User:Andy

Rants and musings

• /Wishlist
• /Idea - Many possibly insane ideas
• /Holiday - Sometimes I am not on IRC
• /Rant - Wikified rants
• My rants - which one day might move here and be wikified, I suppose
• /Toys wanted - some things I might like to buy, so I don't forget
• /Xen - Adventures in virtualisation
• /Debian on Soekris - Adventures in single board computing

Engagements

• On call
  • Monday 21st November - Tuesday 22nd November 2005
• Movies: The Constant Gardener
  • 19:40 Wednesday 23rd November 2005
  • Staines Vue
  • Definite
• On call
  • Thursday 24th November - Sunday 27th November 2005
• On call
  • Thursday 1st December - Sunday 11th December 2005
• On call
  • Wednesday 28th December - Saturday 31st December 2005
• On call
  • Monday 16th January - Sunday 22nd January 2006

Animal rights

• /Francione's Animal rights FAQ - views of Gary Francione
• /Animal rights FAQ - my own views

Quote of the moment

I will speculate that today's single-threaded applications as actually used in the field could actually see a performance boost for most users by going to a dual-core chip, not because the extra core is actually doing anything useful, but because it is running the adware and spyware that infest many users' systems and are otherwise slowing down the single CPU that user has today.

-- Herb Sutter, The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software

Picture of the moment

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