On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:13 -0700, Ryan Byrd wrote:
> Cougars might be slightly more radioactive than Wolverines. Here's why:
> there used to be a nuclear reactor on BYU campus and I was told that some
> buildings still have higher than average background radiation. Rumor has
> that the walls in th
Cougars might be slightly more radioactive than Wolverines. Here's why:
there used to be a nuclear reactor on BYU campus and I was told that some
buildings still have higher than average background radiation. Rumor has
that the walls in the Widtsoe Building in particular make a Geiger counter
go c
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:07:46PM -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Dude, you're radioactive.
>
> Actually, everyone is, especially if you eat bananas. The potassium
> in bananas, and other minerals in other fruits, is very slightly
> radioactive.
Found it:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7445131
His name is Edward McGaffigan, one of the five commissioners of the NRC.
"[He] says if there was one thing he could convince people of about
nuclear power it's that radiation is everywhere, and its risks should
be kept in pe
On 2/21/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dude, you're radioactive.
Actually, everyone is, especially if you eat bananas. The potassium
in bananas, and other minerals in other fruits, is very slightly
radioactive.
NPR had an interview with the head of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commis
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:39:27PM -0700, Steve wrote:
> LOL, ok I digress.
>
> My opinion of SCOs senior level is that they are radioactive.
Dude, you're radioactive.
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:04:08PM -0700, Ryan Byrd wrote:
> What about backing up that that petabyte? What do mozy/myfamily.com/byu cs
> dept/others do for backups? A tape robot? Optical (DVD?) writers? Written to
> another SAN?
>
CS Department is mirroring to an external RAID array of SATA disk
On 2/21/07, Daniel C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/21/07, Jacob Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [1] I've cheated and augmented the formal lambda calculus with
> integers and the + function. The strictly formal lambda calculus,
> being as simple as possible, doesn't include these concepts.
On 2/21/07, Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about backing up that that petabyte? What do mozy/myfamily.com/byu cs
dept/others do for backups? A tape robot? Optical (DVD?) writers? Written
to
another SAN?
ideas?
Mirror to another san and tape libraries.
We're looking into de-duplic
Ryan Simpkins wrote:
The list goes on. Omniture is a really great place to work, especially if you
love
Linux, open source technologies, and want to use them in a professional
setting. All
I can do is provide my personal experience. No company is perfect, yet striving
for
perfection is how an
> Here you go.
>
> 1.
>
> Nexsan SATABeast fiber attached.
(snip)
> 2.
> -
> 3Par S800
I've been looking at big storage for a while, and these are very good
recommendations. I've been wondering about how those SATABeasts
connect, though. Do th
"Daniel C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Doesn't it also require that all functions can take only one argument?
>
Yes, but since lambda bindings nest, multiple-variable lambda calculus
is trivially transformed to single-variable lambda calculus. It's
also traditionally written in a somewhat di
On 2/21/07, Ryan Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Why I like Omniture:
1) The people. From the executives down they are professional, nice, and
just plain
good to work with. Omniture's hiring mantra is: "Mean people suck." And
they do,
they really do. If any Omniture employee (including Blake
On 2/21/07, Jacob Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[1] I've cheated and augmented the formal lambda calculus with
integers and the + function. The strictly formal lambda calculus,
being as simple as possible, doesn't include these concepts.
Doesn't it also require that all functions can take on
Everyone,
Thank you for your comments. I was not involved in the hiring process of Blake,
so I
do not know the circumstances of his employment. All I can do is tell everyone
why I
think Omniture is a really great company to work for and let them decide.
Why I like Omniture:
1) The people. From
On 2/21/07, Jacob Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But what the heck does it mean to "contain the lambda calculus properly"?
More specifically to the page you quoted, the previous sentences are:
"What does it mean for functions to have "lexical s
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> http://www.lua.org/pil/6.html
> "(It also means that Lua contains the lambda calculus properly.) "
>
> [snip]
>
> But what the heck does it mean to "contain the lambda calculus properly"?
Although Jacob's definition is probably correct, I'm not sure that's
the
Brad Zobrist wrote:
Your asking for two solutions.
How should I do it? Initially the data will be in large (several MB)
binary
objects and could be stored as files, but eventually, it will need to be
placed into a relational database like Oracle.
1- a system extremely dense and cheap faster t
What about backing up that that petabyte? What do mozy/myfamily.com/byu cs
dept/others do for backups? A tape robot? Optical (DVD?) writers? Written to
another SAN?
ideas?
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On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what the heck does it mean to "contain the lambda calculus properly"?
Distilled from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Formal_definition,
the calculus is defined as:
* A set of identifiers
* A grammar over those identifiers for form
On 2/21/07, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Digital cable or satellite can require more tweaking with MythTV than I
> was willing to do. IR output sounds like a pain.
Myth does support firewire ripping from a few cable and satellite settop
boxes. No IR blasting, down scaling or ot
On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what the heck does it mean to "contain the lambda calculus properly"?
Distilled from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Formal_definition,
the calculus is defined as:
* A set of identifiers
* A grammar over those identifiers for form
On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually I don't at all think it's idiotic.
Of course you don't think it's idiotic. You made it.
If I were an ex-SCO employee I'ld consider filing suit against the new
management (if such a thing is even possible), for making it harder
for me to f
LOL, ok I digress.
My opinion of SCOs senior level is that they are radioactive.
On 2/21/07, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:11 -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> But I haven't heard of anyone being disadvantaged
> for once having worked for SCO or having talked
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:11 -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> But I haven't heard of anyone being disadvantaged
> for once having worked for SCO or having talked once with Darl on the
> street (according to google, Darl has his own personal website...
> interesting).
I have been advantaged by talki
Howdy,
I was reading a book on Lua today and ran across a term I've seen a
hundred times, and still have not quite gotten a grip on.
I'm hoping someone can explain what this quote means...
http://www.lua.org/pil/6.html
"(It also means that Lua contains the lambda calculus properly.) "
Lamda Calc
On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I were looking for work, I wouldn't go to Omniture, because Blake
Stowell was just hired on.
And I am sure at this point Omniture would not want you going there either. :)
Dude, I got news for you --- If you don't want to work with or support
any
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:51 -0700, Steve wrote:
> Actually I don't at all think it's idiotic.
> SCO has become a pariah, because of Daryl, Blake and etc.
>
> The general view of SCO from the outside looking in, is to not touch
> it or anything associated with it, with a 10ft pole.
I get the impr
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:51 -0700, Steve wrote:
> Actually I don't at all think it's idiotic.
> SCO has become a pariah, because of Daryl, Blake and etc.
SCO is a pariah. SCO management is a pariah. SCO's lawyers are a pariah.
SCO PR? I actually feel a little grudging respect that he held on so
l
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:43 -0500, Grant Shipley wrote:
> Thats the most idiotic comment I have read in a long time.
Come now, you've been on Plug how long?
On a related note, congratulations on not being addicted to Slashdot,
Digg, etc.
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Actually I don't at all think it's idiotic.
SCO has become a pariah, because of Daryl, Blake and etc.
The general view of SCO from the outside looking in, is to not touch
it or anything associated with it, with a 10ft pole.
If I were looking for work, I wouldn't go to Omniture, because Blake
St
Steve wrote:
If I were a former SCO employee, I'ld seriously consider filing suit
against Daryl and friends.
You'd probably have to start by un-misspelling his name.
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On 2/21/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I were a former SCO employee, I'ld seriously consider filing suit
against Daryl and friends.
Thats the most idiotic comment I have read in a long time.
Where do you work?
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If I were a former SCO employee, I'ld seriously consider filing suit
against Daryl and friends.
On 2/21/07, Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> It does say something about Omniture's ethics: that they aren't going to
> take a bigoted approach to hiring. As a current
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:04:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On 2/21/07, Barry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Vista Media Center now supports HDTV (previous XP versions didn't) -
> > I've never tried to make a DVD or VCD off of HDTV though. I imagine
> > you could probably at
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:54:33PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> On 2/20/07, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >By the way, the conduit is stiff, but flexible. That way there are no 90
> >degree turns, and you can sometimes even push wire through it all the
> >way from the rooms to the bas
On 2/20/07, Stephen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've found a README.sparcboot file [2] that indicates I need to grab some
partition files off an existing Solaris CD. I've done that with a Solaris 7
Server CD and ran mkisofs just as it appears in the README, but I got a
strange error when try
On 2/21/07, Adam Findley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for that (and the other two who replied)!
For the record, my response was meant to be in the same vein as the
epic "Melting Faces" thread on the WoW forums. (For the uninitiated -
it's about twenty pages of posts, all by different peop
Nicholas Leippe wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 16:20, Adam Findley wrote:
Anyone know how to dd my drive avoiding just that sector?
dd_rescue is probably your best bet.
Thanks for that (and the other two who replied)! I was able to rescue
all of my valuable data (not terribly valuable), w
Your asking for two solutions.
How should I do it? Initially the data will be in large (several MB)
binary
objects and could be stored as files, but eventually, it will need to be
placed into a relational database like Oracle.
1- a system extremely dense and cheap faster that tape/cd
2- an ex
Jeremy Hansen wrote:
It does say something about Omniture's ethics: that they aren't going to
take a bigoted approach to hiring. As a current Omniture and former SCO
employee, I appreciate that *most* people (and companies) don't equate a
person's character to their ex-employer's policies. For me
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 08:48 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
> On AD 2007 February 21 Wednesday 07:16:42 AM -0800, Michael Brailsford wrote:
> > Get over the 72 column thing.
>
> No. I prefer my email wrapped at
> 5 feet (iambs) usually in heroic
> couplets. Seeing that a very large
> proportion of
Bryan Petty wrote:
On 2/20/07, Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure that Omniture is a great place to work, and all, and that
there are lots of great positions open there. However, the position
of PR Director just got filled
(http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/210003), and
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:32, Jesse Stay wrote:
> Vista Media Center now supports HDTV (previous XP versions didn't) -
> I've never tried to make a DVD or VCD off of HDTV though. I imagine
> you could probably at least convert the video to another format and
> burn it if not. My biggest fr
> On 2/21/07, Barry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Vista Media Center now supports HDTV (previous XP versions didn't) -
> I've never tried to make a DVD or VCD off of HDTV though. I imagine
> you could probably at least convert the video to another format and
> burn it if not. My biggest
On 2/20/07, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As Jonathan pointed out, the hard thing will be figuring out how to do
useful things with this data. Oracle will want to charge a lot.
There are Postgres installations that have upwards of a PB of data in them.
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Justin Findlay wrote:
No. I prefer my email wrapped at
5 feet (iambs) usually in heroic
couplets. Seeing that a very large
proportion of my email comes in
as formless and often of lesser content
I have a small perl script to reformat
the text into the required meter
inser
Hello all,
I've been running Preciant Hosting ( http://www.preciant.com ) for about 4
years now, and it's time for me to sell my business and move on. We have
about 15 customers that pay between $60-$120 per year for basic web
hosting. They are all pretty low maintenance. If you are interested
On 2/21/07, Barry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All my experience with Windows Media Center is 2nd and 3rd hand, but the
reason I went with Myth was because I was told at the time that it was
difficult or impossible to do things like make DVD's or VCD's from HDTV
broadcasts. Is that still t
"Bryan Petty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem isn't with reading the mail, it's with replying. It has
> the tendency to result in some clients breaking up lines into 10
> word and 2 word line pairs when quoting already quoted emails, and
> makes visually reading quoted emails near impossi
On 2/20/07, Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure that Omniture is a great place to work, and all, and that there
are lots of great positions open there. However, the position of PR
Director just got filled (http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/210003),
and by none other than B
On 2/21/07, Michael Brailsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You space wrapping nazis. Just read the freaking email in whatever form it
comes, instead of forcing people to accept your way of doing things. Unless of
course, the email comes in HTML format, THEN we can start lynching those people.
All my experience with Windows Media Center is 2nd and 3rd hand, but the
reason I went with Myth was because I was told at the time that it was
difficult or impossible to do things like make DVD's or VCD's from HDTV
broadcasts. Is that still the case, or was I misinformed?
I'm using a JVC SRDVD-1
On AD 2007 February 21 Wednesday 07:16:42 AM -0800, Michael Brailsford wrote:
> Get over the 72 column thing.
No. I prefer my email wrapped at
5 feet (iambs) usually in heroic
couplets. Seeing that a very large
proportion of my email comes in
as formless and often of lesser content
I have a smal
You space wrapping nazis. Just read the freaking email in whatever form it
comes, instead of forcing people to accept your way of doing things. Unless of
course, the email comes in HTML format, THEN we can start lynching those people.
While we are on it, I should mention that emacs sucks, vim
On 2/21/07, Doran Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One GLARING problem with the XBox 360 was its painful lack of support
for common media formats. Again, I don't know if there are ways to get
around this or even if it is true, but my neighbor said the XBox would
only play WMV media (which wouldn
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:04:21AM -0600, Frank Sorenson wrote:
> Do you have lots of datacenter space that you really need to use up, or
> does physical size matter (I mean, you're talking about solutions that take
> up nearly 50 racks!!!)? What are your power and cooling capacities and
> cos
On 2/20/07, Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure that Omniture is a great place to work, and all, and that there are
lots of great positions open there. However, the position of PR Director just
got filled (http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/210003), and by none other
than
Jesse Stay wrote:
I know I'm going to get bashed for this, but one of the best Media
servers I've ever used is Vista Media Center (through Vista Ultimate).
They're about to release a Home Server that will do the same and
serve as centralized storage.
If you have an Xbox 360 or soon they will be
Ryan Byrd wrote:
Let's say I need to store a petabyte of data. I need fast access (tape/DVDs
aren't fast enough) and redundancy like RAID.
By "fast access" do you mean both read and write, mainly read (once it's
written), or...? What RAID level would you run (this will impact both your access
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