Month: November 2015
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my Friday evening movie: Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3682448 At home, using the beamer to watch it (in English) on the wall.
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Avishai Cohen’s ‘Seven Seas’ as a student recital – really not bad
Published on 11 Nov 2015 ‘Seven Seas’ performed at the University of North Texas (USA) on October 5th, 2015, as part of a student recital paying tribute to Avishai Cohen. The performers on this recital are as followed: Timothy Moore- Piano/Leader of the project Aaron Holthus- Bass Chris Petro- Drumset Originally composed and arranged by: Avishai…
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MinGW-w64 – GCC and much more for Windows 64 & 32 bits
http://MinGW-w64.org Getting repository description file… Cannot download repository.txt [0] I looked this up, it got reported and “fixed” in 2014, but with my fresh installer it still does not work. Sad.
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Java SE (“Standard Edition”) Downloads
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads — Oracle Java SE http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase — Oracle Java SE Embedded (ARM …, x86) http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Synology_NAS_servers:_without_DSM_Java_Manager — if the DSM does not have a “Java Manager”, … http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Synology_NAS_servers:_with_DSM_Java_Manager — if the DSM has a “Java Manager”, use it! it directs you properly.
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Synology DiskStation DS716+ – 2-bay, Intel Celeron N3150, 64-bit, Quad Core 1.6 burst to 2.08 GHz
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS716+ http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B0176X81SG – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 480 https://www.cyberport.de/synology-diskstation-ds716plus-nas-system-2-bay-3F15-2EY_222.html – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 444 cyberport’s bundles with 2x6TB (WD, Seagate) disks are cheaper than the ones on amazon – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 950 CPU Model: Intel Celeron N3150 CPU Architecture:…
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my Friday evening movie: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” (2015)
Directed by Woody Allen. With Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Joe Stapleton. A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715320
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TV series: The Fall (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294189 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(TV_series) http://www.primewire.ag/watch-2739504-The-Fall-online-free – not to be published http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-fall-2013
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rounding numerical values: how to achieve “round half away from zero” with printf?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Floating-point_rounding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_away_from_zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/printf_format_string http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Rounding.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/178539/how-do-you-round-a-floating-point-number-in-perl To be more precise: I actually mean “considering a given precision” of real numbers. In Germany (in a financial context at least) “round half away from zero” is being used. … Look at this – can you explain it?: $ perl -e ‘$h = 3272.505; printf “%.2f — %.10fn”,$h,$h;’ 3272.51 —…