Ok, I just find this entirely too funny and wrong. I have been for the majority of my computer using days one MS Windows Enviornment or Another. I had touched upon Linux as a Desktop OS only briefly before, but had mainly used Linux and Unix on the server platforms. Recently I decided that other than the games I play and certain dev tools I need that require windows (FFXI, Halo PC, VB
After considering the varied distrobutions and such, my friend and business partner had suggested going with something like Xandros. And after reading some of the features I decided to try it. After all if it didnt work, I could always turn around and install Suse or FreeBSD.
The install, definatly left me happy. Quick, easy... fairly painless(no papercuts this time). Then I checked out the preinstalled package Cross Over. With CrossOver I installed a copy of MS Office 2000 I had, and it installed I.E. along with it. To my amazement (and some Horror) I was suddenly surfing useing I.E. in Linux... this fact just seems... completely wrong.
A site that represents a now time honored tradition of scarring newbie geeks and enemies alike seems to have slipped on their registration: Who Is Information on goatse.cx. Could it be that we may need to find a new way to scar the next generation of newbie geeks?
EDIT: Do not look at registration information when tired. Goatse.cx is not lapsed, they are actually suspended. Who knows why?
I'm actually speachless.
-Edited, used the incorrect Journal Icon at first.
To anyone who may stumble upon my little journal, May you have a Safe and fun New Years Evening and a the promise of a fruitful year to come!
The following text is coppied entirely from several Journals I frequent on the net, and felt that it was worth it to copy post it:
One of the journals I saw this on
This is post copied from Michael, sharing the information, please take the time to vote.
These folks are trying to prove the point to the government (they intend to send the results to Washington) that America is against gay marriage, by polling their membership, which is a conservative Christian anti-gay marriage action group. Huh...wonder if those numbers would be a touch skewed?
Word got out, though, and thanks to a grassroots email campaign, the poll is already shaping up to be not quite the rout they were hoping for. Whichever way you feel on the issue, please take the poll, and let it be a more true and accurate representation of American feelings.
A few insightful/informative comments (plus a few that go without notice) and my Karma is back in the Positive range. So despite flaws, it is possible (though albiet through no intervention of the offending user) to regain Neutral Karma once
they have dipped to the bad end of the spectrum.
In other news I have finally taken my own advise and bought a subscription to SlashDot. It's cheep it's easy and why not, support your community.
Ok, so I missed a very important line in the Slashdot F.A.Q's that talk about not earning Karma for "Funny" posts. I can understand this, however what doesn't make sense is the fact that you can loose Karma in a post that is marked "Funny", doesn't necessarily seem balanced to me.
In my last Journal post I noted that someone had marked me as a Troll, the comment I had posted also had been marked as Overrated, and Funny, giving it an overall score of 4. Now with the fact that I only had one other moderated Comment, +1 for informative, the -2 on this post dropped me to bad Karma... despite the fact that most of the moderation pointed in a positive direction. Now, my bad karma due to a one liner of humor has earned me the right to sit below most thresholds, despite my history of comments and activity...
Oddly off balanced.
Odd, that was the last thing I expected to find my latest post to be moderated as. In all honesty I could have believed an "Overrated" a lot more than a "Troll" Moderation in reference to a post that basically likens Bush to E.T.
But that is the delicate nature of politics. One man's laughter is another man's offended ego, which is one of the many reason's I dare not touch politics on anything more than a humorous tone.
Speaking of humor, I have a new Freak. Don't know who I offended or how. But you know, those are the limitations of the system, you just know someone either hates you outright or disagrees with what you have to say. It would be nice to have like one or two lines of text that point out what the change in sentiment is. You know kind of like, "this post made me feel I had to go out of my way to publicly declare my dislike for you".
Such is life. You live you learn, you laugh at something that will make someone angry at you, then it's time to hit the shower.
PDO 1.2.1 has been released. This minor release fixes an apparent bug with the
PDO, an open source python module for interfacing with RDBMS (SQL
databases), has now reached 1.2.0! PDO provides an object oriented API,
similar to that of ADO or JDBC, to python developers. PDO features column
access by name. This new release adds support for the cx_Oracle, DB2 and
adodbapi modules, allowing users to use PDO with a variety of database
systems. 9 different DBAPI modules are now supported, allowing for PDO to
be used with almost any RDBMS. Additional features, such as query
parameters, have also been added in this release, as well as the usual
bug-fixes.
PDO is released under a BSD style license.
PDO supports the following DBAPI python modules and databases:
MySQLdb (supports MySQL)
PySQLite (SQLite)
pgdb (PostgreSQL)
kinterbasdb (Firebird, Interbase)
mxODBC (Many)
pyDB2 (IBM's DB/2)
cx_Oracle (Oracle)
adodbapi (windows only - any RDBMS with an OLE DB provider or ODBC driver)
As we move forward in this series we will be adding further functionality
and support. Community support and feedback is appreciated so that we can make
PDO as useful as possible.
Downloads for Python Database Objects are available on SourceForge.Net
or for more information please visit pdo.neurokode.com.
We have released Python Database Objects 1.1.0. This fairly stable test release features support for various databases through mxODBC. Also in this release we have added more functionality through verious functions like move() and moveto(), which allow for dynamic access to records within the resultset.
Further releases in the 1.1 series are planed with even more database support. Community feedback is always appreciated as it helps make PDO even more useful.
One of the developers for PDO has added further support for kinterbasedb (firebird, interbase) into our robust Database Tool, "Python Database Objects (PDO)". For those unfamiliar with PDO:
As released previously: Python Database Objects (PDO) provides an easy to use Object Oriented API for database developers. PDO utilizes DB-API modules for database access, but allows for a Common Object Oriented API across RDBMS. Thus, PDO can be thought of as a 'wrapper' around the DB-API and database specific modules.
So at this point PDO Now Supports:
Along with the addition of kinterbasedb a few other changes have been brought in:
Ok, for the links:
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
