There’s a quirk of using older CUDA drivers is that the latest NVIDIA SDK code examples are not backward compatible, i.e compiling the 3.0 SDK against the 2.3 toolkit (that I’ve spent the last day doing) is a fools errand (Thanks very much to @thebaron on #cuda on freenode and tkerwin on StackOverflow.) Basically, the 3.x drivers reclassify newer cards based on the; previously, the ‘compute’ value (a measure of OpenCL adherence) would max out at 1.3, but now the range is extended up to 2.0, but the 2.3 toolkit does not recognise this value, so craps out. ...

I was sitting in Sinnamon on the Stranmillis Road, enjoying a coffee, a sausage roll, and my Kindle, reading the latest 2600. One article immediatly stood out to me, ‘A World Spinning’. The main focus of the article was the world-changing domino effect, toppling regimes across the middle east, all caused by one, little textfile. The textfile in question was a US Embassy cable highlighting the indemic corruption in the (ex) Tunisian Government. As most know, this leak was from WikiLeaks; a rag-tag loosely knit chaotic alliance of hackers across the globe, all with the the same general aim to allow open and plain discourse and stopping governments across the globe from hiding secrets from their citizenry; big secrets and small… Of course, as with most things to do with hackers, the aim isn’t that simple; having spoken to some of those involved, it was abundantly clear that some elements within Wikileaks purely want to screw with governments that (they feel have) wronged them, but others are simply motivated by the cat-and-mouse challenge of acquiring, validating, securing and releasing information in a hostile environment. ...

BB King & John Mayer Live - Part 2

Rebecca Pollock - stars and moon. (original) gang fight! knocked out! Best action scene ever. ever. ever. – Endhiran (Robot) We Humans Are Capable of Greatness Halo Reach Tribute

Logging functions being called with just a variable and no comment as to what the hell it is logging has functions more than logging.info, use them! Debug = useful information if something breaks but isn’t interesting during normal operation info = useful and generally interesting information warn = something went wrong, indicating something should probably be refactored / fixed,_ but the system could recover from it._ error = oh dear jesus fuck the entire site evaporated into a swarm of zombie locusts, I better put something in the error log. ...

Still Unemployed 13 Global Warming NASA - The Frontier Is Everywhere Germaine Returns : Foamy The Squirrel Bill Bailey - ‘God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit…’ Kittens In My Christmas Tree!

Inspired by Barry Haughey’s recent facebook post; Dear International Banking Conglomerates and other major employers, I just spent 3 hours of my life writing custom cover letters, answering pointless assessment questions, and entering my ‘skillsets’ on 4 different occasions for an application for one job… Just gimme the bloody job already; you’re big enough and ugly enough to have been able to pick up all that infomation from either a) My extensive and detailed resume, b) my attached university transcript. ...

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Today is the day I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Today, in the SU, about 30 electrical engineers, computer science students, professional software developers, photography geeks, penetration testers, system administrators and anyone else interested, will come together to hack. Today, we’re going to find out if it actually works; there is nothing planned, nothing prepared, and nothing expected. All we have is a FB group, FB event, Hackerspaces.org Wiki, and a few IRC conversations. ...

The Trashmen : Surfin’ Bird ( 1963 ) Skyline - Trailer 2 (2010) Gameblurb firstTEN-Fallout: New Vegas Introduction And So You Code Cat vs Printer - The Translation Really: New Windows Phone Ad Dub War 5th Birthday w/ Mala & Skream