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The game will feature an open-world environment which will include frontier towns, wildlife-packed prairies and mountain passes. |
I loved Red Dead Revolver, despite the average reviews and 1.5 million copies sold, and it's great to see that the sequel is finally moving forward. Now about that Gun sequel. |
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Police in Maine said Monday that a high school principal accused of asking a student for sex is also accused of engaging in similar behavior in New Hampshire. |
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Waterville Senior High School Principal Don Reiter was dismissed Monday night after accusations that he asked a student for sex.Click to watch News 9's coverage.Waterville High School principal Don Reiter is accused of asking a Waterville female student to have sex with him on the first day of school, an attorney for the school district said.Police in Maine said Monday that Reiter is also accused of engaging in similar behavior in New Hampshire.Reiter had been on paid leave since the start of the school |
year after Waterville police said they had received a complaint about him.AOS 92 Superintendent Eric Haley had recommended that the school board fire Reiter, who asked that a termination hearing be held in public. The board held two meetings last week to discuss the case and it was then disclosed that a Waterville High School student had accused Reiter of soliciting sex.Through his attorney, Reiter has denied any wrongdoing. Waterville police said a detective who was attending a conference on human |
trafficking in southern Maine was approached by a former student of Mascenic Regional High School in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, who told him that Reiter had engaged in inappropriate behavior with some of her friends.Police said in a news release that a detective spoke with a student who claimed she had an inappropriate relationship with Reiter, and the student's mother later called to confirm the relationship based on letters written to the then-17-year-old female student.Police said the detective traveled |
to New Hampshire and spoke with school staff, the 17-year-old and her mother. The former student said she had a sexual relationship with Reiter during her "senior year or just after graduation," police said.Investigators said they received 147 pages of letters allegedly written by Reiter to the 17-year-old student. Police said the letters referenced his love for the teen, their "taboo" relationship, a kiss that they shared and other very personal comments.Waterville police said they still need to interview |
two former students at Mascenic Regional High School regarding the allegations against Reiter.Waterville School Board members are scheduled to resume Reiter's dismissal hearing Monday night. School board members met for several hours over two days last week without reaching a decision on his future.Reiter's attorney has denied the allegations for the past two months and requested a public hearing on the issue.The nature of the allegations had been kept confidential until last week while police and the |
superintendent investigated.The superintendent recommended terminating Reiter's contract. |
nwm |
A dynamic window manager for X11 written with Node.js |
nwm is what I use for window management in ChromeOS, Arch, Debian and Ubuntu. |
New in 1.3.x : added support for Node 4.0.x and 0.12.x ! |
: added support for Node and ! Supported: Ubuntu, ChromeOS, Arch, Fedora, Debian |
Dynamically tiling window manager with adjustable main window size |
Multiple monitor support (Xinerama) |
Workspaces/virtual desktops (0 - 9 by default) |
Layouts: vertical tiling, horizontal tiling, grid, fullscreen |
Each workspace can have its own layout |
Everything is defined/laid out in Javascript; a native X11 binding written in in C++/C emits events to Node.js |
New in 1.1.0: simplified the installation process by adding a nwm command, and simplified customization by introducing a new ~/.nwm-user loading mechanism. |
Installation |
Starting with v1.3.0 , nwm works with the following Node versions: 4.0.x , 0.12.x , 0.10.x , 0.8.x . An old commit works with 0.6.x as well, see appendix.md. For 4.0.x , you may need a newer GCC version, see this section for instructions. |
Other prerequisites: xterm and python (for node-gyp). Also install the following dev packages: |
On Ubuntu (14.04/12.04/10.04) and Debian (6 stable): sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxinerama-dev |
On ChromeOS, set up developer mode and then follow the chromeos.md guide for running my custom crouton deploy target |
On Arch (after installing X11): sudo pacman -S xterm libxinerama ; also, you need to set python to be python2 for gyp, the build tool that gets invoked by node-gyp. |
; also, you need to set python to be python2 for gyp, the build tool that gets invoked by node-gyp. On Fedora: (need to update this, please file a readme PR!) |
Next, install nwm via npm with the -g flag: |
npm install - g nwm |
This installs the nwm command globally, which can be then used to easily launch the window manager. If you want to install using git, see appendix.md for more instructions. |
Next, add an entry for nwm using /usr/share/xsessions (assuming you are using Gnome / GDM) as a login manager: |
nwm --init > /usr/share /xsessions/nwm .desktop |
Select "nwm" from the Sessions menu when logging in. |
Customizing nwm |
Starting with v1.1.0 , when nwm is launched via the nwm command line tool, it will first look for a file or folder called ~/.nwm-user (e.g. ~/.nwm-user.js or ~/.nwm-user/index.js ). This file allows you to customize your nwm keyboard shortcuts and overall behavior. |
If this file is not found, then the default nwm-user-sample.js is used to launch the window manager. |
Note that the new mechanism is different from the old one. The custom file should export a single function, which takes one parameter: the hash in nwm's index.js . This is done so that your custom configuration doesn't need to know where nwm is installed. |
To get started, copy nwm-user-sample.js and customize it. It contains all the necessary boilerplate. You could also keep your custom config in a git repo, and clone it using something like git clone https://github.com/mixu/nwm-user.git ~/.nwm-user && cd ~/.nwm-user && npm install . |
Tutorial |
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihgPfBj6yE (sorry for the crappy audio!) |
Launching programs |
When you start nwm, you will be presented with an empty screen. |
To start a terminal (xterm), press: Win + Shift + Enter . nwm takes care of dynamically rearranging windows. Launch a second terminal by pressing Win + Shift + Enter again. |
Other programs are launched from the console. For example: google-chrome & launches Google Chrome, if you have it installed. |
Switching between layouts |
nwm comes bundled with a number of different layouts. Press: Win + Space to toggle between different layouts. |
Moving focus |
Move the mouse on top of the window you want to focus. You can also use Win + j / Win + k if you don't like the mouse. |
Using workspaces |
The way I use nwm is by dedicating workspaces to different tasks (e.g. different programming projects, managing files, terminal windows). Each monitor has 9 workspaces, numbered from 1 to 9. To change the workspace, press: |
Win + [ number key between from 1 to 9 ] |
To move the focused window to a different workspace, press: |
Win + Shift + [ number key between from 1 to 9 ] |
If you have more than one monitor attached, then you will have 9 workspaces on each monitor. You can change the layout on each workspace individually. |
Resizing the window |
Sometimes, you want to make one of the windows larger or smaller than the others, like a terminal window next to a web browser window. |
In nwm, the window on the right hand side is considered to be the main window. |
Press: Win + H or Win + F10 to shrink the main window. |
Press: Win + L or Win + F11 to grow the main window. |
You can change the main window size setting for each workspace separately. |
Reordering windows |
To set the focused window as the main window, use Win + Tab. |
Closing windows |
To close the currently focused window, press: Win + shift + c |
Using multiple monitors |
This is basically just like using workspaces. You can move the currently focused window to a different screen by pressing: Win + Shift + , and Win + Shift + . |
That's it. |
Keyboard shortcuts |
Meta + Shift + Enter Meta + Space Meta + j Meta + k Meta + h Meta + F10 Meta + l Meta + F11 Meta + Enter Meta + Shift + c Meta + [ 1. .n] Meta + Shift + [ 1. .n] Meta + BackSpace Meta + Shift + , Meta + Shift + . |
Changing keyboard shortcuts |
To customize the keyboard shortcuts, change nwm-user-sample.js. Let's look at the keyboard shortcut for xterm in nwm-user-sample.js: |
{ key : 'Return' , // enter key launches xterm modifier: [ 'shift' ], callback: function (event) { child_process. spawn ( 'xterm' , [ '-lc' ], { env: process.env }) ; } }, |
There are three parts to a basic shortcut: |
The key ('Return'). You can find the names of the keys in ./lib/keysyms.js. |
The modifier key ([ 'shift' ]). You can use shift or ctrl. |
The callback. |
Writing new layouts and reassigning keyboard shortcuts |
For more extensive customization, see https://github.com/mixu/nwm-user which has a package.json file and hence makes it possible to git clone + npm install your window manager. |
Vertical Stack Tiling (e.g. DWM's tiling) |
Bottom Stack Tiling (a.k.a. wide) |
Grid (a.k.a fair) |
Compiling under Node 4.0.x |
To recompile nwm after switching Node version, make sure you install by cloning the repo, then run rm -rf build && npm install or reinstall via npm by uninstalling npm uninstall -g nwm and then reinstalling npm install -g nwm . |
In order to compile nwm for Node 4.0.x , you'll need a GCC version ~4.8 . Older distros - like Ubuntu 12.04 - ship with a GCC ~4.6 which will cause a wall of errors when compiling Node native modules. Here's a recipe for Ubuntu 12.04 (which also allows you to reset back using update-alternatives --config gcc : |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/ test sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc- 4.8 g++- 4.8 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc- 4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++- 4.8 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc- 4.6 40 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++- 4.6 sudo update-alternatives --config gcc |
Running under a secondary X11 server (Xephyr) |
If you want to test or develop nwm, the easiest way is to use Xephyr: |
# start Xephyr Xephyr -screen 1024 x768 -nodri -br : 1 & # export gedit to the X server on display 1 DISPLAY=: 1 gedit DISPLAY=: 1 gnome-terminal # now start nwm.js on display 1 DISPLAY=: 1 node bin/nwm --xephyr |
Under Xephyr, the base key combination is Ctrl+Meta (e.g. Ctrl+Win). When running natively, the base key is Meta (Win). This is so that I can test nwm inside itself, yet have decent shortcuts. Note the new --xephyr option which controls whether to use Ctrl+Meta or just Meta as the base key combination. |
Tips for running under a VM |
Some tips for running nwm in a VM: |
If you use VMware Workstation, you have to start vmware-user manually for multi-monitor support via Xinerama after starting nwm. |
If you use VirtualBox, you have to use xrandr manually for multi-monitor support (e.g. xrandr --output VBOX0 --auto --left-of VBOX1). |
VirtualBox sometimes gets your virtual screen sizes wrong. If this happens, you need to rerun xrandr, otherwise Xinerama reports the starting index of your second display incorrectly. You can see this by running xrandr: |
VBOX0 connected 1440 x900+ 0 + 0 0 mm x 0 mm VBOX1 connected 2560 x1440+ 2560 + 0 0 mm x 0 mm !!!! |
The display VBOX1 is marked as starting at x=2560 even though VBOX0 ends at 1440. This was because VirtualBox resized the VBOX0 screen incorrectly when you ran xrandr. This is a VirtualBox bug, not a nwm one. |
As I’m more or less an autodidact when it comes to statistics, I have a weak spot for books that try to introduce statistics in an accessible and pedagogical way. I have therefore collected what I believe are all books that introduces statistics using comics (at least those written in English). What follows are highly subjective reviews of those four books. If you know of any other comic book on statistics, please do tell me! |