Got my hair and beard cut last night. Now I no longer look like a hobo. Although I was starting to enjoy the length of the beard as it looked very pirate-like. I was overdue though and my head feels so nice now that it can breathe! 
So I had two hard crashes with the VM server a couple of days ago. Since then I've...
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So I had two hard crashes with the VM server a couple of days ago. Since then I've...
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So I dug out the old web server from out of the attic and am in the process of setting it up as a dedicated VM server to reduce the use/load on my desktop.
I figured why let it sit in the attic and go to waste? It's a dual-dual core Opteron (2 x Opteron 2222 = 4 cores) @ 3.0GHz and I had a...
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I figured why let it sit in the attic and go to waste? It's a dual-dual core Opteron (2 x Opteron 2222 = 4 cores) @ 3.0GHz and I had a...
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This made me laugh: Wil Wheaton: comedy ensues
I can certainly relate to some degree: my wife is what I like to call a "nerd-in-denial." Deep down she's just as geeky/nerdy as I am, but she was raised out in the country, on a farm, and has learned to suppress theses thoughts/feelings with good 'ole country girl/redneck attitude.
She refuses to watch any science fiction,...
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I can certainly relate to some degree: my wife is what I like to call a "nerd-in-denial." Deep down she's just as geeky/nerdy as I am, but she was raised out in the country, on a farm, and has learned to suppress theses thoughts/feelings with good 'ole country girl/redneck attitude.
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I need to learn better time management skills.. I used to be so good at juggling things and lately I feel like I never get anything done. 
totem:
I have zero time management skills so I can't really help.
What I have found makes me even a teeny tiny bit better is having a diary to right a schedule in and writing lists.
What I have found makes me even a teeny tiny bit better is having a diary to right a schedule in and writing lists.
Never really used /dev/urandom (on Linux) for anything significant before.. I never realized how slow it is until I attempted to erase a hard drive that was 1.5TB.. Yeah after like 10 hours I canceled it and found a python script that can do it faster (took about 4 hours).
The point is to make one entire hard drive/partition encrypted. I've never done a whole...
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The point is to make one entire hard drive/partition encrypted. I've never done a whole...
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Why do I never think of any good questions to ask in math class until I get home? The good thing is that this instructor (not a prof.) answers his emails.. the bad thing is that it's often hard to type out instructions/explanations for math problems...
Thinking about starting a spare change bank to save up to buy the stuff I need to load my own rounds.
Ammo just keeps going up in price and every time I go to the range there are spent casings EVERYWHERE.. so why not collect a few and reload them?
Plus it would be a good thing go have if the anti-gun nuts start taxing...
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Ammo just keeps going up in price and every time I go to the range there are spent casings EVERYWHERE.. so why not collect a few and reload them?
Plus it would be a good thing go have if the anti-gun nuts start taxing...
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alyeska:
The range I go to has a rule saying you can only the collect your own brass. While there's no easy way to know if it's actually YOURS lol, they just let you take the amount you fired. Like if we let off 200 rounds, we can only leave with 200 pieces of brass. No matter if it was 100% OURS. They do this because the owner likes to collect up the brass when he's bored and load his own.
canutethegreat:
That is a very good point, I'll have to check on the rules... Thanks for the heads up!
I will be driving to Seattle in a couple of hours to watch a friend get a tattoo finished, my wife get her nipples pierced, and then dinner at Dick's Drive-in with friends.
Should be a fun evening!
Should be a fun evening!
kelpie_:
sounds sexy!
I am finding it extremely difficulty to force myself to go to my last class on MWF.
The Prof. is boring and rambles a lot. When he does say something interesting it's almost what's in the textbook verbatim. I've been looking over my notes from that class and they range from one sentence, such as "read ch x," to barely covering a quarter-page (typed).
He's...
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The Prof. is boring and rambles a lot. When he does say something interesting it's almost what's in the textbook verbatim. I've been looking over my notes from that class and they range from one sentence, such as "read ch x," to barely covering a quarter-page (typed).
He's...
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In my Mobile Devices Programming class my team (me and one other guy) finally got our CVS repository set up (by the Prof.) the other day. We still need to meet and discuss who is doing what and actually get started.. but at least we know what we are going to do (Android app that calculates bus route(s) for the rider) and got it approved...
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Zombie or Robot Apocalypse?
Would a Zombie (i.e. The Walking Dead) or a Robot (i.e. Terminator) Apocalypse provide a better chance for human survival?
Would a Zombie (i.e. The Walking Dead) or a Robot (i.e. Terminator) Apocalypse provide a better chance for human survival?
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serial:
Zombie... because we're more prepared for it. Surviving the zombie apocalypse is as well placed in peoples minds as what to do during an earthquake. It's that popular of a possibility.
Daniel Wilson has a book out called, "How to survive a robot uprising" but I bet more people have read Max Brooks', "the zombie survival guide."
The most we know of a robot apocalypse is The Terminator series, but how to survive that isn't an everyday discussed topic.
Now, if we actually follow our zombie survival plans or robot shutdown plans, is a whole different issue...
If ya consider the average intelligence behind either subject or amount of good weapons on hand vs either subject:
one person vs one zombie = better chance of surviving
one person vs one robot = most likely dead
Daniel Wilson has a book out called, "How to survive a robot uprising" but I bet more people have read Max Brooks', "the zombie survival guide."
The most we know of a robot apocalypse is The Terminator series, but how to survive that isn't an everyday discussed topic.
Now, if we actually follow our zombie survival plans or robot shutdown plans, is a whole different issue...
If ya consider the average intelligence behind either subject or amount of good weapons on hand vs either subject:
one person vs one zombie = better chance of surviving
one person vs one robot = most likely dead
canutethegreat:
All very good points ladies! 
Also, thanks for the ideas on some new books to read!
Another issue with the Zombie apocalypse is the time it takes for a person to go from infection to zombie: if it's too short, the infection will not likely get past the initial outbreak locale. However, if it's fairly long (hours to a day or possibly more), then it has the potential to spread far.
I also think that a zombie outbreak would have more initial deaths than a robot uprising. I mean in most robot-related stories, the first versions looked very mechanical/metallic - this would be easy to identify at a distance. Yet a human vs zombie comparison at a distance would be harder. In fact it could be quite difficult up close: no missing limbs, no blood dripping from the mouth, not dragging a broken leg. Could still be either. You don't want to yell or talk too loud out in the open because you never know what's lurking around the corner/in the shadows. If you get close enough to talk at a reasonable level, then you are in putting yourself in danger of being attacked if it turns out to be a zombie. However, unless you've "passed the point of no return" and are willing to shoot anything/anyone that _might_ be a zombie, then you have to make close contact to tell the difference between zombie and survivor.
Lots of issues on both sides and even more variables that change the potential outcomes.
Another one to toss in the mix would be alien invasion/attack. Plenty of stories on that...
Also, thanks for the ideas on some new books to read!
Another issue with the Zombie apocalypse is the time it takes for a person to go from infection to zombie: if it's too short, the infection will not likely get past the initial outbreak locale. However, if it's fairly long (hours to a day or possibly more), then it has the potential to spread far.
I also think that a zombie outbreak would have more initial deaths than a robot uprising. I mean in most robot-related stories, the first versions looked very mechanical/metallic - this would be easy to identify at a distance. Yet a human vs zombie comparison at a distance would be harder. In fact it could be quite difficult up close: no missing limbs, no blood dripping from the mouth, not dragging a broken leg. Could still be either. You don't want to yell or talk too loud out in the open because you never know what's lurking around the corner/in the shadows. If you get close enough to talk at a reasonable level, then you are in putting yourself in danger of being attacked if it turns out to be a zombie. However, unless you've "passed the point of no return" and are willing to shoot anything/anyone that _might_ be a zombie, then you have to make close contact to tell the difference between zombie and survivor.
Lots of issues on both sides and even more variables that change the potential outcomes.
Another one to toss in the mix would be alien invasion/attack. Plenty of stories on that...
I've been playing with crark, a RAR archive cracker, for the past couple of days. It can use a CPU or the GPU to do the computations. However, it does not seem to parallelize anything. What's the point in that? Ideally it would parallelize the checking and the computations.. but at least make the checking parallel since that is the biggest bottleneck. I haven't looked...
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