The Words Of The Prophets Were Written On Sea Containers

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I found this today and it made me chuckle:
Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting HOLY SHIT, WHAT A RIDE!
Or did you expect that you’d get out of life alive? Enough said, this highly air conditioned, well [...]

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Linux’s inner child is a serial killer

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No, not Linus’ (though I do wonder about that guy sometimes). I’m talking about the Linux OOM (out of memory) killer which I am highly considering classifying as sentient.
I’m finishing up some Xen related programs, one of them is a special watchdog daemon that runs on Xen guests and exports system vitals via Xenbus. I’m [...]

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For Concurrency Issues, There Is Music

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So, you wrote some great threaded program and you realized that some threads were being obnoxious? This is a great song to put you back in the proper debugging zone. Check out Nitin Sawhney:

This is my second post surrounding music, more will come. I feel that the sure sell of  iambic pentameter has invaded modern [...]

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