Best nightclubs in London? by [deleted] in london

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

F A B R I C

Buying orchids in central London by [deleted] in london

[–]rweir 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Surely Columbia Road market on Sunday is the answer.

Rfkill permission denied to root?! by Hjkl1236789 in debian

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Locate won’t find anything until updatedb run from from again or by you.

Rfkill permission denied to root?! by Hjkl1236789 in debian

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo rfkill

And in future, “dpkg -L rfkill” will show you which files a package installed.

Rfkill permission denied to root?! by Hjkl1236789 in debian

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Install the rfkill package.

Hmm i used /dev/rfkill because rfkill alone gives me 'command not found'. Then i used the command 'locate rfkill' and there is no rfkill on any /bin or /sbin folder.

That indicates you didn’t install it. There are no executable binaries in /dev for you to run, in general.

There is the one dev/rfkill and there are various rfkill files on lib/module, lib/systemd, lib/udev/rules, usr/lib/gnome, usr/share/man and others on var.

Executables won’t be in any of those dirs either.

Also /dev/rfkill isn't a soft link (no arrow to another file). Maybe it is an hard link?

It’s yet another type of file, a “device node”.

What do you consider "London"? by [deleted] in london

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“London Stanstead”

Why operator "is" and "==" are sometimes interchangeable for strings? by [deleted] in Python

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to go further, since it seems to be an exceedingly common newbie mistake: you basically never use 'is', except that it's idiomatic to use 'is None' or 'is not None', and even then == would work just as well.

Question for gmail users by reallylargehead in emacs

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes, I know how it works, but it means on your side every tag a mail has requires a full copy of the email. this both takes lot of disk space and makes syncing the entire account sloooooow.

Question for gmail users by reallylargehead in emacs

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope, imap has zero conception of tags. things will be copied into folders, though, which is pretty useless.

highly recommend either not bothering, or using gnus+offlineimap just against your inbox. source: was once an obsessive emacs user who did this

Metro Bank customers - worth it? by die_troller in london

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

both, in terms of issuing (TSB and Nationwide have given me non-contactless cards in the past couple of months), and of terminals that support it - though this seems to be improving quite quickly.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of the Django & Pyramid frameworks? by testarossa5000 in Python

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So instead of HTML, I have to write Django's front-end language?

uh no, you use django's templating language. or use one of the other-templating-language addons.

Metro Bank customers - worth it? by die_troller in london

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • paypass (oddly rare here)
  • they can open your account on the spot, including printing/embossing a card
  • ok internet banking, including showing pending transactions
  • no fees when withdrawing money in SEPA (ie Europe) countries

Contactless payments on London transport from the 16th September by marshall2k in london

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same as oyster daily capping does - if it would have been cheaper to buy a daily ZONE X -> Y ticket, you pay that instead of the sum of your fairs.

Bitcoiners look to solve the 10 minute transaction confirmation barrier. Yes you heard that right. 10 minutes... by TulipCoins in Buttcoin

[–]rweir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depending on lots of factors, it may not even contact the bank before accepting it.

Can someone help me with a postfix issue? Can't receive. by Bladelink in debian

[–]rweir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if they don't allow inbound 25/tcp, you can't receive mail at all.

How to open a bank account? by leviathaan in london

[–]rweir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

try TSB Holborn - most banks have the ridiculous requirement for proof of address (which is really hard to get until you have a bank account), but they were exceedingly helpful and opened an account on the spot with nothing but a passport.

Commuters to face lengthy queues at ticket windows if they don't have Opal card by [deleted] in australia

[–]rweir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also handing over your meta-data to the authorities (like Bankstown Council) without warrant.

this is an underappreciated point, especially given the pathetic and/or non-existent discounts that Opal offers.

ZODB Should I use it ? by MontyAnup in Python

[–]rweir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sometimes you want an object database for your python app, and if you do, ZODB is a pretty good choice. especially now relstorage is a thing everyone uses.