BodyWorlds In Manchester

I went a few weeks ago to see BodyWorlds at the Museum of Science and Industry (mosi) in Manchester. I have only just had chance to get the pics off my phone and am amazed at how well they came out.     All one body, look at the shared foot »

Project Euler 39

If p is the perimeter of a right angle triangle with integral length sides, {a,b,c}, there are exactly three solutions for p = 120. {20,48,52}, {24,45,51}, {30,40,50} For which value of p < 1000, is the number of solutions maximised? WARNING: CONTAINS »

Databases and Lustre on ZFS's DMU, New CIFS Stuff

When I first heard about ZFS and its features, I was intrigued by a comment by Bill More about the possibility of having a database or other app directly consume the DMU that ZFS uses for filesystems or volumes. After I did a spot of research when editing »

Two Thumpers For Tommy?

After me banging on for a year about how cool ZFS is, my boss is finally convinced and wants to get a Thumper (or 2). Depending on budgetary constraints we may be getting a couple of these to implement a warm backup solution for our current data and about »

Arithmetic is a great bollocks detector

Go and read Pupils to get ‘new world’ trips from the beeb. You may think “trips abroad for kids, great” , if you are more cynical you may think “heads choose the kids, not sure I like that”. Let us do some arithmetic, 100 kids for 6 weeks each for »