Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

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Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution: "For the current article, Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution, I've gone back and completely reworked all of the previous explanations and analogies I've used to explain both of these concepts, and I've combined the results into one, coherent article." [Ars Technica]

Managed to save a few postings after all -- Comment()
As I wrote earlier, I this morning lost four days of my weblog postings when the Radio UserLand application crashed. I managed to save some postings via the NetNewsWire Lite application, which had a cached copy of the RSS feed of my weblog. I republished some of the lost postings, but most are lost forever.

Bioinformatics -- Comment()
Bioinformatics - the race to computerise biology: "For centuries, biology has been an empirical field that featured mostly specimens and Petri dishes. Over the past five years, however, computers have changed the discipline - as they have harnessed the data on genetics for the pursuit of cures for disease. Wet lab processes that took weeks to complete are giving way to digital research done in silico. Notebooks with jotted comments, measurements and drawings have yielded to terabyte storehouses of genetic and chemical data. And empirical estimates are being replaced by mathematical exactness." [Privacy Digest]

Republished weblog -- Comment()
Early Monday morning I cleared out the Radio UserLand cloud using the wipeCloud script by Andy Fragen. Then I re-published my entire weblog. I run into some small problems, which I hope are now corrected. Now I have 71% disk space free, compared to 63% before doing the wipe. Doing the republishing took almost a hour, so for some time this weblog was not available for browsing.

While republishing the entire weblog I made some modifications to the templates. I checked the validity of the CSS style definitions. It seems that nothing broke in the process.

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The Science of Star Trek: "One of the keys to the success of Star Trek is the fact that it is grounded in scientific credibility." [News Is Free: Popular Items]

Four days of Radio postings disappeared -- Comment()
The Radio UserLand application crashed, and after restart I noticed that four days of my weblog postings had disappeared. I had already made a posting before I noticed this, so my weblog entries from four last days were already overwritten.

I wrote a plea for help on the Radio discussion group, but I don't have much hope of recovering the postings. This is the first time I have lost postings with Radio, so this came as a shock.