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  1. Re:How much difference between Java and C++? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sloccount says:

    Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): cpp: 4525856 89.71 java: 343291 6.80 ansic: 96307 1.91 perl: 48153 0.95 sh: 10484 0.21 yacc: 6785 0.13 cs: 5114 0.10 lex: 2458 0.05 python: 2354 0.05 asm: 2045 0.04 awk: 885 0.02 objc: 702 0.01 pascal: 397 0.01 csh: 272 0.01 php: 104 0.00 sed: 3 0.00

    The first figure is the number of lines, the second is the percentage of the total lines. Sloccount also says Total Estimated Cost to Develop is $ 208,768,434. The output form the program is much more pretty than that above, but the lameness filter is preventing it's display. Is that filter preventing lameness of enforcing it?

  2. Limoncelli and Hogan on Setting up a Small Office Network? · · Score: 1

    revision control, backups, security, servers,



    Sounds like you need a book on systems administration. I recommend The Practice of System and Network Administration. The authors have a website.

  3. Re:Happening to google too! on AOL Placed on Spam Blacklist · · Score: 1
    Are you sure ?


    Yep. Times are NZST = GMT+12

    Apr 26 00:38:13 foo sm-mta[67150]: j3PCcAoc067150: from=<AAAAAAA@gmail.com>, size=6724, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<BBBBBBBB>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]
    Apr 26 05:56:15 foo sm-mta[72139]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=wproxy.gmail.com, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?64.233.184.203
    Apr 26 08:37:17 foo sm-mta[74845]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=wproxy.gmail.com, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?64.233.184.203
  4. Re:KPMG anthem - Jungle stylee on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 1

    'nuff respect to all junglists: KPMG song - jungle mix

  5. Re:Cows on Biological Activity on Mars · · Score: 3, Funny
    Their results? Three cows. Seriously.

    Actual cows or ideal spherical cows?

  6. Re:this just in... on Debian Leaders: We Need to Release More Often · · Score: 1

    Divers have a similar mantra, especially ones who do technical diving; nitrogen narcosis exaggerates emotions and a minor problem turns divers into a panic. The mantra- "as long as you're breathing, you're OK". Stop. Relax. Solve one problem at a time (incidentally, the other mantra is not to let problems pile up, because they compound each other; fix things as soon as you notice them...but it's a little late now). Tomorrow, if you see or remember a problem, just solve it. If anything, others might be inspired or encouraged by the activity.


    You obviously have a lot of talented people. Get everyone to sit down, make a list of problems. Categorize them. Divide them up and hand them out or post them up on a page. Don't make committees- committees are great at wasting time. When you're behind the eight ball, you don't need a group of people to decide which way is the best direction to move- you've just gotta MOVE.



    This might be a good time to plug Joel on Software's essay Fire and Motion.

  7. Re:Connect the 'dots on Scientists Find Flaw in Quantum Dot Construction · · Score: 2, Insightful
  8. Average web object size 1996 -- present on Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested in seeing what the average webpage size is from 1994-2004

    According to this graph your guess that it levels of is correct.

  9. Time to Kill Microsoft on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    Word.

    Peace, Out.

  10. Speaking as one who comes from two IPs in 202/8 on One Third of Email Now Spam · · Score: 2, Informative
    Personally, if you want to get aggressive, block the following Class As: 61,80,81,82,83,142,164,193,194,195,196,200,201,202 ,210,211,213,217,218,219,220,221 and you'll stop a TON of spam from a lot of foreign countries you likely never communicate with.

    You sound just like my manager. Just because you personally don't want to talk to someone in Australasia doesn't mean other people your server is serving mail for don't. Whole Class A's and countries is far too coarse. The internet isn't just the United States!

  11. Entire ray tracer in 831 chars of postscript on POVRay Short Code Contest Results In · · Score: 1

    I like to keep this around for torturing postscript printers, you can also feed it go ghostview:



    %!OPS-1.0 %%Creator: HAYAKAWA,Takashi<h-takasi@isea.is.titech.ac.jp> /A/copy/p/floor/q/gt/S/add/n/exch/i/index/J/ifelse /r/roll/w/div/H{{loop}stopped
    Y}def/t/and/C/neg/T /dup/h/exp/Y/pop/d/mul/s/cvi/e/ sqrt/R/rlineto{load def}H 300
    T translate(V2L&1i2A00053r45hNvQXz&vUX&UOvQXzFJ!FJ!J !O&Y43d9rE3IaN96r63rvx2dcaN
    G&140N7!U&4C577d7!z&& 93r6IQO2Z4o3AQYaNlxS2w!!f&nY9 wn7wpSps1t1S!D&cjS5o32rS4oS3o
    Z&blxC1SdC9n5dh!I&3 STinTinTinY!B&V0R0VRVC0R!N&3A3A xe1nwc!l&993dC99Cc96raN!a&1CD
    E&YYY!F&&vGYx4oGbxS d0nq&3IGbxSGY4Ixwca3AlvvUkbQkdb GYx4ofwnw!&vlx2w13wSb8Z4wS!J!
    c&j1idj2id42rd!X&4I 3Ax52r8Ia3A3Ax65rTdCS4iw5o5Ixnw TTd32rCST0q&eCST0q&D1!&EYE0!J
    &EYEY0!J0q!x&jd5o32 rd4odSS!K&WCVW!Q&31C85d4!k&X&E9 !&1!J!v&6A!b&7o!o&1r!j&43r!W)
    {( )T 0 4 3 r put T(/)q{T(9)q{cvn}{s}J}{($)q{[}{]}J}J cvx}forall 270{def}H
    K{K{L setgray moveto B fill}for Y}for showpage


    You'll have to demunge the slashdot processing, there is an extra space in most of the lines, but you need the one between the J and cvx in the second to last line.

  12. Large Hot Pipe Organ on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, it might sound great, but is it as cool as the LHPO? Quoth the site:


    The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify your booty and make you realize what "Industrial Music" REALLY means!
  13. Algorithm form the other side - the KLF's "Manual" on Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music · · Score: 1

    Check out The Manual: How to have a Number One - The easy Way . Its absolutely hilarious and it explains phenomena like Aqua's "Barbie Girl". Unfortunatly their PHP code has a fencepost error so you'll have to edit the chapter number in the URL by hand.

  14. Re:nice rack! on Cirocco Live Liquid Cooled Rack · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Cray T3E is cooled with fluorinert. The heat is then dumped into cooling water with an external heat exchanger unit. The processor element modules (PEMs) - a board with 8 alpha processors 4 on the bottom mounted against an solid aluminium block and 4 on the top mounted upside down to the same block - slide into the processor cabinet and have quick release cooling hose couplings.

  15. mfsck -u on Funny and Irrelevant Program Names? · · Score: 1

    There is a -u option if you get unicos. Might have to pay a bit for the hardwar though...

  16. Pragmatism: anything that gets the job done on Use of Math Languages and Packages in Research? · · Score: 1

    Where I work (an environmental science organisation) the emphasis is on getting the job done, whichever tool is approiate for the job, or whichever tool is familiar to the scientist gets used. (I'm not saying that this is necessarily the best policy, just what happens here.)

    There are a range of programming competancies from people who take code written by someone else that they have always used and feed data through it black-box style, through to scientists who write their own F90 or C++ code with MPI and BLAS libraries for running on the HPC clusters.

    We have OpenDX, Matlab, octave, IDL, Statistica, S, SPlus, R. Programming in F90, F77, C++, C, Perl, Python. The platforms include Windows*, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64. Some instrument makers use labview. You name it, someone here will be using it somewhere.

    Quite often one person will develop using a particular package, then anyone s/he collaborates with will have to use the same package to read the files or run the programs.

    I've been mucking about with python and Vtk.

  17. Re:Trespassing on Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter · · Score: 1

    Wait no more. From our friends at Farq.

  18. History on Vodafone's Spanish Network Global Failure · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds a lot like this old AT&T incident. Particularly the way the failure cascades between nodes.

  19. Secure disposal? - One word ... on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1
  20. Re:This is Phrack? on New Phrack · · Score: 1

    Also note that uniq only works on a sorted file:

    NAME
    uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

    SYNOPSIS
    uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

    So you should make it

    sort | uniq

    And since you are firing up sort you can save another process by using

    sort -u
    Really the only time I use uniq is to count the duplicates:
    sort | uniq -c
  21. Kids these days... on Known-Good MD5 Database · · Score: 1
  22. unicos/mk on Realtime OS Jaluna · · Score: 1

    The micro kernel in unicos/mk that uns on Cray T3Es is chorus. Seem to do very well in that job.

  23. Re:Count de money! on Billionaire Boys Cup (America's Cup 2003) · · Score: 1

    Lets see how many get the reference.

    Why hip-hop sucks in '96

  24. The organisers seem to like Haskell on 2002 ICFP Programming Contest · · Score: 2, Informative

    The downloadable test server appears to be written in Haskell and compiled with GHC:

    > strings Simulator | grep GHC
    ...
    The GHC User's Guide has full details.
    RTS options may also be specified using the GHCRTS environment variable.
    ...
  25. More large sites in New Zealand on Weta Digital's Render Farm Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    Massey university just announced that it is going to build a 128 node beowulf cluster (no imagination necessary!). Auckland University have recently got an IBM Regatta class machine.

    Just a (quite impressive) stone's throw away from Weta is NIWA's Cray T3E
    bash-2.03$ uname -a
    sn6908 kupe 2.0.5.51 unicosmk CRAY T3E

    I love running that uname :-)