> former admin--windows, alas. Honest question, why the need to apologize for being a former Windows admin?
I worked as a telephone repairman in the dial era. Impatient diallers would often "push" the dial back rather than let it unwind naturally. Switch gear in the central office was sensitive to mis-timed pulses so wrong…
There seems to be a few pilots on this thread but no one has yet mentioned trim tabs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tabs). The landing speed of a small plane is slower than cruising speed and the trim tab has to be…
The space character argument is also superfluous as it is the default. strlist = 'one two three four five'.split()
Thanks mgrouchy for another site that breaks pgdn. The header that never moves hides some lines on the next page. Reading becomes an annoying series of page downs then scroll up a bit to read the hidden sentences. Does…
>policeman-speak is still well-known for being unnecessarily verbose Policeman-speak is closer to lawyer-speak because police spend a lot of time writing reports that are subject to cross examination in court.…
My Toshiba Satellite Pro has a Celeron 497 MHz processor which Intel produced in 1999. It has been used almost daily since then, upgraded to XP but with the same 10 gig HD. I still follow 1500 stocks with Lotus 1-2-3…
>"I just want to write a little Twitter API script in 5 minutes" In that case you would use Out-of-band/PIN Code Authentication. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth_overview. For Pythonistas, my little Twitter API…
> former admin--windows, alas. Honest question, why the need to apologize for being a former Windows admin?
I worked as a telephone repairman in the dial era. Impatient diallers would often "push" the dial back rather than let it unwind naturally. Switch gear in the central office was sensitive to mis-timed pulses so wrong…
There seems to be a few pilots on this thread but no one has yet mentioned trim tabs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tabs). The landing speed of a small plane is slower than cruising speed and the trim tab has to be…
The space character argument is also superfluous as it is the default. strlist = 'one two three four five'.split()
Thanks mgrouchy for another site that breaks pgdn. The header that never moves hides some lines on the next page. Reading becomes an annoying series of page downs then scroll up a bit to read the hidden sentences. Does…
>policeman-speak is still well-known for being unnecessarily verbose Policeman-speak is closer to lawyer-speak because police spend a lot of time writing reports that are subject to cross examination in court.…
My Toshiba Satellite Pro has a Celeron 497 MHz processor which Intel produced in 1999. It has been used almost daily since then, upgraded to XP but with the same 10 gig HD. I still follow 1500 stocks with Lotus 1-2-3…
>"I just want to write a little Twitter API script in 5 minutes" In that case you would use Out-of-band/PIN Code Authentication. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth_overview. For Pythonistas, my little Twitter API…