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Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:22:10 -0000

I'm not familiar w/ the HP Chromebox, but if/when you look for another chromebook, try to buy one that accommodates Crouton and/or GalliumOS. These enable you to run full-blown linux within/side-by-side with ChromeOS, thereby enabling you to do pretty much anything you want (or pretty much anything that I want, at any rate).

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:19:12 -0000

The specs may not matter to you, but of course they have everything to do with the price of the laptop. Calling a laptop overpriced when it is priced the same or less as other laptops with the same specs is nonsense.

Furthermore, I have no idea what you personally wanted to do with the laptop, but as I've already stated, I think you would be very hard pressed to find something you can do with your laptop of choice, that I cannot do on my Pixel. The only thing I can think of is gaming. I will grant you that the Pixel is a pretty terrible gaming machine (unless you're just playing the kinds of games you can find in the Play Store; it's pretty great at those).

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:19:05 -0000

(There was a part 1 of my reply which appears to be held up awaiting moderation because it contained a URL. Basically it says to check out the Crouton project by dnschneid on github.)

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:52:15 -0000

The only thing I miss from time to time is vagrant / virtualbox. ChromeOS controls the kernel version of the chroot, so keeping virtualbox running is difficult. Consequently I'm probably going to install GalliumOS via chrx and try using that as an alternative to Crouton. Anyway, as you can see, there are lots of interesting options in the Chromebook world, and these machines are far from "laptops that only browse the web."

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:36:58 -0000

Basically it's all about crouton. https://github.com/dnschnei...
This enables me to run a full-blown debian / ubuntu server out of a chroot on my chomebook. So when I do my dev work, I fire up my crosh window, drop to shell, enter my chroot, and off I go. I absolutely love it.

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:32:44 -0000

Have a look at the specs, compare them to other similar laptops, and let me know your findings.

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:32:03 -0000

And thank God for that.

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:31:19 -0000

Clearly the Pixel Laptop is a very misunderstood device. I'm a full-stack software developer with 18+ years of experience and I do all my work from my Pixel. It's a pleasure to use, has similar specs to a MacBook Pro, and is half the price. I wish people wouldn't make such loud and brash statements about things they clearly don't understand.

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:28:52 -0000

I'm replying from my Pixel, where I am able to run Android apps. How's that for a start?

Re: Google is Not Working on Another Pixel Laptop

sclaughl — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:28:16 -0000

I'm replying from my Pixel, where I am able to browse the web, as well as do full-stack web development. Apologies in advance for the strong language, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest doing some research before making statements about how useless certain pieces of technology are.

Re: Custom Actions In Django Admin Object Editor

sclaughl — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:14:09 -0000

Replying to myself...

I do wonder if this type of information should be specified on the model like I am doing. It would probably make more sense to specify it on the ModelAdmin. But the way I describe was the first workable way I could find to implement it without touching django core/contrib.

--Stuart

Re: Custom Actions In Django Admin Object Editor

sclaughl — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:03:54 -0000

I realize this post is a year and a half old by now, but I just came across it today and found it useful, so thanks for that.

In case anyone else stumbles across it like I did, I thought I'd add some info pertaining to Django 1.1.

The good news is that in Django 1.1 you can do something like this with no modifications to django core / contrib. Here's how...

Step one remains about the same. Of course you will want to copy the change_form.html into your particular project, rather than modifying the global default change_form template. Here's the line to add, updated for 1.1...

{% for action in opts.form_actions %} <li>{{ action.1 }}</li>{% endfor %}

Skip steps two and three, as well as the next step, i.e. step one of 'Your Custom Handler'. Now open your models.py and locate the model to which you want to add form actions. For that model create a Meta class and give it a form_actions attribute.

class Meta:
form_actions = (('action_name', 'action_title'), )

In order to keep Django from objecting to this new and unfamiliar attribute, include this code near the top of your models.py...

import django.db.models.options as options

options.DEFAULT_NAMES = options.DEFAULT_NAMES + ('form_actions',)

Now update your urls.py as desired and you're done!

(r'^admin/action_name/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>.+)/$', 'myproj.myapp.views.action_view'),

HTH,

--Stuart

Re: The Tools I Use - Larry Wright - The Curiousity Project

sclaughl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:40:21 -0000

Ha! So you did. Nice work! :)

Re: The Tools I Use - Larry Wright - The Curiousity Project

sclaughl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:09:23 -0000

You didn't include some stuff I know you use, e.g. your online project management tool (right?). Are you saving that for the Windows post?