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Although it is impossible to boot a Pi Zero from SSD you can ‘more or less’ do so with just a shim actually on the SD card.
Choose a 8GB or lower card (tend to be more reliable) and follow the directions given here
I wonder how much of the anti Google sentiment has been stirred up by those whose illegal activities would/could be exposed by a Google search or too? T
Quasi-illegal also falls into that category. The Iranians, Russians and Chinese caught a whole load of CIA spies simply by Googling! Ars link
I only partially agree with what was said, in that none of us old pharts are potential targets, however it is quite surprising who falls into the target categories other than the obvious ones i.e. rich, famous or having direct access to commercial or government info. These people really need to come off the radar as much as possible other than perhaps their deliberate separate on-line personas. However there are other less obvious commercial targets such as gamers (password stealing of games access codes is quite lucrative), relatives or friends of the obvious targets, persons running popular servers. The list goes on . . .
Although maybe you can trust Google, Bing, GCHQ etc. to some extent, the bigger a target’s on-line footprint the more likely that some idiot company will open up their trove of insecure data and let in the con-men. Even if the info is ‘innocent’ it all helps in phishing attacks and it is well known that users themselves are always the weak links when it comes to breaking open systems.
In addition, young people need to be very cautious in that employers, head-hunters etc always look at the online footprint of a person of interest. Pity the poor graduate who keeps losing job opportunities due to some on-line indiscretion years in the past. The smaller the info cluster the less likely it will be used against someone.
For these reasons don’t be too disparaging about minimising anyone’s on-line presence, it is a good habit to encourage. Where possible lie to all info requests!
You do not have to quit just use the GDPR options to turn off what you dislike – for example tracking. If Google ‘cheat’ they face massive fines so probably will not do so.
Python is INTERPRETED so everything is at run-time, including .py scripts and so-called compiled .pyc files. A pyc file is still interpreted, it just loads more quickly.
[edit] Python lets it all hang-out and allows libraries to be loaded anywhere you want as long as it is before any calling program.
Worked ok for me (Firefox). Try again.
November 9, 2018 at 8:55 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #28113Perhaps of interest to the ex-aircraft techies the NYT has a fairly detailed speculation of what went wrong. However I’d have to add that I (and everyone else on board) had my prayer beads out whenever I sat in a local Indonesian, African or Indian airliner.
I can still recollect idly sitting in the departure lounge of Harare airport watching a ground crew service our pending flight when someone succeeded in dropping a replacement engine onto the tarmac!
Normally Air Zimbabwe was one of the better maintained lines, being serviced in Ethiopia – but there are always exceptions.
Python Libraries are like DLLs i.e a lot of routines. procedures, functions that are bundled together. With a little bit of extra work they will also work in C.
Tippon,
I find that with Python I’m always learning as there are so many different libraries to make tasks ‘easier’.
If you have Ubuntu in a VM I recommend that you follow (i/e. copy and paste) the steps in this article to get a Chrome web-driver up and running. You can use Firefox and even IE, but I recommend chrome as there is a lot of code available with Google.
Once you have this installed you will have access to Selenium a library that gives you a lot of web page manipulation.
I’ll then post a short snippet that will first bring up the BBC web site (and allow you to go through its irritating log-ons/cookie/oks etc), then save the necessary cookies and exit. I’ll also give a second short snippet that opens a fresh BBC web page and loads the cookies you previously saved..
This is a bit like having your own web page docker as other than the cookies you deliberately save all other signs of your presence are lost when the python script closes.
When you have the required libraries established Python takes very little code to do amazing things.
Bob, you should gather together all your various musings and have them printed and bound, then deposit a copy in your local county archive.
Social history can be of great interest to future historians. It is often extremely difficult to obtain such information from the ‘ordinary’ person. Its the rich, generals and political ne’er do wells who get to write their (often distorted) view of history. The ‘real’ story rarely gets told.
I started to go to a Shed Group to see if they were interested in starting up a ‘Makers’ group. Unfortunately if I bring any electrical kit (e.g. solder station, hot-air guns etc) they required each and everyone one of these to be PAT certified even if it was unmodified and carried a CE label. I thought this was a ludicrous requirement as each item was being fed through it own (certified) earth leakage/overload trip switch, but I was told that this was an insurance requirement.
As PAT certification is stupidly expensive, I had to leave the group.
Player Unknowns Battlegrounds for XBoxOne details on Ars Technica – limited time offer
PM this article on placebos is interesting. It goes some way towards explaining why folk on the Autism spectrum find many medications do not work. Logical folk perhaps need more convincing that something will work.
Although the article does not cover it, the nocebo (negative placebo) effect is much stronger. My father spent many years in West Africa and he used to recount the evil effects that a ‘*witch-doctor’ could achieve by putting a hex on someone.
*wrong word but I cannot remember the dialect word he used.
Tippon, once you have played with a few languages you will find similarities across many of them. There are unfortunately a few exceptions such as Lisp , Forth and APL (insanity personified). However, generally speaking once you are comfortable with one language it is a reasonably simple task to move to another.
If you take a look at the CodeAcademy site the lessons move quite slowly at first which is a good idea. Imo Python is far more idiosyncratic wrt what works and what does not. Getting the syntax under your belt is a good start.
Some of the Codeacademy tips are pretty good e.g. use spaces rather than tabs as the editors sometimes get confused with tabs versus spaces. (indentation is used instead of the much saner brackets and semi colons.)
I use the phone system that Dave pointed me to – an earlier version of the BT8600. It is basically the mobile Truecaller for landlines. I block everyone who is not on my white-list, they can then state their name/business and I can then allow or blacklist if I want. It filters out foreign scammers as they do not want to spend the time waiting for my approval.
Brilliant piece of kit – well worth the money.
[edit] I have forgotten all the possible setup options. Iirc I have auto-dropped all foreign callers except those on my white list. I guess those using an internet chat via a uk number could get in but they do not bother. Even the UK PPI irritants do not bother!
I guess that living in the lightning hotspot of the UK you need some spike protection!
Not too much risk here, but most of my more costly electronics PLUS broadband are now routed via one or more UPS devices. The advent of fibre has reduced telecomms lightning risk to nearly zero but at one time it was a real hidden risk factor.
Imo the First World War (which originated Poppy Day) was a horrible carnage which in the old saying was a case of Lions led by Donkeys re-fighting the Battle of Balaclava. It is a war that should never have taken place, and there is a strong argument that it was only the Parisian whoring of Edward VII and his Enente Cordiale that caused us to be dragged into it. It was not a battle for freedoms but a schoolboy spat that should never have developed into a war. What is even worse is that it then probably led directly to the causes of the second World War..
That said, I do honour those who have been dragged into the modern equivalents by the likes of TBLiar. It just irks me that we find it necessary to have charities doing the work that should be done by our Government. Instead this work should be paid for by taxing those like the football players BL despises.
Good, I’m glad that you are satisfied that this is all above board, Checking out EBay you bought it at least 40% below their price – a real bargain!
they were having a Warehouse clearance…
Sounds like a new twist on ‘it fell off the back of a lorry’! When I worked near Tilbury there were quite a number of similar offers from the dockers in the Working Man’s Club.
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