jrabone

  The Home Office is reclassifying ketamine in the UK to be a class B drug, although it is already used in medicine for the treatment of back pain and as an anaesthetic.

"Prevent attacks below the operating system

Intel vPro technology protects against difficult-to-detect, penetrating rootkits and malware that threaten users working in cloud or virtual environments. It combines several hardware-based features, including Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)3 and Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)4 for centralized image management and administration, secure network storage, and out-of-band protection—all beyond the firewall."

Irony? Or hopefully the current version of vPro as built-in to some Xeon processors is a bit more hardened...

My production systems don't generally log; they're busy serving (I once worked on a hard real-time embedded air traffic control system where production logging was literally a single bit of information - a logic level that went high when the processor was busy, and low on idle - so we could measure our timing safety margin with an oscilloscope)

Test systems log at debug except for low level packages that insist on ridiculous logging (Hibernate, http client - and both of those have ANOTHER level of hacks to do wire-level logging in addition to the standard stuff).

Logging is just so painful, and not just in Java. Debian switched to rsyslog some time ago and I am still seeing no benefit at all, yet have to learn yet another half-arsed buggy scripting language to achieve simple things like, oh, not having my DHCPD logs showing up in three different files. FFS people.

Really, NEVER has so much effort been spent for SO LITTLE REWARD.

To hear these sorts of things, listen for reverb tails on drum hits, high frequency percussion like cymbals, high-hats, solo human voice (we're quite good at hearing unnatural artefacts in voices) - that sort of thing. Beware it has to be good quality source material to start with though!

I might have a go tonight.

For example, the Cowon S9 audio player was supposedly designed for high output quality, with a pile of DSP presets for EQ etc. With the e5c's you can really hear the poor quality processing of the EQ, especially on reverb tails. Have to turn the EQ off completely to eliminate them.

Offtopic, but footnotes predate the web by quite some time. If only we had a easy way of formatting super/subscript...

  String[] names = { "UNUSED", "Monday", "Tuesday", ... }
  try { 
    return names[i];
  } catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException uhoh) {
    return "???";
  }

Look, at least it's not a pile of @Inject DayOfWeekLookupAdapter dayOfWeekLookupAdapter with attendant 100kB Spring XML config, of which the unit tests will have their very own special cut and pasted copy. No, I'm not bitter at all.

Meanwhile I reconfigured bind on my LAN to DNS-spoof roughly 3500 ad-serving domains and redirect them to a logging but otherwise content-free HTTP server (hey, it's OK when my ISP or my government do it to ME, right?). Very interesting just how bad the problem is. I recommend you try it to get a real feel for just how much crap the average page requests behind your back.

Seems rather more flexible than pixel-doubling - I thought that went out with underpowered games consoles, but apparently not.

Where there is an issue is with icon scaling - since these are just multi-resolution bitmaps, if the person who made them didn't include the larger sizes you're going to have an ugly time at non-standard DPI settings.