by Tom | Mar 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Joel explaining how difficult it is to set and keep standards in play: Postel´s robustness principle is spot on: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." How does this apply to dish washers, which I find have the...
by Tom | Mar 19, 2008 | Business
Interesting discussion of banks booking income that hasn’t yet flowed in the door (and is unlikely ever to). The assumption of low-cost financing and rising house prices looks to be a very dangerous one. I’m sure Enron used to do something similar in terms...
by Tom | Mar 19, 2008 | Reading
Joel explaining how difficult it is to set and keep standards in play: Postel’s robustness principle is spot on: “Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.” How does this apply to dish washers, which I find have the...
by Tom | Mar 18, 2008 | Science
One of my favourite learnings in O-level physics was why the sky is blue if the sun is white. The same explanation holds for a reflection nebula in Orion. Only the picture shows it how it was 1600 years ago.
by Tom | Mar 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
I loved "you have written humanity´s final chapter". Sherm on boys, too much research and DIY.
by Tom | Mar 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Just an extraordinary story, especially the piece where the toilet seat had to go with her to hospital. I only read the story because it was in Wichita, and Caroline has been there.
by Tom | Mar 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting thought: markets are tightly correlated (due to the complexity of product relationships and the tight coupling due to the mechanised processes) meaning that the hedges people are taking out to protect themselves from the worst may well go wrong.
by Tom | Mar 17, 2008 | IT
Amazing how much spam is created by just a few networks – nearly 40% by one alone.I would have thought that the few types this should make it easier to control and innoculate, but clearly not given the still vast amount of spam I receive (but don’t see any...
by Tom | Mar 17, 2008 | Science
I like the endoscopic pill, especially, but any “how it works” guides are good by me.Zombie Feynman would like them as well. It’s a very good cartoon, as well.
by Tom | Mar 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Finally got LDAP working with a PHP front end. 1) Install all the OpenLDAP packages in WHM->Software->Install a RPM (openldap, clients, devel, servers)2) Put a custom build configure flag in the all_php5 file as shown here (NB for me the command...
