On my gaming machine with 2GB of ram, I mostly stay in Debian, and when I need to develop in Windows, I give 1.2 GB to a Win2003 VM. That way I can keep browsing the web and doing email in Linux and not have to suffocate in Windows. Windows is such a POS, it is much pleasanter when it's confined in a box and you can mouse out of it:-)
Exactly. As I understand it, there is nothing in the GPL which prohibits you from requiring $X million dollars for a copy of your modifications. The only restriction is the person is the first person who gives you the $X million can give it away for free.
I used to have about a million drug test results on my PC (in 94, on my 486/50 w/ 40 meg HD baybee!)...
Just for fun I did a GROUP BY query grouping who tested posted for what drug by SIC code, in descending frequency. The pattern was: Construction Workers, Marijuana and Cocaine, far and away #1. Second: employees of the school system, alcohol. Everything else was kinda scattered all over the map. I think that rather than demonstrating what kinds of people take what drugs, it demonstrates who gets hassled the most by the drug policies.
Yeah, that's the scientific process all right. A bunch of people give extra weight to what certain people say based on social networks.
History is filled with wrong science being accepted for social reasons.
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The only thing I ever did with either the Sims or The Sims 2 is have two chicks living in the house flirting as heavily as they could with each other until they finally did it. Then, no more interest. Took about 8-10 hours each time.
With Sims 2 I tried to get 3 girls to all simultaneously be in love with each other, but it was too tricky.
I love command line mplayer, for videos, music, everything. I get all the eyecandy I want and it's scriptable with perl or sed or whatever. I use rl (randomize lines) to shuffle my music, and some hacky scripts to keep track of things and only play things once.
Windows obviously doesn't store the private key on the hard drive, because otherwise there's no point in encrypting it. But you could certainly give another operating system enough information to recreate the primary key and transparently decrypting it.
"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down upon his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath this bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which was the sun, and the other, they called the moon."
If you have to go into your bank once a month, you're not really as cool as you think you are. Maybe a couple times a year, and maybe haven written about 4 checks in a year. Maybe to the point where you've forgotten which corner of the envelope the stamp goes in.
I've actually seen the source code for the shell. There are special hooks in the NTFS driver that update some internal tables that the shell reads. (Not the public journal notification functions you can use -- although they are related -- but the shell directly reads some NTFS tables in the kernel, sorta.)
It does this to efficiently display a directory with 60,000 files and do quick updates of deltas. It's highly performance sensative.
Actually that's not really true. People assume that if you can scale to 2 processors, you can scale to 2 or 4 or 8 or 128. It doesn't work like that. Some code can scale up to 4 processors and then actually break on 8 processors. It's because there are different "bridges" in the hardware -- everything's not equally accessible at the same speeds.
I'm really excited to know what lessons the military will incorporate over the next 20 years from the Iraq experience. 20 years after vietnam, we had Iraq 1 -- we learned from 'Nam. Our guys will be out there learning all kinds of stuff.
It's going to be great over the next 20 years as America applies the lessons on how to defeat the Iraqis and the crazy honorless killers. We always learn.
Whenever I hear a dot-com bullshit story like this, I think of Whoopi Goldberg and Flooz. Remember Flooz? I do. Their headquarters was down on El Camino Real, down near that mexican place near Stanford, upstairs from the Scientology headquarters.
Um, excuse me? A post about computing formulas of grapes in wine on a computer attached to a story about computing formulas of grapes in wine on a computer is offtopic?
Customer was a winery, brought in their SQL Server sprocs which were taking 24 hours to run. The problem is: start each season with say 10,000 barrels of grape pulp/juice, say each holds 1,000 gallons of a type of grape. Siphon off 100 gallons from Barrel A, put it in Barrel B, assume it mixes perfectly. Now B has 1000 of B, 100 of A. Siphon off 100 gallons of the mixture into Barrel C. Now C has a lot of C, less of B, still less of A. Now maybe you take some of the mixture of C and put it back in A. And so on, so forth, for thousands of runs, through the season.
At the end of the day, you want to know how much of each type of grape is in each barrel. The problem is at each step you have to recompute all the percentages. If they'd been using triggers, and a parts explosion table, with some of the numbers, it would have been better, but they were just running through the whole table for each calculation.
I took a machine with 4GB of memory and just allocated a 10,000x10,000 array of doubles in C, read in the #s, and did it all in memory. It went down from 24 hours to 60 seconds!
Of course, if you needed a million barrels, you would have needed I calculated something like exabytes of ram.
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I copied it from the document; that's why I said "it's up to Government standards."
(Try it again)
I dunno, this example from like page 2 seems up to Government standards:
<Person s:id="P1">
<PersonName>
<PersonFullName>Fred Smith</PersonFullName>
<PersonFullName>
</Person>
I dunno, this example from like page 2 seems up to Government standards:
Fred Smith
On my gaming machine with 2GB of ram, I mostly stay in Debian, and when I need to develop in Windows, I give 1.2 GB to a Win2003 VM. That way I can keep browsing the web and doing email in Linux and not have to suffocate in Windows. Windows is such a POS, it is much pleasanter when it's confined in a box and you can mouse out of it :-)
Exactly. As I understand it, there is nothing in the GPL which prohibits you from requiring $X million dollars for a copy of your modifications. The only restriction is the person is the first person who gives you the $X million can give it away for free.
I used to have about a million drug test results on my PC (in 94, on my 486/50 w/ 40 meg HD baybee!)...
Just for fun I did a GROUP BY query grouping who tested posted for what drug by SIC code, in descending frequency. The pattern was: Construction Workers, Marijuana and Cocaine, far and away #1. Second: employees of the school system, alcohol. Everything else was kinda scattered all over the map. I think that rather than demonstrating what kinds of people take what drugs, it demonstrates who gets hassled the most by the drug policies.
I suppose it's no surprise that Microsoft gets you hooked on a not-sucky product and then ties every product in the world with it.
I expect we will see the new SQL Server for Avalon following next.
Two months severance pay in India = about $42 and 7 cents
I tend to sit like I'm laying back. Butt slumped way forward, stomach pooched out. I look ridiculous.
Yeah, that's the scientific process all right. A bunch of people give extra weight to what certain people say based on social networks.
History is filled with wrong science being accepted for social reasons.
The only thing I ever did with either the Sims or The Sims 2 is have two chicks living in the house flirting as heavily as they could with each other until they finally did it. Then, no more interest. Took about 8-10 hours each time.
With Sims 2 I tried to get 3 girls to all simultaneously be in love with each other, but it was too tricky.
I love command line mplayer, for videos, music, everything. I get all the eyecandy I want and it's scriptable with perl or sed or whatever. I use rl (randomize lines) to shuffle my music, and some hacky scripts to keep track of things and only play things once.
Windows obviously doesn't store the private key on the hard drive, because otherwise there's no point in encrypting it. But you could certainly give another operating system enough information to recreate the primary key and transparently decrypting it.
You've gotta see my dedicated Hypercard stack co-processor running on top of my custom Hypertransport stack.
It's smokin!
"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down upon his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath this bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which was the sun, and the other, they called the moon."
If you have to go into your bank once a month, you're not really as cool as you think you are. Maybe a couple times a year, and maybe haven written about 4 checks in a year. Maybe to the point where you've forgotten which corner of the envelope the stamp goes in.
This would be more impressive:
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Or if you've got a really tiny curved penis
~%
I've actually seen the source code for the shell. There are special hooks in the NTFS driver that update some internal tables that the shell reads. (Not the public journal notification functions you can use -- although they are related -- but the shell directly reads some NTFS tables in the kernel, sorta.)
It does this to efficiently display a directory with 60,000 files and do quick updates of deltas. It's highly performance sensative.
Actually that's not really true. People assume that if you can scale to 2 processors, you can scale to 2 or 4 or 8 or 128. It doesn't work like that. Some code can scale up to 4 processors and then actually break on 8 processors. It's because there are different "bridges" in the hardware -- everything's not equally accessible at the same speeds.
Yeah it was fun paying cash in full for my car.
I watched Python on MTV in the mid 80s. Uncut, commercial free. MTV used to rock.
Python -> Young Ones -> Comic Strip Live. All commercial free.
I'm really excited to know what lessons the military will incorporate over the next 20 years from the Iraq experience. 20 years after vietnam, we had Iraq 1 -- we learned from 'Nam. Our guys will be out there learning all kinds of stuff.
It's going to be great over the next 20 years as America applies the lessons on how to defeat the Iraqis and the crazy honorless killers. We always learn.
Those guys rock.
Whenever I hear a dot-com bullshit story like this, I think of Whoopi Goldberg and Flooz. Remember Flooz? I do. Their headquarters was down on El Camino Real, down near that mexican place near Stanford, upstairs from the Scientology headquarters.
Pay for your cooz with some flooz.
Um, excuse me? A post about computing formulas of grapes in wine on a computer attached to a story about computing formulas of grapes in wine on a computer is offtopic?
I love telling this story.
Customer was a winery, brought in their SQL Server sprocs which were taking 24 hours to run. The problem is: start each season with say 10,000 barrels of grape pulp/juice, say each holds 1,000 gallons of a type of grape. Siphon off 100 gallons from Barrel A, put it in Barrel B, assume it mixes perfectly. Now B has 1000 of B, 100 of A. Siphon off 100 gallons of the mixture into Barrel C. Now C has a lot of C, less of B, still less of A. Now maybe you take some of the mixture of C and put it back in A. And so on, so forth, for thousands of runs, through the season.
At the end of the day, you want to know how much of each type of grape is in each barrel. The problem is at each step you have to recompute all the percentages. If they'd been using triggers, and a parts explosion table, with some of the numbers, it would have been better, but they were just running through the whole table for each calculation.
I took a machine with 4GB of memory and just allocated a 10,000x10,000 array of doubles in C, read in the #s, and did it all in memory. It went down from 24 hours to 60 seconds!
Of course, if you needed a million barrels, you would have needed I calculated something like exabytes of ram.