May 2008
6 posts
ZSFA -- Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I... →
I’ll have to mine this article later for some stats reference. My class at OCC probably didn’t teach me much.
ABC News: Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work'... →
This is pretty gross. Why should we be “softening up” prisoners for Chinese intelligence officers?
GM still uses XP, and is considering "bypassing... →
Can’t say this surprises me. Doesn’t seem like Vista is offering anything to businesses that XP doesn’t already provide. I’m sure it was a big enough change at GM going from Win2k to XP.
Changing default text/character encoding in...
While working on some cross-platform .NET code under Mono, I noticed that the default encoding was different under Linux and Windows. After searching around for a bit, I found a snippet of commands that can be used to determine the character encoding and the local information. The LANG environmental variable can be used to determine the current encoding. So echo $LANG will return the value of...
Fermi's Paradox and the End of Cheap Oil →
Reading this article led me on a 20 minute ramble through Wikipedia.
SQL Injection Attacks Against Automatic License... →
The picture this post links to is pretty funny, if you find SQL-based jokes funny.