Until now, only password surveys have been analyzed, and I knew the results would be almost useless when compared to a real dataset of passwords because who in their right mind would donate one of their own passwords, or anything like it, to a survey about password statistics?

Rpmbuild’s RPATH feature is used to search libraries outside of standard paths. They are given to the linker at buildtime. If the developers of the code you’re trying to turn into an RPM did not take any of these considerations into account when they write their programs then you may be forced to skip check-rpath.

The Craigavon Task Forc, established shortly after an iBurst tower was built just north of Johannesburg in Fourways Memorial Park on 12 August 2009, has battled with iBurst to get the tower relocated elsewhere due to concerns over radiation from the tower causing a long list of health problems. Little did residents know, the tower was shut off more than six weeks ago.

The RFC compliant way to parse email addresses with regular expressions is too big to fit in an excerpt. (?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()

Frag grenades won’t work because you can’t cook them forever, and once you pull one out you can’t switch to another weapon. But the semtex timer won’t start until you let go of it or die. So this is probably a technical glitch. This will be a suicide run, but when you die the semtex will drop and explode the javelin. If you don’t have the javelin pulled out, this won’t work because only your current weapon drops to the ground. If you have the danger-close perk enabled, the resulting explosion will be even larger. I wonder if using last stand with this would have any effect, such as kills from the afterlife, or assisted suicide points for the enemy.

Wow, there are a crap load of dependencies to build qpid, the AMQP client/server libraries for C++! What do you mean my architecture isn’t supported? Bah, whatever… Add ppc to the list or rip it out for now. Just build it and stop complaining!

I always hate having to reboot a server. I can almost always avoid it. And that sounds like there’s some effort put into avoiding the reboot, and you might think that — if you’re used to a world of Windows servers. But it’s just not that hard to keep a server up.

So, for a single core single processor machine a load average of 1 means that on average there’s a process in the running or runnable state at all times. This means the CPU average is at 100% too. If another process wants to run, it has to wait in the queue before being executed. For a multi-core or multi-processor system, you’re not CPU bound until the load average equals the total number of cores. You can calculate a system’s CPU utilization by dividing the load average by the number of processors you see in /proc/cpuinfo

I like wxPython a lot more than the other gui tooltkits i’ve tried. I’m finding it really easy to keep it from getting cluttered, and it’s easy to pick up and run with, but there’s some demo’s like this one below, that i’ve seen in various forms all over the place now, that I think are a waste of time. Why would you have a app that has nothing but a menu bar? You wouldn’t, so doesn’t it make sense to get the confusing parts of gui code out of the way? Namely, layout and events.

I learned about the pitfalls of slide presentations in public speaking class, and I cringe in just about every presentation I have to sit through now. It seems everyone needs powerpoint slides full of bullets to make it through their talk. Perhaps there should be a ban on bullet point slides without visual aids, or at least come up with a golden ratio, 2 bullet points per picture would be nice.