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Thanks for the positive input and advice, Nicolas. I'm still experimenting with the idea and will let you know when I've figured out how to do it successfully.
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Keith Richard's Life, only read a little of it so far but fascinating book...everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
Went to pick up some books on Python and Linux/Ubuntu bur the Python book was $70 and I was too cheap and there were no good Linux/Ubuntu books. We live in a small southern town where there are no real book stores so we had to drive 45 mins. to Hilton Head where there's a Barnes and Nobel but evidently the ritzy titsy folk over there don't read those kind of books because the selection was almost nil, but you could buy 142 versions of the bible or 642 books on how to take care of your finances.
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I've had real good luck using www.biblio.com, but mainly for older publications (out of print stuff). In recent years Amazon has been often able to beat their pricing, but if you can wait for one their often X% off email offers, they become a good option. The books can come from any where in the world, so you may have to wait a few weeks to receive it at times.
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Thanks for the link. I've been getting used books off Amazon the last few times I've ordered they are cheap and although some are an edition older they still pertain to what I'm doing. Same with software, I got TurboCAD for $17 as opposed to $100 because it was Version 18 and they are up to 20 but for what I needed it works just fine.
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You could buy a cheaper book on a better programming language: Programming in Lua[^].
However Keith's life is probably more fascinating.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CPallini wrote: However Keith's life is probably more fascinating.
I'm just barely into it but it's one of those I can't put down.
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Hi Mike,
Just curious: which Python book is US $70 ?
thanks, Bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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This one[^] but they've reduced the price, I guess they just hadn't done it in store yet. With tax it would have been right at $70, although it looked like a pretty thorough book.
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I do not know if this site[^] is legit, but it has a free PDF download of that book.
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It downloaded fine and after scanning it over looks like it's complete.
Thanks for the link will add it the list of books I now have on hand and ordered to read.
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Just watched the movie, quite like it!
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Was it as good as the book?
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no book based movies are as good as the books. (*)
(*) I am certain there are certain exceptions
I'd rather be phishing!
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Quote: (*) I am certain there all the Kubrick movies are certain exceptions.
FFY
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Maximilien wrote: no book based movies are as good as the books. (*)
(*) I am certain there are certain exceptions
You'd make a good manager.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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LotR
let the flame war commence
(Seriously though, at least the first movie is much better than the first section of the book – Tolkien badly needed an editor.)
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Maximilien wrote: no book based movies are as goodthe same as the books. (*)
Fixed that for you. Quite a number of movies are as good as the books, albeit sometimes quite different. The Lord of the Rings and first three Bourne movies come to mind.
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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I read them so long ago.. can't remember..
But I just ordered the series for my Kindle!
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Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
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I have posted a question in Q&A, but while investigating the problem to add the info into the question, I came across the following error message;
CRITICAL **: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
What the hell is the significance of a whale in Linux?
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I remember twitter having used it, maybe that is why I thought it odd it appeared in the Linux.
Good story behind it though. Ta.
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Since I'm not a Linux User I had to search the net also and stumbled across this.
http://linux-commands-examples.com/gnome-session[^]
from the several other pages that i have seen I would think that could be like a first chance exception that was handled by the system.
Or that no error message was able to pop up.
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Cheers, this post was about the origins of the whale, not about the problem
But thanks anyway, i'll take a look.
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ok, most of the post had to do with twitters Fail Whale.
I don't Twitter either.
But as far as linux is concerned more reading makes it appear to be more like a windws bluescreen,only it may give options to recover.
to figure out what caused the error you may need to read the lines reading up to that message.
sort of like this one.
http://zeroset.mnim.org/2012/05/23/ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-gnome-shell-does-not-start/[^]
I had found that other link that Pablo Aliskevicius found but didn't think that was what you were looking for.
Cheers have a good day.
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