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Happy PFD!...?

Happy PFD!...? 01/16/2004 11:02 AM

Anyone in the mood for a celebration!? Today is Personal Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks?




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Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?


Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? 02/01/2005 10:10 PM

Lorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.

WorldCat in Your Pocket

“WorldCat is our union catalogue of about 56 million bibliographic records, which represent approximately a billion holdings. It is about 50 gigabytes in MARC Communications (100+ gigabytes in XML) format and about 23 gigabytes compressed.

OCLC Research recently acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey, whose team has been working on the machine, the cluster speeds up most bibliographic processing by about a factor of 30. This means that what might have taken a minute now takes two seconds, what might have taken an hour takes two minutes, what might have taken a month takes a day. For jobs that will fit entirely in memory (e.g. a `grep' of WorldCat) avoiding disk i/o gives another factor of about 20, reducing 1-hour jobs down to 6 seconds. We can 'frbrize< /a>' WorldCat on the cluster in about an hour.

WorldCat is also now more mobile. Thom has a 40 gig iPod which can accommodate WorldCat on its disk with room left for 5,000 song tracks. Now, you can't do much with the data on the iPod, but you can certainly carry it around. Again, it takes about an hour to get it on and off the iPod.” [Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog, via It&rs quo;s All Good]

They’re all amazing numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction of the personal, mobile server in your pocket.


Happy


Happy 02/01/2005 09:44 PM
It’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says “yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about it.”

Very Very Happy


Very Very Happy 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
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Happy Pi Day!


Happy Pi Day! 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Happy Pi Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are more activities or you can just sing a song to ?.

Are you happy now?


Are you happy now? 03/13/2003 03:27 PM
A 100-ton mech is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like Steelhead Battalion and Cthulhu Karts, it's possible that Schadenfreude Interactive might be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of Computer Games.

If You're Happy and You Know It...


If You're Happy and You Know It... 08/11/2004 01:58 PM
Cisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What took 'em so long?

One happy, one sad


One happy, one sad 01/30/2004 02:04 AM
Two things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the wild. not only there but here, and...

.HAPPY


.HAPPY 02/10/2004 03:00 AM

The issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5 mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps.

.NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the rest confuses the issue.


Happy New Year to all


Happy New Year to all 12/31/2003 07:20 PM
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Happy New Year !


Happy New Year ! 01/01/2004 03:18 AM
Well we all made it through another year here at ActiveNetwork and our entire staff would like to thank all our viewers for your continued support since our conception back in 1997. With all the additions over the years we think we have certainly come a long way since then.

happy new year!


happy new year! 01/01/2004 11:07 AM

I got to Madrid okay yesterday, but, in the end, I couldn't get the modem connection to work properly... and in truth I didn't spend that much time with it (I fixed that a few minutes ago problems with a DHCP connection that required some fixed TCP/IP settings)...

... but now we're about to leave, so I'll be brief: Happy 2004 everyone!

PS: Digital life resumes tomorrow afternoon, after I get back to Dublin. :)


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 01/01/2004 05:09 PM
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"happy ending"


"happy ending" 05/21/2004 03:49 AM

An IT director's lot is not a happy one


An IT director's lot is not a happy one 07/06/2004 01:18 PM
Tense, nervous headache

Happy New Worm


Happy New Worm 01/02/2004 03:42 PM
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"Happy Independence Day"


"Happy Independence Day" 07/05/2004 02:40 PM

"Browse Happy"


"Browse Happy" 08/23/2004 02:43 AM

happy pencil


happy pencil 07/07/2004 09:27 AM
happy pencil [note: flash, safe for work, portfolio]

Happy Father's Day, Dad!


Happy Father's Day, Dad! 06/22/2005 02:37 AM
I'd like to take a moment on this beautiful Sunday morning to wish my dad a Happy Father's Day. I...

Happy 2004!


Happy 2004! 12/31/2003 09:37 PM
Chances are, it's already 2004 where you live, or it will be in a few short hours. Here's to a happy New Year, full of geekery, a bit of gamin', and most importantly, family and friends.

Happy B-Day Gary!


Happy B-Day Gary! 08/07/2004 07:21 PM

GaryTurnerB-Day.jpg

I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then ricocheted into his blog.

So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for evolving Flickr into what it is today.

At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo kind of RIA. But it's much more than that.

The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm sure.


Happy Sys Admin Day!


Happy Sys Admin Day! 07/30/2004 05:05 AM
Today is the 5th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! Time to think of those who keep our favorite sites running.

Happy Holiday


Happy Holiday 12/25/2003 12:51 PM
For those of us with ass jobs have a good day off until getting back to the grindstone tomorrow.

Happy New Year!


Happy New Year! 12/31/2003 04:59 PM

Happy Birthday


Happy Birthday 07/08/2004 02:00 PM

Happy Holidays.............


Happy Holidays............. 12/24/2003 02:29 PM
Happy Holidays from me to you! (yes that's me many many christmas's ago) funky huh? :)...

Happy Birthday, D&D


Happy Birthday, D&D 08/19/2004 11:42 AM
BoingBoing reader Ateo says:
Dungeons & Dragons turns 30 this year and tonight is the start of GenCon too. NPR did a story, and Gamespy is doing tons of articles on the history of the game this week as well.
Link to the official D&D site

Happy Commodores


Happy Commodores 08/20/2004 08:16 PM
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Happy Holidays


Happy Holidays 12/18/2003 03:29 PM
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Happy 4th.. err... 5th of July


Happy 4th.. err... 5th of July 07/05/2004 12:58 AM
Even though yesterday was the "real" July 4th, today is a legal holiday for U.S. residents so most NewsForge staff people are taking the day off. We're updating NewsVacs, but that's about it. See you tomorrow!

"Happy Earth Day"


"Happy Earth Day" 04/23/2004 10:59 AM

Happy Earth Day!


Happy Earth Day! 04/22/2004 05:32 PM

happy birthday, cam


happy birthday, cam 04/14/2004 02:41 PM
gotta give it up for one of the OG bloggers

Happy Spamiversary!


Happy Spamiversary! 04/13/2004 11:46 PM

Happy spamiversary


Happy spamiversary 04/12/2004 06:02 AM
Ten years after the Internet first woke up to unsolicited marketing attacks, outrage has been replaced by growing resignation. But the war rages on.

Mailsmith Happy


Mailsmith Happy 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

I finally did it. I broke down and bought Mailsmith.

I used Mailsmith 1.0 and 1.5 when OS X was first released, because Apple's Mail.app was utterly horrible, and I received a free NFR copy because I was working for a small Macintosh news site at the time... and Bare Bones saw fit to give us a copy for review... so I reviewed it and fell in love (the review was never published).

But then, Apple's Mail got better with Jaguar, and even better with Panther, but this past week something in Mail broke. I don't know why or what and can't really explain the problems I'm having with Mail other than to say that after reading and deleting 4-5 emails, Mail.app crashes for no apparent reason. Happens every time I fire it up. And the Junk-mail filters just quit working, so now, I'm getting 100+ junk mails in my in-box... perhaps MyDoom is to blame for Mail.app crapping out on me...

So, I figured I'd switch back over to Mailsmith until I could figure out the problem with Mail.app. Within 5 minutes of using Mailsmith 1.5, I was in love again (and yes, I love BBEdit, and I think that's what drives my fascination with Mailsmith). So, I zipped over to Bare Bones.com to buy the latest version of Mailsmith, and guess what? It comes free with SpamSieve from Michael Tsai, too. Woohoo!

And now, I'm Mailsmith happy again, and not getting any more spam, and loving it. I guess the coolest part is that Mailsmith 2.x picked up all of my old 1.5 settings and preferences, and imported all of my email from Mail.app with no problems... And now I don't have to read HTML email anymore either. What a bonus.

Thanks Bare Bones.

And no, folks, I don't think $99 is too much to pay for a mail client, espectially when you work 'in your email client' as much as I do.

Further Reading: You Have New Mail [from daringfireball.net] and True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher [from Tidbits]


Happy Cog 3.0 (Creme)


Happy Cog 3.0 (Creme) 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Presenting Happy Cog 3.0, code-named "creme."

Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Bag


Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Bag 02/12/2004 11:26 AM
There's no better party favor than a free-range breast implant, according to Pessimistic.Com. Especially for men: "One by one they explored the unknown territory of breast ownership, previously inhabited only by women." (02-12)

Happy Valentine's Day


Happy Valentine's Day 02/14/2004 12:13 PM
Love is all that matters.

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