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Using a roaming profile within your home or office setup would require a shared resource so all your files would no be included in your profile. An excellent way to achieve this would be through the net use command. This allows you to connect and disconnect from a shared resource within your network or just to view about your current connection.

If you will use net use command without any parameters, this will retrieve a list of your current network connections.

A sample command would be as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings\username>net use S: “\\home\Public Documents”

This would be best launched at startup whenever you login to your workstation.

Hope you guys find this one usefull.

I recently upgraded one of the websites I manage. This one was for bebeash which is for a friend of mine. I started the upgrade by first checking out the wordpress documentation as I have not done this before. Sure I have setup wordpress on countless occasions on different hosting platforms (even installing a local copy on my home computer). But this was my first and I didn’t want to mess up things. What I did was download the latest version, gzipped the existing wordpress files and placed those in a safe place. I didn’t bother backing up the database as I know wordpress doesn’t make changes on your database if your not installing it. (version 2.5.1) was different though as It also upgraded some backend files. (I suppose I just got lucky)

Anyhow, upgrade complete and done in less than 5 mins. I hope my friend will be happy. I added some linkbacks to my site as a commendation to myself. How sweet.

Before I forget, you can check out the documentation here

The early days of Unix were like the mythical Wild West, with companies innovating and taking the operating system in quite different directions while simultaneously assuring customers that the new operating systems were compatible and just like the other Unixes. The Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) stepped in and, with a tremendous amount of effort from all the major Unix vendors, created a standard version of Unix called POSIX, against which all the commercial and open source Unix implementations are measured. You can’t buy a POSIX operating system per se, but the Unix or Linux you run is POSIX compliant.

Yet even POSIX-compliant Unix implementations can vary. One example of this that will be addressed later in this chapter involves the echo command. Some versions of this command support an -n flag, which disables the trailing newline that’s a standard part of the command execution. Other versions of echo support the \c escape sequence as a special “don’t include a newline” notation, while still others ignore it all and have no apparent way to avoid newlines. To make things even more puzzling, some command shells have a built-in echo function that ignores the -n and \c flags, while the same Unix system usually also has a stand-alone binary /bin/echo that understands these flags. This makes prompting for input in a shell script quite tough, because ideally the script should work identically on as many Unix systems as possible.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of doubt,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Introduction

This chapter focuses on advances in the study of mathematics teaching and learning since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook of Educational Psychology (Berliner & Calfee, editors) in 1996. Because of the scope of the review, comprehensive coverage is not possible. In what follows I have chosen to focus thematically on major areas in which progress has been made or where issues at the boundaries of theory and practice are controversial. These areas include: research focusing on issues of teacher knowledge and aspects of professional development; issues of curriculum development, implementation, and assessment; issues of equity and diversity; and issues of learning in context(s). The chapter concludes with a discussion of the state of the field and its contextual surround.

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