mutt -f imaps://youraccount@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com
That’s all there is to it. There must be other more intricate ways of doing it, but that is the simplest one. No I just need to learn how to use Mutt.
To change the window manager is very similar if not the same as in KDE3. The major step is to export KDEWM=”your-window-manager” General instructions can be found at http://developer.kde.org/~seli/kdewm/
But instead of doing the exporting in ~/.profile as mentioned in that article you should put it in ~/.kde/env/*.sh so for example you could name your file kdewm.sh and make it’s path ~/.kde/env/kdewm.sh
Unfortunately it does not work straight off the bat with the Awesome window manager. Does anyone know how to get it working?
I simple do not learn well via sequential access. I much prefer wiki style jumping around. I don’t want to read a whole book or chapter straight through. It is painful not being able to click on links to get more in-depth information about what that particular idea is.
It would be really cool if there was a website set up for books. It would be collaboration based. There would be a book that people would read. There would be problems associated with said book. For each of the problems there would be answers that are available. There would be multiple levels of answers, first there is just the answer, then there is there are the calculations, then there are the reasoning behind the calculations, then there may even be more like why we went about solving it the way we did. And there will be easy way to make forum posts about each question and it would be linked so that it would be easy to find all posts that relate to that question. All of this content would also be wiki editable to allow for maximum crowd sourcing.
Today I read in my math book about a Mathematician who wrote a book before formally studying math. He gave it out only to friends (because presumably other didn’t want it). Later he went to Cambridge and died 4 years after graduating. Finally someone realized the importance of his book and now he has a section of my Math book dedicated to him.
I have just decided/realized that lectures are not an ideal way for me to learn. Like how in “Don’t make me think” the author states that almost no people read pages from top to bottom, I would like to be able to do things like that when I’m learning. However, lectures do not allow that, I am forced to sit through the entire lecture, being bored at some parts, or confused at others, I am completely unable to go through it at my own pace.
This also creates dependencies on previous lectures that can be fatal to a student. For example, when I was taking Algebra in high school I missed the introduction to functions and that really messed me up, it took me a few weeks to really start to understand the concept. If I had known about wikipedia than maybe it would not have been so bad.
In all fairness to teachers, the dependence on lectures is forced by practical concerns (mostly relating to money) such as teacher to student ratio and time.
You always get assigned the even problems. This is because the odd ones have solutions. So if I do the even ones, I’m not sure if I am doing the correct, if I do the odd ones first, then I get to check my work but then I’ll need to do the even ones after, but those are meaningless busywork because I already know how to do it, I just have to show the teacher.
There are many reasons that I don’t learn well in school. The main one is that school usually follows a depth first or depth only methodology, with little or now big picture and interlink view.
Yesterday I had an interview for an internship at Northrop Grumman, it did not go so well. I was late and apparently underdressed, I wish business casual wasn’t such a loose term, the ambiguity sucks. I need to update my resume, currently it has mostly high school stuff on it like electric car and botball. I’m wondering if I need some leadership experience, Nolan (my interviewer) asked me if I had any, but I had to tell him that I did not.
I think that many of the problems with formal schooling (especially public schooling) comes from conflicting view of what the purpose of School is. These are
You may think that #2 and #3 are the same. I don’t think they are. #2 is strongly focused on the student, they will fulfill this goal even if all they do is learn about video games.
I think inspiring a love of lifelong learning in students is the most valuable lesson you could learn from school. Unfortunately, School does extremely poorly at this job. It drills repetition and meaningless memorization into students which makes them hate learning.
It can be especially bad in College. The problem is that school has practical benefit, this makes it hard to serve all students. Many students only want a degree so that they can get a good job, I am also responsible for this. When you go to college just for a job, many classes become meaningless, you need this whole checklist of things to graduate. But how many people will remember a fraction of the things they learned by the time they graduate? They will not! This is what makes the whole graduation checklist meaningless. Classes (especially gen ed) should focus much more on breadth then on depth, the goal is to get students introduced to the field, which is something that can stick with them.
Another HUGE problem with the school system is Testing. Any type of testing, but standardized testing is the worst. It ruins education, testing is a hack that allows teachers to assign students a score between 0 and 100. The curriculumn is distorted so that students can be “tested”. You’re not having a good today, on your final? Too bad, you fail.