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You can get all kinds of gadgets for your desktop that usually sit on the top panel. One of them that can be very important is the weather.  The unit is called a barometer, which was allegedly invented in 1643 by Evangelista Torricelli.  You may need to elect to display the barometric pressure on your panel outtake. Normally during clear weather, the measure is above 30. Where you may live it may vary. In our case, the pressure is dropping. This can mean that rain is coming. And rain is in the forecast for the next day or so, Gives you a chance to outsmart the weatherman. So higher pressure is good weather for the most part. Not only can you predict the weather, you might predict when the fish might bite! Fish are much more comfortable when there's stable high pressure, and tend to feed actively most anywhere within the water column. So do not expect good fishing if it is going to get cold or bad weather is coming. You can build your own non-precise barometer with ma

You can get all kinds of gadgets for your desktop that usually sit on the top panel. One of them that can be very important is the weather.  The unit is called a barometer, which was allegedly invented in 1643 by Evangelista Torricelli.  You may need to elect to display the barometric pressure on your panel outtake. Normally during clear weather, the measure is above 30. Where you may live it may vary. In our case, the pressure is dropping. This can mean that rain is coming. And rain is in the forecast for the next day or so, Gives you a chance to outsmart the weatherman. So higher pressure is good weather for the most part. Not only can you predict the weather, you might predict when the fish might bite! Fish are much more comfortable when there's stable high pressure, and tend to feed actively most anywhere within the water column. So do not expect good fishing if it is going to get cold or bad weather is coming. You can build your own non-precise barom

Hope that your data in the cloud never gets held hostage or even just disappears. So how secure is your data on the web? Can you afford to lose your web presence because government interference, a website's hardware issues,or even the company holding your web presence  and or data hostage? What's your backup?

Hope that your data in the cloud never gets held hostage or even just disappears. So how secure is your data on the web? Can you afford to lose your web presence because government interference, a website's hardware issues,or even the company holding your web presence  and or data hostage? What's your backup?

More and more people are wanting to separate their private network from the internet but still want to access both for a system or two. No problem. You can set up multihomed nics faily easily and all things being equal, no packets should go between the two. If you have 2 NIC (network Lan card) each connected to different networks: => eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 => eth1: 192.168.2.0/24 Consider above setup. Now if you want to route traffic to connected network only (eth0 and eth1) w/o setting Linux server as a router. This is generally called multi homing setup. You don't have to setup Linux box as a router to use multi homing :). Just assign as IP address to each NIC and you are done. How do I configure Linux multi homing? Just assign each interface IP address using ifconfig or use DHCP and multi homing will be turned on: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254 up # ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.254 up Commonly, most admin confuse the idea of multi-homing with the concept of routing or IP

More and more people are wanting to separate their private network from the internet but still want to access both for a system or two. No problem. You can set up multihomed nics faily easily and all things being equal, no packets should go between the two. If you have 2 NIC (network Lan card) each connected to different networks: => eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 => eth1: 192.168.2.0/24 Consider above setup. Now if you want to route traffic to connected network only (eth0 and eth1) w/o setting Linux server as a router. This is generally called multi homing setup. You don't have to setup Linux box as a router to use multi homing :). Just assign as IP address to each NIC and you are done. How do I configure Linux multi homing? Just assign each interface IP address using ifconfig or use DHCP and multi homing will be turned on: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254 up # ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.254 up Commonly, most admin confuse the idea of multi-homing with the concept o

Game of Rock, paper, or scissors. Should be able to run on any platform that can support the Python interpreter. $ python rps.py or c:/[pythondirectory]> python rps.py rps.py [code] import random import sys def makeYourChoice():     print "Press R for Rock"     print "Press P for Paper"     print "Press S for Scissors"     print "Press Q to quit!"     userChoice = raw_input("What do you want to choose?").lower()          if userChoice == "r":         return "Rock"     if userChoice == "p":         return "Paper"     if userChoice == "s":         return "Scissors"     if userChoice == "q":         sys.exit(0)     else:         makeYourChoice() def computerRandom():     options = ["Rock","Paper","Scissors"]     randomChoice = random.randint(0,2)     return options[randomChoice] def comparison(humanChoice, computerChoice):     if humanCho

Game of Rock, paper, or scissors. Should be able to run on any platform that can support the Python interpreter. $ python rps.py or c:/[pythondirectory]> python rps.py rps.py [code] import random import sys def makeYourChoice():     print "Press R for Rock"     print "Press P for Paper"     print "Press S for Scissors"     print "Press Q to quit!"     userChoice = raw_input("What do you want to choose?").lower()          if userChoice == "r":         return "Rock"     if userChoice == "p":         return "Paper"     if userChoice == "s":         return "Scissors"     if userChoice == "q":         sys.exit(0)     else:         makeYourChoice() def computerRandom():     options = ["Rock","Paper","Scissors"]     randomChoice = random.randint(0,2)     return options[randomChoice] def comparison(humanCh

There are times when you just need a quick connection at home or in a small office and setting up wireless can be a real hassle not to mention potential security issues. Instead you might consider ethernet over power aka eop. Advantages are that it is all plug and play, you can even use use house wiring as your medium. You will need at least two modules (on for each side of the connection,) i have seen a set of modules for under thirty dollars. That is not much more than the price of a good Nic. Give it a try.

There are times when you just need a quick connection at home or in a small office and setting up wireless can be a real hassle not to mention potential security issues. Instead you might consider ethernet over power aka eop. Advantages are that it is all plug and play, you can even use use house wiring as your medium. You will need at least two modules (on for each side of the connection,) i have seen a set of modules for under thirty dollars. That is not much more than the price of a good Nic. Give it a try.

Someone asked me the difference between closed source and open source software. For a layman, I thought the best way might be to use pictures. Closed source might be like a tv dinner where everything is almost precooked. Until you get the meal out of the box and into the microwave or oven (if the meal supports an oven), there is little you can do to change or alter the meal. But you have the advantage of no recipes to follow and it is easy per se to prepare. One shortcoming though is you do not know where the ingredients came from or how it was prepared. Actually this tv dinner was cheaper than expected and quite good to eat. I was surprised. The portions were exacting though. Added some butter for the mashed potatoes and the corn. With open source things are a bit different. You have to go out buy all the groceries to prepare and cook the meal. There is an advantage here is that you can inspect the ingredients to make sure you have what you want. You can also either use prepared recip

Someone asked me the difference between closed source and open source software. For a layman, I thought the best way might be to use pictures. Closed source might be like a tv dinner where everything is almost precooked. Until you get the meal out of the box and into the microwave or oven (if the meal supports an oven), there is little you can do to change or alter the meal. But you have the advantage of no recipes to follow and it is easy per se to prepare. One shortcoming though is you do not know where the ingredients came from or how it was prepared. Actually this tv dinner was cheaper than expected and quite good to eat. I was surprised. The portions were exacting though. Added some butter for the mashed potatoes and the corn. With open source things are a bit different. You have to go out buy all the groceries to prepare and cook the meal. There is an advantage here is that you can inspect the ingredients to make sure you have what you want. You can also either use prepare

You actually can do a minimal windowing from the command line in Linux with dvtm. Dvtm is excellent for low end machines where graphics are not a priority. In the picture shown we have a working clock, SC a spreadsheet that you can easily export data to your favorite desktop spreadsheet such as Libreoffice, Links2 a web browser pointed to www.google.com, and finally nano a pretty decent basic text editor. I prefer vim, but nano has more of a user interface. Cheatsheet: `dvtm` is one simple, easy-to-use terminal multiplexer. Commonly used Options:     -v         prints version information to standard output, then exits.         -m <mod>   set default modifier at runtime.         [cmd...]   Execute cmd after dvtm is started. KeyBoard Shortcuts:     Mod    Each keybinding begins with Mod which defaults to ^g but can  be               changed in config.h or with the -m command line option.                       Mod-c  Create a new shell window.            Mod-x  Cl