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    China housing bust may be underway

    So, no new construction ? Enough housing to run the cities and manufacturing operation expensions/restructuings ? I would not be a housing bear in china... regional speculative excesses that are running ahead of peoples paychecks will get washed out and things will just move to other locales...
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    security fix - XP

    We use it in two different ways .... The most basic use is to allow virtualized OS test configurations on the same server. The other application is a bit more esoteric and related to some of our numerical software.
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    security fix - XP

    We run it on Fedora distributions but it works on any distribution ...there are differing numbers of setup steps depending upon the distribution you are using .....
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    New IRS schedule D requirements

    exactly. and you could actually restart the business at some later date and again, seek MTM or not (for example if you are trading futures ). as always check with an accountant that knows this business......
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    The Real Cost of being a Proprietary Equity Trader

    but ... in issues/markets where I care about intraday movemement this is actually an advantage. I in fact can watch this behaviour: its extremely (laughably) predictable. Imagine, somebody really thinks that they can simply do weighted reversals in their progams in response to certain types...
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    New IRS schedule D requirements

    Nothing changes .... simply ship them the summary and then if they want to ask, let them.....then ship them a stack of paper in ten boxes that they can stack to the ceiling and review ... LOL.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    I dont really know .....I think builders will just be changing their mix of projects .... moving from areas where there will be slowing demand to areas where there will be increasing demand ..... I think the key point would be to watch where they actually are permitting or planning over the next...
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    Where to buy RAM?

    Or if you like free software supplied with source code and you happen to be using Linux you might want to investigate cpu.rightmark.org .......this runs - more or less - on windows - and we used the source as a starting point for a linux utility....
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    My next motherboard

    I know about extern ... but we still can not use this method in many cases. Most of our high performance stuff is well tested libraies of C/C++ that we have no need to re-write or wrap. Other libraries can indeed be wrapped and used from within Java - or something else. I still think eclipse...
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    My next motherboard

    I like eclipse and we use it more frequently. We use Java when it makes sense ... We still use C++ over JNI for most things.
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    My next motherboard

    I know you are productive ... as are we in both environments. However, its more than a simple technology decision ... its a financial decision as well. I can use a real OO language as well ... C++ or even Java - and there is more than enough scripting support outside of $soft technologies to get...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    There was an article in the WSJ today about companies relocating out of high cost areas ......Like california. Nissan was mentioned as moving its quarters from Los Angeles to Nashville, citing the cost of housing for its employees and the reduced cost of doing business.
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    My next motherboard

    I know you like the IDE but we really cant justify the $soft environment. When we look at our development metrics for the $soft .Net environment versus the LAMP stack and C++ compoonents using frameworks we control we see very little difference. There is a lot of Buzz about SQL 2005 but...
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    security fix - XP

    Hmmm ... We fixed this issue a long time ago - its a non issue and not new to us and I suspect the same for a lot of IT organizations. There is an extremely simple fix that does not require the free publicity, free marketing that the publicity hound security firm desires.....
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    security fix - XP

    First of all, this really is not new to the developer and information systems management people - or at least it should not be. Variations of these issues were known quite a while ago and most people already had implemented their own organization wide fix. Morover accepting patches from...
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    My next motherboard

    But why ? Are you planning a commercial product release ? What is there in the platform that is requiring you to do a major rewrite ? i switched us off the $soft platform precisely so we did not get forced into any type of "major rewrite". That is not to say that we still dont improve things...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Yes. Or better yet selling in 2005. Anyone that missed out on the boom just was not paying attention. However, in my opinion this is now over. Is there still money in the property game ? Sure. However just like the stock market bubble things going forward will require work and some smarts -...
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    Packaging yourself for a life after trading fulltime

    Exactly. Many companies really dont have any committment to their employees - they view them as cattle. These types of firms basically become the refuge of vultures and scumbags. To them people are discardable. They will offer no training, no employee development and no decent salary, all the...
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    Disqualified from a job because of a book I didn’t read

    I agree that you need good people in your company. Good people can communicate with others and are generally pleasant to be around. ....after these two items are satisfied the candidate needs to have the capacity for original thought and problem solving. ...Rather than the behaviour of...
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    Cpu

    the word idle ..... what does it mean ? thats right. So putting the two together .... if the system is zero percent idle that means all the process threads are reporting cpu usage and thus the cpu should be near or at 100%. if you see your system consistenly hitting 100% usage for extended...
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