Category: Books

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Arjun Ruparelia; China’s famed Great Firewall blocks many websites and apps, from Google to Facebook. It has its own internet ecosystem, where people use WeChat instead of WhatsApp, Youku instead of YouTube and iQiyi instead of Netflix. These Chinese services have geoblocks that won’t allow access if you’re outside China. If that’s what you want, you need to know how to get a Chinese IP address. Key Takeaways: You can get a China IP address using a VPN and get access to geoblocked Chinese content.The best VPN to get a China IP is CyberGhost. However, if you ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; YouTube is a free-to-use video sharing service famous for its user-generated content. It’s the go-to place to watch music videos, comedy shows, hacks, step-by-step guides on how to do things and more. However, YouTube content isn’t available everywhere. For example, when you travel to China, you’ll need a VPN for YouTube to freely access the streaming service.  Beyond that, some YouTube creators block videos in specific territories. For example, a U.S.-based vlogger can choose to make their content available only in the U.S., preventing viewers in the U.K. from accessing it. In that case, you’ll ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes;  MySQL Server version  8.0.28 was launched a few days ago and without a lot a fanfare. Which is a shame and I wish we had more of a splash for every release.  The release notes are available here. I would like to highlight some of the changes.There are over a hundred bug fixes and big thanks to Hope Lee, Casa Zhang, Øystein Grøvlen, Song Zhibai, Facebook, Hobert Lu, Brian Yue, Zhai Weixiang, Murakami Kohei,  Venkatesh Prasad Venugopal, and the Tencent team.The HighlightsThis release does not have a lot of 'wow' new features but shows a lot of solid work in evolving the product. The new audit_log_disable system ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rstats on Bryan Shalloway's Blog. Identifying R Functions & Packages Used in GitHub Repos | R-bloggers % distinct() %>% DT::datatable(rownames = FALSE, class = 'cell-border stripe', filter = 'top', escape = FALSE, options = list(pageLength = 10)) David Robinson Tidy Tuesday Also posted table to google drive here. The following package dependencies were not installed locally during parsing. Any function from these packages (along with any custom functions) will most likely be assigned pkgs = "(unknown)": ggflags; ebbr; rKenyaCensus; tidymetrics; shinymetrics; drlib; shinybones; treesnip; StatsBombR readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brshallo/funspotr-examples/main/data/funs/drob-tidy-tuesdays-funs-20220114.csv") %>% distinct() %>% DT::datatable(rownames = FALSE, class = 'cell-border stripe', filter ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many customers are modernizing their data architecture using Amazon Redshift to enable access to all their data from a central data location. They are looking for a simpler, scalable, and centralized way to define and enforce access policies on their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). They want access policies to allow their data lake consumers to use the analytics service of their choice, to best suit the operations they want to perform on the data. Although the existing method of using Amazon S3 bucket policies to manage access control is an ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Toby Text. Anekdoten aus dem wahren Leben im Umgang mit fehlenden Werten: taktisch, manipulativ, ignorant, professionell, oder gar blitzschnell… Bevor die Menschheit mit Aufzeichnungen durch Chroniken und Messungen begonnen hat, gab es nur subjektive Informationen über Menschen, Natur und Gesellschaft. Objektive Informationen in der heutigen Form von Datentabellen fehlten vollkommen und sind auch nicht überliefert. Erst mit dem Aufkommen erster Symbol- und Schriftsprachen ca. 3500 Jahre v. Chr., konnten Daten und Informationen überliefert werden. Sofern die damaligen „Datenträger“, Papyrus, Lehmziegel und Steinplatten überlebt haben und konserviert wurden, sind diese Informationen heute noch zugängig. Zunächst handelte es sich ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Kubernetes has become the operating system of today's cloud native world, providing a reliable and scalable platform for running containerized workloads. In this friendly, pragmatic book, cloud experts Justin Domingus and John Arundel show your development and operations staff what Kubernetes can do--and what you can do with it.This updated second edition guides you through the growing Kubernetes ecosystem and provides practical solutions to everyday problems using tools currently in use in the software industry. You'll walk through an example containerized application running in Kubernetes step-by-step, from the development environment ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Even as spending on digital transformation continues to skyrocket, mainframes nevertheless have major advantages for global enterprises. These systems still process huge amounts of information and allow for highly secure processing. In this practical book, author Tom Taulli shows software developers how to pursue a hybrid approach by integrating traditional mainframes and applications with modern digital systems.By the end of the book, you'll have a solid understanding of the mainframe architecture and ecosystem, including core concepts and technologies such as COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and CICS. You'll learn how to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: finnstats. [This article was first published on Methods – finnstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. ShareTweet The post match Function in R with examples appeared first on finnstats. If you want to read the original article, click here match Function in R with examples. match Function in R, The position of the first match between two objects is returned by the match() function in R. The following ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. The game Wordle has taken the world (or at least my facebook feed) by storm. It’s a really simple word game that’s a lot like the classic Mastermind. Here are the rules from the Wordle website: The logic behind the game is pretty simple, so I thought I’d code up an R version so that those of you who can’t get enough of it can play it on your own! The full code is available here. In my version, I allow the user to set 3 parameters: dictionary: A vector of possible words that the computer ... Read More