Posts by ausnerd

The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The Weekend

This is not good...

Now when I reach for my iDevice every 80 seconds to check the news over the weekend I can feed my news addiction with my favorite news source. My wife will leave me. My kids will end up junkies. My dog will run away. My pickup truck will run out of gas idling for hours.

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

This is an outrage

Adults behaving like children. Fire the heads of both organizations and bring in some people who can work together for the benefit of the nation.

In the US we have people like this. We call them Congress.

Idoits.

Calling Doctor Caroline Langensiepen of Nottingham Trent uni

Why in my day....

Tom Watson (Sr/Jr) ran IBM. Coincidence? I think not.

BAFFLING power cockup halts NASA's nuclear Mars tank Curiosity

Call AAA...

But, you need to be with the vehicle and in possession of your valid AAA card when the service truck arrives.

(AAA = US auto club)

Cops: Bloke makes bet with wife. Wife loses - so hubby TASERS her

Why do Bears have flat feet?

From jumping on the Packers.

Ahhh, SATISFACTION: Watch while we set a NAS on FIRE

Roasted Canadians...

Hmmm, tasty.

The importance of complexity

Network Routing

Working in telecom for many years I have encountered requirements to find a shortest path route through a network. I always responded with pointers to literature and proposed that given the hard real-time requirements we compute the best solution in the time allocated. This gives good results without introducing the highly undesirable variation in the time to process requests.