A shop assistant who was told she could not sing while she stacked shelves without a performance licence has been given an apology. Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS). However the organisation that collects royalties [...]
At the beginning of the month, Stephen Hawking retired from the prestigious position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, after 30 years in the chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. His could scarcely been a harder act to follow, and the person to take on that challenge has now been [...]
A pair of physicists has shown that computers have a speed limit as unbreakable as the speed of light. If processors continue to accelerate as they have in the past, we’ll hit the wall of faster processing in less than a century. Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years | Research – ISNS
We are proud to announce the second major release of Core, Jane Street’s alternative to OCaml’s standard library. This release also includes Core_extended, which adds new functionality such as subcommand style command line argument handling, a procfs interface, readline support, and more. Core_extended is used heavily at Jane Street, but not systematically code reviewed in [...]
The periodic table has been stamped into the minds of countless generations of schoolchildren. Immediately recognised and universally adopted, it has long since achieved iconic status. So why change it? According to Mohd Abubakr from Microsoft Research in Hyderabad, the table can be improved by arranging it in circular form. He says this gives a [...]
Dying to play Donkey Kong in your web browswer? Contra? Well now with a little javascript and Chromes blazing fast performance you can. Check out this story! A few months ago, I stumbled across Matt Westcott’s excellent JSSpeccy. I had seen some pretty imaginative canvas creations, but Javascript emulators? What a perfect idea for a [...]
Taking a few certifications myself over years myself, I’ve certainly gotten a feel for which ones were “real” and which ones generated the paper *cough*MSCE’s*cough. I’m sure that the RHCE isn’t the CCIE exam, but it ain’t no picnic either. So Michael Conigliaro getting a perfect score with an hour to spare is pretty fucking [...]
Something to think about before you start having that affair with the cute HR chick down the hall…in today’s social media, always connected, digital leash world. Gaming The System – Part 1 Geek And Poke: Gaming The System – Part 1
That is a lot of fucking storage!! I’ve used various SAN’s and NAS techonologies over the years, HP MSA1500, B2000 and the Lefthand boxen. Fibrechannel and iSCSI connections and I would recommend the Lefthand SAN at this point. However, this is a lot of fucking storage and they are giving away the design for free! [...]
I thought this was interesting from gHacks today considering that I put up the Tech Support Cheat Sheet the other day, tongue firmly in cheek. These are serious troubleshooting flowcharts from the Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts book by Morris Rosenthal. Computer repair flowcharts can aid even inexperienced users to analyse the computer hardware problem [...]
Certainly would make life easier, right? Gadget Love Geek And Poke: Gadget Love
Daniel Pataki over at gHacks posted this nice article about using the WordPress API, specifically the WordPress Template Tags, to do more with your blog. If you’ve been developing themes, or taking a go at modifying your own, chances are you’ve run into the WordPress Template Tags page. This part of the WordPress Codex lists [...]
This comes from Kontra over on his CounterNotions blog. I think it’s worth reading and I’ve left out the “Remembrance of Things Past” section and that is where the meat is. I have to say that I’ve been noticing in the “press” lately (read blogs) that there seems to be a little backlash against Apple [...]
Tech Support Cheat Sheet xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet
We here at the best blog on the Internet totally agree and we are going to start saying what we really mean immediately! Yesterday, I spearheaded a new movement at the office. I stopped using the word “we”, and started to say what I really meant to say. For example, instead of “We should fix [...]
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