A. Bosch - Slashdot User

Submission + - What's after learning the syntax? 2

Submitted by Niris on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:11AM

Niris writes: I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book "Absolute Java 4th edition" by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the "This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object" and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading "Beginning Algorithms" by Simon Harris and James Ross.

"Limited Edition" SSD Has Fastest Storage Speed 122

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @09:20PM from the genuine-leather-bits dept.

Vigile writes "The idea of having a 'Limited Edition' solid state drive might seem counter-intuitive, but regardless of the naming, the new OCZ Vertex LE is based on the new Sandforce SSD controller that promises significant increases in performance, along with improved ability to detect and correct errors in the data stored in flash. While the initial Sandforce drive was called the 'Vertex 2 Pro' and included a super-capacitor for data integrity, the Vertex LE drops that feature to improve cost efficiency. In PC Perspectives's performance tests, the drive was able to best the Intel X25-M line in file creation and copying duties, had minimal fragmentation or slow-down effects, and was very competitive in IOs per second as well. It seems that current SSD manufacturers are all targeting Intel and the new Sandforce controller is likely the first to be up to the challenge."

Comment Re:Safety Critical (Score 1) 913

by A. Bosch on Sunday January 31, 2010 @08:12PM (#30975552) Attached to: Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics

EXACTLY. You are 100% correct based on my experience; I've owned over a dozen cars so far in my life, some manual transmission, some automatic. (You're correct about the wear on the transmission from 'power braking' too...).

Comment Re:Forget about the EU - This is Capitalism! (Score 1) 409

by A. Bosch on Thursday September 03, 2009 @09:28PM (#29306865) Attached to: Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders

In a post with a lot of interesting comments, I agree with this one the most. Sadly, I have no mod points...

Comment Re:How you can use it now... (Score 1) 218

by A. Bosch on Friday May 15, 2009 @10:32PM (#27975621) Attached to: Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera

Still no go: "Sorry, Wolfram Alpha is temporarily unavailable. Please try again. Error: DataPacletFilter: Unable to get Connection Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Too many connections) Â© 2009 Wolfram Alpha LLCâ"A Wolfram Research Company Terms of Use Privacy Policy Participate [ Infrastructure for this computation provided by Wolfram|Alpha launch partner Dell, Inc. ]" I blame Dell. And society.

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 153

by A. Bosch on Thursday May 14, 2009 @10:37PM (#27960899) Attached to: MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring

Not sure why this was modded "Troll" nor am I understanding why GP is "Informative". I have to agree; there's a lot of MySQL bashing by Postgres wonks. Move on.

Comment Re:This is familiar.. (Score 1) 137

by A. Bosch on Sunday May 03, 2009 @12:16PM (#27806791) Attached to: A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode

Hah! Nice. My laugh of the morning To be fair though, I think the beta I have of Windows 7 is better (IMHO) than XP as it did "solve" some issues I was having with the built-in RAID on my ASUS motherboard. It solved it by not giving me a BSOD every 3rd boot and gracefully ignoring the error. The mb is >4 years old now so I guess it's time to upgrade anyway. But I'm more interested in Snow Leopard than 7 at any rate. 7 is a little pokey on my older hardware.

Comment Re:Something that Helen Thomas got right... (Score 1) 425

by A. Bosch on Monday February 23, 2009 @11:41PM (#26965445) Attached to: AP Considers Making Content Require Payment

Exactly. The only paper I pay for is my local town paper. They don't have a website but the content of the paper is compelling enough to me (since it's all local news) that I gladly pay. If it were a website behind a paywall, and not a dead-tree product, I'd gladly pay for that.

Comment Re:WTF do they need GPS for? (Score 1) 713

by A. Bosch on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @11:32PM (#26275953) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

Or... They could evaluate what services could be reduced due to reduced demand from less drivers. (Less wear and tear on roads, less police or emergency services, etc.) and reduces expenses accordingly before they raise taxes. It might not be the whole solution, but it's a start.

Submission + - Toronto Stock Exchange has another computer glitch (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

A. Bosch

on Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:38PM

A. Bosch writes: "The TSE shut down 18 minutes after opening. Sad to say as a former T.O. resident, in the 11 years since the exchange converted to all-electronic trading it has been plagued with problems."

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