the book of basketball for $12.58
Here's my slickdeal of the week:
Remember, going off birth control is like pulling the goalie....
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Click2flash saved my CPU from going hot
Ok a bit more digging, and I'm finding that one repeatable way to crash my mac is using another buggy piece of software, Adobe Flash Player 10.
It turns out that those flash ads can really make your CPU go hot! And bring down your ethernet connection as it turns out (see prior posts)
So I found Click2flash on google, "your web browsing phophylactic." When used to view web videos (i.e. the World Series) online, it reduces the amount of Flash utilization, simply by preventing Flash loading without your permission. That is, it's a super ad-blocker. And it the case of Flash junk, it frees up your CPU! Thank you Click2flash!!!
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apple's OS X has an ethernet problem
Ever lose your wired ethernet connection randomly? Does it ever require a restart to get functionality again? If you run on boot camp, do you never see these problems on Windows XP?
Let's go a bit further. Most users may not know what console is, but let's say they're willing to look. Do you ever see:
AppleYukon2: error - Uncorrectable PCI Express error
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 skgehw - cppSkDrvEvent - SK_DRV_RX_OVERFLOW: rcv fifo overflow
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98nif - deadmanCheck - nothing received, soft reset of chip
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 skgehw - cppSkDrvEvent - SK_DRV_RX_OVERFLOW: rcv fifo overflow
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98nif - deadmanCheck - still nothing received, hard reset of chip
Well, I've experienced this problem about 2x a day since using the wired ethernet at Columbia University. Since Dec. 2006, I've never really been wired, so never noticed this huge problem.
All I can say is, Windows XP on the same hardware never gives me an ethernet down incident. Right now, all I want to do is kick that @#$% idiot in those mac commercials, because he's so busy talking down to windows 7 that he can't fix his own operating system:
For what it's worth, I have never had this many issues with Windows 2000 or Windows XP Pro in the many years of usage.
Dear Bill Gates, I'm sorry to have left you. Consider me converted, I will do my best to convert all my mac os x user friends. I do concede my next hardware purchase will be a Mac, running Windows 7 because it's simply more stable.
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biofilm formation in the absence of gravity
http://mainsgate.com/articles/microgravity-boosts-microbe
While I'm not sure I really care about bacterial virulence in the context of manned space flight, I'm particularly interested in the implications of gravity on bacterial colonies. I wonder if more useful micro-organisms also grow at accelerated rates.
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the 'gameclock coordinator'
Bill Simmons is right. On his 10/13 podcast, he outlines what is essentially a gameclock coordinator coaching position, in response to Rex Ryan fumbling up the football game with his clock management. This is all encouraged by Brandon Stokley's live validation of traditional Madden gameclock management
Imagine one of these guys as a coach on your home professional football team.
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if i had a research lab i'd store my data....
on a professionally maintained cloud server. why bother to store data yourself on a lab maintained server, or carry the cost of maintaining personal hard drives for each student.
http://www.zetta.net/
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