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Oct_21_2008 Convenient Xterm starting options w/ cygwin for future reference... $ nohup xterm -sl 4096 -sb -s -bg black -fg green -fn rk14 & Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#XtermOptions21Oct08

Sep_19_2008 A bunch of papers about Chip Multi-Threading... http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~fedorova/Teaching/CMPT886/Spring2007/schedule.htm I got a kick out of slide 20 in the Introduction. "Predicting the future is difficult" Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#CMT19Sep08

May_30_2008 Some might say that these are interesting times. Linked from: "SANS NewsBites Vol. 10 Num. 43" > Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the > Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the > information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen > proprietary information from American executives in advance of their > business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to > electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two > recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according > to U.S. government officials and computer-security experts. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/print_friendly.php?ID=cs_20080531_6948 Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#ChinaHacking30May08

May_15_2008 Just spent 2 hours tracking this down on the web, instead of doing homework which I should have been doing - Windows Vista :- Regedit ::- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop --- Prevent key stroke hijacking by rude applications --- ForegroundFlashCount -and- ForegroundLockTimeout: tailor to suit. 0 is infinity. I've got both set to 0. --- X Mouse without autoraise --- UserPreferencesMask First field contains 01 - x-mouse 40 - autoraise (28 hex) == = ========= 41 decimal == 29 hex My first field defaulted to b6. If I used the Control Panel to change it to X-Mouse behavior, it switched to df (0xb6 + 0x29)... X-mouse with autoraise, it seems. I don't want that. I want X-mouse w/out autoraise. Which turns out to be [b6 + 1] or [df - 28] = b7. Haven't found that documented anywhere, for Vista, but it seems to work. Rebooted to see the effect. Probably logout/login would've been sufficient. Mu current UserPreferencesMask is: b7 3e 07 80 12 00 00 00 Here's where I came up with 40 and 41... http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21878 That's from 2000... Way before Vista. I didn't find a similar table for Vista. Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#UserPreferencesMask15May08

Mar_12_2008 "How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120467900166211989.html Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#WSJ12March08

Feb_16_2008 Veritas cheat-sheet... http://www.btinternet.com/~andrew_marshallsay/marshallsay/Unix/veritas.asp Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#Veritas16Feb08

Feb_16_2008 14 "Grand Challenges" for engineering. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9221.aspx Dumb ideas... - Carbon sequestration methods? Come-on now. Get a grip. - Manage the nitrogen cycle? That's policy, not engineering. - Restore and improve urban infrastructure? Somehow "restore and improve" doesn't strike me as quite strong enough for a grand challenge. Who wants or needs an urban infrastructure anyway? How 'bout making human life possible and convenient for anyone/anywhwere? Freedom, not comfortable captivity. The ones I like... - Make solar energy economical. - Reverse engineer the brain. - Advance health informatics (although "Advance" is also pretty vague). - Provide energy from fusion. What's missing? - Make human life in space practical. - Make human, animal and vegetable life on the moon practical. - Make human, animal and vegetable life on mars practical. Now those would be grand challenges! == For the most part, I'm thinking these Grand Challenges aren't so grand, or challenging. They set the bars pretty low. Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#EngineeringGrandChallenges16Feb08

Feb_09_2008 Here are the commands for R2D2.. someteimes they work. http://www.artoodetoo.com/HTML/R2-D2%20-%20Interactive%20R2-D2%20Review.htm Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#R2D2commands08Feb08

Feb_08_2008 I always forget where this is when I want it... "Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual" http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404 Link for this entry: http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/weblog_2008/technology_index.html#SolarisTunables08Feb08