Archive for January, 2007

FC6 KDE Suspend on a T42 Thinkpad

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Just spent a good part of the evening upgrading my linux T42 Thinkpad to FC6. Wanted to see if I could get suspend to memory to work since I never got it to function properly in FC5. This page, led to the very simple solution. Just needed to add a line ...

How to prepare for a java interview

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I just wrapped up another tour of the interview circuit. Not exactly how I would prefer to spend several weeks of my time, but alas it comes with the territory. I noticed a few things during this period. The first point that I would like to make is that as a ...

A little bit of sanity returning to the world

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I saw two posts today showing that the pendulum of reason is finally swinging back in the right direction. The first was over at Glenn Greenwald's Blog and deals with making good on the intelligence mistakes of the last several years. Only problem is that it's the Canadian Government that's ...

Suggestion for Google Video

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

I love using Google Video for their Google Eng Edu videos. This series of ~1hour long video of talks given on all sorts of techie topics is great. I love being able to get an inside access to these presentations. It's just like being at school again and having the ...

InnoDB faster then MyIsam?

Monday, January 8th, 2007

There's an interesting post over at the Mysql Performance blog testing performance differences between several storage engines. Their tests show that for some micro benchmarks that cover a lot of the basic usage patterns of databases in a web type environment, that InnoDB can actually be much faster than MyIsam. ...

Getting it wrong on Net Neutrality

Friday, January 5th, 2007

There was an interesting piece by Cody Willard from the thestreet.com posted the other day about the cracks forming in Google. I feel the article managed to get Google's stance on Net Neutrality completely wrong. I do agree though that there are some cracks forming in Google's reputation. The general ...

It’s official

Monday, January 1st, 2007

I'm bad luck for the Wolverines (my alma mater). I've watched two games so far this year. They lost their first game to OSU while I was watching and are losing their second game to USC (start of the fourth period as I'm writing this). Gotta get back to my ...

Another Year

Monday, January 1st, 2007

Can't believe it's 2007 already. I've got quite a few changes going on in my life at the moment, so it'll be fun to see how things shake out.

The Computer’s Rate Limiting Step

Monday, January 1st, 2007

Back when I was still working in the pharmacology lab doing chem work, there was a term used when researching biological pathways, Rate Limiting Step. In a complex biological system with multiple steps and feedback loops you would need to determine how fast the reaction could occur. Often times ...