Although the large majority of inmates are using the phones to stay in contact with loved ones, there have been documented cases of escape attempts, drug deals and conference calls coordinated via smuggled cell phones.

I can put up with drug deals and escape attempts, but please try to minimize the number of conference calls the world is subjected to!

This upset me to no end. I asked the CSR what units these were in, and he didn’t know. I also asked him if he thought they were in the same units, or if he thought my upload speed should be about half of my download speed. He launched into this missive about “up to” and how maybe I was testing during some peak usage.

Of course, the cable modem itself limits you to exactly what the vendor tells it to — in many neighborhoods where ATT and Verizon don’t have their wares available this is 384 kilobits/sec, 512 kilobits/sec, or 768 kilobits/sec (Go Binghamton!).

Maybe “7″ is in megabits/second and “3-and-a-half” is in hundreds of kilobits/second — even the “Turbo” option only includes an advertised 512 kilobits/second on their Time Warner website, which is surprisingly forthcoming about what you’re getting for Turbo. But their (retention) CSR’s should steer clear of talking about it.

I did not manage to get free Turbo (and the extra 128 kilobits/second of upload that comes with it) from the retention guy because he pawned me off on technical support. But I did get a break on my bill beyond the 3 digital tiers I removed.

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -d "java/" ]; then
  echo "$0 must be run from parent directory of java install"
  exit 1
fi

JAVALIBS=$(find java/ -name \*.so | xargs)
JAVADEPS=$(ldd $JAVALIBS | grep "not found" | sort | uniq | awk '{print $1}' | xargs)

for lib in $JAVADEPS; do
  if [ -f /usr/lib64/$lib -a ! -f /usr/lib/$lib ]; then
    printf "Missing 32-bit counterpart of a 64-bit lib: $lib\n";
    printf "\t 64-bit is from from package $(rpm -qf /usr/lib64/$lib)\n"
  fi

  if [ ! -f /usr/lib64/$lib -a ! -f /usr/lib/$lib ]; then
    if find java/ -name $lib | grep $lib 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
      true;
    else
      printf "No 32-bit or 64-bit lib named $lib (and It was not found under java/ as a JVM lib\n"
    fi
  fi
done

Building upon the capabilities of our previous releases, some of the Alpha features include: … Simplified product install

We did manage to make a significant dent on the documentation side of our bugzilla backlog http://twitter.com/rbowen/status/1656846096007170. It was fun trying to rack up as many of these closes as we could, even though we weren’t doing it to get out of weekend work. Maybe $bigco could take a few hints.

As such, we recently froze his account and asked the player for a controlled demonstration, and the player agreed. We dispatched a PokerStars representative to the player’s home to observe several hours of play on June 1st, 2010. That observation convinced us that the player is not using a bot.

…
In the end, rs03rs03 averages 120 tables at once when at full speed, playing about 100,000 hands over the course of about 55,800 seconds. That’s about 1.8 hands per second (slightly more actions, though, since some hands are multi-decision). Again, we cannot violate the player’s privacy and explain their strategy, but they did demonstrate it for us, and it agrees with observation and explains how they can make so many decisions so quickly.

Gotta picture his rig resembling Tony Montanas office desk.

• Mount your install media
• mkdir /tmp/repo
• cp -r /media/dvdrw/packages/*.rpm /tmp/repo
• (cd /tmp/repo && rpm -i createrepo* *deltarpm*
• createrepo .
• cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
  [local]
  gpgcheck=0
  name=localrepo
  baseurl=file:///tmp/repo
  ^D

Now e.g. yum install libXp.i686 will grab up all the basic 32-bit low-level stuff for you.

A list of changes in this release is available herehttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ihs.doc/info/ihs/ihs/cihs_newfunction.html. Only the new installer and new architecture support are probably of interest in the beta, along with the added flexibility in the SSLCipherSpec directive.

This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young.

So far, it includes the following utilities:

– combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
– ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
– ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
– isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
– lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
– mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
– parallel: run multiple jobs at once
– pee: tee standard input to pipes
– sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
– ts: timestamp standard input
– vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
– vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
– zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command