On 4-15-2018 I received the following email: This was for a Guest order placed on 4-05-2018. I don’t run a virus known as Windows, but, being the only member of the family to ever go to college for computers, I get drafted by family members who “just bought what was pre-packaged and on-sale.” Of course DELL doesn’t ship installation media with their pre-packaged shit and when you order it, years later from customer service, you … The Current eBay ScamRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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JED – User Manual
Simply because I got tired of looking for it and emailing it around. jed
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PhD Job Opening
Since most of you are geeks, and not all of you run BOINC, or you run BOINC but may not be part of GPUGRID I’m sharing this. http://www.multiscalelab.org/jobs/phd-machine-learning-computational-chemistry/ They sent it out as one of their BOINC notices.
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A Good Reason to Never Go to Oregon
In the Midwest kids tend to “obtain” alcohol and drive a bit drunk. This is fun. Well, in Chicago they shoot each other, but, that’s Chicago. In Oregon, they run around setting shit on fire for fun. I kid you not, this qualifies as “a good time” out there. Just because you managed to procreate, it doesn’t make you a parent. That requires skill and dedication.
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Checking return values
Yes, I had to post one more, hopefully shorter, rant on logger.c. This has to do with “checking return values” in OpenSource code. #ifndef MSG_NOSIGNAL # define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0 #endif if (sendmsg(ctl->fd, &message, MSG_NOSIGNAL) < 0) { logger_reopen(ctl); if (sendmsg(ctl->fd, &message, MSG_NOSIGNAL) < 0) warn(_(“send message failed”)); } Code like this is rampant in OpenSource. It passes the quick and dirty teen age “code review” but it is not production quality. If Linux and the … Checking return valuesRead more