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...imit them to 8 characters and to follow the pattern 'first letter of the first name'+'first 7 letters of the last name' (e.g. mbaudier). But people are sometimes frustrated with having their last name truncated and I wonder if limiting the user name to 8 characters is not a kind of superstition coming from some old times... I would be very interested to hear opinions / experience about this. (I'm using CentOS 5.5) Thanks in advance! Mathieu

...right not to be questioned. Consequently those who are not accustomed to original inquiry entertain a hatred and a horror of statistics. They cannot endure the idea of submitting their sacred impressions to cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph of scientific men to rise superior to such superstitions, to devise tests by which the value of beliefs may be ascertained, and to feel sufficiently masters of themselves to discard contemptuously whatever may be found untrue." --Sir Francis Galton, FRS [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am getting this error on an rspec test: undefined method `loaded?'' for #<Array:0x126a4c> When I call: Practice.includes("practice_members").all Practice has_many :practice_members PracticeMember belongs_to :practice Practice.all returns: [#<Practice id: 6, name: "Practice One", created_at: "2010-12-09 15:40:46", updated_at: "2010-12-09

Hi, I need to virtualize a physical machine (Debian Etch 32 bit) to run on Centos 5.4 64 bit. Can I do that? I mean can a full virtualized DomU 32 bit run on a 64 bit Dom0. Thanks in advance!! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

...van Rijn <hedderik@cmu.edu> writes: > > Thanks for pointing this out. I think your code should work, although > > I'm slightly uneasy about actually modifying f, so how about > > Just curious, why are you uneasy about that? Does it have side effects? It is largely due superstition, but if you change f before calling split<-() you have split() and split<-() called with different f's even if the same f is used for split() and unsplit(). That can be quite OK, but there's a marginal risk that it causes an inconsistency somewhere so that the split and unsplit aren...

I have two waves of a survey given to students at various middle schools and high schools, with student id numbers for each student. I am having difficulty reshaping the file from long to wide. My code is below: library(foreign) svy <- read.spss("studsur4.SAV") svy.wide <- reshape(svy, timevar="WAVE", idvar="id", direction="wide")

Dear All, Can R produce dot plots like the one of the following picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dotplot_of_random_values.png ? I have tried dotchart, but no success. Thanks in advance, Paul

I have been trying to get Rgraphviz to work (I know it is from Bioconductor) unsuccessfully. Since I have no experience with Bioconductor I thought I would ask here if anyone has advice. I have installed Graphviz 2.20.3 as is recommended on the Bioconductor site but basically R cannot seem to find the needed dll files. So, even though I have added the appropriate directories to the system path R

I want to migrate my R workspace databases (e.g., .Rdata) from Windows to Linux. The R help file for "save" says that "[a]ll R platforms use the XDR representation of binary objects in binary save-d files, and these are portable across all R platforms." Is it is simple as that? Copy the Windows .Rdata file to the Linux .ext3 file system? Thanks, Derek Derek N. Eder

I''ve almost finished a pretty simple type/provider to manage RabbitMQ users and virtual hosts. I''m using the ''ensurable'' keyword in my type to save a bit of boilerplate. Type is below (the provider is just a wrapper around the ''rabbitmqctl'' command. Have a feeling there''s a developer guide somewhere I haven''t found (been

Howdy Folks, This release is after painstaking analysis of a memory leak that was reported by Bradley Taylor, reduced by myself, and then fixed after much work. You should all thank Bradley for finding the bizarre fix. It turns out the Ruby has a memory leak when you use pretty much any thread locking primitive other than Sync (Mutex, Monitor, etc.): http://pastie.caboo.se/10194 The fix (for

...EV); then echo Unmount of $TARGETDEV sucessful else echo WARNING: unable to unmount $TARGETDEV fi else # guess not... die echo Unable to mount $TARGETDEV, quitting. Please check logs to try to determine what went wrong. exit 1; fi #This should be unnecessary, but I left it out of superstition. if [ -d "$MOUNTPOINT/lost+found" ]; then echo Unmounting $TARGETDEV filesystem. if (umount $TARGETDEV); then umount $TARGETDEV echo Unmount of $TARGETDEV sucessful else echo WARNING: unable to unmount $TARGETDEV fi fi exit 0 ---end backup script---

Hi, I have a class called Outlet which has_many Jacks. Apart from internal id, each jack is unique by the attribute ''color''. I''d like to iterate through each Outlet, and be able to output data for a Jack of a certain color. Say, I want to access the orange jack for the current outlet: <td><%=h outlet.jack.color[''O''].ip_address

...right not to be questioned. Consequently those who are not accustomed to original inquiry entertain a hatred and a horror of statistics. They cannot endure the idea of submitting their sacred impressions to cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph of scientific men to rise superior to such superstitions, to devise tests by which the value of beliefs may be ascertained, and to feel sufficiently masters of themselves to discard contemptuously whatever may be found untrue." --Sir Francis Galton, FRS [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ------------------------------ Message: 30 Date: Mon,...