This machine has 4 gigabytes of addressable RAM, is running a 64-bit OS and native x64 code. However, it also wants to behave like it's a 32-bit OS. Anybody know why? (no bonus points for suggesting I don't use IE9, this was an unfortunate necessity at the time)
Posts under ‘Miscellaneous Whatnots’
Is Skrillex Dubstep? I say no (in an open letter)
... In which Christopher, after being shown a video making the case for the current brand of dubstep, and why using the term "real" music is stupid (by composing a poorly considered cat-based analogy), adds his 2p to the ongoing debargument around the evolution of genre-defined music, where one genre ends and another begins... And [...]
Tiplet: monitor realtime web site traffic on a Linux server with tmux and tail
I run a VPS which has numerous sites on it. Whilst I was trying to pin down the root cause of sporadic hard lockups and runaway memory usage, I settled on a somewhat inefficient (yet very handy) line of code which I run inside a tmux session over a PuTTY SSH connection (two other panes [...]
Rosetta@Home cruncher? Don't worry, the project's still going! (Server migration update)
I noticed last week that my BOINC client wasn't connecting to the Rosetta @ Home server to report completed Work Units. I emailed David Baker, manager of the R@H project and this evening received a reply: Very unfortunately, we had to move the servers from one location to another, and it is taking much longer than [...]
Ever listened to Chef Aid and wondered why some of the vocals' sound quality is 'weird'?
I bought Chef Aid: The South Park album years ago. Great album, love it to bits and every so often still listen to it. However Track 18 always bugged me - Chef's vocals alternate between crystal clear studio quality and some dingy, Skypesque highly compressed garble (in reality probably closer to a 64 kbps ISDN codec). [...]