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"The Rule 110 cellular automaton (often simply Rule 110) is a one-dimensional two-state cellular automaton"
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Nokia is looking for a talented Server Software Engineer with strong C++ and/or Erlang skills to help develop our next-generation mobile gaming platform.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Back up and running, basically
I woke up with a resurgent head/chest cold this morning. That's what I get for going on the ice four times with a cold I kept telling myself was 'finished'.
Today I installed the other software I needed on my MBP and restored my data from the backup. The new drive is extremely fast, I'm really happy with it.
I think I'm going to set up rsync backups again. That's what I used for backups before Leopard. I'll probably do Time Machine backups too, because I like the simplicity of its interface for restoring particular files, but based on what I've heard from friends, I don't trust it for a full system restore.
It's nice to have my environment back up and running: Mail, iCal, Address Book, Firefox, and at the moment, Eclipse.
I haven't re-installed all the apps I use regularly yet, I'll install those on an as-needed basis.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Watching Dallas vs. San Jose, installing software
Check out my Twitter feed for info about my experience with backing up my machine.... short version: backup to USB2 drive failed at about 90% completion after over 10 hours of copying, bought a FireWire 800 drive and finished the backup and verify in 1.5 hours.
I installed Mac OS X this afternoon after finishing the backup, and after a busy day I'm finally installing software. I have installed Xcode/WO, iWork, iLife, and finished all the software updates. Still have to install Office, CS3 and all my other apps, as well as my documents/media.
I'm doing all this while watching the marathon Dallas vs. San Jose game on TSN. It's now intermission between the 3rd and 4th overtime periods. Wow, and I was feeling sorry for myself being on the ice for 4 of Cyan's hockey practices this weekend. Not anymore!
Re: Spam bounces 'o plenty
Here's a new term I hadn't heard before: "Backscattering". That's what the pros call it when you get mail delivery failure messages as a result of your email address being used in spam's "From:" header...
PC World, May 2, 2008: 100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered.
Bastards. Someone remind me, spammers have no human rights protection, yes? They're clearly enemy combatants, just waiting for their own comfy cot at Gitmo.
