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Links for July 26th :

• USB Devices Compatibility List – WikiTemp –
• Review Board workflow for Mercurial repository – Stack Overflow –
• ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Will it optimize? –
• [1003.0470] Unsupervised Supervised Learning II: Training Margin Based Classifiers without Labels – Many popular linear classifiers, such as logistic regression, boosting, or SVM, are trained by optimizing a margin-based risk function. Traditionally, these risk functions are computed based on a labeled dataset. We develop a novel technique for estimating such risks using only unlabeled data and the marginal label distribution.
• Howto: (Almost) Everything In Active Directory via C# – CodeProject –

Links for May 13th :

• The American Conservative — The Trouble With T-Bills –
• SQL Server WAL logging – a mess of confusion – Completely confusing<br /> <br /> "This log record must be written to disk before the associated dirty page is flushed from the buffer cache to disk. If the dirty page is flushed before the log record is written, the dirty page creates a modification on the disk that cannot be rolled back if the server fails before the log record is written to disk. SQL Server has logic that prevents a dirty page from being flushed before the associated log record is written. Log records are written to disk when the transactions are committed."
• Monthly Reports – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) – R303a has MBS activity by year. up up and away!
• Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code! –
• C: The Complete Nonsense – Herbert Schildt's C: The Complete Reference – awful C reference.

Links for March 9th :

• Refinancing tempting at these rates – The Globe and Mail –
• The Toyota Witch Hunt – BusinessWeek –
• API Documentation – Efficient similarity search by implementing different data structures for indexing metric spaces. Basically – a bk-tree.
• http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/formencode – Nice article on FormEncode – because the Pylons docs are frankly kind of lacking
• SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave –

Links for December 22nd :

• Query Managed Auto Increment – Varying query managed insert behavior across differing database vendors.
• Climate change data dumped – Times Online –
• Flaherty warns on mortgage rules – The Globe and Mail –
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog –
• API – Cassandra Wiki –

Links for October 19th :

• STL Error Decryptor for C++ – Not sure whether to rejoice or cry. An error message filter for G++ to make compiler errors more meaningful.
• pyvol – The pyvol project is framework for testing volatility forecasting ideas in financial (or other) time series.
• PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 1 – O’Reilly Broadcast –
• DERI Pipes: Open Source, Extendable, Embeddable Web Data Mashups – Open source implementation of Yahoo Pipes
• sp_add_jobschedule (Transact-SQL) – Windows sucks. cron, launchd, upstart – are all better than the cluster fuck that is job scheduling in MSSQL databases

Links for October 7th :

• MS SQL 2000 – Parameters in DTSRUN using xp_cmdshell – Stack Overflow – this is what happens when you don't have crontab. windows fail. type_id for command line arguments
• sp_add_schedule – Creates a schedule that can be used by any number of jobs for MSSQL2k
• chartWIDGET | home –
• Lp space – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! – Chapters – An amusing introduction to Haskell – if you're into that kind of thing