Month: July 2014
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O’Reilly Media book: WordPress: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027508.do Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 3.9’s themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about…
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O’Reilly Media book: Communicating Data with Tableau
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030942.do Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves. You’ll learn how to craft articulate and creative data…
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O’Reilly Media book: Data Science at the Command Line
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032823.do http://datascienceatthecommandline.com http://datasciencetoolbox.org http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/09/19/seven-command-line-tools-for-data-science.html https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-command-line/issues http://csvkit.readthedocs.org Become a more efficient and productive data scientist by leveraging the power of the command line. With this practical guide, you’ll learn seven command-line tools for obtaining, scrubbing, and exploring data—including three tools developed by the author. If you rely on one-time scripts for working with data, this book…
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just purchased their album Waves on Amazon (Uwe Steinmetz, Daniel Stickan and Efrat Alony)
http://www.alony.de/en/side-projects/waves.html Supernova Ciacona Alpha and Omega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scVsCwfyslY – Calling Parasite Waves – Waves II Ricercar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEEx4VyoAk– In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr Nothing – Tiefer Grund Noel nouvelet Flagships Nearness waves
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just purchased Thievery Corporation’s Brazilian album Saudade on Amazon
http://ThieveryCorporation.com/albums/saudade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0CBzKfvA80 – full album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrUeosAV9I – Décollage –feat. LouLou Ghelichkhani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pvkPhc7wA0 – O Meu Nego – feat. Karina Zeviani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnwgSY4HHY – Quem Me Leva – feat. Elin Melgarejo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAG9_lConY0 – Firelight – feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6h9_joL-as – Sola In Citta – feat. Elin Melgarejo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0ywUBl2UE – No More Disguise – feat. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FhVi5REo0 – Saudade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIczj0B5m1Q –…
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just listened to on Deutschlandfunk: from Thievery Corporation’s album “Saudade”: Para Sempre
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tagesplaylist.278.de.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thievery_Corporation http://www.ThieveryCorporation.com http://ThieveryCorporation.com/albums/saudade the Portuguese saudade means longing in English the Portuguese “para sempre” means “for ever” in English The YouTube video shows the song text in Portuguese. As you may guess: a slightly simplistic text – but nevertheless rather nice feel-good music. I just bought the MP3 album on Amazon.
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booting a VirtualBox VM on a MacBook Pro from a Win8.1 DVD: “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.”
I had tried in vain booting that DVD with changed parameters in the VM set-up. I searched the web for the error message “FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.“. I did not simply try to navigate the DVD in the OS X Finder – but doing that at a rather early…
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Win8.1 as a VirtualBox VM on Apple’s Mac OS X
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes : regarding Windows 8 they say: “Requires AMD-V or VT-x. Guest Additions have small remaining issues.” https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=2 : (Guest systems > Windows Guests) http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/windows-8-1-download/ http://www.heise.de/download/windows-8.1-1192088.html I want to run a UK-English Windows 8.1 in a VM. I purchased a DVD. VirtualBox 4.3.12 offers Windows 8.1 as a supported guest operating system. Creating the VM looks easy.…
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“VMware Player” is an alternative to Oracle’s VirtualBox, but “VMware Player” does not run on Apple’s Mac OS X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Player