User:Andy

About

• /Contact

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
• /Why I idle on IRC - YO DUDES WHYS IT SO QUIET IN HERE??/???// SUM1?

Engagements

• On call
  • Sunday 25th December - Saturday 31st December 2005
• Dublin trip
  • Monday 9th January 2006 - Tuesday 10th January 2006
• On call
  • Monday 16th January - Sunday 22nd January 2006
• Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting 2006
  • Friday 24th February - Monday 27th February
  • Campus du Solbosch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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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