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Harry’s Rules
So I just finished reading Younger Next Year (thanks Craig!) and its advice is basically “do heaps of exercise”. I thought I might list Harry’s Rules:
- Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life.
- Do serious aerobic exercise four days a week for the rest of your life.
- Do serious strength training, with weights, two days a week for the rest of your life.
- Spend less than you make.
- Quit eating crap!
- Care.
- Connect and commit.
Goa-Psy Trance
Sometimes, you might feel as though it’s time to break out into a trance of some sort – a meditative state that allows you to relax, to calm down, to focus on your breathing, and to rejuvenate your mind. When the mood strikes, Goa-Psy Trance is the perfect radio channel for you. Featuring a new psychedelic blend of trance music, Goa-Psy radio offers a unique sound that is full of arpeggiated synths and trippy effects that keep you in the right state of mind to achieve the mindfulness that you’re seeking. Relaxing, yet engaging, allow your mind to focus on the atmosphere that this channel creates.
Use One Big Server
Today I read an article recommending to Use One Big Server instead of a bunch of cloud services.
Cut-through switching
Today I learned that cut-through switching is a thing. Basically it starts sending frames before the full frame has been received, thereby reducing latency:
In computer networking, cut-through switching, also called cut-through forwarding, is a method for packet switching systems, wherein the switch starts forwarding a frame (or packet) before the whole frame has been received, normally as soon as the destination address and outgoing interface is determined. Compared to store and forward, this technique reduces latency through the switch and relies on the destination devices for error handling. Pure cut-through switching is only possible when the speed of the outgoing interface is at least equal or higher than the incoming interface speed.
Performance Numbers Worth Knowing
Today I discovered Performance Numbers Worth Knowing. It is what it says on the label.
Greybeard
Man, I just pulled this long silver hair from my beard. I dunno how it happened, but I got old. :|
In Praise of Idleness
Today I read In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell. It’s an old essay about how we should all work less.
Dead caps
Over on the Nichicon Wikipedia article they say: “From 2001 to 2004, Nichicon produced defective capacitors (“HM” and “HN” series) that were used by major computer manufacturers”.
This is what those HM series caps looked like in an Xbox I opened yesterday:
OGXbox trace corrosion repair
I made some notes on the process of OGXbox trace corrosion repair. I was working on a particular v1.4 board and needed to fix Trace A, but the board was still dead after the replacement. *sigh*