I've got a Surface Pro 7 with 8Gbyte RAM and 128 GB SSD with Windows 11
beta. You can browse the web, fill out forms. listen to music. You
can't fit *365 on it. Even if a modern Windows version fit, it would be
very constrained.
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kers.
>
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If AI can take over junior level knowledge jobs now, it stands to reason AI
will mature fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which junior level
practitioners would have gained experience to do mid-level and senior jobs.
It's an eventuality that the robots make people obsolete. The only
quest
Measles results in death or other permanent disability frequently enough
that our ancestors greatly feared it and it's why there's a vaccine for it.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Vikriti D'Vita via PLUG-discuss said on Tue,
g.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > There are places that are not okay with people masking?
> >
> > On 11/21/23 13:02, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >> OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes,
> and
> >> masks.
with people masking?
>
> On 11/21/23 13:02, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes,
> > and masks.
> >
> > Will N95 or KN95 masks be required and will acceptable masks provided or
> > will f
OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes, and
masks.
Will N95 or KN95 masks be required and will acceptable masks provided or
will folks need to bring their own?
Also, has it been confirmed that Boulders will be OK with people masking?
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 8:36
:So you're saying the Indians and Argientinans obviously deserved the job
more than you since they would do the same work for less money? Also, why
would an American be better at the job than someone from anywhere else? Or
are you saying you are better than most of your peers in general, you're
p
Unlike a lot of FOSSers, I'm not a Microsoft hater (Oracle, maybe). Hey,
sometimes the business equation works out to "you can't afford to use free
software". But the economic analysis for software is the first unit ye
sell costs a zillion dollars because of how much software development
costs.
method with the same name as the attribite, make the attribute
> private, and add the `@property` decorator to the getter. No change in
> your class's interface.
>
> Otherwise looks great :)
>
> On 6/20/23 10:14, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I just did a thin
I just did a thing.
And I could really use some feedback. If it is lite the feedback I'd get
from my last coding job it will go something like: your code works, but I
don't understand it, there isn't enough documentation, and what
documentation there is, doesn't help.
http
I was talking last week to my manager's manager about how I was staying
busy on the bench. I told him I was working on a dice roller in Python,
which was the first program I'm writing for myself, and that I was having a
lot of fun and learning new stuff. I said the other thing I was doing was
wor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation
>From a producer perspective, segmentation is GOOD.
>From a producer perspective producing the Nth copy of a good almost for
free is fantastic.
But if consumers can ALSO copy and distribute your product at very, very
low cost, that is Very Bad.
O
AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I think the scripters are vulnerable, however the compSci folks will be
>> the ones creating apps that create apps.
>>
>>
>> On 2023-06-06 09:40, trent shipley via PLUG-di
educe
> complexity of typing it, that's where things lose out. Perhaps AI can help
> with this, reduce the load on our poor hooman brains to remember the
> various options.
>
> Where it will definitely have an effect is repeated tasks (making another
> web frontend router) and
25 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> I don't get it...
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 5:03 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> *Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are t
*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing
programming with AI.
*Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI.
*PHM:* No, replace programming itself.
*P:* How? Why?
*PHM: * Well, the Big, Poorly Understood AI produces really good results
witho
I'm on the bench at work, so I spend my days following along with examples
in Python books. Whenever there is a choice to use x**0.5 or math.sqrt(x)
the books opt for the square root option instead of the equivalent
representation as a fractional power. Is the implementation of math.sqrt()
more
Why is Lua better than Julia or Scala (or other best language contenders
like Haskell or Smalltalk?)
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 22:51 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
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> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:31:13 -0700
>
>
>
Thanks Steve.
This is a table-top role-playing play aid, not a video game so C/C++/Rust
would be overkill, but I will look into Lua.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 22:51 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
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> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2
(((
My real questions are:
* Is this too much to bite off as a first project?
* What architecture advice do you have?
* What political advice for dealing with the author and publisher do you
have?
* What other advice do you have?
* What other comments do you have?
)))
I use a role-playing system
memory added to the Dell tonight
Trent
Also Keith, are you going to do the presentation some time?
On 2023-01-25 07:53, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development
> using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Develo
I am working on Precival's 2017 Test Driven Development with Python (and
Django) 2nd edition. I am stuck on chapter 9 which covers deployment to a
shared hosted or dedicated hosted remote development instance.
If I run on the local machine with ~/blah/blah/venv/bin/python3 manage.py
test functi
t; -Thomas Scott
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:50 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I have not heard of and unusual blacklisting of Bluehost.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2023-01-25 09:21, trent shipley v
I work for a contracting company that specializes in finding positions for
neurodiverse individuals, particularly those on the autism spectrum. (I'm
autistic, bipolar, and attention deficit disordered).
Occasionally real IT jobs come up. Manual testing jobs are pretty common,
and can lead to mor
ore anxious and suspicious -- even paranoid than the population at
large. I suspect they start a little bit more anxious and suspicious [and
it turns them on], then thinking about and coping with all the stuff bad
actors can do to you all day long makes it ever so much more so.)
> I recently confi
I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development
using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Development with Python. Percival uses
a simple web site on Django as the practice or example project. In chapter
9 the baby website gets put on a real hosted web server. It needs to be an
o
Python UTF8 Treeview Project Feedback Request
I want to move beyond classroom assignments and Exercism.org toy exercises
and start work on my own project. A major motivation is to have something
to show if I make it to an interview for a software curation and writing
job.
This kind of view of a
It looks like SQLite was meant to be a modest application's dedicated SQL
enabled data store. It was never meant to be concurrent, multiuser or
intensely transactional. A database professional would say that's a
stupidly lazy programmer trick.
On a similar note I've been reading software enginee
Does anyone have any news about the Programming and Analytics 4 year
program they are going to start in Fall 2023 at Mesa CC? Will it be a CS
or CIS program, or neither? I got a call and was told it's got preliminary
accreditation, but the MCCCD board doesn't even know if the fees will be
differe
27;t put you on a Unix machine working with C
starting in CS105. We had no idea how awful things were compared to what
would come.
Trent
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:51 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
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> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 D
PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I was interested in BASH for her because I want her to get into cyber
> > security. Would a juvensalia book be good for a 10 year old?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 9:26 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
Python is a great first language, and there is no shortage of beginning
Python books aimed at young beginners. I've never read a juvenalia
programming book, except maybe pre-Visual Basic BASIC with the line numbers
and goto-s for me, but at 14 she may be a bit old for them and you might be
OK with
cott via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
>
> Is the utility `tree` an option? You can also use a subprocess call to
> call it from within Python.
>
> Best Regards,
> -Thomas Scott
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 11:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-dis
Does anyone know how to get an ASCII/Unicode pretty-print of a directory
tree, preferably using a Python library or utility.I wanted one to ask
a list for help, but my Google-foo was not up to the task. A working
Google search string would be even better than "here follow the link to the
utili
NICE! Sometimes good things happen to deserving people and a good deed
goes unpunished.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:00 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
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> David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:48:59 +
> (UTC)
>
>
> >I’ve met a few fo
Both inflation and deflation are like positive feedback loops or
resonance. A central bank can beat inflation into the ground with interest
rates (even one like this, which is caused by demand pull, supply
shortages, and rising profits) at the cost of a nasty recession (pretty
much what the Fed di
ou should not hire them at all; they cannot be
>> trusted. Focus on a clear, honest, open, adult conversation and mutual
>> learning instead. Ask questions about what the candidate can do, wants to
>> do, interests, and expectations. Learn, both directions, if and how the
&
(Lead buried in last two or three paragraphs.)
Hi,
I've been in software writing positions on-and-off since about 1999. I
spent a couple years teaching myself Oracle SQL and PERL in 1999 and 2000
for a nice application in the phone industry, then I had a long bout of
unemployment, with some fals
om/install/#install-clients
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:49 PM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I enjoy programming a lot and dislike sysadmin (one reason I don't use a
>> Linux desktop more. It'
ve abandoned all other cloud platforms for
>> it. Email, Calendar, files, and password management, and I have access
>> everywhere, including my phone and tablet.
>>
>> There are free services out there that provide limited storage to a
>> Nextcloud storage.
>>
&g
In this order I use Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux Mint.
Sometimes I'm working in LibreOffice, or Java, or Python, etc. and I get
stuck rotating between all three OSes. I mostly store my stuff or Google
Drive, but some on OneDrive. I can access both fine on Windows. Accessing
OneDrive from my iM
You can get a whole shell main buffer in standard Linux Emacs. I have no
idea what adaptive technology tools will do with it. Back when I used BASH
via the Emacs full edit screen shell buffer, it was more convenient than a
terminal app in a lot of ways. It also had some nasty gotchas or glitches
A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my
computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I
tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building
was Terrible!
It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountabl
And who is it for? My parents use Macs. I would be OK if they used
Chromebooks. Never is a million years would I give them a solid Linux
desktop, let alone a potentially flaky, cheap, out of the box Linux.
Why are you in the market for a cheap out-of-the-box Mint machine? There
are some pretty
I'm looking for JavaScript textbook suggestions and critiques.
My colleague and I were recently hired as contractors for SRP for GUI user
testing of enterprise software. (Autistic people have a reputation for
tolerating, and even being good at software testing, so its a case of
affirmative action
Is anyone familiar with Revature? Are they legitimate? If they are
legitimate, what are they like to work for?
Trent
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1. It's a business computer. Most businesses think of IT as a cost, not a
strategic advantage. Most business that treat IT as a cost center.
2. Presumably, in budgeting $400 for a machine, and wanting to spend $200
on a machine, the customer is severely constrained in initial cost of
ownership.
3
Unless you want to get a high end Chromebook they have minimal onboard
storage and are designed to be integrated into Google's cloud. As long as
he has internet access (say through a smart phone) he could use Google Docs
or MS Office online. My impression of the Chromebook's printing prowess is
th
I'm thinking about getting a new laptop. Mine is several years old, and
while it's quite serviceable, it boots really slowly, and it doesn't like
to run a guest Ubuntu OS under Oracle VirtualBox. Also, I foresee more
compiling in my future, even though of late I've been rather truant about
working
Since my other thread degenerated into a "school bad, school good" flame
war, I thought I would try again.
I have little academic OR practical background with programming.
I want to write a couple of compilers.
The compilers are for functional languages.
I would PREFER to write the compilers wi
e have favorite compiler textbooks? Any compiler textbooks they
really hate?
Regards,
Trent Shipley
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I remember stories of IBM octogenarians showing up to fix things at Luke
Air Force Base (heard third hand). Mission critical stuff can REALLY get
specification stuck.
Trent.
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM Steve Litt
wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:54:17 -0500
> Matthew Crews wrote:
>
> > Man,
gt;
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 23, 2017, at 1:33 AM, trent shipley
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a pre-built EC2 AMI with RStudio I use to study R. I can use it
> from my Mac or Windows machine. It is nice.
> >
> > I want an EC2 Ubuntu 16.04 AMI to use
I have a pre-built EC2 AMI with RStudio I use to study R. I can use it from
my Mac or Windows machine. It is nice.
I want an EC2 Ubuntu 16.04 AMI to use as an affordable cloud based Linux
machine to play with toys, like teaching myself Haskell. Take lappy for
coffee, get internet on the phone. Do
Middle posting follows.
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:45 PM Matt Birkholz
wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 17:51 +0000, trent shipley wrote:
> > Right, it's not scripting using a classic programming environment,
> > like VBA, the BASIC that comes with LibreOffice, or Python.
>
nternal so one would not need to use
>> external resources to do the VBA automation.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-11-02 01:51, trent shipley wrote:
>>
>> Dear PLUG list,
>>
>> I've been working on a think-piece about a programmable spreadsheet
>&
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Scriptsheets: A Spreadsheet You Can Program from the Sheet Environment
Scriptsheets v0e0r0b0. First Proposal (unstable, draft)
Trent Shipley
trent1967...@outlook.com
2017-11-02
1 Concept
To program in current spreadsheets you typically use a built-in scripting
language like VBA. The
Well, as you may recall from my last installment about career options, I am
bipolar, have autism spectrum disorder, and I have attention deficit
disorder. Another disability is that I'm 50. After working with my "job
coach" it turns out that if you are both ASD and ADD the intersection of
viable, s
involved.
>
> The Dept Mgr is a terrific guy, and most of the people who work in the
> Dept are very dedicated people. Some are pretty sharp, some not so much.
> Most are older. (Youngsters don’t seem to like working for the State.)
>
> -David Schwartz
>
>
>
> On O
oftware testing would also play very well
> to tour autistic nature.
>
> Hope this was of some help.
> Kevin Fries
> On Oct 16, 2017 11:09 PM, "trent shipley" wrote:
>
>> Dear plug-discuss,
>>
>> I currently work as a telephone customer service represen
ment for the week is to talk to two web developers.
I'd appreciate any contacts list members could provide that would be
willing to provide a 20 minute interview about their work, either web
developers or programmers with less than a BS.
Regards and thanks,
Trent Shipley
trent
A few weeks ago I tried to get ChromiumOS installed under VirtualBox on an
older (but Intel) iMac and a newer PC laptop--with no joy.
Has anyone on the list managed to run ChromiumOS as a guest on a virtual
machine or by dual booting? It's supposed to be based on Gentoo.
Does anyone have a Chrom
A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to make
money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He expected
technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out of
existence. The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH higher
profits, whil
sages/boards/thread/50474252
Regards,
Trent Shipley
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Can anyone reccomend a decent book or other source, suitable for self
study, on numerical methods? Or maybe modeling and simulation if that can
be done without numerical methods.
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I worked for a predominantly Indian outsourcing company. I did not find my
co-workers low skilled or under-educated. They had real experience and were
competent. Accusing the professionals who benefit from offshoring of being
incompetent is idle racist nativism. Furthermore, in a Global economy,
Am
There's a whole art to outsourcing programming and other IT abroad. I got a
degree in information management, and outsourcing was a study unto itself.
If you're going to do it, you need a cultural liaison/contract manager and
that person damn well better be bicultural--either a first generation
Ame
What are some of the gotchas he can expect in installing: server -> delta
desktop repository -> delta desktop gui -> no more than two days tweaking
system? OR:
desktop install -> delta server -> tweak?
I'd expect using the server distro as the base to work better with a server
enabled workstation,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/14/icann-internet-control-domain-names-iana
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37114313
And for those who don't trust liberals:
http://www.hoover.org/research/tricky-issue-severing-us-control-over-icann
Basically the US had to turn it over, or there
In worst case fork the code! Balkanize the internets.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:22 PM Keith Smith
wrote:
>
> The article states in part "Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek
> to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust
> exemption. Authoritarian regimes have
hee wrote:
> Check the answer to this stackoverflow. It says it better than I can.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009745/what-does-the-question-mark-in-java-generics-type-parameter-mean
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:08 PM, trent shipley
> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone t
Can anyone tell me what the keyword "super" does in this parameter list for
the constructor below? I can only find documentation for the more mundane
use when a method references an ancestor.
public WeightedCollection(Comparator comp)
package pcgen.base.util;
<>
/**
* Constructs an empty Weig
, the participant
would need a security clearance, as would the development ecology.
Trent.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:51 PM trent shipley
wrote:
> I'd like to hear some 250 word pitches for open source projects that the
> Maricopa-Pinal counties Linux developer community could wor
I'd like to hear some 250 word pitches for open source projects that the
Maricopa-Pinal counties Linux developer community could work on. Maybe the
Phoenix Linux Project would merit 501c3 status.
Desirables:
Customer:
*Primary (initial) customer: non-political, non-religious charity or
governme
6, 7, 8. Mostly 7.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015, 05:43 Keith Smith wrote:
>
> Another resource you might consider : http://www.phxjug.org/
>
>
> On 2015-08-10 21:47, trent shipley wrote:
> > My manager at work wants me to learn more Java.
> >
> > I have two semesters
, they are
written in Python, so you can hire programmers.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:30 PM sean wrote:
> I've heard lots of good stuff about Trac. Do you have any issues with it?
> On Aug 10, 2015 10:22 PM, "trent shipley" wrote:
>
>> What are some good open source
What are some good open source issue trackers?
There is Bugzilla which is unfortunately in PERL, and seems to have no PM
integration.
There is Trac, which is Berkeley style licence in Python.
There is the dead Apache project Bloodhound, which had a lot of promise and
had an Apache license, so it
My manager at work wants me to learn more Java.
I have two semesters of Java, they want me to focus on web programming.
So I need practice exercises or projects for:
* concurrent programming
* sockets
* servelets
* STRUTS
* SPRING
* REST programming
Pretty much in that order.
I can find tutori
My company is starting fresh CS four-year college grads at $50,000 a year,
with a raise to 57,000 after a year. I think they don't pay much less to
start AAs. For that money they don't recruit top rated prospects.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:46 PM Michael Butash wrote:
> On 07/22/2015 01:55 PM, Ke
My employer wants me to learn RESTful programming and the Java Spring
framework. Does anyone have dead tree suggestions, preferably with
exercises.
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range and
>>>>> interesting things.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Keith Smith >>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are going to write reviews WordPress would work just fine with
>>>>>
I'm thinking of starting a fan-fic site. I had one years ago. Keeping track
of the links was hell. Would a content management system help?
I'm thinking of using shared hosting. There won't be any commerce.
What suggestions do you have?
Trent.
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Which school?
Prerequisites?
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Phil Waclawski
wrote:
> The class covers
> Apache/Nginx/MySQL,sshd/postfix/vsftpd and other service
> setup/configuration.
> Uses git and etckeeper to monitor changes to configurations.
>
> Includes examples to test configurations. And
bol to run on your system yet?
>
> Harold
>
>
> On 01/05/2015 05:33 PM, trent shipley wrote:
>
> I wrote to the newbie list for GnuCOBOL for some help getting started. I'm
> writing to the local list to see if anyone has experience with COBOL, and
> GnuCOBOL in parti
, see what it did, and then revert and fix whatever needs fixing and try
> again.
>
> Centos is the epitome of not changing much. and that would suggest it
> meets whatever you need. Just as a desktop environment of choice and you
> are ready to go.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:57 PM,
What is a good, simple desktop oriented distro not derived from Debian or
Ubuntu? GnuCOBOL currently has a significant bug on Ubuntu 14. (No. Red Hat
and SUSE are not desktop oriented distros.)
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I wrote to the newbie list for GnuCOBOL for some help getting started. I'm
writing to the local list to see if anyone has experience with COBOL, and
GnuCOBOL in particular.
I got hired November 17, 2014 to a new job where I will be outsourced to a
financial company. Right now I and 19 other recrui
The issue of either making the group a charitable organization or a
professional organization comes up from time to time. There seems to
be very little actual support for either option. My impression is the
core members of PLUG are very happy with it as an informal association
of individuals. Putti
I see no reason to incorporate PLUG. However, good arguments were put
forward for a non-profit Linux Users Group, especially for more
professional Linux users.
Given the arguments Lisa put forward I'd say it makes sense to widen
to scope to Unix. It would also make sense to narrow the scope from
EMACS
Maybe Eclipse.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:14 PM, wrote:
>
> Hi Fred! Welcome!!
>
>
> On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about
>> three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface.
>>
>> I'm
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I know that you can get lots of skills on NoSQL databases using a single Linux
machine, but eventually you need to pick up skills on a horizontal cluster
running the NoSQL database(s) of your choice. I am thinking of creating a
personal lab. Would Raspberry Pi's be suitable. What are some other
How would you go about learning to program on Android? I'm interested in
developing mobile apps. The grand plan is to eventually become competent
enough to program custom mobile business applications.
I'm tempted to start with HTML 5, CSS 3, and Javascript (The books on Amazon
about portable
I changed a virtualization BIOS setting and it worked fine.
From: Dazed_75
To: Trent Shipley ; Main PLUG discussion list
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: VirtualBox VS Ubuntu
My guess is that you have installed a 32-bit VirtualBox and
Ubuntu's universal 64 bit download is labeled blah-blah-AMD-blah
I have an Intel machine.
VirtualBox refuses to install Ubuntu thinking it is tailored to AMD machines.
Although I'd like to stick to what I am used to, are there any other distros
suitable for casual desktop use? (Preferably Debia
I would like a very entry level job in programming or in reporting. I'm not
worried about the offshore competition. The advertisements say that after 5
years you make 60-80 K as a programmer.
I have a degree in mathematics from 1989, a Master of Science in Information
Management (from 2009),
I have a Windows 8 laptop on order.
I would like to run Ubuntu as a guest on a virtual machine. What are some good
candidates? It doesn't have to be free, but VMware for Workstations would be
overkill at this point. Is Oracle still developing Virtual Box?--
Has anyone played with these?---
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