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Location: Town The Pelican of Mykonos, Cyclades: The Pelican called Petros (Peter) is an integral part of the island of Mykonos and rightfully it has become the mascot of the island.You can get a glimpse of the cute creature as it strolls leisurely in own unhurried pace through the city's many alleyways. From polyglotturtle import PolyglotTurtleXiao pt = PolyglotTurtleXiao(serialnumber='9B1ECC342E3120FF02110D') All devices have a unique serial number that is associated with the USB device. You can find this number in Windows using Device Manager, in Mac OS using System Report, and in Linux using lsusb.
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We’ve previously reviewed OtterBox’s waterproof iPod cases and found them to be ideal all-conditions cases that still allow you to use and control your iPod. However, OtterBox’s cases are waterproof only to 1 meter and hold only your iPod itself. If you’re looking for the absolute ultimate in iPod storage and protection, Pelican’s new i1030 may be the way to go. Unlike OtterBox’s offerings, you can’t use your iPod while it’s in the i1030 — the case is designed for transporting your player from place to play, not for shelter during use. However, the i1030 offers significantly more protection from water, dust, and crushing than even the impressive OtterBox products.
At 7.5″ by 3.9″ by 2.4″ the i1030 is large for an iPod case, but inside the nearly unbreakable polycarbonate shell — available in yellow or iPod-matching white — is more storage space than that found in a typical case. A thick layer of molded rubber provides a cradle for full-size and mini iPods that, in my testing, fits full-size iPods perfectly; the groove for iPod minis works fairly well, although some vigorous shaking or a hard bump will shake a mini loose — not that this will cause your mini to suffer any damage, given the rubber and padding inside. (Although you can place an iPod nano or shuffle in the i1030, it won’t be secured and will bounce around; again, this isn’t likely to result in damage, but it’s not an ideal fit.) This is one of the few cases I’d feel comfortable dropping onto concrete with my iPod inside.
At the base of the iPod cradle area is a rubber-lined compartment designed to hold your iPod’s dock connector cable. The lid of the case has an organizer with padded, elastic pockets for your iPod’s earbuds and Apple’s iPod AC adapter; the earbud pocket is also large enough to accommodate larger earbuds or canalphones instead. My only complaint about the organizer panel is that with larger earbuds, closing the case sometimes causes the earbuds to press against the Click Wheel of a full-size iPod — and thus turn it on if I didn’t use the iPod’s Hold switch.
When closed, a latch nearly as long as the case seals the i1030 shut; the case’s rubber interior acts as an o-ring to make the seal air- and watertight. The case even includes an automatic pressure/purge valve to equalize air pressure at high altitudes and to keep out water when submerged — the case is rated as waterproof to depths of 30 feet. The seal and construction also provide protection from extreme temperatures (-10 to 200 degrees F) and allow the case to float. (An included nylon strap with a double-latch velcro closure lets you clip the case to a belt or stationary object so that you won’t have to worry about a fall into water in the first place.)
My career has gone through many phases: Perl to PHP, PHP to VBA, VBA to C#, C# to Python, Python to JavaScript, and back to C# again. I’ve tried Dual booting, I’ve tried VMs, I’ve tried dedicated machines for each environment. I’ve tried corporate “certified” machines (Lenovo), I’ve tried building my own dev machines. Nothing is pain free, but after jumping through every hardware problem known to man, the least painful developer hardware I’ve found is
The MacBook Pro.
Just about every issue I’ve had with development revolves around three specific problems:
– Stability
– User Experience
– Developer Support Tools
Stability
The MacBook Pro (MBP) absolutely kills in the stability arena. The Operating system is stable, I don’t have to worry that patching my system will result in rebuilding the OS, and I don’t have to worry about Windows Updates. For running VMs, ReSharper is amazingly stable, able to suspend and restart the VM quickly for when that’s needed.
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Have you ever had this happen to you? You’re in Windows, and you’ve hit “Postpone” on an update, only to walk away from your computer and find that the update installed and restarted your computer without your consent? Or, if you’re using linux, and you make the mistake of using apt-get and it installing a new linux kernel, only to have your system hosed on reboot? My personal best? That happened three times before
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Apple’s user experience is top notch (iTunes notwithstanding). While there is some fussiness around setting up Python for a Mac, there are clear analogues for developers who want to develop for FOSS on a MBP. The OS comes back quickly from sleep; the keyboard and trackpad contain unobtrusive (yet useful) features. The entire experience from opening the box to using it for actual development is insanely easy compared to other platforms, where sometimes sound drivers don’t work, or the installation fails for no particular reason.
One significant advantage to choosing a MacBook Pro is that Apple needs to only support a handful of hardware, instead of the thousands upon thousands of combinations of hardware choices that Linux and Windows need to support.
Developer Support Tools
For Mac, Parallels is one of the best pieces of virtualization software out there. I can run a Windows VM and a Linux VM in Parallels and have everything just work, including each VM communicating with the others and the outside world over HTTP. I tried to get Hypervisor to do that over the course of two days and was met with failure.
There are some issues with Mavericks, however. If you click on a dialog that wants your attention (the bouncing icon in the Mac OS X Icon Bar) and the icon belongs to a VM on a different desktop (multiple monitors), you get… weirdness.
One area where Mac has been deficient before Mac OSX Mavericks was multiple monitor support, in that it didn’t really support multiple monitors. Now with Mavericks there is first class support for multiple monitors, but it’s not perfect yet.
Have you ever tried to get support for a Dell? It’s terrible. Hours spent on the phone to have a customer service representative tell you to wait for them to ship you a box so you can ship your Dell back for replacement. Contrast that with the Apple Store experience. I’ve taken my MBP to the Apple Store three times, and all three times I was in and out within 30 minutes, and *every single time* it was free. That’s incredible.
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With the advantages the Macbook has over other development experiences, it’s hard to imagine reasons *not* to use it for development.