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Comment Re:funny. (Score 1) 246

I'll second this. I'll even use VCS for a team of one.

Ditto. And the VCS I'd use (and have used) for a single person project is Fossil (Available at: https://www.fossil-scm.org)

Why use this?

It's a single file both for the executable (you don't install it, you just place it on your path) and the repository (just a single file to keep track of and to back up).

It's used by (and designed/built by) the person who came up with SQLite, so it's not going anywhere, it should still be actively maintained in the future.

Besides version control (which is distributed, like Git and Mercurial), Fossil supports supports bug tracking, wiki, and technotes as part of the repository (available via a browser when launching Fossil's UI mode).

Comment Use a graph database? (Score 1) 134

From:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/07/why-choose-a-graph-database.html

"Instead of de-normalizing for performance, you would normalize interesting attributes into their own nodes, making it much easier to move, filter and aggregate along these lines. Content and asset management, job-finding, recommendations based on weighted relationships to relevant attribute-nodes are some use cases that fit this model very well."

An example of this is/was FreeBase:
https://www.freebase.com/
(Look at the query examples.)

Comment Re:VirtualBox?? why not KVM-qemu? (Score 5, Informative) 233

You would also need a different server license for each old version of IE to emulate

Nope, IE VMs for testing are free....

Official VM's for testing IE versions are available from Microsoft:
http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/

From the webpage:
"Download virtual machines: Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 using virtual machines you download and manage locally"

Comment Re:stupid article (Score 1) 485

Ah, but you're assuming that you know the upgrade _actually started_, I didn't know that the upgrade was even attempted until _today_ (July 30, two days after first attempt) .

It's even less intuitive than mentioned because I have to look at Windows Update history to see if an attempt to upgrade was actually made by Windows Update.

Also, I tried the mentioned fix related to deleting all the downloaded files, and it failed again.

Comment Re:stupid article (Score 2) 485

Ok, I have actual hard data from my Window Update history. (Note that the upgrade was available on July 28)

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/28/2015 3:16 AM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code C1900208
Update type: Important
Install the next version of Windows.

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/28/2015 7:10 PM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80240020
Update type: Important

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/28/2015 8:07 PM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80240020

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/28/2015 8:08 PM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80240020
Update type: Important
Install the next version of Windows.

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/29/2015 11:36 AM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80240020
Update type: Important
Install the next version of Windows.

Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
Installation date: 7/30/2015 9:29 AM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80240020
Update type: Important
Install the next version of Windows.

So for the next Slashdot Poll:
How far did you get installing Windows 10:
- Windows 10?
- Never got the Update Notification Tray Icon App.
- Bombed on starting update.
- Bombed on downloading update.
- Bombed on OS Installation.
- Bombed on driver installation.
- Bombed on reinstalling applications from previous OS version.
- Wiped machine and did a clean installation of OS.
- Huh? Works on my machine!
- I hate Windows, you insensitive clod!

Comment Point them to EEVBlog and 'Talking Electronics'... (Score 1) 175

EEVBlog:
An off-the-cuff Video Blog about Electronics Engineering, for engineers, hobbyists, enthusiasts, hackers and Makers
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog

And the person that inspired the EEVBlog Guy to get into electronics has a _LOT_ of free materials on his site:

'Talking Electronics'
http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

Comment Re:Application installers suck. (Score 1) 324

Faster method:

http://boxstarter.org/package/stellarium

From ("http://boxstarter.org/WebLauncher"):

Installing several packages
While often install scripts may be complex and the information on this page will show you how to capture such scripts in a gist, if you simply want to install a list of chocolatey packages, you can use this URL:

http://boxstarter.org/package/sysinternals,fiddler4,itunes

Launch this from IE and the Boxstarter launcher should install and run. Note that this will not work on Chrome or Firefox unless you have a "Click-Once" extension.

Comment Try the 'Dasher' text input method (Score 1) 1

On:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/SpecialNeeds.html

It says:
  Special Needs

Dasher is highly appropriate for computer users who are unable to use a two-handed keyboard. One-handed users and users with no hands love Dasher. The only ability that is required is sight.

Dasher can be driven using a mouse, a trackpad, a touchscreen, a rollerball, or a joystick - any two-dimensional pointing device that can take over the role of a mouse. A foot mouse and a head mouse are additional options.

It can also be driven using an gazetracker, giving a completely-hands-free writing system. After one hour's practice, some users are able to write at more than 20 words per minute using Dasher with an gazetracker. Experienced users reach 30 words per minute. We got these results with the Quick Glance gazetracker from EyeTech Digital Systems.

For a movie demonstrating Dasher with an gazetracker, see the demonstration page.

Compared to an gazetracker + on-screen keyboard, Dasher is

        faster
        more accurate
        more fun

Comment Try 'SmartOS' from the makers of Node.js (Score 1) 168

You can see it here: http://smartos.org/

This OS allows for ZFS+DTrace+Zones+KVM

In the regards to the original poster, I would use this since the ZFS file system would protect against silent data corruption. And (Zones/KVM) would allow for Virtual Machines to be used as part of the cloud.

I'm actually thing of using this for my dad's photo collection.

Comment Re:Accurate? So it's curved? (Score 1) 67

After doing some testing, it appears the map scale is around 1 block equals 1/2 acre.

You can see this by teleporting to 10545 100 24400 which drops you on the south side of Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_%28lake%29_)

The lake is around 80 blocks of water and is reported to be 40 acres big in Wikipedia.

Also, the map is is just a single layer of blocks covering over stone blocks.

Comment If you have an Android Device, use this app.... (Score 5, Informative) 58

It's call Mobile Observatory:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kreappdev.astroid&hl=en

And right now it's telling me:
1. When the shower will be next above the horizon, and which direction that will be.
2. When the shower will reach it's peak, and which direction and how high above the horizon it will be.

So here's the app's blurb from Google Play:

You want to know if the next lunar eclipse is visible from your location or when the next bright comet is visible? You would like to be notified by your smart phone the next time, Jupiter and the Moon meet in the sky? You want to know what the blazing bright object in the evening sky is? You want to be always up-to-date which celestial events are visible from your location? Then this app is a must-have for you!
The app does not only include a live, zoomable sky map telling you what sky object you are looking at but provides you with loads of detailed extra information on stars, planets, deep sky objects, meteor showers, comets, asteroids, lunar and solar eclipses as well as detailed ephemeris of all included sky objects and an interactive top-down view of the Solar System. All that in just one app!
Main Features
- Zoomable sky map showing stars, planets, asteroids, and more (above and below the horizon)
- Interactive top-down view of the Solar System
- Live mode (point device on sky and get information on what you see)
- Calendar showing detailed descriptions of celestial events
- Push celestial events to your phone's calendar and set a reminder alarm
- Rise, set, and transit times for any object
- Position of any object in the sky (altitude and direction)
- Twilight times, length of day
- Bright Star Catalog (~9000 stars) with detailed information
- More than 400 000 additional stars from the PPM Star Catalog (Android 3.1 or higher required)
- 2500 selected NGC objects (galaxies, clusters, ...)
- Messier Catalog (110 objects) complete with images
- Caldwell Catalog (110 objects) complete with images
- Hidden Treasures Catalog (109 objects) complete with images
- Meteor streams (begin, maximum, hourly rate, ...)
- Lunar and solar eclipses information
- Lunar librations, ascending node, maximum declination
- Bright comets (automatically selected according to the date)
- Dwarf planets: The five known dwarf planets
- Minor planets: bright, near Earth, trans-Neptune (more than 10000 in the database)
- Update database online: download up-to-date orbital elements of comets and minor planets
- Moon phases, the apparent view of the sun and planets
- Current image of the Sun and sunspot number
- Automatically generated visibility report for any object
- Intuitive User Interface: quickly find what you are looking for
- Widget with rise & set times of the Sun and Moon
- Automatic location determination from the mobile network or GPS
- Select a location from a built-in database or online via Google Maps
- Choose any time and date
- Detailed ephemeris, visibility information of all objects
- Dates of conjunctions between any object with planets or the Moon
- 3D-view of the Moon and the planets
- Accurate calculations for dates between 1900 and 2100

Comment The 'Maestro I' - 1975! (Score 1) 181

The 1975 article (in German):
http://www.computerwoche.de/a/interaktives-programmieren-als-systems-schlager,1205421

Google Translate:
"New to PET is the online resource management deck with a kind of list management. The next step of development is certainly the effect that the list is no longer printed, but will be converted so that only one error list is written - so you can watch the program.

Pioneering is the interactive programming."

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