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I would like to know:
- What's the difference between Git and Mercurial?
- What are the pros and cons of using them?
- How good is the Windows support for both tools?
Some time back google did an analysis of Git and Mercurial. You can read it online on
You may want to read this question on stackoverflow:
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
First, either one is going to be a huge step up from older systems - there's really not a bad option.
Git is a little harder to use but noticeably faster and arguably more powerful.
Mercurial is friendlier and - thanks to TortoiseHg - much easier to use on Windows.
In either case you have the option of excellent hosting (GitHub, Bitbucket, eventually Google Code), lots of guides and migration tools from other systems. If you need Windows users, I'd recommend Mercurial - otherwise it'd probably make sense to try both and see which one you prefer. I find Mercurial more comfortable but Git isn't that far behind and has some scary-cool features (i.e.rebase -i).
Git and Mercurial have more in common than they differ. Both are excellent.
I use Mercurial and have no experience with Git. From friends that use Git I hear that it takes some getting used to, but after that it's awesome.
Windows support... I believe there are GUI front ends for both. Mercurial is written in Python, so no problems there.
There are numerous detailed DVCS studies out there (see links in the answers above). I liked this recent blog: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/the-real-difference-between-mercurial-and-git/ and quite agree with it. The major plus for git today (beginning of 2010) is probably github! :-)
Unless you have very peculiar requirements, I would say that for 99% of the time both are very good at doing what you need.
I heard that Git windows support wasn't good (i.e., requires Cygwin which most windows dev do not have) but after seeing a demo of TortoiseGit I would say it's not true anymore.
Also I heard that you can obliterate files/dirs in Git easily and not in Mercurial but I just found that with
In summary differences tend to get smaller: have a look at both and choose which ever, they are both good. If you already know subversion for example, Mercurial might be easier to handle as the similar commands do match more than in Git.
See above.
Hope it'll help.
I like Distributed Revision Control Systems: Git vs. Mercurial vs. SVN:
is a series of tools just like unix and contains a few layers such as it's plumbing and porcelin where as mercurial is more of a single tool ala svn.
I also found mecurial to work better on windows when I started to learn both. To be fair git for windows is pretty stable now.
Here's an article about distributed SCMs by Eric Sink:
For a sysadmin, I believe backwards compatibility, stability, robustness, security, and backup are important topics then it comes to deploying a new tool. I can give you some information about Mercurial:
One major win for Git is Github and the way it crosses source-hosting with a social-network to change the culture of your software project.
Although other dcvss are probably comparable technically, github looks to me like a real step forward culturally.
Found Distributed SCM in GNOME -> http://live.gnome.org/DistributedSCM
For a biased comparison, see Why Git is Better than X


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Without killing yourself or others?
The best way to open a brown hairy coconut, not a fresh green one (assuming you are right handed, I imagine that sinister people can reverse the instructions, but I've not tried it).
First image the coconut is a head, everything is related to this, so the visualization is important. The three holes are the eyes and mouth of the face. They naturally form an eyes/mouth thing. you'll see that it only really looks like a eyes/mouth one way up. stare into its eyes (this bit is not so important, but I like to do it).
Now hold it in your left palm, under its chin/where the neck would be, with the 3 holes in the coconut arranged like the eyes and mouth of a face looking out to the right, mouth below the eyes, with the hair pointing up. There will be a slight 'seam' running between the eyes and back over the top of the head.
Then take a large, heavy knife and using the FLAT side of the knife (not the sharp edge), a meat cleaver works best, strike the coconut hard across the coconut's 'forehead', where its hair line would be, aiming to impact exactly on the 'seam'. You might need a few goes to get the crack right open, but sometimes it can be done in a single strike.
Get this right and it will crack in a straight line from ear to ear along the hair line. Works a treat. And usually you can use the shell for something as you get a clean break.
Once you have the first crack you can either prise apart or rotate the coconut in your hand and hit it a couple more times on the uncracked parts, following the same line as the first crack, to completely separate the two pieces.
Alternatively you can stick it into the oven for 15 mins, @400F, after which the shell should have started to crack. Then you can use the tool of choice to finish the cracking, rolling pin, hammer, wrench, flat of knife another coconut, whatever. But where is the fun in that?
The easiest way is to use oven. I find that 190C/375F is convenient.
Before placing it in the oven you should drain the water from the coconut. Drilling the 2 of the 3 holes with a hammer + screwdriver works fine.
After removing from the oven after about 15 minutes use a hammer to easily crack open the coconut. If it's not easily cracked, let rest for a few more minutes.
The brute force way is with a machete :) However, you can also do it with a small handsaw (which is useful if you want to use the shell for something - they make cool hiding places for fishes in an aquarium). Otherwise, you can split it with a wide chisel and a hammer.
If you're just looking to get the milk out, poke two of the "eyes" and drain. Don't laugh, but find a concrete floor and quickly bang the coconut and it will split into fairly even pieces. Be careful because the edges can get sharp....
Along the circumference of the coconut, draw line with water. This creates a fissure line. Then hit hard on this line with a small rock or equivalent & Voila! Dont believe me? Try it!
Here's a video of how to do it:
When I was a child, my father would bring coconuts home. He would puncture the eyes and drain the juice, then my siblings and I would run up to a second-story window and drop the coconut onto the asphalt. Worked pretty well.
Since you didn't say you want to retain the coconut water, just use a big ol' axe!

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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Change in hostfile behavior
From: Tim Mattox (timattox_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-28 12:44:57
My only concern is how will this interact with PLPA.
Say two Open MPI jobs each use "half" the cores (slots) on a
particular node... how would they be able to bind themselves to
a disjoint set of cores? I'm not asking you to solve this Ralph, I'm
just pointing it out so we can maybe warn users that if both jobs sharing
a node try to use processor affinity, we don't make that magically work well,
and that we would expect it to do quite poorly.
I could see disabling paffinity and/or warning if it was enabled for
one of these "fractional" nodes.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Per an earlier telecon, I have modified the hostfile behavior slightly to
> allow hostfiles to subdivide allocations.
> Briefly: given an allocation, we allow users to specify --hostfile on a
> per-app_context basis. In this mode, the hostfile info is used to filter the
> nodes that will be used for that app_context. However, the prior
> implementation only filtered the nodes themselves - i.e., it was a binary
> filter that allowed you to include or exclude an entire node.
> The change now allows you to include a specified #slots for a given node as
> opposed to -all- slots from that node. You are limited to the #slots
> included in the original allocation. I just realized that I hadn't output a
> warning if you attempt to violate this condition - will do so shortly.
> Rather than just abort if this happens, I set the allocation to that of the
> original - please let me know if you would prefer it to abort.
> If you have interest in this behavior, please check it out and let me know
> if this meets needs.
> Ralph
> _______________________________________________
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In for two.
got 4 for $28.58.
wife thought it was a great deal.
@rainking1978: @dh4645: 48 rolls of paper towels?! Even I cant hoard that much! Unless you're a prepper... :-)
1 ply ain't that good of a paper towel
@bnbsouthworth I figured it is non perishable. And I wanted the extra $5 off...hahaha!
@commodog: One time an old man asked me for two-ply at the quickstop.
Wow, 36 rolls for 24 bucks! Hey, I have four dogs, papertowels are my life!
I bought 2 AND got an extra 3% off....
I got these at Staples for $5.99 two weeks ago. I ordered 3 packages of them then, and wish I had ordered more. They do go pretty fast, but was a deal I couldn't pass on.
At the time it showed as $7.99 initially (as it does now), but since I have a Black Staples Reward Card, the extra $2 came off when I logged in and entered my Rewards #.
@mkentosh: So you got them for $7.75 instead of $7.99? Hmmm, I wonder why. The person above who ordered a quantity of 4 and used the $5 coupon appears to have paid $7.99, although I don't know their tax rate...
Just tried to order these, said they were out of stock :(
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What ever happened to "action at a distance" in entangled quantum states, i.e. the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky (EPR) paradox? I thought they argued that in principle one could communicate faster than speed of light with entangled, separated states when one wave function gets collapsed. I imagine this paradox has been resolved, but I don't know the reference.
It's not possible to communicate faster than light using entangled states. All you get out of entanglement is a correlation between the values of two measurements.; the entanglement doesn't allow you to influence the value measured at another location in a non-causal way. In other words, the correlation only becomes evident after combining the results from the measurements afterwards, for which you need classical information transfer.
For example, consider the thought experiment described on the Wikipedia page for the EPR paradox: a neutral pion decays into an electron and a positron, emitting them in opposite directions and with opposite spins. However, the actual value of the spin is undetermined, so with respect to a spin measurement along a chosen axis, the electron and positron are in the state
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(|e^+ \uparrow\rangle|e^- \downarrow\rangle + |e^+ \downarrow\rangle|e^- \uparrow\rangle\right)$$
Suppose you measure the spin of the positron along this chosen axis. If you measure $\uparrow$, then the state will collapse to $|e^+ \uparrow\rangle|e^- \downarrow\rangle$, which determines that the spin of the electron must be $\downarrow$; and vice versa. So if you and the other person (who is measuring the electron spin) get together and compare measurements afterwards, you'll always find that you've made opposite measurements for the spins. But there is no way to control which value you measure for the spin of the positron, which is what you'd need to do to send information. As long as the other person doesn't know what the result of your measurement is, he can't attach any informational value to either result for his measurement.
Well, the problem in that paradox is that yes, one of the parties will measure the entangled particle to get the wave function collapsed and yes it will collapse for the other party. However, the other party will still have to measure the thing to learn what it is or has to wait for the initial party to send them a message telling what the wave function has collapsed to. The first method will result in a 50% +x and 50% -x(if it is spin you are measuring), as the wave function that collapsed can collapse to either one of these states. So the fact that the wave function collapsed does not really transfer any usable information to the other side. The second method is capped with the speed of light anyway.
Let's be more rigorous. No-signalling has been proven safely and shouldn't be worried about. Nevertheless, you'd notice that the point of EPR paper was to show that if quantum mechanics is considered to be a description of "reality", then it is "incomplete". There is an approach, such as in operationalism, to say quantum mechanics isn't meant to be a description of reality. It's a description of our knowledge of reality, due to Asher Peres. Another approach is to say we can give an ontological model of quantum theory using contextual hidden variables, such as the one in de Broglie-Bohm model. So conclusion: EPR argument hasn't been resolved if you mean it's gone! Because in fact orthodox quantum mechanics isn't a complete description of reality. However, it doesn't mean one can signal faster than light!
Some interesting extra information: There is an interesting paper which kind of analyses Einstein's argument. It bring historical facts that show Einstein didn't like the EPR and wrote another paper with the same title in correspondence with Schrödinger, and the one with Rosen and Podolsky was never reviewed by him.
This quotation is from a letter of Einstein to Schrödinger, dated June 19, 1935:
Update: A source of confusion in my answer has been pointed out by Marek. I'll try to clarify here: Scientific realism assumes there is an underlying objective reality which has attributes regardless of them being measured by an observer. One can suggest a model which ignores such reality and say "...there is no logical necessity for a realistic worldview to always be obtainable"(Fuchs and Peres, Physics Today 53 (3), 70-71.). On the other hand, one can offer an ontological model which in this case it can be located in 3 different category as in figure below:
I believe Einstein had in mind to show that quantum mechanics can't give a picture of type (a). Which was successful. Because, even if there is an underlying reality, quantum states can't sharply specify them by any means.
Everybody misses the point Einstein was trying to make, which makes it all the more remarkable that it's been 80 years since he was working on spooky action at a distance. The no signalling theorems mean nothing, and it's a shame that most answers simply site: no signalling, nothing spooky about it. Bell emphasized that his theorem could be quickly summarized as: there is non-locality. Guess what? Bell was very well aware of the no signalling theorems. The point is not that we can send signals, the point is that there is a signal sent by the photons themselves -- they have to be communicating. How else could they always coordinate their spins? Einstein's whole critique of quantum mechanics was that it needed to be like Bertleman's socks -- e.g. that the spins were already determined before the experiment, or else there would have to be a non-local communication to coordinate the spins. Einstein called it telepathy, and it's been proven by Bell.
If you don't think there's spooky action, then how do you explain that the spins are always coordinated? If you gave Alice and Bob each a quarter and separated them by a large distance and tasked them with choosing heads or tells, and they always came back to you with one choosing heads, the other choosing tails, what might you think? Maybe they talked to each other on a phone and coordinated their results?
Being silly, in the vein of the season, if you agreed before hand that if in David's example your colleague could open their christmas present on the other side of the world if their electron was spin up, and the same time they measured their electron you measured your positron as spin down, you now know they have opened their present, faster than the speed of light
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How do I get textmate to remember what project i had open last and reopen it automatically?
Right now I have to select it from the menu.
By default TextMate should open the last open project or document - but it can be switched on/off - maybe it is off by you ??
Here is how to switch the feature on/off: http://manual.macromates.com/en/expert_preferences#oakdisablesessionrestore
This means that you should run the above line in a Terminal - with a 0 instead of 1
This command allowed me to re-open a project (I'm running Mountain Lion):
TextMate needs to be closed when you issue Terminal commands, otherwise they will not work.
See this page for more information.
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I just played a very exciting game against Charlton in the FA Cup 1st round (2012/13 season)
Billericay 4 - 2 Charlton
Charlton is 5th in League 1, so I'm very happy with the result
I just played a very exciting game against Charlton in the FA Cup 1st round (2012/13 season)
Billericay 4 - 2 Charlton
Charlton is 5th in League 1, so I'm very happy with the result
HENDON DONS PRESEASON 2014/15: League 1
All my guys want crazy contracts ugh. I also fudged up and gave a few guys new contracts for a month. That was dumb of me. Oh well.
New Budget: 240k/transfer, 38.5k per week/wage
DC-ANDY THOMPSON-15/18 scout good EPL DC-6'4 monster.-18 years old. $1900/wk 3 years*note signed before promotion wage increases so this is more now*
DM/MC-Chris Garner-15/18 scout good EPL DM. Super fast, good finisher also.(16 pace/13 finish)-18 years old-$1600/week 3 years*see note above*
MC-Michael O'Connor-$1900/week 2 years ok seriously last MC I'll sign. SO loaded there now.
MR-Marek Gancarczyk-$1700/week 1 year.
ML/MR-Jake Thomson-$1900/week 1 year.
DL-Mike Cestor-$1300/1 year.
DL-Scott Laird-$2300/1 year.
DC-Ian Thornton-$8/4 years now then, $200/3 years- on August 7, 2015. 15 year old 6 foot 6, already 12 marking/13 tackling. wee
League Cup 1st round draw @ L1 Charlton-meh.
Lost all the friendlies since I only scheduled EPL teams. Kept a few games reasonable.
What I want this season:
Ideally top 2, but top 6 would be fine. Promoting is again key here, this year I am under my wage budget. :O. Ofcourse I only have 19 1st team players so any injury will be pretty big.
I really feel like i've brought in some good defenders, and the only position I didn't touch(and the only one that had multiple guys hurt last year) were my forwards, but I know they're good enough as long as they stay healthy.
Looks like I'm going to get relegated in my first season
This is hard. 9 defeats in a row, no wins in 14
I am on holiday now. Last year i got to 2030 and was in the PL and then the game crashed.
Guess who's going to The Bridge!
Drew 1-1 with Chelsea at home
Evesham United - 2011/2012
Restarted with Evesham, due to their lowly rep of 600 and the fact my Weymouth game went kind of sour. I just didn't like where we had headed and wanted to start from scratch and build.
And boy did I do just that. I think we've all figured out by now that Fagan and Komora are simply stunning early buys in this game as a LLM. In the BSN, they were both top 2 goal scorers in the league.
Komora had 39 goals in 40 apps!! along with 16 assists, 11 MoMs and a 7.56 rating.
Fagan had 30 goals in 42 apps!! along with 17 assists, 8 MoMs and a 7.52 rating.
Between the two of them, we just opened up defenses and bagged the goals. In league we had 102 goals, though 53 against. We pipped Alfreton on the last day, needing to win. We were tied 1-1 until the 90th minute when Koroma scored his 2nd, passing up Alfreton by 1 pt and placing first in league first season out.
Without screenshots, goals next year are to stay up like everyone always says but I really want to push for promotion straight away.
Last edited by timers; 13-11-2010 at 22:49.
4-0 down at half time to Weston Super Mare - 16th in the league. Looks like a tenth straight defeat It started so well!!!
My contract is running out and I got that 'Swinburn may leave FC United' news item, so I went to ask for an extension. This is what they said.
I'm 3rd in the league, when predicted relegation, and I've took Chelsea to a replay in the FA Cup 3rd Round. Yeah, I'm not doing a good job at all... :confused:"Your job performance thus far hasn't deserved an early extension. We want to see more out of you to warrant us committing you to a longer term deal."
Well, got to halfway in my first season in the BSP now. We got to the 2nd round of the FA Cup where we got buggered 6-0 by Southampton at St Mary's, but the gate receipts brought in about £200,000 which was very, very welcome. Coupled with the fact that we managed to bring in £63,000 through selling players in the summer and didn't spend a penny on transfer fees, we're looking pretty decent financially for now. An inconsistent league season saw us start brilliantly, but of late we've been bouncing around between 11th and 7th and currently sit 9th. Unlikely to make the play-offs, but a very solid first season up.
My managerial alter ego for this challenge, Dick Smallberries, has been playing around with the twitter feature and making his own posts. You can follow him, should you wish, @DSmallberries
Terk, how do you get the twitter thing to work? I've signed in and all, but just don't know what to do.
Firstly, @swinburnfcum - Follow, and you get to see my ugly mug (Who else is twittering their FM, coz I'm on a follow mission)
Secondly, Do I deserve that ****ing contract extension yet?!
(Apologies for my language)
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Gypsum's Chippenham - End of season update - 2012/13
Media prediction - 24th
Final position - 1st / League table / League positions chart
I was impressed with our solid start, but after the first third of the season passed, we became untouchable in this division, we were walking it. Things became more tricky when our FA cup run led to some fixture congestion. But still, our first XI fully fit were too good for the BSP. A late push by Grimsby gave us a bit of a chase, but overall we deserved to finish top of the league. Especially after bagging a total of 105 goals and 103 points in a season.
FA Cup - 4th Round - A great run in the FA cup saw us reach the 4th round. Despite missing out on a lucrative draw, I was impressed that we managed to beat three league 2 teams, two of which were very comfortable, and only lost to Championship Swindon in a close affair. The run was enough to get us out of debt, and our performances were encouragement that we could compete in League 2.
Chippenham info;
General squad info
Average attendance: 1264
Star players;
Ignasi Miquel (DC) - The former Arsenal centre-back joined us on a free transfer in the summer, and has proven to be a colossus in both defence and attack. With an average rating of 7.51, 9 goals and 6 assists to his credit, Miquel showed what an asset he is for Chippenham.
Nikola Saric (ST) - Released from his Liverpool contract, Niko joined us as a free agent and proceeded to set the BSP alight. An astonishing 35 goals and 19 assists this season showed his class in all aspects of attack.
Steven Foley (MLC) - One of our standout stars last season, Foley has gone on to improve with the step up to the BSP. Intelligent runs and incisive passing saw him create 21 goals for his teammates.
Code:Year League Position Achievements ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 BSS 2nd Playoff winners 2012/13 BSP 1st FA cup 4th round
Aims for next season;
After some comfortable cup wins over League 2 opposition, I am confident we could do well in that division with our current squad. The priority signing is a good ball winning midfielder. I think we could also do with a right back, a better strike partner for Saric and a centre-back partner for Miquel. But as usual, i'll see who's available and sign anyone good!
Last edited by Gypsum; 13-11-2010 at 23:34.
Congrats on the title, Gypsum
My game doesn't want to stop at 24th June
I have tried two times and both times it continued to 1st july.
this thread
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Welsh Wizard - Colwyn Bay - BSP - 2012/13 - Season 2
Club Info
Squad General
Squad Stats
Finances Summery
Finances Wages
Not so many players in this season but they were very good and key players. Quite a few out to lower the squad size which forced me to use youth players more. Some money for some.
Finances are looking really good at just under 1.5mil thanks to the run in the FA Cup. Still semi-pro somehow but could change soon.
Key Players
Jamie Stephens - Made some great saves be it in the league or vs the prem teams in the FA Cup. Can't recall one mistake.
Cody McDonald - Top Scorer and assists. Could run past players or play some great through balls.
Daniel Boateng - Solid in defence.
Predicted:- 24nd
Finshed:- 1st
Previous Standings Graph
Another great season and that is back to back championships and we are in the football league. Losses mainly down to resting players for FA Cup.
Team Stats
Player Stats
Sxith Round
Final - Champions
Other Leagues and Competitons
Man United won the Prem again for 2 time in a row Arsenal were 2nd by 3 points. Man City and Chelsea took 3rd and 4th.
FA Cup was won by Blackburn beating Wigan 3-1 in the final.
Man City won the League Cup vs West Ham 3-1.
Arsenal won the Champions League vs Real. 2-2p
Aims for Next Season
- Stay Up
- Get rid of dead wood
- Improve Squad.
- Improve Staff
Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted - Champions. 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted - Champions |FA Trophy Winners
Last edited by Welsh Wizard; 26-11-2010 at 18:09.
Excellent campaign, Welsh Wizard. All you people storming through the BSP are making me look terrible
Finally! I'm deserving of the contract now!
Sad news for football ;( Sir Alex Ferguson has decided to retire from football.
Mike Phelan has taken the reigns of Man United.
Just requested with the board to go FT but they did not see how it would benfit the club. They have now decided to consider it after some strong words.
Training Facilities are also getting improved.
Premier league management is like a merry-go-round in my game. Mick McCarthy is now Man Utd manager, despite achieving nothing elsewhere. Mancini's at Arsenal despite getting sacked by Man City. Avram Grant is Spurs manager, despite getting sacked after 9 months at Man City. Bizarre.
You're meant to stop it seven days BEFORE, not after
Hastings United FC - Blue Square South - 2012/13
Media Prediction: 24st
Actual Position : 3rd
Promoted again first time out, can't ask for much more. Playoffs again, again after falling early enough out of a title race. Our home record just wasn't the invincible beacon it was last year, and our defence became alot more leaky, however we scored the most in the division this year and that got us through. Will have to work on the defence to even compete in League 2.
League Table
FA Cup
After doing so well against Luton, I had to go and mess it up by losing my chance of a big 3rd Round payday to Hucknall.
FA Trophy
Looks like I won't ever be trying in this.
Had to up the standard to play in Blue Square Premier, having gone up, I'll have to do it again now, so there'll be lots more change.
I would prefer to keep alot of the squad next year for stability, but we'll have to see.
Career Overview
Season League Position Achievements
2011/12 Blue Square South 4th Playoff Winners
2012/13 Blue Square Premier 3rd Playoff Winners
Next Season
Last 2 seasons I aimed initially to stay up and ended up promoted, I'll take that again, thanks.
I know
But 3 times in a row it has stopped 7 days after the date i picked.
FC United - BSS - 2013/14
League Table
I can't begin to explain how bad I feel about this season. I was top of the league in Jan and stayed there for a couple of months before going on a shockingly bad run of games which ended with me finishing in 3rd, only 1 point behind 1st. So it was another attempt at the Play-offs for me, I didn't even get past the semi-finals this time, put out on penalties by Tamworth.
Top Scorer
Same guy as last year, another great season for him. I think I shall try and sign someone better for next year just to make sure I win the extra couple of games that will get me promotion.
Star Player
This was also going to be the same guy as when he played he was superb. Unfortunately he spent a good portion of the season out injured so I decided to pick someone who contributed throughout the year.
Short and sweet report as I have nothing much to say about this season, I just want to get it over with and crack on with next year.
Congratulations on promotion, CSF
Unlucky on the poor run of form and play-off loss, evry1sfavedave
Well that's a new one, the board have offered me the chance to change our expectations for the season. They wanted us to 'attempt to avoid relegation', unfortunately nothing less than offering them promotion will increase my wage budget, so I'll leave it as it is.
Dear me, threw away a 4-1 lead at home on the first game of the season to draw 4-4... I thought I was going to win the league, too.
Nantwich Town - 2013/14 Squad
My 3rd attempt at promotion from the Blue Square North having failed at the playoffs the previous 2 times. Do you think I've got a good enough squad this time around?
Conrad Logan *
Dave Parton
Phil Picken
Lewis Toshney *
Peter Gilbert
Tom Parkes
Daniel Boateng *
Fraser Kerr
Jay Simmonds
Owain Tudur-Jones *
Derek Niven
Soloman Taiwo
Kieran Murtagh
Luke Joyce
Darryl Duffy *
Gifton Noel-Williams
Sam Williams
Stefan Connor *
New signings for this season are marked with a *. Think my squads about done, perhaps another midfielder in on loan but as I only play 3 in the middle that's not too important.
May have overdone it with the screenies
It's the last game of the first season for me at Truro, and it's the play-off final. However, I've posted this up in the bugs forum. The venue is Salisbury's stadium, that can't be right. Surely? My away form this season has been atrocious, very unfair to have to play the final at their ground. /sulk
You should have no problem with some of those signings, Scooty. Conrad Logan, Darryl Duffy and Owain Tudur-Jones in particular would easily grace sides higher up the ladder. Hope it's third time lucky.
I replied in the other thread but I'll reply here aswell. Tinpot league, playoff finals are played at the highest placed team in it. Obviously being a Redditch fan you don't have to worry too much about the playoffs... Oooh that was low, I apologise..
Don't worry though, jump up a league and you'll get to play the playoff final at Wembley!
Hope you have better luck in the playoffs than I have so far, good luck
Yeah, some real crackers! I had Tudor-Jones in League One in FM10 and he was a rock. Best of luck.
edit: cheers mate. I won the final, 2-1. Winner in 113th minute.
well despite the chaos of this week work wise, with Black Ops and Kinect release i have finally found some time to finish my season and what a finish it was, got promoted via the play offs, full details to come tomorrow evening after work!
Chippenham are in the BSP
Truro City
Blue Square Bet South - 2011/2012
Media Prediction - 22nd
Final Position - 3rd (Play-Off Final Winners)
A rollercoaster year of horrendous away form and my top scorer essentially refusing to play for half of it, culminated in a thrilling 2-1 play-off final victory against Salisbury: courtesy of a 113th minute winner, a sublime freekick struck by my centre-back.
Top Scorer - That's right, a bonafide England international...kinda
Sulky striker who scored 3 goals in the 3 play-off games to secure promotion
In other news we got to the FA Trophy Semi Final - losing 2-5 on aggregate to BSN Braintree, very disappointing.
Goals for next season
Sign some wicked players
Sort out away form!!!
Season Review
Code:Season League League Finish Other Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2011/2012 Blue Square South 3rd Promoted (Playoffs) FA Trophy Semi-Finalists
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Lovely. We've hit the usual mid-end season slump, where your team turns to **** and forget how to play. Last 10 games we have 3 draws and 7 losses, and have lost the last 5 in a row.
From: 25p - 7w, 6d, 12l
To: 35p - 7w, 9d, 19l
7 games to go, 2 points out of the drop zone.
Well done, I'm midway through my second season with Evesham and I'm still mid-table BSN! My best strikers all picked up injuries lasting months and my defence is useless as we've conceded 15 goals in our last 4 games. I'm going to have to start using a sweeper i think to emulate your success.
Nantwich - Blue Square North 2011/2012
Media Prediction - 22nd
Actual Position - 18th
I'm too lazy for screenshots.
We made a good start to the year, stayed above the drop zone pretty much all season in 18th, a bad slump towards the end cost us a chance of getting into mid-table (and kept us in 19th for about 5 weeks), but we came back from the 10 games without winning, and ended up finishing in 18th.
About half-way through I pulled my finger out and actually bothered to sort out my proper squad depth, and that helped a little.
FA Cup we made the 4th qualifying round, before losing 3-1 to non-league Lowestoft, FA Trophy won the first game, lost the 2nd.
Gonna clear some deadweight, try and get some better coaches, and sign some better players.
Code:Season League League Finish Other Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2011/2012 Blue Square South 18th
I'm saved, my board has "re-structured" my debt and I've gone from being 700K+ in the red to 89k in the black...how the hell the 700k debt built I dont know....OK I'm over my wage budget by a tad, but blimey not a chance it was due to that
Yup - I want to buy new referees. The ones i bribed clearly arent doing enough favours for me!
First 3 games of season 7 pts - Referee bribing went well.
Followed by - 4 defeats 1 draw. Need more bribes!
On a side note - has anyone seen "fan's day" matches yet? :o
And incredibly frustrating first 3 games.
1-1 draw, after coming from behind in the 2nd half, having 16 shots to 4 but not being able to break Boston donw.
2-2 draw, 16 shots to 4 again, against Corby we look to have scored the winner after finally scoring the 2nd at 88 minutes, only for them to score a moronic equaliser in the 94th minute when our keep goes low down to collect, only for one of the defenders to boot it away. It went to an opposing player, who shot, took a deflection, and bobbled into the goal with the keeper unable to get off his fat ass in time to save it.
1-1 draw vs Redditch, went down to 10 men in the 88th minute when my CB got injured after I made 3 subs. Then they scored a 92nd minute equaliser.
Hastings Utd
Mid Season Update - Jan 1st 2013
Season 2 - 2012/13 – Blue Square Premier
Prediction - 24th
Curently - 10th
Following Promotion in our first season the next step was always going to be tricky, there were plenty more ins and outs and the class of player available seemed much improved on what we had been looking at before, a new team was assembled and out we strode to take on the BSP,
Unfortunately, we started poorly and after 14 games we were in deep trouble and sitting in the relegation zone in 21st place,
A rethink of tactics and first choice eleven was needed, my star striker Danny Hoesen, who had been bought to terrorise defences couldnt hit a barn door, 32 hrs of football in a Hastings shirt before the first goal came, that took till mid december.
After a rethink and a different approach we have picked up, now we sit in 10th place and remarkably we are only 2 pts out of the play off places, so an extremely surprising tilt at the play offs may be ahead,
We have also made the 3rd round of the FA Cup and we have a home tie with Wolves in a couple of days, would have much prefered to be away as the finances are becoming a concern
All in all a poor start followed by a nice solid run of form have led to a pleasing if unspectacular first half of the season in the BSP
Having just lost my FA Cup 3rd round tie to Wolves 2 - 0 (a great performance, and we outplayed them for periods)
I have just recieved a news item stating that i was expected to be one of the challengers for the FA Cup????????? What The ####, Im in the BSP
My Fans are also 'Concerned' following the defeat to Wolves
Has anyone else had this?
Brilliant, threw away a 4-1 lead to 4-4...
Vikeologist's Bradford PA - End of season update - 2011/12
Media prediction - 19th
Final position - 21st
I really thought that we'd survive. 14 points from survival after a pathetic 13 points from the first 24 games, we turned it around and were just 2 points from safety with 3 games to go. However 2 losses (each with a sending off due to tackles that 'have no place in the modern game' blah blah blah), meant that it was all over with one game left in the season. I resigned. I left the club in 20th place, but they lost the last game without me and slipped another place.
So what went wrong.
Sendings off - We had 7 red cards, and every single one of them involved our player diving in with both feet, stamping on the other player's head and urinating on them while my other players complained that the freshly appeared red card was unmerited. They were a bunch of psychos.
Funnily enough, we didn't pick up all that many yellow cards, 44, although I think 8 of those were in one game against our local rivals Guiseley, and most of the others were for complaining to referees. Very few involved tackling an opponent, rather than wandering absent mindedly around the pitch while the other team stole the ball and stormed off towards goal.
Injuries to strikers. Just as Michael Ricketts had found his Billy the Hotshot boots, he went down injured for 3 months, (as did his replacement about 20 minutes into his first game). Ricketts finished with 15 goals from 28 starts, which suggests that we may have fared better if he'd been fit for the other 18 or so games.
But apart from that, it was just a lack of confidence. Once we started winning and confidence improved we picked up 29 points from 15 games until the end of season came and our players received annonymous letters claiming that upcoming opposition players had been sleeping with their wives. I don't want to make a criminal allegation, but the handwriting did look suspiciously like that of the Guiseley manager.
FA Cup - 1st Round
FA Trophy - 1st Round. 2-0 up, we conceded 4 goals in the last 25 minutes and lost 4-3
Anyway, as a demonstration of bloody-mindedness, I'm not giving up. I have followed the challenge instructions. Hednesford have arrived in the Blue Square South (or maybe it's the North) as a new team. I applied for the job, and they gave it to me straight away. I will try another few end of 11/12 season reloads to see if Folkestone turn up, but I will be back with a second club and I will take them to Premiership glory. It's been a different and interesting season, and will just make me appreciate the relentless glory of the next few seasons.Code:Season League League Finish Other Notes 2011/2012 Blue Square North 21st 23 League games without a win followed by 9 wins in 17 games not enough to survive.
The only thing that leaves a bit of a sour taste in the mouth is that Bradford PA don't have me as one of their favourred personnel. Whatever happened to gratitude?
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I'm guessing the whole 'expected to have a chance of winning the FA Cup' is a bug to do with the fact that the teams in question were expected to win through the qualifying rounds and that the game sees that and winning the whole thing as one and the same.
Whilst tidying the house up, stepdad turned the f'ing power off! I've had to go back FOUR games. Luckily, the last time I saved was just after the Chelsea game. I've played those 3 now though.
****ed off though. I still lost to Southend 2-0, but I had beaten MK Dons 2-0 and Stevenage 1-0, but ended up drawing 2-2 and losing 3-2. The only good point is that I get another chance in the FA Cup 4th. I had lost 2-0 to Wigan, now I get another shot.
I feel like if I win this, it'll be so undeserved.
Just beat Crewe in the First Round of the FA CUP 3-1, they are a league above us.... hoping for an easy tie next to get in the 3rd round and the big boys where the money is at.
P.s Am in the BSP at the mo in my second season, not doing to badly in 13th position after 15 odd games.
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Just been drawn to Cheltenham away in the second round of the FA Cup... Could have been easier
Take it where you get it, swinburn. I'm sure you'll take your fair share of bad luck during the challenge.
Just bullied my board into offering me a new two year deal. Told them that if they didn't offer me a deal we'd run the risk of falling behind our rivals
I know this will probably curse me, but I'm having an unbelievable start to my first season in the BSP: 6 games played, 6 wins and only 2 goals conceded.
Has anyone seen any strange things during their management period?
For example, Gus Poyet's Brighton are in the Premier League on my game!
Swindon manager Danny Wilson doesn't like me. Being my parent club, we have a pre-season friendly with them every year, and every year, Danny Wilson comes out in the media slagging me off! Apparently I am 'entirely out of my depth' and 'hard to get on with'! Probably explains why I never get any loan players!
I suppose it doesn't help that I just beat them 3-1.
Ridiculous, I'm doing absolute ***** in my second season - relegation beckons, perhaps?
Drew 1-1 with West Ham in the 5th round, and the replay is at home
Should we win, we'll face Burnley or Northampton in the 6th.
Anyone not getting put in the reserve leagues dispite accepting the offer at the start of the season?
Here's my end of season review for Evesham United 2012/13.
I brought in a completely fresh squad of players that my scouts and coaches thought were even better than the ones I had last year.
Key signings were Anthony Atkin in goal, Steve Smith at CB, Josh Rees in CM and Nicola Saric and Davide Somma upfront. A lot of these players were rated as having potential for leagues 1 or 2 so I was expecting great things from the team.
To begin with they did. After 11 games 1 was in 1st position and the team were playing well, and then they collapsed. In the next 26 games I only won twice and we fell to 19th place. My strikers were skinning defenders but blasting the ball high and wide, my defence was ludicrously easy to play through and on 5 occasions the winning goal came from freak crosses that somehow ended up in the back of the net. After Christmas i started playing with 5 at the back which kept things tighter but meant we were scoring even less than before. The crazy thing was we were supposedly Accomplished at 4-4-2 and 4-5-1 but that did not transfer onto the pitch, my coaches tell me we get overawed by the opposition with high reputations (everyone compared with us). Apart from that I can only assume the youth of the squad contributed to the disastrous performances.
I thought I was going down but 10 points from our last 4 games kept us up and we finished in 14th. 4 places down on last year, I haven't been anywhere near the playoffs. To make things even more embarrassing Northwich Victoria, who were promoted with me have made the playoffs both seasons.
Despite this I'm not changing things much for next season, going to bring in a CB and RM, offload 5 or 6 players and pray that this season was an aberration! Unless my scouts find any quality that tempts me...
Financially the club is basically going bust - i've racked up 300k of debt despite being well under my wage limit. the board have just chopped £1000 off my wage allowance for next season! (to 2k a week) The problem is we can only get 200 through the gates for home matches which is not enough to cover the "other costs" never mind the players' wages. I'm not at all sure what to do about this.
The premier league continued to be a total merry-go-round as Chelsea and Man City both sacked their managers in November again! Roy Hodgson went to manage Fulham. Liverpool replaced Mick McCarthy with Owen Coyle. Alex Ferguson released Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov on free transfers!!
Okay, I can beat Chelsea 3-2 and Wigan 2-1, yet I lose 6-0 to Bury and I'm currently 2-0 down to Hereford.
1st season in the Blue Square Premier,
10 Games to go and only 2 pts off the play offs after a sensational run of form
Maybe my thoughts of survival could turn to an unexpected play off tilt after all
Fingers Crossed
ok going to start doing my write up in the next 1/2 hour or so, how do i do that "code" type thingy that people have in their write ups?
Mid Season Update - Jan 1st 2012
Season 2 - 2011/12 Blue Square Premier
Prediction 22nd
Curently 6th
We had a slow start to the season, and we were down in 14th place after 13 games. 5 wins in our last 8 games has seen us rise up to 6th in the table, just outside of the play offs. Hopefully we can use this platform to really push on and secure a play off spot at the end of the year.
We went out of the FA Cup in the 2nd qualifying round to non-league Colwyn Bay, which was disappointing. However we are still in the FA Trophy, having beaten Blue Square Premier side Wrexham in the previous round.
Our lack of goals has been slightly concerning, with only 24 in 21 league games. This is considerably less than the other teams around us. Part of the problem has been the lack of goals from my star striker Porya Ahmadi. He has just 2 goals in 22 starts, despite all of my scouts and coaches saying he is far too good for this league. Hopefully hell bag a few in the second half of the season. My top scorer is currently on loan winger Harry Agombar who has 4 from 17 starts. I really need someone to step and start scoring on a regular basis.
In contrast, my defence has been solid all year. Weve only conceded 19 goals in 21 league games, and thats the main reason we are as high as we are in the league. Centre Back pairing Kieran Kennedy and Sam Griffiths have been my standout players so far, with Kennedy in particular looking good.


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I want to shift from ubuntu-desktop 10.10 to ubuntu netbook edition 10.10 on my netbook. Currently, the moment I ssh into ubuntu from my ad-hoc network, ubuntu freezes. It always requires a cold shutdown. So hoping that netbook edition may not have this issue. I have custom installed many applications on the desktop edition. So I want save the app list into a script and run the script on the new installation, so that all apps will be downloaded and installed. I need suggestions as to the best way to achieve this.
Run this monster on your existing install, replace
It will generate a file called
Note: This compares the packages used on the LiveCD with the current ones. At the moment there are a few packages (gparted, btrfs-tools, etc) that are on the CD that aren't installed. If you installed gparted manually, you'll need to reinstall it on the new machine manually too. Thankfully this only applies to a few packages, all of which are simple to install if/when you realise you need it.
Also if you use any PPAs or other repositories, make sure you set them up on the new machine before you run this.
I suggest using oneconf
It integrates with Software Center rather nicely, and does what you want.
I think others have answered the technical piece of your question, I'd like to answer the implied question - "will moving to Unity fix this ssh problem", and the answer is I'm afraid I doubt it. Remote shell sessions are generally not exercising Unity or the desktop. If you can ssh fine into your desktop from a wired network, but not from an ad-hoc network, the freezing is probably related to your wireless drivers and not the desktop shell.
There's a file called 'filesystem.manifest-desktop' in the folder 'casper' on the CD (or extract it from the ISO file). It contains all the packages that get installed, minus the ones downloaded during the installation (updates, langpacks?).
So something like this should give you the list of added and removed packages:
You can then install via:
(You need to make sure that all those packages are available, else that command will fail.)
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Now that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has answered the 102-day-old question of who will run the nation's largest transit system—tapping on Friday the Metropolitan Transportation Authority veteran Thomas Prendergast as chairman—the question turns to what will come next for the cash-strapped agency.
Mr. Prendergast rises to the top job from within the MTA's upper ranks, where he has served most recently as chief of New York City subways and buses and earned acclaim as the steady-handed administrator who helped quickly revive the damaged system in the wake of superstorm Sandy last year.
Once confirmed by the state Senate, however, Mr. Prendergast will begin to grapple with even more intractable challenges facing a $13 billion state agency that serves an average of 8.5 million daily riders. He will be tasked with sealing a labor agreement with the MTA's largest union and securing financing for a five-year capital spending plan—all while continuing to repair lingering wreckage from Sandy's floodwaters.
"From the track bed to the budget to modernizing our system for the 21st century, I can't imagine anyone having a better understanding of how the region's vast system operates and the challenges that it faces," Mr. Cuomo said of his nominee.
The choice of Mr. Prendergast, currently also serving as the MTA's interim executive director, marks a bid for continuity in Mr. Cuomo's second attempt at putting a personal stamp on the MTA. The last chairman, Joseph Lhota, departed at the end of 2012 after less than a year to run for New York City mayor. Mr. Lhota's predecessor, Jay Walder, lasted for just about two years.
The nomination drew praise from business groups and transportation advocates, many of whom had been privately urging Mr. Prendergast's selection.
"What everyone has come to realize is that Tom has certainly risen to the occasion," said Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, before the appointment was announced. "He knows what the priorities are. He doesn't have to be briefed to understand what needs to be done."
Even the union that reliably tangles with MTA leaders had kind words for Mr. Prendergast. "He knows the work we do," said John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, of the man he will face across the table in contract negotiations.
The incoming chairman, he said, "knows what it's like for a track worker to swing a hammer for eight hours in a tunnel in the heat."
The union leader dubbed Mr. Prendergast "the best possible choice."
In a four-decade transit career in the U.S. and Canada, Mr. Prendergast has run commuter railroads and rapid-transit lines, including a suburban train line and an urban subway-and-bus network inside the MTA.
"I know of no one who cares more about customers and riders, as well as having a keen understanding of the entire system," Mr. Lhota said. "I can't think of anybody better prepared."
The long wait for a new chairman after Mr. Lhota's surprise departure had raised some eyebrows among transit observers. Former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer has served as acting chairman of the board of directors during that span. The delay also meant double duty for Mr. Prendergast, who took on two titles afterward.
The need to choose a new chairman coincided with a series of other pressing priorities for Mr. Cuomo.
An aide to the Democratic governor said the administration has been focused above all in recent months on the passage of a new state budget and tougher gun-control laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Both the state government and the MTA have also been consumed by bureaucratic challenges related to Sandy, including lobbying for federal aid.
Mr. Prendergast and his team won particular praise for successful planning ahead of Sandy, which helped the MTA escape some of the more severe damage to trains and equipment that afflicted other regional transportation systems. Much of the MTA's ability to rebound derived from a plan that moved sensitive electronics and trains themselves out of the path of floodwaters—a plan that came about, in part, from experiences during Hurricane Irene the previous year.
Transit experts have praised Mr. Prendergast's work over the past three months, saying he would be the right choice to lead the agency given his long years in the field and extensive knowledge of the bureaucracy's moving parts.
Mr. Prendergast began his career in 1975 at the Chicago Transit Authority, Mr. Cuomo's office said, before moving to Washington and then to New York in 1982 as director of system safety for the New York City Transit Authority.
During his career in New York, he has held supervisory roles in the subway organization and served as president of the Long Island Rail Road.
Mr. Prendergast departed for the private sector in 2000, the governor's office said, eventually becoming chief executive of the TransLink system in Vancouver, Canada, before being hired back by the MTA in 2009 to lead the transit division.
MTA observers on Friday suggested Mr. Prendergast would be well-suited to lead an agency coping with historically high ridership, a backlog of repair work and no ready source of new funds to pay the bills.
"From our perspective, the challenges for the MTA going forward are about revenue—finding sources to fund the capital plan," said Carol Kellermann, president of the Citizens Budget Commission.
Mr. Prendergast will have to make decisions about expansion—including ongoing megaprojects like the Second Avenue subway—while also "getting the most out of the system we have," said Richard Barone, director of transportation programs for the Regional Plan Association.
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Can a photon be made to orbit a known (or undiscovered theoretical) body?
How massive would a black hole have to be for light to orbit it at 1km away from the singularity? Given that Gravitational lensing occurs, I assume that it should be possible to bend light in a full circle. How would you calculate, using minimal advanced general relativity, show the minimum mass of that black hole? What would be the orbital period according to different reference frames?


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News and Events Archives
Friday, July 24, 2009
On July 23, Dr. Chris Belcher, Columbia School District superintendent, and Dr. Gerald Brouder, Columbia College president, signed an agreement partnering Columbia public schools and the college.
Under the agreement, Columbia College teacher education students would be placed in Benton, Grant, Midway Heights and Russell elementary and Gentry and Smithton middle school classrooms to both teach and learn; and Columbia College will waive tuition for one graduate course for qualifying Columbia Public Schools faculty.
Specifically, Columbia College would provide:
-A tuition waiver. Columbia College will waive tuition for one education graduate course for Columbia Public Schools teachers who work with Columbia College students in the classroom.
-Substitute teachers. Eligible Columbia College students, as determined by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education regulations, can substitute teach in the classroom for five days or less.
Columbia Public Schools would provide:
-Assessment. Qualified teachers or other administrators would assess the performance of a Columbia College student teacher in the classroom.
-Onsite education classes. Columbia Public Schools would allow periodic Columbia College class visits to observe best practices, special events and other programs.
Both parties also would collaborate on an after school program. Columbia College students will work two to three days a week in an after-school program emphasizing communication arts, math and science. The program's curriculum will be agreed upon by principals in Columbia Public Schools and Columbia College.
Columbia College students and Columbia Public Schools faculty would also continually learn best practices from each other and be given the opportunity to implement and assess these practices. In such a partnership, both parties become learners.
"Columbia College is an institution that honors and participates in high quality education at all levels in the community," said Brouder. "So it is truly a pleasure to partner with Columbia Public Schools to certify our teacher education students, and to place those students for practicum experiences in Columbia Public Schools. This new avenue will benefit both the public schools and its teachers, and Columbia College students," said Brouder.
"I think what makes Columbia such a special place is the depth of educational resources we have here," said Belcher. "And partnering with Columbia College is another way to take advantage of that pool and give back to our students. Columbia College's flexibility will allow our teachers to get what they want," said Belcher, singling out the Online Campus. "Columbia College is one of the leading experts in the nation in online course development, and our teachers will take advantage of that. Or, if our teachers want to take in-seat classes, they can almost literally step out their back door. It�s convenient."
Columbia Public Schools and Columbia College also will jointly produce an annual report on the partnership; and the parties, led by Columbia Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Mary Laffey and Columbia College Executive Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs Dr. Terry Smith, meet twice a year to review the partnership.
"Both Columbia Public Schools and the college will tap into each other�s expertise to strengthen their respective programs, ultimately to benefit students and teachers of all ages," Smith said. "It's a a unique opportunity for Columbia College and for Columbia Public Schools to cement our already strong relationship. The implementation of this partnership, and increased access for both parties, will benefit both tremendously. It�s a great arrangement, a true win-win. Columbia College students will now have an exciting new doorway to student excellence in an elementary or middle school setting that exposes them to the traditions and practices of good teaching."
Columbia College has been a partner in education with Field Elementary School for 22 years, supplying the school with textbooks, pen pals, ice cream socials and basketball games, among other things.


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I have a large MyISAM table on MySQL 5.5(Windows XP x64) on which I will have to run
DELETE LOW_PRIORITY queries. Does
DELETE LOW_PRIORITY make the rows invisible to
SELECT statements immediately and actually delete the rows from disk when no clients are accessing the table, or is the point delaying removal of visibility?
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I have a large MyISAM table on MySQL 5.5(Windows XP x64) on which I will have to run
The rows remain visible. Test (1) shows that the
testbed and long running query:
test (1): with low_priority:
test (2): without
From the docs:
All this means is that the
Once the
Under normal table lock situations, any write requests will be given higher priority than read requests. Example: if you have a write lock going on, then a read request goes in the read queue, and then another write request comes in, the second write request will execute before the read requests.
So, if you are using
Once a write lock is acquired in a table-locking situation, any reads will wait in the queue until the write lock is finished.


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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day
It's time again for everyone who hasn't filed their taxes to start freaking out about how much work they've left to the last minute. Fortunately, people have been up against much more uncomfortable walls with much less time to spare. And they've done some pretty mind-blowing things ...
#8. Macedonia Plants 6 Million Trees in One Day
Of all the troubling statistics that hippies shout at us as we pretend to be on our phone to avoid signing their petitions, the ones about how much rain forest is cut or burned down each day are always some of the most troubling. In 2008, after two summers of wildfires laid waste to their forests, the citizens of Macedonia didn't need anyone to tell them their forests were in trouble. And so they decided to put all those trees back ... in one day. The simplistic plan must have been the laughingstock of the green movement. Everyone knows you have to get Bono to attend one of your parties before your nonprofit is taken seriously.
"Remember to budget the $300 per hour for the lady who points at the word 'strategy' all day."
Not realizing that they hadn't done any of that, on November 19, 2008, the citizens of Macedonia got together and planted a total of 6 million trees -- three trees for every human in the country. Thousands of people were bused around the country to planting sites. "Just as we take care of our homes, we should take care of our planet," said one of the citizens who took part in the planting, and then "I don't know what you're talking about" when asked which ad agency had come up with that slogan.
By the way, here's how big Macedonia is compared to a chunk of the United States:
The next year, when the fires took their toll again, Macedonians had another planting day, where they put down another 6 million trees. They did it again last year, when they put down 7 million. By November 2011, they had planted 44 million new trees (with only two days of planting a year).
Macedonia: Now buried beneath three layers of trees.
In addition to helping out their homeland, the organizers were hoping to send the world a message about how much you can do to fight global warming if you put just a little effort into it. You have to admit that a tiny country of 2 million people planting 6 million trees in a single day makes that point a lot better than some hippie shaming you with buzzwords.
#7. George Washington Builds a Frozen City in the Night Like It Ain't a Thing
One of the key battles of the Revolutionary War was won not by fighting but by pushing a lot of heavy things around in the middle of the night. George Washington's army was moving on British-occupied Boston, but with the British well-defended and able to see them coming, they needed some kind of edge.
Well, yes, this is obvious to us now, but remember that they had much smaller brains back then.
Washington went with what we will call the "instant fort" plan, where the British would go to bed to an empty hillside and wake up in the shadow of a fortified bank of cannons pointing down at them. This involved sneaking over 60 cannons up a hill right in front of the town, as well as all the materials for fortifications.
On March 4, 1776, they wrapped their wagon wheels with straw to deaden the sound, put hay bales between whatever they were moving and the city and did the impossible, just like Washington asked.
Stealth equipment in the 1700s was not as cool-looking as it is today.
By morning, there was an impressive fortification staring down on the city, stirring British general William Howe to say, "The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." Which implies that either the Revolutionary Army had accomplished an extraordinary feat or that the British Army was mostly worthless.
Howe's first plan was to attack, but a sudden storm gave him some time to think about it, as well as giving Washington some time to keep building his fortifications. By the time the storm cleared up, Washington's instant fort was impressive enough that Howe decided to head out. Washington had basically managed to take a city with the military equivalent of flexing his muscles.
"You think this is nonchalant? I can get at least 15 percent more nonchalant than this."
#6. Empty Lot of Land Becomes Guthrie, Oklahoma, in One Day
April 22, 1889 marked the astonishing one-day transformation of an empty expanse of prairie land into a town of 10,000, all between noon and sundown. It also marked the last time anyone was anxious to get into Oklahoma.
You see, due to a perfect conjunction of laws and stealing land from Indians, there was suddenly a ton of free land to be had in Oklahoma for anyone who could get there and put a tent on it first. But the law said that nobody could cross the border until noon on April 22 for some reason. In the days prior to the 22nd, hordes of land-hungry carpetbaggers began to pile up on the border, waiting to pour through the gates like Walmart shoppers on Black Friday.
Like this, only with a lot more horse carts and dysentery.
Unlike Black Friday, there aren't any records of anyone being trampled to death, but there were quite a few people illegally camping out inside the territory, which is basically like going into Walmart the day before Thanksgiving and hiding yourself in a display of Pepsi cans, and then popping out at 4 a.m. on Black Friday and shouting, "First!"
These people were called "sooners," and Oklahomans are apparently proud of this behavior, because it's their state nickname (the Sooner State) and the Oklahoma University team name.
John Silks via Wikimedia Commons
"Whoooo! We like cutting in line!"
When the clock struck noon on the 22nd, the crowds piled onto trains and went racing into the territory, many of them getting off at the first station -- Guthrie -- at 1:25 p.m., where they found a handful of sooners already staking their claims. Seeing that they weren't the first to get there, and noticing that lots of the people on the train were as impatient as they were, the campers sprang into action, and the town went from 0 to 10,000 in the course of an afternoon. And since this was back when elbow grease was America's number one export, tire axle lubricant and preferred soup base, the sudden citizens had already laid out the streets, staked out lots and started forming a government by the time midnight rolled around.
"Dibs on Minister of Rocking Out!"
Four months later, the town was pretty well built out, with the directory listing "six banks, 16 barbers, 16 blacksmiths, 17 carpenters, two cigar manufacturers, five newspapers, seven hardware stores, 15 hotels, 19 pharmacists, 22 lumber companies, 39 doctors, 40 restaurants" and, of course, 81 lawyers.
#5. U.S. Navy Delivers Aircraft-Carrier-Shaped Magic Trick
In World War II's Battle of the Coral Sea, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown had a hole ripped through its flight deck by a Japanese bomb, which penetrated several decks and exploded inside the ship, killing or seriously injuring 66 men. Despite its gaping wound, the Yorktown was able to make it back to the Pearl Harbor naval yard for repairs, forever proving that the Titanic was a wimp.
"We're going to need four, maybe five tubes of caulk."
The bomb damage, plus all the other damage sustained in the battle, was expected to take three months to repair, although crews estimated that they could get her just barely patched up enough in two weeks to return to the U.S. mainland for serious repairs. Admiral Nimitz, channeling his best Captain Kirk, told them they had three days -- and not just to get the ship limping back to the mainland, but to send her out to fight.
Soon after that order, his shirt ripped open.
Several sleepless days later, the USS Yorktown was on her way to Midway like a freaking magic trick. The sheer impossibility of the Yorktown being afloat, let alone ready to fight, led the Japanese to assume they must be looking at a new carrier. The Yorktown took down four Japanese carriers before doing what it did best and was shot to pieces. This time, the ship sank like a stone, but the Americans who went down with it had done their damage, and the battle where the U.S. Navy made Japan think they were being attacked by a freaking ghost ship ended up being one of the keys to turning the tide of the war. The battle put the Japanese behind in terms of ships and manpower, and they never caught up.
The ragtag team of hot female mechanics that we like to imagine fixed the ship.


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5 Mind-Blowing Academic Theories as Taught by Classic Movies
#2. Quantum Immortality
Movie protagonists tend to be improbably lucky. No one wants to shell out money for a Die Hard movie just to see Bruce Willis get killed five minutes in. That'd be super boring. Action movies are about one thing: watching a guy beat the odds and kill a bunch of dudes without getting killed himself. James Bond has made it through 23 movies despite facing odds that seemed improbable at best.
"The disease is B. Hepatitis B."
And it's not just the superhuman action heroes. In the sequence in Back to the Future in which Marty McFly first travels back in time, he is staring down certain death from a machine-gun-wielding Libyan terrorist, and then he finds himself in the sights of a farmer with a shotgun (the farmer manages to miss him three times at close range). It's almost like movies are about a bunch of people whose superpowers are just extraordinarily good luck.
As it happens, there's a thought experiment in quantum physics called quantum suicide that might explain why every one of those movies is illustrating how reality actually works. The theory arose when scientists were poking around inside the atom and noticed that certain particles appeared to move in two different directions at the same moment.
"If you keep pulling, we'll turn into hydrogen! Is that what you want?"
To understand why that should be impossible, imagine that you balanced a perfectly sharpened pencil on a tip occupied by one of these particles that spins left and right at the same moment. If the particle actually did move in both directions, the pencil wouldn't know whether to tip left or right. Or more specifically, it should tip in both directions at the same time. Now obviously, if you actually balanced the pencil in this way, you'd see the pencil tip in one of the two directions, because that's how reality works. What science hasn't been able to figure out is how reality chooses which of the two directions to make the pencil tip. The most interesting theory they've come up with states that reality doesn't choose, and instead branches off into separate parallel universes.
Now imagine if, instead of a pencil balanced on one of these particles, there are 10 of these particles connected to a contraption that fires a gun at your head if they move right and lets you live if they move left. After the first test, reality branches into two parallel universes, one in which you're alive and another where you're dead. After the second test, you're dead in three universes, still alive in one. After 10 tests, there are 999 parallel universes where a bunch of scientists are cleaning your brain matter off the wall behind you, and one universe where you're still alive. According to the "many worlds" theory, the scientists have a 99.9 percent chance of existing in one of the realities where they're about to have a lot of explaining to do. But since you no longer exist in any of those realities, from your point of view, you have a 100 percent chance of existing in the one universe where the gun never fired. You are guaranteed to continue living in one of the 1,000 universes that you just created, which is, of course, the one that you're going to be aware of.
In 999 universes, McClane was gunned down while picking glass out of his feet.
If you take the many worlds theory of quantum physics to its logical conclusion and apply it to the thousands of tiny particles bouncing around in the human brain, and in every object you encounter on a daily basis (or any gun that gets fired at you), you get what's known as quantum immortality. Basically, in any given situation in which it's theoretically conceivable that you survive, there is a timeline in which you actually survive. You're living in one of the infinite different versions of the world in which you survived. There are countless thousands of other universes in which you didn't survive, but you no longer exist in any of those. So the universe that you're aware of is one of an infinite number of universes in which you're just naturally, inexplicably luckier when it comes to not dying.
When we're watching an action movie, we might think that we're watching a protagonist slaloming through a bunch of explosions to an improbable happy ending, but it's just as accurate to say that we're watching the theory of quantum immortality illustrated over and over again. If there's even the remotest probability that the gun will jam, that's what will happen in the universe that the protagonist perceives. According to the many worlds theory, an action hero is the perfect metaphor for how we experience the world around us: He gets in a car wreck and just happens to be thrown clear. Bullets fly all around him, but none hit. Aliens attack, and crazy old Randy Quaid flies his crop duster into the mother ship. There's a nuclear explosion, and he jumps into a handy refrigerator. Regardless of the dangerous situation, the action hero will always survive. And we love watching action movies because the action hero's version of reality is the closest the movies come to our own version of reality, in which we keep getting insanely, improbably lucky.
Somewhere, a version of you has won the lottery, and that asshole won't give you a dime.
#1. The Allegory of the Cave
Lots of epic movie sagas have a scene where the main character discovers a whole other layer to his world that he never knew existed. Harry Potter discovers the wizarding world. Special Agent J in Men in Black discovers that aliens are totally real. Neo takes the red pill and is shown the Matrix. It's a common and wildly successful movie trope that can be traced back to one man.
Three thousand years ago, Plato created what he called the allegory of the cave, in which he described a group of men who had been chained up their entire lives facing the wall at the bottom of a cave (because it's not a classic thought experiment without a bunch of people being creepily mistreated). The only thing they ever see are shadows cast on the wall by people passing in front of fires farther up in the cave. Since this is all they know, Plato suggested that they would regard the shadows on the wall as reality, and would gauge intelligence based on who could guess which shape would pass in front of the wall next.
In movies like Men in Black, Harry Potter and The Matrix, the shadows on the cave wall are replaced by what we think of as daily life. Wealth, high test scores and sports victories seem like pointless diversions once you know what Neo, Harry and Agent J find out. Of course, that was totally Plato's point as well. Plato believed that most of us go through life with only an incidental acquaintance with certain byproducts and half-truths of existence, and what reality truly means.
"Yer a wizard, Harry. You never have to worry about math again."
In act two of the cave allegory (and act two of the aforementioned franchises, every movie about superheroes, the Star Wars trilogy or the Star Trek reboot), one of these mere mortals is freed from his chains to see the truth about existence. He has a tough time adjusting at first (think Will Smith quitting before returning to take the Men in Black oath), but soon he realizes that he can't go back to the version of the world he was stuck in.
Act three of the allegory, and of most of the hugely successful movies based on it, sees our newly enlightened former cave dweller return to the men at the bottom of the cave and try to explain the truth to them. Plato came to the conclusion that the men down there not only wouldn't understand what the hell he was talking about, but they would think that he was an idiot because he was no better at guessing what shadow would be cast on the wall next.
"Mark, would you please shut the hell up about these 'boobs'?"
The movies based on his allegory are usually all over the place on the question of how the masses react. Men in Black and Harry Potter are with Plato. People either won't believe you or they won't be able to deal with the truth, and they should be allowed to stay praying to shadow puppets. The Matrix is the one movie that insists on dragging everyone to the surface of the cave to show them the sky.
For a cool real-life example, a 17th century philosopher named William Molyneux wondered if someone blind from birth would be able to recognize familiar shapes on sight if their vision was restored. We actually have the technology to answer him now, and it turns out that the answer is nope, they sure can't. They have to relearn the world by sight and tie that in with the senses they already know, just like the Force.
One thing each franchise's creator probably agrees on is that they're glad that more people don't read old philosophers, since otherwise there's no way they'd be able to get away with this shit over and over again.
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For more things we've learned from pop culture, check out The 7 Worst Lessons '80s Cartoons Taught Us about Drugs and The 4 Weirdest Lessons '80s Movies Really Wanted to Teach Us.


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What's the best way to ask:
Which one is more true, or more accurate?
... when talking about a choice of two words?
What's the best way to ask:
... when talking about a choice of two words?
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When you need to compare the effectiveness of two words A and B in expressing an idea, you could say
If you want to sound a bit more sophisticated, you could appeal to French and say
Use accurate over more true. Trueness and falseness are absolutes, while accuracy is a measurable value.
I agree with Quasiperfect in choosing more accurate over more true. I will add that when I find myself in a position to ask someone to pick one of two words, I will often say things like "which one is preferred?" or "which one is better style?" or simply "which one do you think is better?".
"More true" is always wrong, as truth is (supposed to be) an absolute. Sometimes I'll ask "which one is more correct" even though correctness, like truth, is an absolute. It would be better to ask "which one is correct?". Like many things in English, there are a lot of different ways to ask the question, each with their own subtly nuanced difference. If you provide more of an example I can give you more direction.


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It would be best if they can run without having Skype installed at all. Does such a creature exist?
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Warning - Current status of imo.im suggests that Skype support may be fleeting:
https://imo.im/ supports skype, and is web-based.
With this, all others are simply out of competition.
Only one shortcoming - you can't really install it on a desktop computer as a stand-alone application, like we are used to. But it's more a problem with our habits that with the product itself.
Trillian 5 doesn't require skype to be running, or installed at all, at least for the windows version.
Both Kopete and Pidgin have Skype plugins. The Kopete one is bundled with the main app as far as I know, and for Pidgin you have to download the Skype Pidgin plugin.
Please note that both of these require Skype to be installed and running. I've added them since I don't think you will find a legal app which natively connects to the Skype server, as Wikipedia states that:
SkyLlian is a Skype plugin for trillian.
There is IMO.IM which support Skype without Skype installed...
That is for one obvious reason... It is a web service, and not an installed IM client.
That said, the programmers community should look their way (IMO) for knowhow. I am certain that the problem is in strong encryption Skype use in their protocols.
IM+ is a chat application for mobile devices (iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile) and it supports Skype among others.
I use Trillion, love it. It uses SkyLlion as a plug in, must have Skype downloaded and running. Enjoy this chat client.
Trillian Astra supports Skype and many other connections.
(Disclaimer, I'm on the Yuuguu Dev Team)
Yuuguu (Windows and Mac versions) supports Skype chat and will work with GTalk, MSN, AOL and Yahoo messenger accounts. However, as far as I know, the Skype API requires Skype to be running (although it can be switched into silent mode).
For completeness' sake, there Miranda, too, with its Skype protocol plugin. However, as most of the previously mentioned programs this, too, uses the Skype API, and requires Skype to be installed and running. Moreover, the Skype plugin doesn't seem to be under active development right now.