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Comment on The New Site by Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:26:53 +0000

I just can`t find a link to the new site. Am I missing it somwhere? Orange is great. If only I could check it out. :)

Comment on Django Book Dump by Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:32:53 +0000

Thanks for this – worked perfectly!

For those that don’t know, copy/paste the above script into a file called (for example) dumpbook.sh

Place dumpbook.sh in a convenient directory – this directory will become the parent directory of the book, as the script creates a directory called ‘django_book’ in the same directory as the script

Next, chmod +x dumpbook.sh

Then finally, ./dumpbook.sh

The script will run and download the book into ./django_book/

Navigate to ./django_book/index.html with your browser (using the local file system) and enjoy!

- Dave

Comment on Guadalajara by Dr. E. Moreno

Dr. E. Moreno — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:50:14 +0000

Hi Mike,
Enjoyed reading about your trip to Guadalajara. Those cylinders on top of every roof in the city are not water filtration systems; most people in Guadalajara could not afford such a thing. They are water tanks. The city’s water system does not provide enough pressure to ensure that the water reaches the second and third floors of houses and buildings with sufficient presure–hence the universal need for a combination of an electric pump and a tank (and gravity does the rest). When I grew up in Guadalajara in the 1960s, middle calss people would drink bottled water (distributted in 6 Gal. glass bottles house to house by several drinking-water companies). Today, the city claims the water is safe for drinking. This is true in theory. In practice though, such a claim does not mean much, because the water stays stored in the water tanks you saw on top of roofs for at least a few hours –and some times for days, if no one is draining the pipes. Even a few hours of water stillness in the tank on the roof (heated by powerful solar radiation) are enough to give a chance to E. Colli and Salmonella bacteria to grow and reproduce and contaminate the water in practically any tank exposed to the exterior and heated by the sun. A big percent of the working-class population have developed some sort of immunity to these bacteria, but still suffers from one or two infections per year, which they think is no big deal. Most visitors to Guadalajara who come from the temperate zones of the planet have been instructed to avoid drinking tap water. However, many visitors from the North still get infected because they do not realize that adding ice to their bottled drinks is not safe. In many cases, ice is not made from bottled or filtered water. There’s the secret. Back in the mid 80s I went back to visit in Guadalajara from Kansas. I went with my girlfriend and I admonished her not to drink anything with ice. Girls from Kansas need a lot of ice, though, and eventually she ‘forgot’ to specifically ask for drinks with no ice. After two enjoyable weeks in good health, she got infected and ended up dehidrated in the ER. After she recovered, she went back to drinking water and sodas with ice in every restaurant and home she went. But now she had acquired immunity and did not get infected again. She had payed her dues.

Enrique

Comment on Commute Mode DeathMatch: Sacramento -> Stanford by Mike D.

Mike D. — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:47:35 +0000

Wow. You really should apply to the Google Maps team. =)

Comment on Trac 0.11 Auto-Install on DreamHost by jazz

jazz — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:28:06 +0000

is there something broken?? I cant get it to work.

Comment on Radiator Revenge: Acura Integra ‘91 GS 1.8L 5MT by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:41:40 +0000

I got my radiator for 70 tax and all new delivered

Comment on Django Book Dump by Buckley

Buckley — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:38:22 +0000

The version of sed installed on OSX (at least the version for Snow Leopard), does not support the syntax above (I was receiving error messages for ‘extra characters at the end of d command’). To get around this OSX users should use gsed instead of sed.

To install gsed via macports use the following command: ’sudo port install gsed’

Comment on Working the Polls by Doug S.

Doug S. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:44 +0000

ROFL! These pix are frighteningly accurate! I totally agree with the age thing.The average age of my fellow judges is way up there. (I’m 39 and have been a poll judge in SMC for about three years.) The advantage to that is listening to neighborhood gossip all day. :)

PS As far as high school students goes, whoever came up with that idea is a genius!

Comment on Django Book Dump by Rasmus

Rasmus — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:40:52 +0000

I also found this via a google search and I must say it works splendid! Train rides will be so much more fun/educating :D
For OSX (Leopard) users: SEQ isn’t included in os x, so you need to get “gseq” from the “coreutils” package at macports.
(sudo port install coreutils)
After this, you can either change all seq’s to gseq, or make a symbolic link like this: sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/gseq /opt/local/bin/seq

Comment on Posted Warnings by David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:50:43 +0000

You continue to be the smartest person I know.