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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 12:59 a.m. UTC Retrograde cargo as seen from the roof of the ICL I have been here a week and my trip is half over! The trip is actually going quite quickly. One big mercy compared to previous years is that I have slept relatively well, 7 hours of sleep a night which is better than usual for me here. Went out to the IceCube Lab this morning to show new arrival Mark D. around. From the roof of the ICL one c....
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Quattro anni fa Eric Meyer pubblicò la prima versione del suo CSS Reset. Concepito come un prototipo da condividere con altri sviluppatori dediti alla creazione di uno standard, il modulo riscosse subito grande successo diffondendosi rapidamente. In poche settimane venne adottato, spesso inconsapevolmente, da decine di migliaia di programmatori e designer web. Oggi gran parte dei siti web nel mondo includono nel loro codice almeno una tracc..
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 12:59 a.m. UTC Retrograde cargo as seen from the roof of the ICL I have been here a week and my trip is half over! The trip is actually going quite quickly. One big mercy compared to previous years is that I have slept relatively well, 7 hours of sleep a night which is better than usual for me here. Went out to the IceCube Lab this morning to show new arrival Mark D. around. From the roof of the ICL one c....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 12:59 a.m. UTC Retrograde cargo as seen from the roof of the ICL I have been here a week and my trip is half over! The trip is actually going quite quickly. One big mercy compared to previous years is that I have slept relatively well, 7 hours of sleep a night which is better than usual for me here. Went out to the IceCube Lab this morning to show new arrival Mark D. around. From the roof of the ICL one c....
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Here are my UKOUG 2010 slides about Exadata migration performance, this is real life stuff, not repeating the marketing material: Tanel Poder – Performance stories from Exadata Migrations View more presentations from tanelp .
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Here are my UKOUG 2010 slides about Exadata migration performance, this is real life stuff, not repeating the marketing material: Tanel Poder – Performance stories from Exadata Migrations View more presentations from tanelp .
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Wednesday, Jan. 12 2011 1:12 a.m. UTC Geographic South Pole Today will probably be another short post since it’s getting late in the satellite pass. I’ve been outside three times already today — first for a morning jog out to the IceCube laboratory (ICL), then to take the obligatory “hero shots” out at the Pole markers (there is a geographic pole marker, which moves every year as the ice, with the Station and everything else, grad....
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Wednesday, Jan. 12 2011 1:12 a.m. UTC Geographic South Pole Today will probably be another short post since it’s getting late in the satellite pass. I’ve been outside three times already today — first for a morning jog out to the IceCube laboratory (ICL), then to take the obligatory “hero shots” out at the Pole markers (there is a geographic pole marker, which moves every year as the ice, with the Station and everything else, grad....
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Wednesday, Jan. 12 2011 1:12 a.m. UTC Geographic South Pole Today will probably be another short post since it’s getting late in the satellite pass. I’ve been outside three times already today — first for a morning jog out to the IceCube laboratory (ICL), then to take the obligatory “hero shots” out at the Pole markers (there is a geographic pole marker, which moves every year as the ice, with the Station and everything else, grad....
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Buried is a film about a truck driver named Paul. Paul is working in Iraq delivering supplies; his convoy was ambushed. He wakes up in a coffin, buried alive. He has a cellphone. The entire movie is set in the coffin with Paul as he tries to get help.
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Tuesday, Jan. 11 2011 12:44 a.m. UTC Scoop and Polie Things are starting to get more hectic here for me, with various special runs, feature requests, new arrivals (including some journalists arriving tomorrow), not to mention “House Mouse” duties (station cleaning duties which we all share in addition to our normal “jobs,” whatever they may be). I am trying to stick to a schedule, which so far seems to be working: wake at 6:30 or ....
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Tuesday, Jan. 11 2011 12:44 a.m. UTC Scoop and Polie Things are starting to get more hectic here for me, with various special runs, feature requests, new arrivals (including some journalists arriving tomorrow), not to mention “House Mouse” duties (station cleaning duties which we all share in addition to our normal “jobs,” whatever they may be). I am trying to stick to a schedule, which so far seems to be working: wake at 6:30 or ....
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Tuesday, Jan. 11 2011 12:44 a.m. UTC Scoop and Polie Things are starting to get more hectic here for me, with various special runs, feature requests, new arrivals (including some journalists arriving tomorrow), not to mention “House Mouse” duties (station cleaning duties which we all share in addition to our normal “jobs,” whatever they may be). I am trying to stick to a schedule, which so far seems to be working: wake at 6:30 or ....
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Wow, 2010 was quite a hectic year in the Midgard world. Here is a quick summary: We held three Midgard Gatherings: one in Lodz, Poland in April , one in Tampere, Finland in July and one in Gothenburg, Sweden in November . In April we announced the new directions of the project . The project completed a migration to Git (and GitHub ) for Midgard2 and Midgard MVC, together with a change in the development process to facilitate a ....
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I’m talking about this: select-1from from dual; Looks like invalid, right? Well, let’s run it: SQL> select-1from from dual; ROM ---------- -1.0E+000 This is because: Oracle doesn’t need whitespace for tokenizing the SQL statement (differences in character classes will do – as I’ve explained here ) The first from “keyword” in the above statement is broken down to two tokens as an “F” right after a digit means that the precedi..
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I’m talking about this: select-1from from dual; Looks like invalid, right? Well, let’s run it: SQL> select-1from from dual; ROM ---------- -1.0E+000 This is because: Oracle doesn’t need whitespace for tokenizing the SQL statement (differences in character classes will do – as I’ve explained here ) The first from “keyword” in the above statement is broken down to two tokens as an “F” right after a digit means that the precedi..
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So I've been hosting my own MoinMoin wiki for a while. I use it pretty heavily to manage my own little projects, packing lists, and whatnot. I used MoinMoin initially because it is written in python and we were using it at work. It has served me reasonably well, but I decide to shut it down and migrate all my data over to gitit instead. My reasoning for the migration includes the following factors. MoinMoin seems as far as I can tel....
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When we talk about religion and spirituality it seems all about believing (or not) in a higher power, or “God”. I always say I’m spiritual, but not religious. I believe that there is something more and have my own ideas of what I think it could be, but I never claim to know that there is something more. Does this mean I don’t believe? Does belief in a higher power, God, whatever, require being able to whole-heartedly say that you know i..
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Monday, Jan. 10 2011 12:05 a.m. UTC Destination Alpha I have a few minutes before today’s passenger flight arrives. Several 'Cubers are leaving on this flight and are very excited to go (some have been here since November). One colleague says the last thing he does on the last day is strip the linens off his bed — and only when the flight is 20 minutes out and there is no danger of it going back to McMurdo without landing and pick....
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Python è il Linguaggio di Programmazione del 2010 . Il riconoscimento viene assegnato da TIOBE al linguaggio di programmazione che ha conquistato più quote di mercato nel corso dell’anno. La crescita di Python è stata +1.81% da gennaio 2010, di poco superiore al risultato di Objective-C (+1.63%), secondo classificato. Objective-C è il linguaggio usato nello sviluppo di applicazioni iPhone e IPad; è andato molto bene nella prima parte..
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Monday, Jan. 10 2011 12:05 a.m. UTC Destination Alpha I have a few minutes before today’s passenger flight arrives. Several 'Cubers are leaving on this flight and are very excited to go (some have been here since November). One colleague says the last thing he does on the last day is strip the linens off his bed — and only when the flight is 20 minutes out and there is no danger of it going back to McMurdo without landing and pick....
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Yesterday, after returning from a trip to Kenya , the hard drive on my old MacBook Air decided to die. Eventually I was able to recover most of it, but many files on my home directory were simply gone. But this isn't such a big problem, as everything of importance is anyway online, conforming with the Linus backup strategy : Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it. So, where ....
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Monday, Jan. 10 2011 12:05 a.m. UTC Destination Alpha I have a few minutes before today’s passenger flight arrives. Several 'Cubers are leaving on this flight and are very excited to go (some have been here since November). One colleague says the last thing he does on the last day is strip the linens off his bed — and only when the flight is 20 minutes out and there is no danger of it going back to McMurdo without landing and pick....
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As I promised last year, I have 2 christmas gifts for you. I have already forgotten what the other one was supposed to be :), but the first one is Snapper v3.52 which has (the much requested) Oracle 9.2 support! The syntax is the same, with Snapper you can now sample ASH-like data on Oracle 9.2 too. Instead of SQL_IDs it will display you SQL hash values: SQL> @snapper ash,ash1=user+sql_id,ash2=sid+event 5 1 all Sampling SID all wit....
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As I promised last year, I have 2 christmas gifts for you. I have already forgotten what the other one was supposed to be :), but the first one is Snapper v3.52 which has (the much requested) Oracle 9.2 support! The syntax is the same, with Snapper you can now sample ASH-like data on Oracle 9.2 too. Instead of SQL_IDs it will display you SQL hash values: SQL> @snapper ash,ash1=user+sql_id,ash2=sid+event 5 1 all Sampling SID all wit....
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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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Oltre il 50% degli utenti web ora supporta il formato video HTML5
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Proprio ieri in Adobe Flash è una Pessima Idea concludevo sostenendo che l’adozione dei nuovi standard HTML5 e CSS3 sarà molto più rapida di quanto non si immagini. Nemmeno ventiquattro ore dopo ecco la notizia che oltre il 50% degli utenti web supporta già il formato video HTML5 . La fonte dei dati è StatCounter , ancora oggi una delle piattaforme più usate al mondo per tracciare la navigazione sui siti web.
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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There is a great debate in C-style languages about the position of the asterisk and the space when declaring pointers: MyType *x; // Original C style MyType* x; // The other style I was reminded of this when attending an Objective-C training course recently. Apple’s tools create declarations of the first form, the trainer preferred the second form. I remember having an opinion on this debate back when I first came across the second form, ..
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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O cómo las empresas convencionales lo usan para su propio beneficio... Pongámonos en este caso: vas de camino a una farmacia, o a un supermercado de una cadena nacional y cuando pasas por caja, la gentil cajera que poco o nada sabe del asunto te pregunta: "¿Acumula puntos?, ¿Cuál es su RUT?". ¿Cuál será la idea a través de esto? Muy simple: Información. Como dice una vieja frase: la información es poder. Y las multinacionales y grandes em..
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E’ incredibile la quantità di siti che ancora oggi vengono sviluppati con Flash. Il fenomeno colpisce soprattutto i siti-vetrina: negozi, attività commerciali, ristoranti, artigiani. Basta farsi un giro sui siti di venditori di mobili, per esempio, per godersi il trionfo della ‘ multimedia platform ‘ di Adobe. Bisogna prenderne atto: nel 2011 migliaia di aziende italiane di ogni dimensione affidano la loro identità web ad Adobe Flash. Consu..
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I was thinking about some of my favorite books recently. I wouldn’t necessarily call them all time favorites - they’re just the ones that have stuck with me and have been the most memorable.
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