Hey there readers. Welcome to a next installment of the Wizardly Shyam. There has been several questions that were submitted during this resurgence, making me feel loved again. Anyway let's begin begin with a holiday related question ( Read more... )

Hey loyal readers, the Wizardly Shyam is back. After many weeks (or months/years) of vacation I am back to answering questions that either where mailed into to my super-secret address or questions that I made up and attributed to one of you. So without further ado, today's question ( Read more... )

You know I have found that the Linux 2.4 memory scheduler needs some work. So for those of you that might not know, but care, all programs are given 4GB of memory, even if your machine doesn't have that much space. Instead of giving the memory to the program at the beginning, the OS will give it to the program as it uses. So what happens when ( Read more... )

In the past week, I have slowly let Apple take my soul. On Sunday, my computer kept on freezing. I'm thinking the power supply is acting a little wonky (the 5V is only 4.75V, within tolerance, but when my chips start actually drawing power, probably too low). I was going to get a Mac Pro when I moved to my new place, just so I don't have one ( Read more... )

It was everything I hoped for. It was hella fun and not only because the movie was ridiculous, but because the crowd at the 10 PM showing thursday was getting into it. I mean how could it go wrong, with Samuel L. Jackson and snakes on a motherf***king plane! But I have to disagree with Samuel L. on one point, I haven't had it with these motherf ( Read more... )

I wanted to go climbing Friday but I got no love. Everybody had other things to do on Friday night, which wouldn't be all that unexpected, except for the fact that most other Friday nights since I got hurt I knew 2 different groups of people that go climbing. When I can finally go, nobody can go. This is frustrating. I had to go back to my ( Read more... )

I always thought that commuting with mass transit would be less stressful than driving to work. I thought that it would less stressful since there would not be traffic to deal with. After my one rush hour in the NYC, I have to rethink this. Navigating the commuter fluid seems quite stressful as well. While traffic on highways is chaotic, ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went to New York city for a few hours. I showed up at the New York Penn Station (not to be confused with the Newark Penn Station) right around rush hour. Penn Station was huge, or I walked a few stops down thinking I was still in the station, and I felt somewhat like travelling in India. Everyone was going every which way, and the ( Read more... )

I hate my damn AT&T/SBC dsl line. The modem I have sucks really bad. It's a modem/router and the damn thing has the option to put a machine on the DMZ, but it keeps losing the internet connection when I try that. Of course the line itself is flaky, waiting for the oppurtune time I fucking operate the indexing pipeline so my lack of intarweb can ( Read more... )

Today on FOX news, a dangerous new terrorist tactic was revealed! It seems that terrorists might actually try to blend in now! OMG!!11!!1oneoneone