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Submission + - Fast Regexes

Submitted by Watson Ladd on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @10:50PM

Watson Ladd writes: Perl, Python, and many other languages claim string processing, and in particular pattern matching, as an application they were designed for. But this article shows how slow most of the regex engines now used are due to the use of Henry Spencer's regex package as inspiration. How many more performance losses are due to historical accident.

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Bio-diesel Made from Sewage 322

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday May 12, 2006 @07:42AM from the gas-that-really-smells dept.

tito writes "A New Zealand company has successfully turned sewage into modern-day gold. New Zealand Herald is reporting that a Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds. It is believed to be the world's first commercial production of bio-diesel from 'wild' algae outside the laboratory - and the company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million litres of the fuel each year from Blenheim by April."

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The IRS Hits Symantec with a $1 Billion Tax Bill 337

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @03:21PM from the i-don't-feel-quite-so-bad-now dept.

GnoWay writes "Macworld is reporting that the IRS has charged Symantec Corporation with about a 900 million dollar tax bill due to the charge that Symantec and Veritas (purchased by Symantec last year) under-reported the value of intellectual property which they had transferred to their two Irish subsidiaries. Another $100 million is connected to Symantec's 2003 and 2004 reports."

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Journal Journal: Just For the Hell of it

Journal by errxn on Friday January 24, 2003 @08:59PM

Well, I guess I just felt the need to put something here. I have to be careful, because apparently, this will go down on my permanent record.

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