I’ve still not gotten around to reading the actual paper, but slashdot today mentioned some additional analysis of the paper correlating increase beer drinking with reduced scientific success (measured in terms of publications and citations). My i…
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Safari Performance Jump w/ 3.1
Wow. The new Safari build has significantly improved JavaScript performance in Apple’s SunSpider benchmark. Older Safari 3: 8537.4ms 0.3% Safari 3.1: 3152.6ms 0.2% The new Firefox beta is no slouch either: Firefox 3 beta 4: 5080.4ms 5.7% Fir…
Solaris – What is the Appeal, Outside the Server Room?
So, I’ve recently been experimenting with and loving ZFS on FreeBSD and OS X. Some of the initial instability (kernel panics) issues I was having with ZFS and OS X seem to have calmed down for the moment, and I’ve had zero problems on 64-bit FreeB…
MATLAB & Florida 2000 Voting
While much of the MATLAB documentation is pretty dry in terms of the data they select to demonstrate the use of functions, I found it interesting today when I noticed they had an example on excluding outliers that uses data pertaining to the 2000 …
ZFS
So, I know there have been numerous blog posts gushing about ZFS. This is another one of those posts.I’ve got “experimental” versions of the filesystem going on a number of Mac hosts, and now on my FreeBSD NAS device. Aside from having been able t…
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