When a Facebook user takes a Beacon-enabled action on a participating site, information is sent to Facebook in order for Facebook to operate Beacon technologically. If a Facebook user clicks "No, thanks" on the partner site notification, Facebook does not use the data and deletes it from its servers. Separately, before Facebook can determine whether the user is logged in, some data may be transferred from the participating site to Facebook. In those cases, Facebook does not associate the information with any individual user account, and deletes the data as well.
- Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's Vice President of product marketing and operations
No, the WRT54GL is a terrible deal. Compare its specifications to the similarly-priced Asus WL-500G Premium, for example. The Asus has a faster processor, twice the ROM, twice the RAM, and 2 USB ports.
Here's OpenWrt's table of supported hardware. I like to think of OpenWRT as the Debian of router firmwares: customizable, modular, and free. In this analogy, X-WRT is Ubuntu; they take OpenWRT and add a web interface to make it simpler to use.
I wonder if this will push Canonical to release a version of Landscape, their equivalent service for Ubuntu, as free software. Currently Landscape is hosted by Canonical and costs $150 per node.
Definitely take a look at the second edition of O'Reilly's LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell. The table of contents shows great overlap with the topics you're interested in.
There are more free resources for learning python.
http://docs.python.org/tut/
http://diveintopython.org/
http://www.swaroopch.com/byteofpython/
http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python
Instead of an intelli panel, you can get a UPS and plug all your devices into the battery-backed sockets. Turning off the UPS cuts off all power to those sockets, so do it whenever you're not using the computer.
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You should be able to do this with xrandr. Don't blame X, blame Ubuntu for not making this obvious.
If you want to learn theoretical computer science, where would *you* go to learn it?
A school that has many classes on theoretical computer science. If necessary, enroll in graduate-level courses. In this respect, CS isn't different from any other discipline at most universities. The bulk of the theory-focused classes will be past the BA/BS level. It's only once you have your undergrad degree and come back for more that they begin to teach you how to be a computer scientist, political scientist, or whatever the term for your field is.
Facebook should give me the choice, like they do wih many other areas of privacy, of whether or not I allow my friends in different networks to use software to export information about me from Facebook. The obvious thing to choose is "yes". Why else would I have joined the site and filled out the profile forms if I didn't want to provide this information for my friends to use? Even if Facebook somehow wrapped their entire site in DRM, they still couldn't stop someone from taking a pencil and paper and writing down my contact information. Why shouldn't I be able to use a tool to import my Facebook friends into my email address book? Facebook already has a tool that imports your address book from Gmail, Yahoo, etc. It seems hypocritical for them to do this but not allows others the same access to Facebook data.
Facebook allows you to import your friends from Gmail, Yahoo, and the like, but Facebook's terms of service forbid you from using similar tools to export your Facebook friends to another website. If you try to use software to do this, Facebook may deactivate your account. We must demand that Facebook allow us to use tools to take the data gleaned from our social connections that we've entered here and, with our friends consent, export it however and wherever we wish.
If you agree and are on Facebook, join this group to send them a message and spread awareness. For more on the issue, visit http://dataportability.org/ and http://opensocialweb.org/
Since you don't begin to define what you mean by scalability, I'll take that as FUD. However, scalability is one of the problems Ruby is trying to tackle. 1.9.0 marked the switch from green threads to os threads, but it' going to take awhile before extensions written in C are thread-safe. If you prefer the lightweight approach of green threads, take a look at fibers.
Alright, I know this is going to be flame fodder, but I'm genuinely curious: does Ruby have anything to offer for someone who's already very proficient in Python (and Django, so Rails is already covered)?
Take a glance at Ruby from other languages. This page highlights some of the things that make Ruby Ruby.
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Also nice is the ability to inline C with Weave.
External combustion engine
There's a similar outfit in Athens, Ga.
Free IT Athens.
Techsoup has a tool to help you find recyclers in your area.
Sir, I am appalled. Why didn't you write the comment in gvim in the first place?
When a Facebook user takes a Beacon-enabled action on a participating site, information is sent to Facebook in order for Facebook to operate Beacon technologically. If a Facebook user clicks "No, thanks" on the partner site notification, Facebook does not use the data and deletes it from its servers. Separately, before Facebook can determine whether the user is logged in, some data may be transferred from the participating site to Facebook. In those cases, Facebook does not associate the information with any individual user account, and deletes the data as well.
- Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's Vice President of product marketing and operations
The technology discussed in this article wouldn't help much for that. What would help are the $50 open-mesh mini routers.
No, the WRT54GL is a terrible deal. Compare its specifications to the similarly-priced Asus WL-500G Premium, for example. The Asus has a faster processor, twice the ROM, twice the RAM, and 2 USB ports.
Try adding the line lavdopts=threads=2:fast=1:skiploopfilter=nonref to ~/.mplayer/config.
Here's OpenWrt's table of supported hardware. I like to think of OpenWRT as the Debian of router firmwares: customizable, modular, and free. In this analogy, X-WRT is Ubuntu; they take OpenWRT and add a web interface to make it simpler to use.
Seconding the Zenwalk recommendation. It does alright with 64 to 128mb of RAM.
I wonder if this will push Canonical to release a version of Landscape, their equivalent service for Ubuntu, as free software. Currently Landscape is hosted by Canonical and costs $150 per node.
http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software
http://www.theopendisc.com/education/
Definitely take a look at the second edition of O'Reilly's LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell. The table of contents shows great overlap with the topics you're interested in.
There are more free resources for learning python.
http://docs.python.org/tut/
http://diveintopython.org/
http://www.swaroopch.com/byteofpython/
http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python
They tried. See XUlrunner.
Instead of an intelli panel, you can get a UPS and plug all your devices into the battery-backed sockets. Turning off the UPS cuts off all power to those sockets, so do it whenever you're not using the computer.
You should be able to do this with xrandr. Don't blame X, blame Ubuntu for not making this obvious.
That's old news, it made it to the front page here. Facebook is probably joining DataPortability.org because of that brouhaha.
If you want to learn theoretical computer science, where would *you* go to learn it? A school that has many classes on theoretical computer science. If necessary, enroll in graduate-level courses. In this respect, CS isn't different from any other discipline at most universities. The bulk of the theory-focused classes will be past the BA/BS level. It's only once you have your undergrad degree and come back for more that they begin to teach you how to be a computer scientist, political scientist, or whatever the term for your field is.
Facebook should give me the choice, like they do wih many other areas of privacy, of whether or not I allow my friends in different networks to use software to export information about me from Facebook. The obvious thing to choose is "yes". Why else would I have joined the site and filled out the profile forms if I didn't want to provide this information for my friends to use? Even if Facebook somehow wrapped their entire site in DRM, they still couldn't stop someone from taking a pencil and paper and writing down my contact information. Why shouldn't I be able to use a tool to import my Facebook friends into my email address book? Facebook already has a tool that imports your address book from Gmail, Yahoo, etc. It seems hypocritical for them to do this but not allows others the same access to Facebook data.
Facebook allows you to import your friends from Gmail, Yahoo, and the like, but Facebook's terms of service forbid you from using similar tools to export your Facebook friends to another website. If you try to use software to do this, Facebook may deactivate your account. We must demand that Facebook allow us to use tools to take the data gleaned from our social connections that we've entered here and, with our friends consent, export it however and wherever we wish. If you agree and are on Facebook, join this group to send them a message and spread awareness. For more on the issue, visit http://dataportability.org/ and http://opensocialweb.org/
Since you don't begin to define what you mean by scalability, I'll take that as FUD. However, scalability is one of the problems Ruby is trying to tackle. 1.9.0 marked the switch from green threads to os threads, but it' going to take awhile before extensions written in C are thread-safe. If you prefer the lightweight approach of green threads, take a look at fibers.
Alright, I know this is going to be flame fodder, but I'm genuinely curious: does Ruby have anything to offer for someone who's already very proficient in Python (and Django, so Rails is already covered)?
Take a glance at Ruby from other languages. This page highlights some of the things that make Ruby Ruby.