I find it quite interesting to see lists of what friends are currently reading (blogs/podcasts/books/etc). Here’s my list for your enjoyment, organized into semi-coherant categories. Except for the books and podcasts, this is basically a dump of the RSS feeds I subscribe to.
This will be my first hack at meadmaking, and I’m quite excited. I’m estimating that I’ll end up bottling this batch in late July, meaning that it’ll be ready to drink just in time for the Christmas season. :-)
Fermentables
Yeast
Other
Notes
Yesterday we received, at work, a new server which will soon be tasked with running a high-load, SQL query intensive application. It’s a Quad-Intel Dual Core 2.66 GHz machine w/ 8GB of RAM and two 280GB RAID10 arrays. Since each of the 4 CPUs are dual-core, there are a total of 8 cpu cores to crunch through data. The catch, though, is that each of the cores are hyperthreading-enabled, so each of them shows up as two processors to the operating system. You do the math…the operating system thinks that it’s running on a 16-way system. I’d love to be running linux on this beast, as I believe you could squeeze quite a bit more raw processing power out of it…unfortunately, the application destined to run on this server is windows-only (for the time being). Nevertheless, geeks like myself seldom get to play with hardware as powerful as this, so I enjoyed myself immensely.
See this picture for a graphic illustration of the 16 CPUs.
With the addition of my “Semi-interesting Links” sidebar, you may have noticed that the main RSS feed is getting polluted with my frequent link postings. So…if you don’t mind that, there’s no need to change. However, if you’d rather monitor separate feeds for the “real” blog posts and the links, you can subscribe using these links:
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