[Chicago] Python Project Night and Office Hours this week

[Lewit, Douglas]

Hey Jeremy,

Are you going to be at Python Project Night on Thursday evening?  If you're
there, we'll have to talk about ZFS!  Sounds interesting.  Yeah, I'm not
real impressed Deja-dup, but I think for some reason Ubuntu's developers
decided to make it the default backup system for their OS.

Not sure if this is really "off topic" at all.  I had a Computational
Biology professor last year at Northeastern who said, "Python and Linux
play very well together".  I know that Python is a multi-platform language,
but it's a well known fact that oftentimes developers of languages have a
preference for one particular OS.


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Jeremy McMillan <jeremy.mcmillan at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Deja-dup sucks. Use ZFS if you want the Time Machine experience on Linux.
> You'll learn some valuable stuff figuring that out.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 21:11 Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Changing the subject a little bit, is anyone out there familiar with
>> Ubuntu?  Sheila, you work for Canonical, right?  So maybe you can answer
>> this question.  I was creating a backup.  I thought my destination folder
>> was my external hard-drive but it wasn't.  My destination folder was a
>> folder in Home called "deja-dup".  When I looked inside deja-dup I found a
>> couple hundred tar.gz files, and I'm assuming those are compressed files
>> corresponding to my backup.  Is it SAFE to just copy those files to my
>> external hard-drive and then just delete the entire deja-dup folder?  Or
>> should I just leave the deja-dup folder alone?
>>
>> Backups in Mac are so much easier.  I love the Time Machine program that
>> Macs use.  Time Machine really takes all the headaches out of doing a
>> backup.  I think backing up files in Linux is definitely a more complicated
>> process.  However, I kind of like Linux because of its builtin package
>> manager, and I have also noticed that Linux has more up-to-date
>> interpreters.  My Mac for example has Ruby 2.0.0, but my Ubuntu computer
>> has Ruby 2.1.2.  I've noticed the same for Perl and Python.  Mac's Perl and
>> Python interpreters are always slightly out of date.  It appears that the
>> various Linux teams try harder to make sure that their OS's contain more
>> current interpreters.
>>
>> Well.... anyhow, if anyone can provide some advice on doing a safe,
>> effective backup in Ubuntu that would be great.  I could use some guidance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Douglas.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wasn't saying you shouldn't go to the python meet up I was saying how
>>> I work through regular expressions.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Joshua,
>>>>
>>>> Those are all good ideas, but sometimes it's fun to get ideas and
>>>> examples from other programmers.  That way I can "kill" two birds with one
>>>> stone: 1) Learn Python, and 2) Meet some great new friends!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Herman <
>>>> zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The way I try to program regexs is half the time I google the desired
>>>>> result and use that since it may have been tested before and just use it.
>>>>> The other times I would basically create test cases in a tool that Carl
>>>>> mentioned and I generally have the regex examples cheat sheet open.
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is a nice UI for experimenting
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://regexr.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> neat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I usually end up using a tool like that if I can't figure out why  my
>>>>>> expression isn't working as expected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oh and for the python part of this, when I have a particularly hairy
>>>>>> expression, I like the re.VERBOSE option so I can do multiline definitions
>>>>>> with comments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> shekay at pobox.com
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