For passwords that need to be *good* but which I don't use often enough to memorize, apps like keyring
for the palm (yes, gpl) are pretty useful.
As well a storing a bunch of passwords encrypted (only need to have one good password memorized) it can randomly generate long good passwords - ideal for stuff like the ssl key for your apache install where you only need to enter it every six months or so, but it needs to be non-trivial.
Seems like having every app able to do both would be the ideal soln - now that I actually know about middle-click, there's certainly times it's more useful than ctrl-*
I guess what was really frustrating is I struggled with it for ages (dumping standard out to a file so i could open it with another app then cut & paste.. & other idiot workarounds) because there's nothing in the helpfile etc to tell you about highlight/middle-click. And coming from another platform, as I suspect *many* linux users are these days, it wasn't intuitive. I finally snapped one day and went googling, which I should have done much earlier, but there you go. Not ideal that I had to for such a basic function.
This is hardly the only clipboard type issue with linux either - some apps support across-app cut and paste, some don't, some only do across-app via highlight/middle click (nedit?) etc etc. Since learning to use the clipboard is one of the first things a newbie learns to do on any platform, a little consistency would be a marvelous thing.
..took me over a year of using linux as my primary platform to finally discover how to copy from a terminal window & paste to another app {highlight in the term window, switch to the other app, click middle mouse button (or left & right together on a two-button) & voila}.
why, when just about every other frequently used application that runs on linux supports ctrl-c/x/v, does the terminal not do so.
One of the more useful pieces of advice someone gave me while I was writing a thesis was "don't stop work until you know what you're going to do next".
When you're in the flow of writing, be it text or code, there's a tendency to keep going until the train of though you're expressing is expended, then take a break. Then when you sit down again to get on with the larger task, you're faced (once again) with having to re-engage with the whole task. Whereas if you've left a couple of sentences or code comments to yourself detailing exactly what the next small step should be, you have a small task to get re-engaged with.
This has helped me a lot over the years. However, as another poster mentioned, you seem like you're in a pretty bad place. I've occasionally gotten to then point of procrastinating a week away or worse, with all the attendant depression and self-doubt, but it's inevitably been connected with the project or the line of work I was doing at the time being a really bad fit. While you're struggling to get through it, you might want to think about whether it's the field you're in as a whole that kills you, or just this project.
an effect on the system, no. government, sure: proportional voting in australia tends to mean a handful of candidates from minor (read more left/green and/or more right/socially conservative) get into parliament, so neither of the two main parties have the balance of power & need to go along with some agenda items from the minor parties in order to get ther own stuff done.
hence, in the last two decades, a trend toward stronger environmental law and (ironically) a more xenophobic immigration and refugee policy.
so yes, in my experience, choice of candidate can have a significant effect on all sorts of things. not always in what i personally think is a good way, but it certainly has effects.
having now lived in the US for a couple of years, where the two main parties are almost as indistinguishable as their australian conterparts but minor parties are completely powerless, i can see why americans might think choice of candidate makes almost no difference at anything beyond city level politics. it's rather depressing.
they're not suing customers, they're suing people who are advertising their product to new customers for free. : )
if RIAA had been around in the thirties free-to-air radio still wouldn't play music, and the music industry would be a fraction of its current size. They're retards.
quicktime nagware: on a mac, change system time to 20+ years in the future. start quicktime. quit quicktime. change system time to correct date. no more nag. well, not for 20+ years anyway.
There's two basic tricks I've discovered over the last couple of years of slowly incresing the use of open source platforms and tools in our research (ok, we do behavioral science stuff, but the politics of IT change are the same).
First, re convincing colleagues that open source / free software has a role in your work: do something they envy. Produce a tool they want to use, or find some existing software that does something useful and cool, or even just do the great unix thing of tying a bunch of small programs that do one or two things well together to do something that no existing monolithic package really offers. Then point out that it either can't be done on the current platform of choice, or, while it can be done, it requires spending $$$ on some proprietary solution. Doing something like this tends to legitimize the use of the toolset you'd like to use, and gives you a good foot in the door for more abitious moves later.
Second, re working with third party suppliers who don't currently produce software or drivers or whatever that work with non-MS platforms. If there's more than one vendor who supplies something that does what you want, pick the smallest one. They're more likely to be interested in finding niche markets, less likely to be bogged down by bureacracy when it comes to doing something new or different. And a three-person company is more likely to have two of the three who've recently been working in your field & remember what it's like trying to do the usual research thing of trying to get an existing tool to do something that no-one's done before - hence more likely to give you access to the kind of more detailed information you might need, even if they can't really expend the effort themselves right now.
Anyway, that's my take on 'what worked' after a couple of years of win-some, lose-some politics around research and IT.
ahh, son of a.. thought I'd cleared the cookie before testing the links. these links send you to a registration page if you haven't already registered with ibm at some point.
sorry.
'spasm2' and 'zoolook' if you want to use the links but don't want to register yourself.
*Maximum* 5 years. Australian law only describes maximums; judges are free to interpret circumstances and context and assign penalties *within* a range 0-maximum.
Those readers from countries other than the US (or other third world dictatorships) may be familiar with the concept.
I agree with you that discovering a family member is a POW is going to be distressing, doubly so if you hear it first via the media.
However, can I also point out that if your family member is being displayed on TV, those holding him/her are now pretty much obliged to produce them again in once piece at the end of the conflict.
Unpleasant and upsetting as it might be, having a 'missing' family member suddenly show up on your tv screen as a POW actually increases the likelihood they'll survive the conflict.
" Public FTP servers usually have the restriction that the user enter a valid email address, which the BSA's spidering/searching software faked in order to gain access."
And now we know what address the BSA spider uses & can block accordingly : )
Yeah, you've just described why the San Francisco Department of Public Health migrated to StarOffice two years ago. And why many of the agencies who deal with them (or rely on them for funding) have also started to trickle towards OpenOffice or StarOffice.
.DOC is slowly but surely losing its position as the one true document format, at least in the field I work in (cash-strapped public health), and forced migration / lack of legacy support from MS is hardly going to reverse that trend.
Slashdot Mirror
evaluation version only available right now, 'general release' not until october 14.
dunno whether 'evaluation' means crippled in some way or forced upgrade after october 14 - anyone?
For passwords that need to be *good* but which I don't use often enough to memorize, apps like keyring for the palm (yes, gpl) are pretty useful.
As well a storing a bunch of passwords encrypted (only need to have one good password memorized) it can randomly generate long good passwords - ideal for stuff like the ssl key for your apache install where you only need to enter it every six months or so, but it needs to be non-trivial.
Shone! Shone! Dear God, 'shined' hasn't been used as a past tense since the 1700s!
So Timothy is a time traveller from the 1700s. That explains a lot of slashdot spelling now that I think about it
Ok, the coffee is kicking in now.
Seems like having every app able to do both would be the ideal soln - now that I actually know about middle-click, there's certainly times it's more useful than ctrl-*
I guess what was really frustrating is I struggled with it for ages (dumping standard out to a file so i could open it with another app then cut & paste.. & other idiot workarounds) because there's nothing in the helpfile etc to tell you about highlight/middle-click. And coming from another platform, as I suspect *many* linux users are these days, it wasn't intuitive. I finally snapped one day and went googling, which I should have done much earlier, but there you go. Not ideal that I had to for such a basic function.
This is hardly the only clipboard type issue with linux either - some apps support across-app cut and paste, some don't, some only do across-app via highlight/middle click (nedit?) etc etc. Since learning to use the clipboard is one of the first things a newbie learns to do on any platform, a little consistency would be a marvelous thing.
: )
..took me over a year of using linux as my primary platform to finally discover how to copy from a terminal window & paste to another app {highlight in the term window, switch to the other app, click middle mouse button (or left & right together on a two-button) & voila}.
why, when just about every other frequently used application that runs on linux supports ctrl-c/x/v, does the terminal not do so.
ahh, nice. i got it from a thesis adviser who just said she'd heard it *after* she'd struggled through her phd and wished she'd heard it much earlier.
One of the more useful pieces of advice someone gave me while I was writing a thesis was "don't stop work until you know what you're going to do next".
When you're in the flow of writing, be it text or code, there's a tendency to keep going until the train of though you're expressing is expended, then take a break. Then when you sit down again to get on with the larger task, you're faced (once again) with having to re-engage with the whole task. Whereas if you've left a couple of sentences or code comments to yourself detailing exactly what the next small step should be, you have a small task to get re-engaged with.
This has helped me a lot over the years. However, as another poster mentioned, you seem like you're in a pretty bad place. I've occasionally gotten to then point of procrastinating a week away or worse, with all the attendant depression and self-doubt, but it's inevitably been connected with the project or the line of work I was doing at the time being a really bad fit. While you're struggling to get through it, you might want to think about whether it's the field you're in as a whole that kills you, or just this project.
Good luck.
an effect on the system, no. government, sure: proportional voting in australia tends to mean a handful of candidates from minor (read more left/green and/or more right/socially conservative) get into parliament, so neither of the two main parties have the balance of power & need to go along with some agenda items from the minor parties in order to get ther own stuff done.
hence, in the last two decades, a trend toward stronger environmental law and (ironically) a more xenophobic immigration and refugee policy.
so yes, in my experience, choice of candidate can have a significant effect on all sorts of things. not always in what i personally think is a good way, but it certainly has effects.
having now lived in the US for a couple of years, where the two main parties are almost as indistinguishable as their australian conterparts but minor parties are completely powerless, i can see why americans might think choice of candidate makes almost no difference at anything beyond city level politics. it's rather depressing.
" very few personal boxen get hacked, cracked, etc, ... because
1. it's a no reward hack"
You think the idea of scripting your candidate-of-choice into office is a 'no reward hack'??
You Americans *really* don't give a shit about politics, do you.
they're not suing customers, they're suing people who are advertising their product to new customers for free. : )
if RIAA had been around in the thirties free-to-air radio still wouldn't play music, and the music industry would be a fraction of its current size. They're retards.
quicktime nagware: on a mac, change system time to 20+ years in the future. start quicktime. quit quicktime. change system time to correct date. no more nag. well, not for 20+ years anyway.
There's two basic tricks I've discovered over the last couple of years of slowly incresing the use of open source platforms and tools in our research (ok, we do behavioral science stuff, but the politics of IT change are the same).
First, re convincing colleagues that open source / free software has a role in your work: do something they envy. Produce a tool they want to use, or find some existing software that does something useful and cool, or even just do the great unix thing of tying a bunch of small programs that do one or two things well together to do something that no existing monolithic package really offers. Then point out that it either can't be done on the current platform of choice, or, while it can be done, it requires spending $$$ on some proprietary solution. Doing something like this tends to legitimize the use of the toolset you'd like to use, and gives you a good foot in the door for more abitious moves later.
Second, re working with third party suppliers who don't currently produce software or drivers or whatever that work with non-MS platforms. If there's more than one vendor who supplies something that does what you want, pick the smallest one. They're more likely to be interested in finding niche markets, less likely to be bogged down by bureacracy when it comes to doing something new or different. And a three-person company is more likely to have two of the three who've recently been working in your field & remember what it's like trying to do the usual research thing of trying to get an existing tool to do something that no-one's done before - hence more likely to give you access to the kind of more detailed information you might need, even if they can't really expend the effort themselves right now.
Anyway, that's my take on 'what worked' after a couple of years of win-some, lose-some politics around research and IT.
ahh, son of a .. thought I'd cleared the cookie before testing the links. these links send you to a registration page if you haven't already registered with ibm at some point.
sorry.
'spasm2' and 'zoolook' if you want to use the links but don't want to register yourself.
The direct, registration-free links to the pdf are here:
letter
A4
If NASA has an extremely rigorous testing campaign, how the hell did MS get an exclusion?
.. if quoting out of context doesn't meet the basic criteria for a slashdot post/story/motd I don't know what does : )
A useful point though.
Yes.
Next..
*Maximum* 5 years. Australian law only describes maximums; judges are free to interpret circumstances and context and assign penalties *within* a range 0-maximum.
Those readers from countries other than the US (or other third world dictatorships) may be familiar with the concept.
I'd love to see some download stats for OpenOffice at the moment - has it spiked since this crap started hitting people?
I agree with you that discovering a family member is a POW is going to be distressing, doubly so if you hear it first via the media.
However, can I also point out that if your family member is being displayed on TV, those holding him/her are now pretty much obliged to produce them again in once piece at the end of the conflict.
Unpleasant and upsetting as it might be, having a 'missing' family member suddenly show up on your tv screen as a POW actually increases the likelihood they'll survive the conflict.
you mean stuff like:
this?
carried by the rest of the world's media?
" Public FTP servers usually have the restriction that the user enter a valid email address, which the BSA's spidering/searching software faked in order to gain access."
And now we know what address the BSA spider uses & can block accordingly : )
>> FTP Login Name: anonymous
>> FTP Login Password: guest@nowhere.com
Yeah, you've just described why the San Francisco Department of Public Health migrated to StarOffice two years ago. And why many of the agencies who deal with them (or rely on them for funding) have also started to trickle towards OpenOffice or StarOffice.
.DOC is slowly but surely losing its position as the one true document format, at least in the field I work in (cash-strapped public health), and forced migration / lack of legacy support from MS is hardly going to reverse that trend.
really? where do you live? {grin}