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Scheduling Tasks with Prime Numbers

September 5, 2011 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

I was watching a documentary recently regarding the natural cycles that some animals have being based on prime numbers. Now, the reason this apparently evolved was to avoid conflict with other animals.The cicada was one example stated as such, having a cycle of 13 years. This means that they have very little chance of running into another cicada that has a different prime number life cycle.

So, I was thinking along those lines, and came to the conclusion that to avoid scheduled tasks in SCCM (the delta discoveries) hitting each other, I should schedule them for prime number cycles. Currently I have them set to 5, 7, 11 and 13 minutes. I’m not too bothered if it takes 13 minutes instead of 5 if it reduces the load on the system.

Just a theory.

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BLN Galaxy S2

August 19, 2011 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

Finally someone overt at XDA has created a nice shiny kernel that has BNL support. You’ll need both a kernel that supports it AND a rom that does OR a hacked liblights that will allow it. I’m using stock rom, nimphetamine kernel, rooted, and with liblights. You’ll also need the app from the market. It works pretty well so far, however it does draw quite a bit of power. I think I measured a drain of about 150ma with the lights on. Less than the CPU uses but still significant. I’ve turned it off now as it draws too much power. Not much that can be done about that though I don’t think.

Hopefully the Galaxy S3 will have a notification LED. Samsung. Listen!

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Domestic Cleaning in Southampton

June 16, 2011 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

As mentioned, my friend has a cleaning company that I thought I’d plug. They are called Maid2Clean Southampton and can be found at www.maid2clean.co.uk/southampton or called on 0800 610 1205. They provide quality domestic cleaning in the Southampton and Winchester area and I’m sure thye would be happy to help with your requirements.

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Galaxy S2 Comments

May 27, 2011 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

I ordered a Galaxy S2 and it eventually arrived. It’s pretty nice, but there are a few annoying things with it that I wish I could change

It vibrates when it’s fully charged and will wake you up at 3am
It’s length of vibration is too long for notification messages.
There’s only “silent” or “vibrate”. I have to turn vibrate off in the menu to have silent. I’d like vibrate > silent > noise
There’s no notification LED. Wtf?
The home screen is Screen 1, at the far left. It should wrap around to screen 7 when I move to the left, but it doesn’t.

Just little niggles, other than that it’s a good phone and I’m enjoying it a lot

update:
Having used it for about a month now, and flashed new firmware and got a new launcher, i can say this is a great phone. Using launcher pro I have the home screens how i want, and the new firmware has stopped the random battery drain issues with wifi sharing. Now I am just waiting for 2.3.4

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Trading Gold and Silver

May 8, 2011 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

Well, looks like the silver retrace has completed. I hope. Maybe I’ll trade out of my gold and into some silver and get it while it’s cheap. Not sure how long JPM can keep this up. Probably eternity, I’m sure they have friends in the right places.

I get most of my gold and silver at Bullionvault. It’s like buying it physically, but stored in a vault in a choice of locations.