The Outsiders

A comment that Aldous Huxley once made about Sir Isaac Newton might equally have been said of Sidis.

For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb [5, p. 2222].

History lesson of the day

Goring make a good point.

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."


-- Herman Göring at the Nuremberg trials

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Gilbert

Not happy with Windows 7

Well here is the direct link to Microsoft so you can let them know what you don't like:
Give Us Feedback for Windows 7

Top 10 Ways to Stop Your Cat From Urinating-Peeing-Defecating-Pooping on Plants-Carpet-Furniture

Top 10 Ways to Stop Your Cat From Urinating-Peeing-Defecating-Pooping on Plants-Carpet-Furniture

OMNeT++ Tutorial

Hmm wonder why this isn't used in CST311?
This video walks through a simple example showing how to use the IDE and the OMNeT++ runtime environment.

STOP 0x0000003D BSOD

Turned on my new Intel Core i7 rig today and was greeting by the following blue screen of death!

STOP 0x0000003D Error Messages

The STOP 0x0000003D error will always appear on a STOP message, more commonly called a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). One of the errors below or a combination of both errors may display on the STOP message:

* "STOP: 0x0000003D"

* "INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"

Have no idea what caused it but had to go into Windows 7 recovery mode and do a system restore to fix it.
Also, ran memtest to see if it could be a memory problem but passed memtest just fine.
Hopefully, this was just Windows being flaky although my older quadcore9550 has been running Windows 7 without a bluescreen for over a year at least!

UEFI Boot Time Optimization under Microsoft Windows* 7 – Intel, Microsoft, and Insyde

Seems to be renewed interest in EFI so I'm posting this:
UEFI Boot Time Optimization under Microsoft Windows* 7 – Intel, Microsoft, and Insyde