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Don LaFontaine: the movie voice guy.

Blogged about earlier - amazing video footage of Joe Kittinger’s jump:

This cracked me up. According to a robotic tasting machine, humans taste like tasty, tasty bacon. Let’s hope that our future robotic overlords are on a health kick.

“Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon … Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses … like ‘tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.’ But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot’s omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.”

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Interesting article…I’d always wondered how my nerdier sysadmin friends did this.

“One of the most frustrating things about installing or upgrading programs on certain operating systems is the constant need to have to reboot. This is especially true with drivers or system files. Why is it that linux can be upgraded without rebooting? Read on to find out.

It all comes down to how linux and the file system handles files. When linux runs an executable it loads the whole file into memory and accesses it from there. This means that there is no connection to the physical file on the disk drive. When the program is closed and all connections to the file are cut the file is deleted from memory.”

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Live the airline dream:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/start.html?pg=10