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Submission + - The Technology behind the search for Jim Gray (wired.com)

krow writes: "Wired has published an article on the technology behind the search for Jim Gray. It is a good set of highlights of his career and the people he worked with during it, and how they applied technology to solve the problem of trying to find him. Greasemonkey scripts, private jets, Ocean going robots, etc were used. Its an amazing read on what can be done with "human" search technology."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Real Friday Five (yeah, and you expected something geeky) 8

1) And just what are you owed?
2) Will Bush get to level if he whacks Saddam?
3) Do you have to build a bowl in your mash potatoes for the gravy?
4) Four scoops of ice cream, your congressional member of your choice, and a hydrogen powered funny car.
5) Would you be willing to strip for the doom song?

Hardware

Journal Journal: Interesting note on IO 12

VA 4450 chokes on 47 inserts per second while a 22XX was able to due 78 last night in testing without issue.

My cheap ass dual proc tyan board can do 112 on IDE drives (I was trying to stress it or the 22xx, I just wanted to see if it was better).

The 4 proc Intel motherboard inside of the 4450 sucks ass for IO.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Just in case you were curious.... 12

I get asked this question every so often so since I just did the calculation for it I thought I would post it.

There are right around 4.4 million friends of friend and foes of friends relationships. This is out of 89K friend and foe relationships (the record number of second degree relationships is around 16K, with the next 3 being in the 13K range).

Handhelds

Journal Journal: Zaurus Stuff

You know, I like my Zaurus. I have a couple of complaints about it but those are pretty minor and are more application specific (well battery life could be better but lets face facts, nothing is going to beat a palm since it does so little... which translates into it needing little battery life (sure, do away with color, a good processor, and I bet you could do the same)).
I now have my calendar working thanks to the fact that KOrganizer runs on it. Wish Kmail and the addressbook did too.

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