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Comment Settle for Python (Score 1) 360

Since you wrote, you are used to Perl, the gap between Perl and Python is somewhat smaller than between Perl and Objective C.
And Python fun part is the indentation what makes your code automagically more readable and you have less curly braces.

I would even look for specific Python offerings related to the astonishing Plone (http://plone.org/) which is based on Zope and that is based on Python. In the EU, for example, we are struggling to find Python/Plone developers.

The iOS stuff binds you to one Platform (i.e. Apple's) and makes you vulnerable if that goes down the drain.
If you stick to an open language and settle for an "ordinary" job, you can always find someone else to pay you.

Good luck,
Holger

Comment NoScript says ... (Score 1) 151

... in an alert box of it's own:

javascript: and data: URIs typed or pasted in the address bar are disabled to prevent social engineering attacks.
Developers can enable them for testing purposes by toggling the "noscript.allowURLBarJS" preference.

Browsing the Web w/o NoScript is dangerous to the core anyway.

Just my 2cents

- Holger

Comment Re:Found happiness elsewhere (Score 1) 818

I for my part tested KDE 4.x since it became beta in the old days ... I revisited nearly each minor KDE 4.x update, but always switched back to KDE 3.5 (now 3.5.10).
And yes, openSUSE 12.1 certainly takes the pain out of it. Even though some KDE 4 parts keep popping up, like e.g. yast2 and if you do not install all KDE 3.x programs you might end up with one from KDE 4 in between ...

The only sad things is, that the Firefox and Thunderbird Themes matching KDE 3's crystal ceased to work :-(

I think I also remember an ubuntu project called TDE that should keep KDE 3 under a new alive for ubuntu ...

Cheers
- Holger

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Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
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Submission + - AMD details open source graphics driver plans (yahoo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: AMD has formally announced the details of its plans to develop an open source graphics driver for Linux. It seems they're doing it right — they're getting Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu involved in the process, and not developing this driver in a vacuum. Kudos to AMD!
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Submission + - Storm worm more powerful than top supercomputers

Stony Stevenson writes: Security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, are saying it has now grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world's top supercomputers.

"In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away," said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. "If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It's very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there's not much we can do about it." Sergeant said researchers at MessageLabs see about 2 million different computers in the botnet sending out spam on any given day, and he adds that he estimates the botnet generally is operating at about 10 percent of capacity.

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