Re: Just for giveaway and/or trade

2010-06-20 Thread Moish
On 20/06/2010 19:17, Dotan Cohen wrote: If you are nice, I want one and one thing only in trade - a vacuum handle for computer room tiles. One. C'est touts. Hi Marc. What is special about such a vacuum handle? I have lots of junk and I'm pretty sure that there are some vacuum cleaner accessor

Re: Just for giveaway and/or trade

2010-06-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 20 June 2010 20:41, Marc Volovic wrote: > :) it is handle to pick up computer room floor tiles. > > Looks like a phone hand-set. > Ah, that thing! No, I have none of those, sorry! Have a great week. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Just for giveaway and/or trade

2010-06-20 Thread Marc Volovic
:) it is handle to pick up computer room floor tiles. Looks like a phone hand-set. Marc On Jun 20, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> If you are nice, I want one and one thing only in trade - a vacuum handle >> for computer room tiles. One. C'est touts. >> > > Hi Marc. What is special a

Re: platform for number crunching---resume

2010-06-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010, Shimon Panfil wrote about "platform for number crunching---resume": > b) nobody provides example of heavy *numerical* load without > overheating, kernel compilation for example is not relevant becouse > AFAIK compiler does not use floating point calculations and power >

Re: Just for giveaway and/or trade

2010-06-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
> If you are nice, I want one and one thing only in trade - a vacuum handle for > computer room tiles. One. C'est touts. > Hi Marc. What is special about such a vacuum handle? I have lots of junk and I'm pretty sure that there are some vacuum cleaner accessories at my mother in law's place. What

Re: cat command with timeout

2010-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:06:51PM +0300, Raz wrote: > watch -n1 cat lala > is another possiblity What for? This re-runs cat 1 second after it has finished running. Try: watch -n1 'sleep 5; echo hi' It will refresh the display every 6 seconds. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org

Re: Perl and integer overflows

2010-06-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: You can compile Perl with 64-bit integers, even on 32-bit platforms. That or use a big-integer module such as Math::BigInt : http://perldoc.perl.org/Math/BigInt.html Thanks. I'll give it a try. Shachar See its lib => 'GMP' option if you want much better speed. Regards

Re: cat command with timeout

2010-06-20 Thread Raz
watch -n1 cat lala is another possiblity 2010/6/20 Yigal Asnis > You can use timeout command, like > timeout 5 cat ... > Yigal > > --- On *Sat, 6/19/10, Dan Bar Dov * wrote: > > > From: Dan Bar Dov > Subject: Re: cat command with timeout > To: "Ori Idan" > Cc: "IGLU Mailing list" > Date: Satu

Re: Perl and integer overflows

2010-06-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 20 Jun 2010 13:25:00 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to calculate the result of a string hash function in perl. I > need an explicit function, as the perl output is used to create a C > program, that will then use that very same hash function. Please, do not > direct me t

Re: cat command with timeout

2010-06-20 Thread Yigal Asnis
You can use timeout command, like timeout 5 cat ... Yigal --- On Sat, 6/19/10, Dan Bar Dov wrote: From: Dan Bar Dov Subject: Re: cat command with timeout To: "Ori Idan" Cc: "IGLU Mailing list" Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:03 PM Years ago I needed a cat with a timeout argument.I modified

interesting tidbit about overheating

2010-06-20 Thread shlomo bauer
Mechanical engineers are involved in the design of boards too! How? When boards are heated everything tends to expand and guess what, the expansion factor is not the same for the comments, the traces, etc. Multiple layer boards are designed so that things melt at different temperatures -- guess w

Re: Perl and integer overflows

2010-06-20 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Sunday 20 June 2010 13:25:00 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to calculate the result of a string hash function in perl. I > need an explicit function, as the perl output is used to create a C > program, that will then use that very same hash function. Please, do not > direct me

Perl and integer overflows

2010-06-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm trying to calculate the result of a string hash function in perl. I need an explicit function, as the perl output is used to create a C program, that will then use that very same hash function. Please, do not direct me to perl's excellent hash handling. I know it's there. I use it

Re: platform for number crunching---resume

2010-06-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 20, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Meir Michanie wrote: There is always another option,... one other option would be to underclock your CPUs and then even when they hit the 100% usage over long periods as it is running at lower speed, it wouldn't heat that much. The problem with that is the

Re: platform for number crunching---resume

2010-06-20 Thread Meir Michanie
There is always another option,... one other option would be to underclock your CPUs and then even when they hit the 100% usage over long periods as it is running at lower speed, it wouldn't heat that much. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Shimon Panfil wrote: > Many thanks for everybody who ans

GoogleCL

2010-06-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Heh-heh, for those of you guys and gals who love both Google apps and command line (and I suspect there are a few here) here is a bit of code annouced yesterday (?): http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ I don't use Google apps myself and I have not tried it, but it looks darn useful if you do, so I