Comments for Steven Harms' Blog http://www.sharms.org/blog Technology, Linux, Life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:35:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Stimulus package by j http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/02/27/stimulus-package/comment-page-1/#comment-6329 j Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:35:45 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=358#comment-6329 To me it does make sense that if transportation was targetted as being part of the stimulus package, then a lot of good things can happen. With transportation being built, such as new highways, light-rails, ect, hundreds of jobs can be created. People will be paid and will start to pump that money they earn back into the economy. Also, with more public transportation, individuals will be ale to get to work in a cheaper fashion and will have extra money to spend on whatever they want. To me it does make sense that if transportation was targetted as being part of the stimulus package, then a lot of good things can happen. With transportation being built, such as new highways, light-rails, ect, hundreds of jobs can be created. People will be paid and will start to pump that money they earn back into the economy. Also, with more public transportation, individuals will be ale to get to work in a cheaper fashion and will have extra money to spend on whatever they want.

]]> Comment on Etc by Rick http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/05/13/etc/comment-page-1/#comment-6322 Rick Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:16:03 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=439#comment-6322 I ordered from the store and load up all machines I can with this powerhouse OS. I use it at work at the shop its great. I ordered from the store and load up all machines I can with this powerhouse OS. I use it at work at the shop its great.

]]> Comment on Looking for someone to give me a hand by jezra http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/02/26/looking-for-someone-to-give-me-a-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-6297 jezra Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:35:19 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=695#comment-6297 Where was this offer 4 weeks ago? 14 nights in a cheap hotel shouldn't set someone back more than a grand. It could be a sweet working vacation for the right person. Where was this offer 4 weeks ago?

14 nights in a cheap hotel shouldn’t set someone back more than a grand. It could be a sweet working vacation for the right person.

]]> Comment on Looking for someone to give me a hand by Brett Alton http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/02/26/looking-for-someone-to-give-me-a-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-6296 Brett Alton Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:38:51 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=695#comment-6296 Too bad I'm in Toronto :( Too bad I’m in Toronto :(

]]> Comment on Looking for someone to give me a hand by sharms http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/02/26/looking-for-someone-to-give-me-a-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-6295 sharms Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:28:05 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=695#comment-6295 Yeah we need someone with a lot of Linux / programming experience, so we are hoping to get someone at that rate. So $100/hr it is Yeah we need someone with a lot of Linux / programming experience, so we are hoping to get someone at that rate. So $100/hr it is

]]> Comment on Looking for someone to give me a hand by Victor http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/02/26/looking-for-someone-to-give-me-a-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-6294 Victor Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:52:32 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=695#comment-6294 $100/h? For two weeks? That's 8,000 dollars! Are you serious? You sure you don't mean $10/h? :) $100/h? For two weeks? That’s 8,000 dollars! Are you serious? You sure you don’t mean $10/h? :)

]]> Comment on Fedora 11 vs. Ubuntu 9.04 by Daniel Gaillour http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/07/16/fedora-11-vs-ubuntu-9-04/comment-page-1/#comment-6278 Daniel Gaillour Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:52:59 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=491#comment-6278 Well, I am a new Linux user coming from the windows world and have recently tried both distributions. My windows background: IT with about 10 years experience supporting windows platform apps. I first installed Ubuntu about 3 months ago and had a good first experience with the OS. All the devices were detected and performed from the start on a machine that I built myself. I still have audio issues that require a reboot to fix periodically. Nearly every install or upgrade that I attempted in Ubuntu had great user support online and good instruction on command lines to use. I found that the community was friendlier that most Linux distros (which often come across as condescending and arrogant towards everyone else that is not running their distro - for example...read some of the comments from other users above) I know, I am a Windows guy, what do I know. Ubuntu just did not have that going on. After running Ubuntu for a week I decided that I like it so much that I permanently switched to it as my main desktop OS. After researching the RedHat line of OS's I decided to give Fedora a whirl. The box I chose to use was shipped originally with Mandrake, so I figured that the OS should find all the drivers without much problem. Wrong. Video, audio and network cards not found. Nvidia video, AC97 audio and 3Com network card. Pretty standard stuff. The menu options were far less usable compared to the Ubuntu setup too. Since I am already happy with Ubuntu I decided that I did not want to spend too much time just trying to get the system functional using Fedora and installed Ubuntu 9.10 over the existing Fedora installation. The reload took about 30 minutes. Video works, audio works and so does the network card. To Linux diehards, Ubuntu may not be the best Linux distro, but it will likely be more successful in generating converts. In fact, I actually decided to give Ubuntu a try just because a low level user that I support at my job bought a Dell mini with Ubuntu and was successful in using it and liked it enough to consider dumping Windows to go Linux. My thoughts were, "If this user can do it, there must be something to it". Anyway, that has been my experience and I am looking forward to delving deeper to Linux now and actually have had my desire to stay in IT re-kindled by working in the Linux side of life. Well, I am a new Linux user coming from the windows world and have recently tried both distributions. My windows background: IT with about 10 years experience supporting windows platform apps. I first installed Ubuntu about 3 months ago and had a good first experience with the OS. All the devices were detected and performed from the start on a machine that I built myself. I still have audio issues that require a reboot to fix periodically. Nearly every install or upgrade that I attempted in Ubuntu had great user support online and good instruction on command lines to use. I found that the community was friendlier that most Linux distros (which often come across as condescending and arrogant towards everyone else that is not running their distro – for example…read some of the comments from other users above) I know, I am a Windows guy, what do I know. Ubuntu just did not have that going on. After running Ubuntu for a week I decided that I like it so much that I permanently switched to it as my main desktop OS. After researching the RedHat line of OS’s I decided to give Fedora a whirl. The box I chose to use was shipped originally with Mandrake, so I figured that the OS should find all the drivers without much problem. Wrong. Video, audio and network cards not found. Nvidia video, AC97 audio and 3Com network card. Pretty standard stuff. The menu options were far less usable compared to the Ubuntu setup too. Since I am already happy with Ubuntu I decided that I did not want to spend too much time just trying to get the system functional using Fedora and installed Ubuntu 9.10 over the existing Fedora installation. The reload took about 30 minutes. Video works, audio works and so does the network card. To Linux diehards, Ubuntu may not be the best Linux distro, but it will likely be more successful in generating converts. In fact, I actually decided to give Ubuntu a try just because a low level user that I support at my job bought a Dell mini with Ubuntu and was successful in using it and liked it enough to consider dumping Windows to go Linux. My thoughts were, “If this user can do it, there must be something to it”. Anyway, that has been my experience and I am looking forward to delving deeper to Linux now and actually have had my desire to stay in IT re-kindled by working in the Linux side of life.

]]> Comment on Creating graphs in python by Prasad http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/05/01/creating-graphs-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-6271 Prasad Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:36:40 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=433#comment-6271 I've used CairoPlot from the devel branch (https://code.launchpad.net/cairoplot) and it includes support for legends as well !. I’ve used CairoPlot from the devel branch (https://code.launchpad.net/cairoplot) and it includes support for legends as well !.

]]> Comment on Python magazine customer service by Christian http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/01/08/python-magazine-customer-service/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 Christian Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:33:17 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=296#comment-6265 Does somebody know what happens to pythonmagazine.com...? Does somebody know what happens to pythonmagazine.com…?

]]> Comment on Explaining a simple argument by goodmami http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/02/03/explaining-a-simple-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-6259 goodmami Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:05 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=691#comment-6259 nnonix: you're right that it's unlikely, but Sharms is right that there is a valid ambiguity in the sentence. Just because an ambiguous sentence has a preferential parse does not mean the unlikely parse is not possible without certain assumptions (by "assumptions" I think you mean the discourse context). That's my 2c through my linguist-colored-glasses. nnonix: you’re right that it’s unlikely, but Sharms is right that there is a valid ambiguity in the sentence. Just because an ambiguous sentence has a preferential parse does not mean the unlikely parse is not possible without certain assumptions (by “assumptions” I think you mean the discourse context).

That’s my 2c through my linguist-colored-glasses.

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