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Fun With Computer Training
Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This has probably taken place long enough ago that the guilty party will not see recriminations.

The previous generation of HAL data collection hardware was an RS/6000 AIX-based system that was very network friendly. One could easily hook two data acquisition trucks together and broadcast the job for high-profile work. One truck could also easily tell [...]

Good and Bad Things about Cap and Trade
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

One might be able to get away with saying that a cap-and-trade system for emissions reduction is a market solution. It is by no means a free market solution.
I found one good thing about the system from the Chicago Climate Exchange web site. They sell their contracts in metric tons of greenhouse gases that [...]

NR Testing Readable Permalinks and Podcast
Friday, September 26th, 2008

Anyone who has linked to individual articles on Necessary Roughness (and thank you, by the way) may want to search their posts and see if those links still work. I’ve changed the URL format to go away from those numbered URL which make little sense to URLs with the title in them. This makes the [...]

Palin E-mail Hacked With Lost Password Recovery
Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Michelle Malkin has posted a letter from one of her readers who followed the hacking story. The hacker who explained what he was doing noted that there was nothing incriminating Gov. Palin, and the Yahoo! account was all personal stuff.
The big news for you and me is that the hacker gained access to the account [...]

WSJ Breaks ‘Best of the Web’ Link
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal has a new look. It’s busy, but one expects “busy” for a major news outlet.
They did break one important feature. Before the move, one could set a bookmark to the current “Best of the Web” post by James Taranto:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
If you point your browser to that link, you’ll now get a [...]