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The Edge: Annual Question – 2010

January 8, 2010

How is the Internet changing the way you think?
You mean, other than turning us into mental hummingbirds, crazy for empty-calorie tweets and sugary serial blog links?
Dave Barry probably said it best:
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, ‘people without
lives.’ We don’t care. [...]

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MacPorts On Snow Leopard

September 12, 2009

If you used MacPorts on Mac OS X (Leopard) and you went ahead with the Snow Leopard upgrade, not realizing that it would break MacPorts, then the next time you ran a port command, you probably got an error message like this:
dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: mach-o, but [...]

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Python On XP: 7 Minutes To “Hello World!”

March 14, 2006

“Python Foot” graphic by David Day.

How To Install Python On Windows XP
Instead of being all things to all users, this little how-to assumes the following:

You are a Windows XP user who is curious about computer programming;
You would like to install the Python computer language on your Windows XP machine, start the Python interpreter, and run [...]

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Why Python on Windows XP?

March 14, 2006

If you don’t know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy; it is very powerful and flexible and well suited for large projects.
From How To Become A Hacker, by Eric S. [...]

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Genesys: EULA For The Universe

March 1, 2006

“Hands” graphic Copyright © 2008 by David Day.
Excerpted from Rapture For The Geeks, by Richard Dooling.
Genesys: EULA For The Universe
Copyright © 2008 Richard Dooling – All Rights Reserved
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Software and hardware He created them. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was [...]

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