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How long does it take to install an OS?

Jan 10, 2008 - 2 minute read - Comments

Apparently, 2 days…

Lets start at the top, Mix in a small army of new DL360 G5 servers from HP ( 7 Cores, 6 Hard drive Raid 5 arrays ) and Redhat Enterprise 5 and you get problems. Just before RPM installation begins, anaconda throws an exception and reports the following error.

Google Interview Question

Dec 27, 2007 - 1 minute read - Comments

An interesting problem I ran across on a blog the other day. Quote from the blog….

Given a function which produces a random integer in the range of 1 to 5, write a function which produces a random integer in the range of 1 to 7 This is well-known as one of the so called Microsoft/Google interview questions. There are million ways to solve it.

Spoiled

Dec 19, 2007 - 2 minute read - Comments

I’ve been living in the land of PHP for so long I have forgotten the basics of pointer arrays and types. For instance this one threw me a loop today.

Great Hackers

Jun 17, 2005 - 1 minute read - Comments

I read this some time ago, and loved it. Began to think of it again and made a mad search to find it. Posting here for all to enjoy. Great Hackers How to employ them, keep them.