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I've been using windows 7 since shortly after the first beta went out, and one of the things that I really love the OS (and why I've stuck with Windows in general) is how it handles my 3 monitors. Flicking apps and windows across my large central monitor and two 19" peripheral monitors with just a few keystrokes is really, really nice.

One of my New Years resolutions this year is to see if Win 7 makes life a little easier with 5 monitors. :) I hate context switching. I want it all in front of me at all times.
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OSnews slammed IRIX a little while ago... Because it was too difficult to set your desktop wallpaper. I get the feeling the site is run by people who don't actually use their computers for Real Work(tm).
"the Lubienskis discovered that after holding demographic factors constant, public school students performed just as well if not better than private schools students on standardized math tests"

What I've gathered is that based on the same socioeconomic factors, public schools in well-heeled neighborhoods do just as well if not better than private schools in well-heeled neighborhoods. And now thanks to NCLB they are basing their curriculums around state exams, and some do really well on them!

As a public school alumni, I've seen really poorly run and well run private schools. For most things they stack up equally to public highschools. The difference in parent involvement makes a hell of a difference. When it's your own money on the line it takes on a different aspect than dropping junior off at the gate.
Original article (PDF) http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/wsj_DecadeSector...
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XchangeTube is a user-friendly video broadcasting, online marketing website built to make international investment faster and easier, while giving companies greater exposure to global audiences through video marketing. It is a one-stop site for investors to visit, search and review companies (locally or globally) to decide if they are right for their portfolio.
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I agree with the sentiment. There are many ways of 'doing what you love'. You can love the tools and languages you get to play with, you can love doing a good job, you can love being part of a really cool project, you can love being challenged and forced to learn and improve your skills, you can love working with really intelligent people. The list goes on...
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I think the problem with these productivity methods isn't that it's bad to track what you're doing but that:

a) They impose a mental tax on you; it's hard to get into a flow state when you're busy thinking about whether you're doing what you should.

b) Make chores/minor tasks, etc., appear to be a good thing (after all, you're doing something productive) and idly staring into space a bad thing, even though the latter enables you to recharge your batteries so you can focus more intently on what's important. I think this is exacerbated because if you can't think of what big important thing you're supposed to be doing right now it's tempting to do something small just so you aren't "wasting time".

c) Also I've found that when I've done these things I wind up gaming the hell out of them so that I end up looking good by whatever metric is measured without actually achieving much more.
Dr. Pepper isn't a Coke brand, in many markets Pepsi has distribution rights for Dr. Pepper. So in those markets, they offer those products.

Pepsi wouldn't be caught dead selling Coke products in their machines. Some machines have both, but those are offered by third parties (Canteen/Vending companies) that buy in bulk from Pepsi & Coke and resell.
Not sure how it ended up here. I'm pretty sure I replied to the correct thread. Oh well, sorry for the pollution.
How the pros manage their passwords
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1009800
Just so people know, this is not a editor, but just a person who wanted to post an article. Osnews tends to have a lot of articles from people, and their quality does seem to vary a lot.

As you surmized the site focuses on mainly on hobby os's, its not a site based on productivity. a lot of these hobby os's once had their day in the sun (or at least the os they were modeled after, OS2, BEOS, IRIX, AMIGA) its a lot of fun to remember and even play with them, but few if any make their full time livings maintaining or using these os's.
What eBay Can Teach the U.S. Treasury
Hi guys/gals

To address a few of the points raised

@jot we are working to a very strict budget; our marketing spend is <$10k - to try and raise awareness of a previously unknown initiative. The team at present involved managing the initiative is 2 people - and not by committee.

@jdietrich we are very serious about this project and this is not a showcase. This is about creating opportunities for early stage startups from anywhere. This initiative is important in creating deal flow for the new $200m suite of investment funds based in the North East of England - http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/jeremie/index.cfm

@swombat sorry to hear that you don't approve of our marketing approach. It was designed to raise awareness of The Difference Engine and have a bit of fun. If you would prefer us to be more serious please check out our main website thedifferenceengine.eu

@danw am sorry if you think we scammed you. The internal "code name" for the programme was "Why Aye" Combinator for a period - hence the domain YICombinator. As is pointed out "Why Aye" is a frequently used phase.

@freeradical we have kept our remit relatively wide at this early stage so that we do not exclude good businesses and teams. This is no different from YC, Techstars and Seedcamp

@jgrahamc I understand that there are "differences in opinion on who should be given the credit for designing Rocket" (Wikipedia)

More than happy to take questions @jd
Who actually knows what they love to do? I think there's a rampant myth that there are all sorts of people who know what they love to do but aren't doing it... Figure out what you love to do and chances are you'll naturally end up doing it.

IMO figuring out what you love to do takes a lot of work, because you generally don't know if you love it until you've made a significant investment, and that investment itself potentially makes you love it.
Who doesn't need to occasionally view two windows at once? Is that not one of the affordances that OSX offers. By the way, do I need to list all the feature of OSX that I do use for you not to assume I don't use them?
Stop telling me what to do.
MIT Media Lab Director Aims to Transform Healthcare
It's the American Way. You pay for kids your kids go to school with, and you have a choice of paying in private school tuition or in mortgage payments and property tax.
I think the title is confusing. I was expecting to see an article about 80legs releasing open source code.
Lessons from teaching CS 1: Code fast
They acknowledged to change and add a lower-entry subscription plan. Nonetheless, still seems like a step backwards indeed.
While the JVM does support many languages, as far as we know, these languages all require reflection to work. Unfortunately, reflection is prohibited by the security policy Plura has in place to protect the home PCs Plura-based apps use.

If anyone knows how to make JRuby, Jython, etc work in the JVM without reflection, we would love to hear it.
Actually, a lot of the code for our 80Apps is open source.
This is something we can include as an 80App :) Thanks for the suggestion!
>Most interactive dialogs will no longer block tabs or disturb your work flow. Tab specific dialogs (like javascript popups) are displayed as part of the tab in an overlay, so you can easily switch tabs without have to move or close the dialogs.

I really hope this becomes more widespread. I hate greedy focus-grabbing alerts.
How we discovered 75% of our users don't report bugs
As a data point, I attended DLI in 1991-1992 for Russian. At the time the basic Russian class lasted for 47 weeks..5 days a week, 8 hours a day. If I remember correctly, Arabic was 63 weeks.

DLI 'ranked' languages according to difficulty...categories (cats) I-V. Russian was a III. Arabic was cat IV. The only two cat V languages were English (for non-natives) and Japanese.
An APP idea What do you think?
An Augmented reality App which can be used to view historic images/view of a location, For example use the app and look at Times Square and it lets you view how Times Square looked 20/40/60/100 years back.
It can be called "Time Machine" unless apple has issues. :) What do you think?
Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects
If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
It takes me back to summer employment during college, when the Ford and Chevy buffs (yes, there were such persons back then--I'm not young) would slang each other's tastes. During the school year one could hear the fans of Italian and British sports cars do the same.
A new quantum computing algorithm for linear equations
There's AdSweep at http://adsweep.org/ - I've never managed to get it to work on Opera 10 under Ubuntu, but I find it works well on Chrome and plenty of people have given it good reviews.
Vaporware 2009: Inhale the Fail
James Cameron's next movie: Battle Angel
I use this for simple, single server, small codebase sites.

But for various reasons (mainly rollback, history and consistency(rsync takes time, time in which your site has files from different versions) I much prefer the "schlep entire codebase into new directory and then switch symlinks when your ready to go live". Such as Fabric, Capistrano, or your custom deploy scripts do.

"schlep" is the technical term for scp/rsync/checkout/etc.
In many ways it's more irritating when it happens with Apple software because they have set expectations about usability higher.

I _know_ I'm going to need to zap a new PC, so it doesn't bother me so much. Compare to OS X where I was promised a good experience.

I can't even do a clean install of OS X as the junk is baked into the operating system.
Mark Suster: What Makes an Entrepreneur? Perspiration (6/11)
Here's more about Battle Angel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel
Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter
"You’ll end up spending your entire day “being productive” without actually achieving anything."

Well, if you didn't achieve anything, you aren't really being productive.

I think a lot of people get confused between 'what you do' and 'how you do'.

Choosing the most important thing you need to do in the day first, or the 3 most important things you need done, etc is "what to do". When you have issues with that you spend your day working in things that dont optimally lead you towards your goals.

Doing it in the zone, at night while you spend the day on twitter or hacker news, etc is 'how you do'. When people have issues with this they get to the end of the day and notice the tasks they set up to do haven't been done to the person's full potential.

Auditing your time and thinking 'should I really be doing this?' is a 'what to do' tool. It has nothing to do with the fact you work at night or during the day.
The versioning nomenclature seems somewhat chaotic... here it says 10.5 and their current version is 10.10 and on the linked page they refer to 10.1 and also talk about 10.50.
I guess that 10.10 == 10.1 and 10.5 == 10.50 but it is a bit confusing...

Oh, and the download crashes with SIGBUS on my MacPro running 10.6 :(
Thanks for letting us know. That makes a lot of sense.
I'm a long time user of Opera.
Always surprised why it is very underrated.

Just for the record :
* Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines
* Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files while downloading), history search (yes, opera's history search is the best), debugger and countless of small other useful details & features)

This browser is simply a treasure, yes I have tested every other browser and I keep a copy of FF with a bunch of plugins.
I'm not sure Privoxy is as smooth as Adblock, but it might be worth a try: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html#QUICKSTAR...
It was too long ago to remember what the specific name was that triggered the reaction, but I believe one cluster was named after characters from the X-Men comics, and another used Tolkien characters. There were others as well that I can't remember, but none were particularly controversial or objectionable, so far as I know.
I recently bought a Sony Vaio and while there were a number of pre-installed offers (from Sony itself or for Norton software), overall I was surprised that it wasn't worse. If I recall correctly it only came with:

30 day nagware trial of Norton Antivirus
30 day trial of MS Office

It might be a sad statement that I expected more crap. On the other hand, I was also very pleasantly surprised that it came with Google Chrome pre-installed.
+1 For me webdev is absolutely SE, although ething is based on CS of course.
The article makes it rather explicit that the test has changed to be more in line with modern curricula, at one point saying that private schools prepare students for the tests of 40 years ago. If you admit up front that the test is geared toward one or the other, doesn't that invalidate scores on that test as an objective measure of comparing the two?
We actually get the most traffic and signups when an article about us is posted on HN.
Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
"Public" schools are simply giant, private boarding schools where the parents happen to live too.
PlayClaw is now with Teamspeak 3 overlays
Sounds like you setup a system using the disk that came with it. Big mistake. Try using an actual Windows disc from Microsoft, and you won't have any of that crap. I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft gets a lot of flack for evils perpetuated by the PC manufacturers.

And do I need to mention Ubuntu, etc.?
So much of it is in the presentation. Sure, there are a couple of places where Apple tries to upsell you, but the process of ignoring those offers is not overly difficult or confusing. The impression they give is, to me, one in which they are more concerned about the overall user experience.

Microsoft and Dell/HP/et al seem to have almost no concern for how the customer perceives their initial experiences with the product. Getting an MS/Dell PC, you also automatically get 8 other vendors along for the ride. The specific benefit, and long or short term value, of any of those vendors is often not made very clear. Some of the products pop right up in your face, while others sit in the background and/or practically hide from any uninstallation attempts.
Web dev is SE and not CS because nobody code websites on Turing machines, and according to CS theorem all programing langs are equal so in theory you can do that:)
The main argument of this article seems to be that it is not fun to spend time on what you should be doing... Actually, if you have two options, one is something you should be doing, the other something you shouldn't, both are fun.

Personally, I'd work on whatever I should be doing.... If it's as fun (or serves my long-term objective, need, wants, better)
Interesting. Just a few days ago a friend sent me a link to a site he's involved with on this subject.
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The Windows OS is often greatly discounted when purchased with the hardware, pre-installed.

How do you "use an actual Windows disc from Microsoft" to reinstall without incurring additional license fees and hassles (IME, the OEM license keys you get with a Dell box won't let you register a generic Windows install)?
With my recent purchases I did not have to reinstall from scratch. I suppose Dell still tries to sell you Norton or something like that in their PC configurator, but if you don't chose it, it should not be on the PC. They are capable of learning...

The worst experience I had was with an expensive Sony Vaio Notebook (which did not have an OS installation CD either). Luckily I could send it back. But if you buy Sony, you must not complain, after the rootkit debacle.
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Kanban Psychology. Can You Say No?
hmm.. sometimes it's even frightening to switch to "pull" mindset from "being pushed" mindset. do you know how to work when no one is pushing?
to reap the full benefits

Perhaps that is the difference: register with Apple, get more benefits; register with Norton, have your computer lock up weekly while it does a full disk scan.
"Honestly if you were to work like this you may as well work for a big corporation where you can save yourself the hassle of having to audit your time – as some jerk of a manager will do it for you."

Your managers have other crap to do than to watch what you're doing 24/7 (or "8/5" for that matter) - they're much more likely to just hand you something so they can get it off their own plate and just expect you to handle it.

" You’ll end up spending your entire day “being productive” without actually achieving anything."

"Being productive" == achieving things. If you're not achieving something, you're not being productive (either because you're not doing anything [procrastination] or because you are doing the wrong things [i.e. your priorities are not set properly])

"Rather than this stupid auditing crap, come up with 3 tasks that are most important to your success. Do each one first thing in the day (my day is backwards btw, as in my day starts at around 9pm at night, im a bit wierd). Take a break in between each task and then feel free to procrastinate after."

This DOES NOT WORK. The only case in which this is a viable strategy is if you work for yourself and have no hard deadlines and you just want to keep yourself from reading reddit all day long - it doesn't work in most real-world situations. Like for example, your boss puts another project on your plate. But that never happens...

Take the advice of the late Randy Pausch - keep a time journal [http://www.scribd.com/doc/2519267/Time-Log-Sheet], and REVIEW that data (the data is useless if you just fill out time journals and let them sit in some folder somewhere).
Here is a youtube of Battle Angel rendered in 3D CG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTeyoVF8z-U
Bigshot Camera kit - teaching tool and social medium.
Known issues: JIT doesn't work on CPU's without SSE2
Wow a JIT working with SSE2! No wonder it's 20 percent faster than chrome
You can now order a Parajet skycar for $80k
Right, but I'm sure that will change with time. The economic issue is a temporary problem that will go away, just as it did with images.
I think part of the problem is that the general public thinks of the "business sector" as all one group. They think businesses are trying to screw them and don't realize that some businesses are trying to screw them, AND their competitors.
Shoveling Water: Why does it take so long to commercialize new technologies?
The BBC reported recently that the top 30% of UK taxpayers (about 15% of the population) are net contributors, everyone else gets more out of the system than they put in.

Weirdly the answer is always "make those who contribute the most contribute more" and not "make some of the rest pull their weight".
Parajet flew and drove its prototype from London to Timbuktu in January 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCwuMUeR5VM
Chrome comes very close. Its interface is actually cleaner than Opera's. I used to use Opera, but now I'm using Chrome. This new Opera has a better interface that leaves most screen space for the actual website, much like Chrome. Maybe I'll switch back to Opera.
The notion that being 'committed' to open source means that a company should give away everything of value is ludicrous. Google came up with great software that makes millions of peoples' lives easier, and they have every right to keep it secret and profit off of it.

The zealous idea that open source and trade secrets cannot coexist is detrimental to the open source movement as a whole, in my opinion.
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VortexBox 1.0 released - Linux Critic
opening this algorithm would lead to A LOT of new spammers and SEO-crap.

Google, please keep it a secret, PLEASE!
The analogy to "security through obscurity" is flawed. Open security works when there's an obvious way a secure system should behave, say, make it infeasible to open a lock/decrypt data without the correct key.

In Google’s, case the correct relevancy ordering of the web is a huge point of contention. So they cannot simply open it up hoping to close out all the holes in the open. It is also hard to distinguish acceptable behavior (linking) from unacceptable behavior (selling links) except in the aggregate through heuristics that assume ignorance on the part of the attacker.

In this sense, Google’s system is a lot closer to an intrusion detection system than a lock or a cipher suite. You want to establish some ground rules but there’s no added security in declaring what you’re monitoring on your servers and how.
Actually, Opera has already the ad blocker, named "content blocker", for some versions already. Find more details at this address: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block
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"This does not work"? It works for me. and i think you missed the joke about being productive and not achieving anything
Report: Russian gang linked to big Citibank hack
That is a completely ridiculous point to make. Come on, be serious here. What would be the benefit to anyone except for spammers, if Google open-sourced their algorithms? It's a lose-lose option. Google loses some money, we lose a lot of search engine accuracy, and spammers gain new ways to screw around with search results.

And does anyone gain from it? Not really. At this point, Google's supremacy is due just as much to their hardware know-how, to their market leader position, and to their excellent brand, as it is to their search algorithms. It won't help any competing search engines - just spammers.
Google's search ranking algorithm is their bread and butter so, I don't think they will ever open source it. But what always strikes me is that they have not yet open sourced their BigTable database systems even though, it's not their core revenue generating source. There are clones of BigTable in the form of Cassandra and HyperTable but it would be so much better if BigTable is open sourced.
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Wmii Python script to monitor remote machines
Actually, the 10.10 is because of the Unite component. When they released the official new version, 10, they didn't have Unite ready yet, it was on another branch, the 10.10 (they reserved a few numbers for hotfixes for the version without Unite).
Tapulous: We Make $1 Million a Month from App Store
To make progress, at some point you have to stop waiting for the next new thing and use what you've got right now instead. (See the Duke Nukem story: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/)