Mondrian Code Review On The Web

Mondrian Code Review On The Web -- Guido Von Rossum

How Google does web-based code reviews with Mondrian � Internet Duct Tape

How Google does web-based code reviews with Mondrian � Internet Duct Tape: "Niall has a good post describing an internal Google tool for web-based code reviews built by the same guy who brought us Python. Anything beats sitting in a conference room looking at printed out code."

Coppola says robbery cost years of data - Yahoo! News

Coppola says robbery cost years of data - Yahoo! News: "The director of 'The Godfather' said the backup that rested on the floor in his offices at the Zoetrope Argentina studio was just 'a little thing ... but the information is (worth) much time.' 'If I could get the backup back, it would save me years — all the photographs of my family, all my writing.'"

特别报道：全国各地惊现纸馅月饼

特别报道：全国各地惊现纸馅月饼: "近日，本市名人marhar从超市里买了盒某著名品牌月饼，回到家打开吃，刚吃了一口，感觉有点不对劲，发现嘴里好象有个纸团，拿出来一看，上面还写着一行字。对，就下面这个，您看准咯:

tufte-latex - Google Code

tufte-latex - Google Code: "As discussed in the Book Design thread of Edward Tufte's Ask E.T Forum, this is beginning of a Tufte-inspired LaTeX layout to produce handouts and scientific notes"

Huashan Video � Electric Pretzels

Huashan Video � Electric Pretzels: "I shot this using Lauren’s digital camera from the gusty top of Huashan’s “Plank Path”."

Catalog Views / Data Dictionary Views

Catalog Views / Data Dictionary Views: "The data dictionary views, also known as catalog views, let you monitor the state of the database in real time: * The USER, ALL, and DBA views show information about schema objects that are accessible to you, at different levels of privilege. * The V$ views show performance-related information. * The _PRIVS views show privilege information for different combinations of users, roles, and objects. "

Veggie-Art-July07

Veggie-Art-July07: "Food artists create colorful animals from vegetables. Can you identify the veggies? m 'Eat Your Green Stuff' "

Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation

Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation: "In April we announced that we were working to bring presentations to Google Docs. (Astute readers may recall learning about this even earlier, which caused a bit of excitement around here.) And today we're unveiling the new Google Docs presentations feature and invite you to try it at documents.google.com. Maybe more than any other type of document, presentations are created to be shared. But assembling slide decks by emailing them around is as frustrating as it is time-consuming. The new presentations feature of Google Docs helps you to easily organize, share, present, and collaborate on presentations, using only a web browser."

"Silk market rules" : Photos taken by lloydthyen - Travellerspoint Travel Photography

"Silk market rules" : Photos taken by lloydthyen - Travellerspoint Travel Photography

Where can I find textures and background images? | Graphics

Where can I find textures and background images? | Graphics: "Below you’ll find a hand-picked selection of some useful resources related to textures and background images. We tried to pick the best ones which offer quality and professional content without annoying advertisement."

FOXNews.com - Smiley-Face Emoticon Turning 25 - Technology News | News On Technology

FOXNews.com - Smiley-Face Emoticon Turning 25 - Technology News | News On Technology: "

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.

[...]

Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly."I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways."'

the evangelical outpost: The Gospel in 6 Minutes

the evangelical outpost: The Gospel in 6 Minutes: "A few days ago Tim Challies wrote: What if there was a ten minute video clip (with transcript) of John Piper sharing the gospel? Wouldn’t it be an amazing thing if [this] could be promoted to the front page [of social media sites] and be seen by thousands or tens of thousands? In response, Desiring God ministries provided this resource, John Piper on The Gospel in 6 Minutes :"

Thing Fish - LAIKA Open Source Software - Trac

Thing Fish - LAIKA Open Source Software - Trac:

"ThingFish is a network-accessable, searchable, extensible datastore. It can be used to store chunks of data on the network in an application-independent way, associate the chunks with other chunks through metadata, and then search for the chunk you need later and fetch it again, all through a REST API over HTTP.

The system should, in its most basic form, only do two things: 1. Store files via a network interface. 2. Store metadata about the files and provide a search facility for finding files via their associated metadata."

Children's Painting Competition On the Environment /Home

Children's Painting Competition On the Environment /Home

The UN continues its mission of spreading optimism and hope and hope for the future in the world's children.

Loading.Ready.Run. - How to Talk like a Pirate

Loading.Ready.Run. - How to Talk like a Pirate: "'In honour of Talk like a Pirate Day, we present this informational video for the less nautically inclined among us. After all, you don't want to look stupid.' "

web zen: arrgh! 'tis pirate zen 2007 - Boing Boing

web zen: arrgh! 'tis pirate zen 2007 - Boing Boing

Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism - New York Times

Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism - New York Times

“Some of our customers don’t know the name, though after they meet us, they want to read the book,” she went on. “Our sales reps have a problem, however. New clients usually ask: ‘Hey, where is John Galt? How come I’m not important enough to rate a visit from John Galt?’ ”

NerdTests.com Fun Tests - The Nerd Test, Version 2.0

NerdTests.com Fun Tests - The Nerd Test, Version 2.0

Homer Simpson's Rhetoric - Figures of Speech from Springfield's Master Rhetorician

Homer Simpson's Rhetoric - Figures of Speech from Springfield's Master Rhetorician: "n this article, we consider some of the ways in which Homeric rhetoric has traveled from The Odyssey to The Idiocy by way of America's second-favorite cartoon character of all time. (According to TV Guide, Bugs Bunny is still number one.) Let's journey to Springfield to review 20 classic figures of speech."

oracle: how to defragment a table

ALTER TABLE emp ENABLE ROW MOVEMENT;
ALTER TABLE emp SHRINK SPACE COMPACT;
ALTER TABLE emp SHRINK SPACE;

MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Video - CollegeHumor video

MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Video - CollegeHumor video: "The blue screen was invented the day before Windows made this instructional video."

AsiaInfo Wins Exclusive Contract with China Mobile Pakistan to Deliver Telecom Billing and CRM Software Solutions

AsiaInfo Wins Exclusive Contract with China Mobile Pakistan to Deliver Telecom Billing and CRM Software Solutions: "Under the terms of the contract, AsiaInfo will provide its OpenBilling On- line Charging System (OCS), and OpenCRM customer relationship management system to CMPak. The system, designed to support 10 million subscribers, provides real time, convergent billing and unified customer service."

Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) � InsideMicrosoft � part of the Blog News Channel

Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) � InsideMicrosoft � part of the Blog News Channel: "Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings."

Catching Kids Doing Good

Catching Kids Doing Good: "The newspaper reported that we won the meet. I don't believe winning made all of the above happen. I believe all of the above made winning happen. I believe teens will show responsibility because they want to be treated like adults. I believe in catching kids doing good and telling on them."

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions)

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions): "Shocked into a library induced euphoria, Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world's most beautiful libraries for you starting with our own pictures of Strahov. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do."

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 10,000 Melons Explode

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 10,000 Melons Explode
Impressive.

YouTube - Lake Peigneur (disappearing lake) History Channel footage

YouTube - Lake Peigneur (disappearing lake) History Channel footage: "Lake Peigneur (disappearing lake) History Channel footage"

巴蜀早期儿童趣玩/雷瑞之/L/人物/巴蜀网 Phoer.net

巴蜀早期儿童趣玩/雷瑞之/L/人物/巴蜀网 Phoer.net
Lovely Chinese watercolors.

Internet Archive: Details: Quiet Please

Internet Archive: Details: Quiet Please: "Quiet Pleast - 1947 through 1949. The comple thoughts of Willis Cooper, as remembered as of April 7th, 2006. Quiet Please was Quiet, but remembered. This series is remembered here. This item is part of the collection: Old Time Radio"

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system: "memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."

Scaling with memcached � SlideShare

Scaling with memcached � SlideShare: "memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system used by LiveJournal, Facebook, Bloglines and others. Find out how memcached works, how to it set up and how you can scale your website. Presented at YAPC::Europe 2007 by Leon Brocard."

lgf: rebooting mac in safe mode to clear system caches

lgf: there are mischiefs to be cured: "And here’s a tech tip for any graphics geeks who work on a daily basis with Adobe’s CS3 suite of design applications. I was using Fireworks CS3, my main tool for doing everyday graphics chores like cropping, resizing, etc. when suddenly I got the spinning beach ball of death; a ‘busy’ cursor that wouldn’t go away, and a frozen application that needed to be forcibly quit. And we all know how painful that can be. What’s more, the same thing happened in every one of the CS3 apps. Restarting didn’t fix it. Repairing permissions didn’t fix it. Deleting preferences files didn’t fix it. Searching the web yielded nothing. Oh noooo. The solution in this case, and something worth trying on a Mac OS machine whenever you have this kind of weird problem, was to boot up in ‘Safe’ mode, while holding the Shift key. It turns out that this not only does a Unix ‘fsck’ command and fixes any disk problems, it also flushes all of the system caches. It takes forever to start up, because it checks the whole startup disk, but after finishing the startup and logging in, if you then restart in normal mode—voila! Your pilikia is all pau."

Top 10 Incredible Recordings - The List Universe

Top 10 Incredible Recordings - The List Universe: "Before I start on the list, I feel that I should advise that a couple of the items here are quite horrific and I would recommend that those who are weak of heart or who have a nervous disposition avoid them. The items I am referring to are marked in the text. The items are not in any particular order as it is very hard to rate the historical importance versus the just plain weird value."

� 5 Pen Tricks from Japan — Uh oh…

� 5 Pen Tricks from Japan — Uh oh…: "The Japanese, Taiwanese, and Koreans — none of them can hold pens still for a second. Now you won’t be able to either. Here are the different moves I’ll show (and name) here. The higher the number, the harder it is: The Helicopter (2) The Pincher (4) The Wheel (1) The Drummer (3) The Flip (5)"

At Rapleaf, your personals are public | CNET News.com

Rapleaf, based in San Francisco, is building a business on that premise. The privately held start-up, whose investors include Facebook-backer and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, runs two consumer Web sites: Rapleaf.com, a people search engine that lets you retrieve the name, age and social-network affiliations of anyone, as long as you have his or her e-mail address; and Upscoop.com, a similar site to discover, en masse, which social networks to which the people in your contact list belong.

How to become another user in sqlplus

How to become another user in sqlplus: "A DBA frequently needs to become another user to test something or verify a problem. Short of having to gain acess to that users password, we are asked can I su to that account, sort of like root does on unix. This is an 'su.sql' script I use: "

Ask Tom "connecting as another user without their..."

Ask Tom "connecting as another user without their...":

"So, this is still 'valid', but there are other ways in the year 2007. proxy users for example, consider: ops$tkyte%ORA10GR2> alter user scott grant connect through ops$tkyte; User altered. ops$tkyte%ORA10GR2> connect ops$tkyte[scott]/foobar; Connected. scott%ORA10GR2> select user from dual; USER ------------------------------ SCOTT scott%ORA10GR2> connect scott/foobar; ERROR: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE. scott%ORA10GR2> connect ops$tkyte/foobar; Connected. ops$tkyte%ORA10GR2> "

The SIMH Altair 8800 Z80 simulator

The SIMH Altair 8800 Z80 simulator: "The Altair 8800 simulator is part of the SIMH family of simulators currently at version 3.7-2. Unlike a real Altair 8800 it features several enhancements: * Choice of processor (8080 CPU or Z80 CPU) * Optional banked memory (8 banks with 64 Kbyte) * Optional hard drive support for additional storage capacity * Networking support via TCP/IP for client/server systems * Support for up to 4 consoles * Timer generated interrupts * Ability to set the clock speed for 'real-time' simulation (useful for games)"