and thus swap between several readymade sets of pages (in case the boss comes over, just load the work-session)
open all bookmarks in bookmark-folder as tabs, in the background (right-click on folder, choose "Open whole folder as tabs"), go to the water-cooler and come back to, say, all your webcomics ready loaded
if you really need a new window you can pull a tab off (drop it outside the window) and it'll be a separate window. If you want to reattach it there's "Move to another window" in the "Tab"-menu
It really, really hurts browsing with something else than Galeon now, I never should have installed it:)
BTW, anyone got a quick fix for getting non-ascii titles to display correctly?
I've grown too picky for "well-written" and "accessible", and especially the latter. I'm no longer a kid and I rarely have the time for binge-reading the sugar-covered, mass-produced amassing of words that are forgotten half an hour later, around the clock for days on end. Ah, give me books that challenge, scar, scares me, makes me think in new ways, lets me see things from an unexpected and/or alien perspective (sf is often great for this)... Any suggestions?
That's not my experience, and especially not with fantasy/sf. I picked up a book by Terry Goodkind from the bestsellers list at the airport a few weeks back and gods is it awful! The preaching (endlessly), the wringing of hands, the posturing! What is it with the US and coming-of-age books anyway? Ick. Don't even get me started on Robert Jordan. However, books that have have picked up a Hugo, Nebula and/or Cambell are usually well worth the money and shelf-space. The n hundred page bricks that are so common these days simply can't be as intense and addictive as the less than 200-pagers of yore.
Best book I've read in the recent months: 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester.
"As one who was raised in the American educational system and is now part of what most
Americans would likely consider a rather hyper-authoritarian (not to mention "standardized") one, I'd have to say there's
something to be said for it. At the very least, Taiwan consistently outperforms American students in the maths and sciences."
Maybe that's because actually using one's brains in Taiwan is seen as a good thing and not something one gets ostracized for?
> How many version numbers can you actually cross like this?
That depends on how much the two are different. The transition from a-out to ELF for instance took slightly more work than the usual going from one release to another, or following stable, (bi-)weekly. Big changes (and any manual tweaking needed) are announced in advance of course.
> What sorts of problems/pitfalls might the *BSD newbie run into trying this, particularly if he's several versions behind?
If the newbie in question have missed important announcements then there might be problems. Also, keeping an eye on the mailing list (freebsd-stable if a freebsd-newbie-wanting-to-learn) to see if there's a problem with the newest build vs. your architecture before making the world is also a recommended practice;)
> If your net connection is too slow/unreliable [..]
Can you receive mail? Take a look at CTM then. See http://www.no.freebsd.org/handbook/ctm.html
I haven't done a cd-install since 2.2.1 (I make the world or do an ftp-install or a binary manual install) I'll leave this one to somebody with a working cd-drive...
It's all about continuums, don't think black vs. white and digital, even gray scale is closer to the truth. Just because Your Average Human sorts everything into rigid categories doesn't mean that those categories are for real. Don't mistake the map/model/whatever for the terrain. Aww do I really have to tell you this?!
of ESR (toting gun) and RMS (in prophet-costume) holding hands and singing "My way". I probably won't be able to get that picture out of my head now *shiver*
There used to be a printer just about next door that had its own ip-stack and webserver... I only saw one webpage from it, a status-page basically... what brand was it again? T'wasn't a HP...
IIRC, the landmass of Tuvalu are just coral reefs, as is the "seabottom" of the shallow waters around it. Coral reefs are porous, so a wall won't cut it... I've heard access to fresh water there is of a more immediate concern... might be misremembering facts about some other flat island-group, though.
"Programming Python" is a strange beast of a book, not very well suited for a newbie, whether it be to programming as a whole or to Python itself. If you already program in some other language, then the tutorial and library reference (at python.org) is really all you need. As to the absolute beginner... well there's "Learning Python" but I haven't read that one.
"Programming Python" is the kind of book you peruse over a pot of coffee and with plenty of free time on your hands. Don't expect to read/understand it all in one sitting either.
In a sense, splitting an embryo IS cloning. In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", this is exactly what's done (plus some other ethically very questionable things) to produce workers (gammas, deltas and epsilons) while higher caste embryos were left unsplitted.
Once upon a time in China there were very harsh laws. There was only one punishment - death - for nobody would dare break any law at all if it meant they would die, right?
Well, a small platoon had been held up by the weather. The punishment for being late was death.
So the men spoke amongst eachother. The punishment for rebellion was also death. Well, since they could only die once, they rebelled.
End of story? The dynasty with the harsh laws eventually fell, to be replaced with years of anarchy, and finally a new dynasty -sans- harsh laws, the Han dynasty I think.
I have (well who hasn't), but as E is still evolving, I expect the theme-format to change as well, and having to throw away a lot of work at regular intervals is bad for the ulcer that I've probably developed by now.
I recommend this book as well, especially as it has some fresh ideas, and disagrees with the holy mantra "Metaphor, Metaphor, Metaphor". Why copy the world outside into the computer, warts and all, when there are other, more logical ways of doing things as soon as you're not limited to a 2D sheet of paper? (See the calendar-example in the book.) ISBN: 1568843224
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Furthermore, in Galeon you can:
It really, really hurts browsing with something else than Galeon now, I never should have installed it :)
BTW, anyone got a quick fix for getting non-ascii titles to display correctly?
> imagine a beowolf of genes? whoa..
That would be you.
I've grown too picky for "well-written" and "accessible", and especially the latter. I'm no longer a kid and I rarely have the time for binge-reading the sugar-covered, mass-produced amassing of words that are forgotten half an hour later, around the clock for days on end. Ah, give me books that challenge, scar, scares me, makes me think in new ways, lets me see things from an unexpected and/or alien perspective (sf is often great for this)... Any suggestions?
That's not my experience, and especially not with fantasy/sf. I picked up a book by Terry Goodkind from the bestsellers list at the airport a few weeks back and gods is it awful! The preaching (endlessly), the wringing of hands, the posturing! What is it with the US and coming-of-age books anyway? Ick. Don't even get me started on Robert Jordan. However, books that have have picked up a Hugo, Nebula and/or Cambell are usually well worth the money and shelf-space. The n hundred page bricks that are so common these days simply can't be as intense and addictive as the less than 200-pagers of yore.
Best book I've read in the recent months: 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester.
Apparently you have not read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson...
And that a good while ago too?
Closed = expands up to a certain point, then contracts
Flat = reaches a ceratin size then stops expanding but stays that size forever
Open = expands forever
"As one who was raised in the American educational system and is now part of what most Americans would likely consider a rather hyper-authoritarian (not to mention "standardized") one, I'd have to say there's something to be said for it. At the very least, Taiwan consistently outperforms American students in the maths and sciences."
Maybe that's because actually using one's brains in Taiwan is seen as a good thing and not something one gets ostracized for?
There's always good old xfig, but if that's too primitive for ya, try sketch.
But how many bothers to read this far down nowadays...
> How many version numbers can you actually cross like this?
;)
That depends on how much the two are different. The transition from a-out to ELF for instance took slightly more work than the usual going from one release to another, or following stable, (bi-)weekly. Big changes (and any manual tweaking needed) are announced in advance of course.
> What sorts of problems/pitfalls might the *BSD newbie run into trying this, particularly if he's several versions behind?
If the newbie in question have missed important announcements then there might be problems. Also, keeping an eye on the mailing list (freebsd-stable if a freebsd-newbie-wanting-to-learn) to see if there's a problem with the newest build vs. your architecture before making the world is also a recommended practice
> If your net connection is too slow/unreliable [..]
Can you receive mail? Take a look at CTM then. See http://www.no.freebsd.org/handbook/ctm.html
I haven't done a cd-install since 2.2.1 (I make the world or do an ftp-install or a binary manual install) I'll leave this one to somebody with a working cd-drive...
It's all about continuums, don't think black vs. white and digital, even gray scale is closer to the truth. Just because Your Average Human sorts everything into rigid categories doesn't mean that those categories are for real. Don't mistake the map/model/whatever for the terrain. Aww do I really have to tell you this?!
of ESR (toting gun) and RMS (in prophet-costume) holding hands and singing "My way". I probably won't be able to get that picture out of my head now *shiver*
There used to be a printer just about next door that had its own ip-stack and webserver... I only saw one webpage from it, a status-page basically... what brand was it again? T'wasn't a HP...
IIRC, the landmass of Tuvalu are just coral reefs, as is the "seabottom" of the shallow waters around it. Coral reefs are porous, so a wall won't cut it... I've heard access to fresh water there is of a more immediate concern... might be misremembering facts about some other flat island-group, though.
"Programming Python" is a strange beast of a book, not very well suited for a newbie, whether it be to programming as a whole or to Python itself. If you already program in some other language, then the tutorial and library reference (at python.org) is really all you need. As to the absolute beginner... well there's "Learning Python" but I haven't read that one.
"Programming Python" is the kind of book you peruse over a pot of coffee and with plenty of free time on your hands. Don't expect to read/understand it all in one sitting either.
In a sense, splitting an embryo IS cloning. In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", this is exactly what's done (plus some other ethically very questionable things) to produce workers (gammas, deltas and epsilons) while higher caste embryos were left unsplitted.
Asimov: "The dinosaurs died out because they didn't have a space-program."
Clarke: "If we die out we will have deserved it."
Once upon a time in China there were very harsh laws. There was only one punishment - death - for nobody would dare break any law at all if it meant they would die, right?
Well, a small platoon had been held up by the weather. The punishment for being late was death.
So the men spoke amongst eachother. The punishment for rebellion was also death. Well, since they could only die once, they rebelled.
End of story? The dynasty with the harsh laws eventually fell, to be replaced with years of anarchy, and finally a new dynasty -sans- harsh laws, the Han dynasty I think.
I have (well who hasn't), but as E is still evolving, I expect the theme-format to change as well, and having to throw away a lot of work at regular intervals is bad for the ulcer that I've probably developed by now.
*sigh* What a pity... nice knowing you, you will be missed.
I recommend this book as well, especially as it has some fresh ideas, and disagrees with the holy mantra "Metaphor, Metaphor, Metaphor". Why copy the world outside into the computer, warts and all, when there are other, more logical ways of doing things as soon as you're not limited to a 2D sheet of paper? (See the calendar-example in the book.) ISBN: 1568843224