| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
economics
[ madkiwi ]
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11:18a |
The Daily Reckoning
As a public service I syndicated The Daily Reckoning which is a great source of insight into the crazy hybrid capitalist/government system the world is now running under. I encourage you to start following it- this is what got me started in gold and silver investing 9 years ago. x-posted everywhere Current Mood:  calm |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
fornikate
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3:10p |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
necaris
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4:22p |
help wif sekrit planz
If anyone would not mind having a glance at my generic draft attempt at a personal statement in support of trying to get onto a postgraduate course and become a formally-educated geek, please comment (with your email address, if I don't already have it) and I'll send it over. Thanks in advance! Current Mood:  anxious |
necaris
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11:14a |
eek! my mask is slipping!
Cracks began to appear some time ago, but I only really began to notice them in the last couple of days. My carefully-pruned-out Rs are starting to slip back in. Woe! Current Mood:  disappointed |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
lj_maintenance
[ dwell ]
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2:00p |
Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT
EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP. Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!! Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out! --- On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. |
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ferretbrain
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12:00a |
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
fornikate
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7:47p |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
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ferretbrain
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12:00a |
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necaris
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9:34a |
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fornikate
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11:30a |
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
liadlaith
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12:07a |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
dioxin
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3:26p |
I was going pitch absolute fit about this story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/09/2737370.htmBut I don't think I can say anything that is more succinct nor more accurate than what Rebecca Santos, sexual harassment officer for the SRC had to say: "These are young men educated at the best schools in Sydney coming to Sydney University at the most elite colleges who can configure their intent in legal terms like consent versus not consent." Current Mood:  angry |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
python_dev
[ 6ferrets ]
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4:08p |
"truncate" the beginning of a file?
I hope somebody's still out there! I haven't looked at Python in years, but I'm hoping to come up with a quick & easy way to remove the first X characters from a file, something like file.truncate but from the beginning of a file. Does that already exist, or will I need to do it by hand? Thanks! |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
happy_news
[ fayanora ]
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6:54p |
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
liadlaith
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6:47a |
Happy birthday Andrew
Remember, remember, the fourth of November: Dinosaurs, space and robots. I see no reason Why the birth of this vegan Should e'er be forgot! |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
liadlaith
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8:36p |
Rargh! I'm trying to turn on Andrew's desktop computer while he's out of the house at a co-op meeting, and I keep getting an error message on the screen "No Signal - Analog". I can't figure out why! Everything that's connected to the screen is connected to tower. Except for the sound bit, but I don't need that and it shouldn't stop it from turning on. I don't know what to do!!Fixed! |
liadlaith
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7:29p |
I was sitting on the computer in my underwear, thinking "Fuck it is hot," when I realised it was huppast seven and there was supposed to be a cool change coming through at eight and there might be rain and we had clothes drying on the balcony. So I went to get them in and when I pulled back the curtain and slid back the door and stepped out on to the balcony my first words were, "Oh FUCK!" It is so fucking hot out there. Jesus. Like soup! And not a tasty soup! I am now happily back in Lauren's old room, which faces south and it deliciously cool and not hot at all. Silly Cassie for thinking so! |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
fornikate
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1:13p |
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
liadlaith
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11:21p |
New housemate.
There is a fuck-off huge huntsman in the bathroom! I discovered this when I went in to pee this evening. Andrew was downstairs, getting laundry, at the time, which meant I had to spend some very tense moments immobile on the couch, trying to not pee my pants for TWO reasons, as opposed to the regular one reason. Andrew hasn't managed to catch it - there's apparently enough space for it to hide in the window-slidey groove; we can see one leg dangling - so it's still there. I am making Andrew stand guard whenever I have to use the bathroom. This is not a good way to celebrate having the house to ourselves! It was supposed to be nakey-time! |
