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Journal Journal: Wednesday, June 17th

Another day is quickly flying by. Updated phone to 3.0 OS, went well. Not as many new features as a new phone, but nice enough anyway. Some small fixes, like listing the source of the call (home, mobile, work, or city/State of Area code phone call was made.) I like it. I especially like that it will make a phone call as a plus, for what I truly consider my mini-mini mac. Kids again today. I wish their mother would just hurry up and die. She is such a pain in the ass.

Comment Get a Document Management System (Score 1) 438

Any of many document managment systems. They allow the extraction of meta data, which is in turn used to 'find' the document you are looking for. Nearly all contain some security settings and a viewer for many types of files. One thing to note. This magic doesn't happen by itself, if you get stuck doing this, be prepared for a. No one really knows how they want to do this, they all want to wonder if one of the many docs has their answer and have the correct doc located and opened for them. b. you are about to become a stranger to all those who know you outside of work.

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Journal Journal: Test

Just a few notes, not sure if this will be public, would like to use if private.

The Media

Telling Fact From Fantasy In the World of Apple Rumors 91

Harry writes "In recent years, fact-based reporting about Apple and its products has been almost completely overwhelmed by gossip, predictions, and speculation — an amazing percentage of which is embarrassingly wrong. I've put together a guide to figuring out which scuttlebutt is almost certainly fiction, and which has a shot at jibing with reality."
Networking

Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515

narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"
Programming

Can We Create Fun Games Automatically? 198

togelius writes "What makes games fun? Some (e.g. Raph Koster) claim that fun is learning — fun games are those which are easy to learn, but hard to master, with a long and smooth learning curve. I think we can create fun game rules automatically through measuring their learnability. In a recent experiment, we do this using evolutionary computation, and create some simple Pacman-like new games completely without human intervention! Perhaps this has a future in game design? The academic paper (PDF) is available as well."

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