How a beautiful software system becomes Frankenstein “Ruin in community is not caused by witches with broomstick but it’s something that starts in people’s heads.” – Prof. Preobrazhensky (Michail Bulgakov’s “The heart of a dog”) The newborn software system looks beautiful inside after the few weeks of development. Several talented programmers put their souls together into this amazing software idea. But week after week the system become older and uglier. It could still look exciting for users, but the system rots inside. Three reasons There are hundred objective reasons why it could happen – complex technology, changing customer needs, management pressure, time to market and many more. Degradation of the system starts in the people heads and there are three main reasons: Incomprehension – don’t understand “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde Every person has limits for understanding: It is hard job to reach good understanding. Inarticulateness – cannot express Further complications
After it happens, you need to make your plan. | ID-PROTECT.ORG Identity theft happens, now what? It’s time for your plan of attack. And this is not something you can put off until tomorrow. Close the accounts that you know, or think, have been tampered with. Notify your bank(s) in writing. Contact by phone every financial institution with whom you have a credit card and have them cancel those account numbers immediately and give you new ones. Next, contact the three consumer reporting companies: TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian to place a fraud alert on your credit reports, and order a free report from each of them for your review. The Federal Trade Commission should know about your identity theft to help law enforcement throughout the USA track down identity thieves. File a report with the police in the community where the identity theft took place. Last but not least, keep a paper trail!
CdDvdBurning Writing data to write-able and re-write-able CDs and DVDs and Blu-Ray media is commonly referred to as "burning". This tutorial covers the default burning software provided with Ubuntu as well as command line burning. There are also alternative burning programs to consider such as xcdroast or k3b. For better results try the slowest burn speed reasonably possible. Most Gui tools have a "Properties" button to select speed but with Brasero those sorts of options appear after pressing the 1st "burn" button. Slower speeds ensure greater accuracy. This section covers using a GUI for burning. Burning ISO images For burning ISO images like the Ubuntu LiveCD using a GUI, please refer to the BurningIsoHowto page. Burning Files to CD or DVD Copying Discs and Other Advanced Operations You can copy CDs and DVDs, erase (blank) rewritable media and more with Brasero or GnomeBaker. Click Applications -> Sound and Video -> Brasero Create a new project when prompted. Blu-Ray Burning Creating an ISO image F.e.
lee's multiply Site DockbarX: Experimental Dockbar for Linux ~ Web Upd8 DockbarX is a taskbar with grouping and group manipulation with some "experimental" features compared to Docbark (it is not a fork of Dockbar, but a branch of DockBar holding new "experimental" features). "Experimental" features (Features that aren't in DockBar 0.21):- New look for popups.- Launchers- Notifications for focused window on group button as well as on window button- Minimize animation is aiming for the group button of the program.- All mouse button actions are configurable- Behavior when multiple workspaces or viewports are used are configurable- Windows are raised on drag-and-drops- "Opacify" Here are some screenshots: Screenshot 1 and 2 is taken with compositing on (Compiz) and screenshot 3 is taken with compositing off (Metacity - read how to replace Compiz with Metacity). To install it in Ubuntu use the following commands: -For Ubuntu Karmic: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dockbar-main/ppa -For older Ubuntu versions: Then simply run this command in a terminal:
Emacs Crash Code A few one-liners someone attending the EmacsCrashCourse might put in an InitFile. Many of these settings are not at all typical; some are quite personal, and other still could be either annoying or confusing for beginners. However a “grab bag”-style list of Emacs customizations to experiment with may be quicker than hunting such lines down in the EmacsManual – if they’re even there. General userinterface and appearance (tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (define-key menu-bar-tools-menu [games] nil) (scroll-bar-mode -1) (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right) (setq inhibit-startup-message t) (setq visible-bell t) (global-font-lock-mode 1) (set-background-color "darkblue") (set-face-background 'region "gray80") (global-hl-line-mode t) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "")) Cursor and mouse Customization for your locale, environment and computer. Files and sessions Tabs, spaces, lines and parenthesis Buffers and windows Key bindings Miscellaneous See also: PopularOptions. CategoryDotEmacs
Mob Software An Essay in First Person by Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman Let’s rock! I’ve got good news: That way of hacking you like is going to come back in style. Over the years I’ve despaired that the ways we’ve created to build software matches less and less well the ways that people work effectively. But like survivors, we’ve managed to make these islands homes. So gloomy. The way out requires just one thing from us—a strange, frightful thing—something slant. First, though, the gloom. Maybe there aren’t too many in this audience old enough to recall the early attempts at putting capsules and rockets into space. But these folks don’t remember these other scenes: One rocket lifted up about a dozen feet, fell over, then accelerated horizontally toward a launch building; another lifted up a few hundred feet and started spinning in a Yeatsian gyre before being blown up remotely; others simply exploded somewhere in the sky. NASA began operation on the first of October, 1958. The Mob Introduced and
The beautiful nightmares of Zdzislaw Beksinski Artist Zdzislaw Beksiński is best known for his immense, obsessively detailed paintings of catastrophic landscapes, surreal humanoid figures and afflicted nudes. Born in 1929, he grew up in southern Poland, then traveled to Krakow to study architecture where he subsequently spent several miserable years working as a construction site supervisor. His work from that era is primarily photography and sculpture. In his mid thirties, Beksiński shifted his focus to painting large, purely abstract pieces on wooden boards (he preferred wood to canvas). Eventually, their form and structure became more straightforward and he entered a self-proclaimed “fantastic period” reminiscent of Bruegel, Ernst or Bosch, and drawing comparisons to his Swiss contemporary, H.R. Beksiński’s post-apocalyptic vision, much like Giger’s, is uniquely disturbing owing in part to a highly developed architectural eye. Although he depicts a harrowing world, Beksiński claimed that much of his work is misunderstood.
Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result. As well as for traditional lookups of information - like the example we'll be exploring in this article - we can use screen-scraping to enhance a Web service into doing something the designers hadn't given us the power to do in the first place. Here's an example: I do my banking online, but get quickly bored with having to go to my bank's site, log in, navigate around to my accounts and check the balance on each of them.
Dual n-task - dual-n-task.com Charcoal signatures: Heavily-populated Amazon was decimated by old world disease Charcoal signatures: Heavily-populated Amazon was decimated by old world disease Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com June 9, 2008 Ecologists and archaeologists agree that when Columbus struck the Americas in 1492 everything changed, but questions persist over the kind of world Columbus and his followers would soon transform. Recently the state of the pre-Columbian Amazon has been under increasing debate among scientists across numerous fields. In a lecture given at the ATBC conference (Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation) in Paramaribo, Suriname, Dr. The traditional view regarding pre-Columbian Amazonia goes something like this: prior to 1492 the Amazon was a virgin, pristine wilderness with only small populations of human inhabitants who had little effect on the ecosystem in which they lived. In his talk Francis Mayle tested the validity of the 'cultural parkland' claim by employing data on charcoal in the Amazon. Related The Virgin Forest?
:LIQUID CULTURE - THE EASY WAY: - Agar and Liquid Culture (how to turn 2ml/cc of spore solution into 20 ??..ten ml/cc syringes - right - cheap & easy. Assuming you have an empty syringe & another with spore solution. Go to Kmart, Target or any large discount Mart & buy a 3 pack of EvenFlow plastic baby bottles. Also buy a small bottle of Karo corn syrup, a tube of silicone sealant & a few glass marbles. All the baby bottle parts (bottle - screw cap - nipple) will withstand sterilization in a pressure cooker. Remove the nipple, apply a small amount (1/8th to ? Note: the baby bottle has milliliter (ml) graduation marks up to 240 ml (8 fluid ounces). Add 200 ml of water to the baby bottle (use marks on it - as a measuring point). Take your empty syringe and aspirate 6 (six) ml of karo syrup into it. Then inject that into the open baby bottle, resulting in an approximate 3% solution. Next, add a glass marble to the baby bottle, to serve as an agitator devise - later. Insert the nipple into the baby bottle (facing down - inside the baby bottle).
Spawning to 100% coir - Mushroom Cultivation Ok, so after much reading and research I have come to the conclusion that my first set of BRF cakes will be spawned to coir, then cased with MGMC. My question is, who has successfully spawned their cakes to 100% coir? I dont have easy access to any straw or dung and heard through the grapevine that I could just as easily spawn to one of the many bricks of of coir I have lying around, after it has been expanded and pasteurized of course. Is this method successful? I know coir has very minimal nutritional value, so my only concern is that it would not colonize with my cakes very well. So I guess my only question is, how effective is a bulk substrate of 100% coco coir?