It doesn’t look like new scripts have been added lately, but I just ran across this nice little collection of dtrace scripts and one-liners. There’s a special section for Mac OS X 10.5 compatible scripts.
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Nice Response to the Beer == Worse Science Paper
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…
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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In conclusion…
People, in large groups, can behave like idiots. I would suggest, perhaps, that you don’t take the first, and most obvious, interpretation. That suggestion could be a nice mantra for life, however, I would add that over-interpretation can be probl…
Grossly Hacking a miniPOV3
So, in a recent post I mentioned that I started brewing beer and that I made my own temperature sensor (not for the wort, just for air temperature where things were fermenting/brewing/conditioning). To accomplish this, I took a miniPOV3 kit that I…
Kitchen Counter Invisible Fence
I must implement something like this for the cats, courtesy of the Curious Inventor Blog: Although, perhaps in conjunction with something like this, but functional, so I don’t have to listen to a car horn every time the cats do something stupid 🙂
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What’s Brewing?
In answer to the title, beer, actually. At the beginning of this month I acquired by first beer brewing kit as a gift from my fiancé Annie. We picked it up from the Wine & Hop Shop in Madison while we were visiting her sister. There are a number o…
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