The One-Time Password post is particularly sweet. It really ought to be an option, at least for debit card users — I’d pay money for it.

I’m not an advocate of excessive vaccination either — it’s case by case, really. When it comes to flu, given the history of flu pandemics, I think it’d be irresponsible /not/ to vaccinate. Populations at risk (schoolkids, the elderly) are advised to get flu shots for even normal flu, so why not this? The risk, I think, is overstated, and without a mass vaccination program, at-risk populations (again, schoolkids) won’t have herd immunity, vastly increasing the risk of someone to get both H1N1 *and* whatever seasonal flu we get this year.

For the first few paragraphs, Lipman sounds quite sensible (though probably a bit risk-averse in a penny-pinching way — not wanting to risk something small, he might be risking a greater catastrophe). When it comes to garlic as an antibiotic, antiviral herbal supplements, and fish oil, though, I think that’s when he exposes himself as being rather unscientific. I used to take fish oil myself too, but apart from being a source of vitamin A (which is actually *toxic* in too high a dose), it really does not have any known effect on the immune system.

Taking herbal remedies in conjunction with sound health advice is one thing (provided, like with fish oil, you don’t overdose), but I feel very, very uneasy about doctors who recommend herbal remedies. They lend the remedies a cloak of legitimacy that is unwarranted, given the lack of scientific evidence.

Actually, even the H1N1 crisis centre here calls to wash hands frequently, eat well, and not to go out when infected. Not much difference.

(this is Nathalie from LJ by the way)

See the TSA regulations for carrying firearms — now imagine a trainload of NRA members all taking a short train ride from, say, DC to Baltimore.

And if you like public transit, you should be open to people being able to transport their property reasonably via public transit. Otherwise they’ll turn back to cars and trucks.

The bias, as I mentioned in the original entry, is certainly not entirely one-sided: a lot of ultra-Orthodox Jews would ignore what even Ben Gurion acknowledged, that the Palestinian Arabs (esp. the Christians) are at least as likely as current Israeli Jews as being descended from Roman-era Jews. Some characteristics — slanted eyes — are speculated, even by research published in the Commentary, to indicate Khazar Turk origin, rather than a Semitic one.

The sad thing is that throughout their shared history, Christians are more likely to hold anti-Jewish sentiments than Muslims. While Jews in the West were being cleansed or ghettoized (Britain was virtually Jew-free between the burning of York Castle and Industrial Era immigration), Jews in the Islamic world coexist peacefully and even rise to positions of power.

Modern anti-semitism is a disturbing counterpart of fascistic tendencies throughout the world; a mishmash of contradictory impulses. Just as we have Russian neo-Nazi thugs with links to officially anti-Nazi authorities, we also have anti-Semitic Arabs (who are themselves Semites), and knee-jerk anti-Semitism in the rest of the Muslim world, even among people who have no grudge against the Jewish people except over Jerusalem. After all, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion started out as Tsarist chekist propaganda, and Muslim authorities start embracing anti-Semitism properly when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem threw in his lot with Hitler.

Thank you kindly

I’d like to receive one invite to try it!

Last time I checked, Btrfs support in Fedora kernels is not always stable; until it is stable enough (or the Btrfs team bless certain kernel versions as being tested), there are probably other more important things to focus on. But feel free to forward this to the Btrfs mailing list!

Thanks.

There is a great deal of information here. Thanks for posting ….

The problem begins after I’ve been using the CPU and/or GPU somewhat extensively (but nothing too hardcore). It seems like something’s overheating, but it’s not the CPU. Everyhing slowly comes to a slow crawl and CPU usage jumps to solid 100% for a good 5-10 minutes, but nothing in the task list is ever using more than 30%, often less. I just put a GPU temp monitor up, so next time it happens I’ll see how that is.

Does that sound like the problem you were having? If so, I’ll try removing a RAM chip, but I only have 1g so I’d like to avoid halving my memory if possible.

Now I just need to auto launch all my smb connection on bootup so the kids do not have to search where their movies are.

Upgrading to Firefox 3 beta 5 is not necessary, I agree. I suppose the maintainer want to avoid having to deal with three versions (Firefox 1.5 for RHEL 4, 2.0 for RHEL 5 and 3 for Fedora).

The problem with the current naming scheme is that it just *invites* compatibility problems to recur from time to time. Having libraries be parallel-installable didn’t use to be much of a problem in the past, but with the divergence between RHEL and Fedora release cycles, this is becoming more of an issue.

Compatibility packages CAN be released and the dependent applications (Eclipse) CAN be rebuilt against them NO MATTER what package naming scheme you adopt. It’s just a matter of willing to do it, because there is always more than one solution.

BTW, Firefox 2 is supported till end-2008, so the upgrade to Firefox3 BETA5 was NOT mandatory for RHEL 5.2.

OTOH, Red Hat hat a LOT of time to figure out a solution for the package naming and/or compatibility packages.

There already is a project called midori: a light web browser in GTK using WebKit. Could there be a naming war ?

“reinstall … get rid of old cruft ”
“I personally find Metacity much more usable”
“only for advanced users”
“gconf-editor … setting the /apps/metacity/general”
“yum –enablerepo=rawhide”
“type an accented character is rather annoying.”
“consumes RAM even when you don’t use it”

If I was a new user reading your experience I would say that Fedora sucks. Or is only usable and/or modified by someone that has a deep understanding of Fedora. Fedora seams to be seriously lacking a “product as a whole” feel to it. From your post it looks like just pieces haphazardly thrown together.

I have a feeling that you will want to respond to this with something like “this is just my personal preferences and a normal user will not experience this”. But what you are really saying is Fedora needs a reinstall to work at its best, needs tweaking for usability and in the process of making it “better” watch out for those applets that consume “RAM even when you don’t use it!”

With Respect
-Frank

“force them make this mix possible in first place, i.e. not prohibited by law”

I don’t think it’s a legal problem — the Japanese-made Rio Karma supported Ogg and FLAC; after Rio’s assets were bought by Sigmatel, the platform is then used by TrekStor, a German company, to produce the vibez player with the same functionalities. You also get Korean players that play Vorbis just fine.

Vorbis is patent-free, and the onus is on the MP3/MP4/etc. license holders to show otherwise, since the Vorbis code is available for them to check. Now, companies like Apple has an interest in locking in their users and thus might have ulterior motives for not supporting Vorbis. For the other companies it’s simply lack of demand — Ari Jaaksi, a Nokia VP in charge of the tablets, never mentioned legal reasons for not including the codecs. It’s just management’s calculation of how to prioritize developer resources.

sca12-3200a-40 ~/n2/code/> gmake
#jocamlc -I +pcre pcre.cma unix.cma \
#-o wide_finder wide_finder.ml -cclib -lunix
jocamlopt -I +pcre pcre.cmxa \
-o wide_finder wide_finder.ml -cclib -lunix
File “wide_finder.ml”, line 24, characters 0-9:
Unbound module Pcre
gmake: *** [wide_finder] Error 2

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I agree with you — Yahoo is great as it is. It’s quite frustrating to see stock traders shooting up Yahoo’s share price everytime they appear as an acquisition target (up 10% this time) — it makes Yahoo seems to be good only to be snapped up.

My 2 cents worth.

Steve

(define (f) 42)
(define (g) (f))
(g) ;; 42
(define (f) 50)
(g) ;; 50

The neat thing about Python’s lexical scope is that you can actually fake private variables: declare a local dictionary inside your constructor __init__, put all the private variables there (key = the name, value = initial value), and define all the accessor methods in the constructor as well.

Because of lexical scoping, they have access to this dictionary. Now attach them to the class:

class bean(object):
def __init__(self):
privates = {"val" : 0}
def get():
return privates["val"]
def set(x):
privates["val"] = x
return
self.get = get
self.set = set
return

dir(bean()) will show you that the privates are, well, privates. Note the neat trick that if you use self.method_name = internal_name, you don’t need to take self as an argument (but you don’t have access to the object’s namespace, apart from privates). If you use classname.method_name = internal_name (i.e. bean.get = get), now get must take self as a parameter, but gets to use it as needed.

I lifted this from a fascinating discussion, that unfortunately I can’t find at the moment. Will update when I manage to locate it.

>>> def a1():
… def q(x):
… print ’stat’, x
… def p(x):
… return q(x)
… def a2():
… def q(x):
… print ‘dyn’, x
… p(‘hello’)
… a2()
…
>>> a1()
stat hello

the example i was working from the book was in a language (“Oz”) was a dynamic language that still had variable declaration:

local P Q in
proc {Q X} {Browse stat(X)} end
proc {P X} {Q X} end
local Q in
proc {Q X} {Browse dyn(X)} end
{P hello}
end
end

so it is easier to create inner scopes. with python, i needed a separate inner function for each layer of scope for a comparable example.

**** naive example
>>> def q(x):
… print ’stat’, x
…
>>> def p(x):
… q_holder = q
… return q_holder(x)
…
>>> p(‘dude’)
stat dude
>>> def q(x):
… print ‘dyn’, x
…
>>> p(‘dude’)
dyn dude
>>>

***** should show static scoping
>>> def q(x):
… print ’stat’, x
…
>>> def p(x):
… q_holder = q
… return q_holder(x)
…
>>> def blah(x):
… print ‘dyn’, x
…
>>> p(‘dude’)
stat dude
>>> q = blah
>>> p(‘dude’)
dyn dude

I guess you can’t copy a function definition and save it from being rebound later….

I’m reading “Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming” and came across the section on static vs. dynamic scoping. I whipped open my laptop to check whether python was statically scoped, and was fooled into thinking it was dynamically scoped using something very similar to your “bad” example.

A couple google searches later and I find this post, the perfect clarification. Thanks!

Mycroft currently has an SEP OpenSearch plugin, but it’s completely broken (trivially, too: uses name= rather than query=)

You can install almost any ROX application in Xfce by opening the Xfce panel’s launcher properties dialog box and dragging the Zero Install feed link from your web-browser into the dialog.