If you are making backups every week, you only need them to last one week. Paper makes sense for an archive if you plan on needing the data long after you have stopped creating new data, but while you are working a short-term, cheap, space efficient and environmentally friendly solution is better.
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I saw this Quick Reference linked elsewhere on slashdot. It is less comprehensive but prettier and easier to tape to the wall because it is printer-friendly. Normally I'm not printer friendly, but who wants to start a browser just to look up Vim features?
Or so my blind friends tell me. The reason why is that in order to write braille, it is necessary to make little bumps in the paper. Not trivial. Usually a typewriter is used, which might as well be replaced with a computer keyboard. Computers are great for the blind because they avoid braille.
Gimp is an image editor, like Photoshop. I've tried using photoshop for painting too - it also sucks, since neither program is supposed to be for painting. Use a vector based graphics program for painting.
This is donated hardware. It may not have CD-ROM drives built in. Knoppix is a bit slower to boot. I'm sure there are non-commercial solutions that do the same thing as Deepfreeze, but Deepfreeze was the first name that came to mind.
Use some sort of software that erases everything every time the computer reboots - like deepfreeze. Then instruct the users to save everything to a seperate partition. That way, you won't have to do as much security support work. If they really haven't used a computer before, they won't know what they're missing. This can increase the number of computers you can support a lot.
How about this hypothetical situation: Google actually pays people to use their free hosting service, based on the number of clicks on the ads in the hosted pages. Of course, the web site creator would get less per click than they would if they had an external site, but they would make just as much money because they wouldn't have to pay for hosting. This plan seems like a good way for Google to increase the prevalence of their ads.
Google would have to prohibit other sorts of commercial activity on the sites they host, or else they would end up hosting other people's ads for free. That's the tricky bit.
The Tribune is published every day, and Science and Nature come out once a month. Usually it takes two months for them to publish a story after it breaks. That is why you hear about important "discoveries" in the newspaper first.
It would be far too harsh to put this man in prison for 20 years when it appears that he has not personally hurt anyone. I presume that the judge will exercise his right to ignore sentancing guidlines and give this man a fine or maybe a few days of prison.
Imagine if everyone who burned a disk of pornography was in prison for 20 years.
You could use a giant capacitor to store electricity for a while. It produces some waste, but by electronics professor says that it is efficient enough that power companies use them to help ballence load.
Originally there were plans for a character called "Number One" who would be the (female) second in command. The plan was changed by studio execs. Hence the oddness about Spock being both Science Officer and second in command.
This article indicates that Windows Vista won't fit on a 16 Gigabit drive? And I thought MS was disk space hungry today. I used to use a gigabyte partition for Mandrake Linux - including applications and configuration - but not user data. Windows XP needs a gigabyte without applications. MS is crazy.
Is fortran 77 useful? Or does NASA just have old fortran 77 code lying around? I'm asking because I'm considering a summer job where I'd learn fortran 77, and I want to know if I'd ever use it again. It seems like a more recent fortran would be better.
I once had a host who stopped paying his data center and ran off with all the money - from several hundred clients. Moral: Cheap = Risky. I don't think the law got involved because he only stole a few dollars from each person. Now I use a different cheap host, which happens to be reliable. (tronictech.com) In fact, they're so reliable I keep forgetting the name of the company.
I'd like to see another experiment done. Suppose, hypothetically, that a chimp showed a human child how to solve a puzzle, inserting unnecessary steps. Would the human skip steps more often if taught by a chimp than by another human? If so, it would show that what matters is if the species of the teacher and student are the same, not the what species the student belongs to.
Mathematicians and mathematical scientists (is there some other kind of scientist?) use LaTeX, which has a spell checker for technical terms. If you type your LaTeX wrong, you get this:
error: ! Undefined control sequence
Then you know to fix your spelling, and the line and column number.
You can also run LaTeX through a normal spell checker, and it will ignore the technical terms. aspell does this automatically, but ispell needs the -t option. LaTeX is a pain to learn, but it is worth it.
Unfortunately, this "fix" doesn't work for my history homework, which has far more strange words.
It seems to me that we agree. The three mile island acident was not dangerous, because the reactor was never breached. I'm sure it was scary. But people are also "terrified" by Al Qaeda even though it has killed very few people.
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If you are making backups every week, you only need them to last one week. Paper makes sense for an archive if you plan on needing the data long after you have stopped creating new data, but while you are working a short-term, cheap, space efficient and environmentally friendly solution is better.
I saw this Quick Reference linked elsewhere on slashdot. It is less comprehensive but prettier and easier to tape to the wall because it is printer-friendly. Normally I'm not printer friendly, but who wants to start a browser just to look up Vim features?
No, that's not hard, but it also defeats the point because it isn't handwritting.
Or so my blind friends tell me. The reason why is that in order to write braille, it is necessary to make little bumps in the paper. Not trivial. Usually a typewriter is used, which might as well be replaced with a computer keyboard. Computers are great for the blind because they avoid braille.
And I'm a straight guy. Damn steriotypes.
And I agree with others who say that this style should replace the IT style. Maybe the hearts are too much, though.
Gimp is an image editor, like Photoshop. I've tried using photoshop for painting too - it also sucks, since neither program is supposed to be for painting. Use a vector based graphics program for painting.
This is donated hardware. It may not have CD-ROM drives built in. Knoppix is a bit slower to boot. I'm sure there are non-commercial solutions that do the same thing as Deepfreeze, but Deepfreeze was the first name that came to mind.
Use some sort of software that erases everything every time the computer reboots - like deepfreeze. Then instruct the users to save everything to a seperate partition. That way, you won't have to do as much security support work. If they really haven't used a computer before, they won't know what they're missing. This can increase the number of computers you can support a lot.
How about this hypothetical situation: Google actually pays people to use their free hosting service, based on the number of clicks on the ads in the hosted pages. Of course, the web site creator would get less per click than they would if they had an external site, but they would make just as much money because they wouldn't have to pay for hosting. This plan seems like a good way for Google to increase the prevalence of their ads.
Google would have to prohibit other sorts of commercial activity on the sites they host, or else they would end up hosting other people's ads for free. That's the tricky bit.
\begin{obvious}
The Tribune is published every day, and Science and Nature come out once a month. Usually it takes two months for them to publish a story after it breaks. That is why you hear about important "discoveries" in the newspaper first.
\end{obvious}
I've used autopatcher with great success many times.
It would be far too harsh to put this man in prison for 20 years when it appears that he has not personally hurt anyone. I presume that the judge will exercise his right to ignore sentancing guidlines and give this man a fine or maybe a few days of prison.
Imagine if everyone who burned a disk of pornography was in prison for 20 years.
You could use a giant capacitor to store electricity for a while. It produces some waste, but by electronics professor says that it is efficient enough that power companies use them to help ballence load.
Originally there were plans for a character called "Number One" who would be the (female) second in command. The plan was changed by studio execs. Hence the oddness about Spock being both Science Officer and second in command.
Yes it is. The size of software, particularly software that has no real additional features, should not grow exponentially.
This article indicates that Windows Vista won't fit on a 16 Gigabit drive? And I thought MS was disk space hungry today. I used to use a gigabyte partition for Mandrake Linux - including applications and configuration - but not user data. Windows XP needs a gigabyte without applications. MS is crazy.
Is fortran 77 useful? Or does NASA just have old fortran 77 code lying around? I'm asking because I'm considering a summer job where I'd learn fortran 77, and I want to know if I'd ever use it again. It seems like a more recent fortran would be better.
I once had a host who stopped paying his data center and ran off with all the money - from several hundred clients. Moral: Cheap = Risky. I don't think the law got involved because he only stole a few dollars from each person. Now I use a different cheap host, which happens to be reliable. (tronictech.com) In fact, they're so reliable I keep forgetting the name of the company.
Rounding? Real men use a confidence interval anyway, so rounding is irrelevant.
I'd like to see another experiment done. Suppose, hypothetically, that a chimp showed a human child how to solve a puzzle, inserting unnecessary steps. Would the human skip steps more often if taught by a chimp than by another human? If so, it would show that what matters is if the species of the teacher and student are the same, not the what species the student belongs to.
I did; the high-res pictures look worse than some things I've seen on Fark. And I'm not even a regular farker.
I think that's photoshoped.
What if you are the director of data security? Then how do you resign?
Then you know to fix your spelling, and the line and column number.
You can also run LaTeX through a normal spell checker, and it will ignore the technical terms. aspell does this automatically, but ispell needs the -t option. LaTeX is a pain to learn, but it is worth it.
Unfortunately, this "fix" doesn't work for my history homework, which has far more strange words.
It seems to me that we agree. The three mile island acident was not dangerous, because the reactor was never breached. I'm sure it was scary. But people are also "terrified" by Al Qaeda even though it has killed very few people.