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Never had much concern for Christmas but we have a lot of ho (hó) today...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not if you're orthodox!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I didn't know you are a Santafarian!
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No, Griff, I'm pure Pastafarian. Arrr!
But we should respect each other's beliefs (even if they involve an outdated calendar!)
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Reformed Cultist of The Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth for me!
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Gesundheit! Bless you! < passes the tissues />
Sounds like you caught a chill there Griff!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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So technically your DoWork() method doesn't throw an exception anymore! Consider updating it.
public class SanderRossel : BusyPerson, IPersonWithNewJob, IPersonWithTrimmedHair
{
public void DoWork()
{
PlayWithTrimmedHair();
Say("hoooo!");
FixSomeBugs();
Say("hoooo!");
DoSomeWebDevStuff();
Say("hoooo!");
PlayWithTrimmedHair();
Say("hoooo!");
ChillWithColleagues();
Say("hoooo!");
// more things here..
}
}
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Well only until my trial period is over...
And seriously, do you have a shrine to honour my new haircut? You're getting creepy
And come to think of it, you haven't even seen it yet...
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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What language are you speaking please?
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Yoof.
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I'm sorry, that's the language cool people speak. I don't know what came over me...
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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... and they haven't blocked CP yet at the proxy?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Some of the best software we had at our old company was CP inspired
CP is like extended programming skills, take it away and I'm just a guy using a computer
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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CommitStrip[^] is a French online comic "about the daily life of a coder in a web agency"
Today's cartoon sums it up very well.
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I saw this on Auntie this morning......very apt indeed.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hello all,
This is the first of two questions I have... My parents have an old P4 HT computer that has 3GB of RAM, and it says it's processor has two cores at 3,6GHz each.
It can use 64 bits operating system, but now it has windows XP 32 bits installed.
My wife's brother ditched an old computer which has 2GB of RAM and and AMD x64 athlon x2 processor at 2.00GHz each.
How would you benchmark both computers to see which one is faster in order to decide which one to keep at my parent's house?
Normally they use the computer to access Internet, send mails, write some documents and from this Christmas they will use it to stream media to their TV's using Serviio (which some times will have to transcode)...
As always thank you in advance!
modified 8-Jan-15 3:13am.
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See the intro at the top of the lounge: "Technical discussions are welcome, but if you need specific help please ask your question here.".
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My tip would be the P4. But most important could be the graphic card, or the motherboard. Check whether they support some modern Windows. Microsoft has done a good job on Windows 8.1 in getting it leaner and faster as Windows 7.
And also think about a new tablet or laptop. They have also a new display.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Thank you for your suggestions!
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That's a difficult one: RAM can make a big difference when transcoding (since it tends to use huge amount of it) but the CPU is more critical, and the P4 HT is a very old device, the x64 is probably a faster device in terms of code throughput.
What are the disks like? NICs?
And if they are accessing the internet, I'd strongly suggest that XP is not a good move. Remember support and fixes from MS stopped last year, so I wouldn't recommend XP for anything involving credit card numbers...
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Yep... I'll have to check all this... Now I can't tell.
And of course probably after all the best will be getting a cheap but new computer somewhere... they'll have a legal Windows (as now) and better performance.
Thank you OG!
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You're welcome!
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You look it up. Which P4 and which Athlon? cpubenchmark.net will tell you which one is generally better. You can also tell a bit by the number after "Athlon 64 X2" part of the name, which is intended to be the "P4 equivalent speed" - if it says 3800+ then it's basically just as good as a 3.8GHz P4 (or at least, according to AMD). Some 2GHz Athlons are rated higher than 3.8 that way, but most are not.
It can go either way, Netburst was an awful micro architecture, it needs really high clock speeds to get any performance. It's also especially sh*t at running any code that is not specifically optimized for it (and nothing is, anymore), because it is so different in its characteristics from everything else.
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Ok, I'll check that page and see what I can get.
Thank you very much Harold!
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Take both up a tall tower, drop, see which hits the ground first.
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