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[00:26] <Takyoji> I feel like such a performance freak for being disturbed by something adding 6/100ths of a millisecond (0.00006 seconds) to calculation time of something
[00:27] <kermit> i also heard that it's only predicted, that it's actually less than the effect of ordinary weather patterns.
[00:28] <kermit> you just dont hear that part as much because that part isnt news.
[00:28] <kermit> if you're refering to the earthquake
[00:29] <tonyyarusso> I assume he's not, since the earthquake would not have the effect he stated.
[00:29] <kermit> yeah, that was 1.26us
[00:33] <Takyoji> It's the time it takes for a regular expression to extract the attributes from a single HTML element (about 50 characters)
[00:33] <Takyoji> For some reason I've been able to write something in PHP to do the same task as a regular expression, but faster.
[00:33] <kermit> you can really speed up regex by using the minimal amount of variable length patterns
[00:33] <Takyoji> By just using strpos() and substr()
[00:34] <kermit> regex has a very unpredictable time
[00:34] <Takyoji>  /(\w+)="([^"]*)"/
[00:34] <kermit> some patterns that seems equivilant to you, might take 100 fold different amounts of CPU
[00:35] <Takyoji> I'm curious to even see how Firefox/Chrome for example parses HTML.
[00:36] <tonyyarusso> I would just like to state that Drupals geographical information modules are a mess.
[00:36] <Takyoji> Ooo fun
[00:36] <kermit> Takyoji: its not searching for patterns though, its parsing it all.
[00:36] <kermit> Takyoji: so that's a pretty different matter
[00:36] <Takyoji> Well, true
[00:40] <Takyoji> though I'm doubtful that I'll be able to fully track down the exact section of code, and interpret it properly. xP
[00:42] <Takyoji> 46MB
[04:45] <Takyoji> Just finished watching this: http://blip.tv/file/3283837 of which I found rather interesting.
[04:45] <Takyoji> A speech by Lawrence Lessig
[04:46] <Takyoji> the one that had the audio removed from on YouTube for a DMCA violation for the short clips of music that were used to express a point in the remix of culture, or something of that general topic
[04:47] <Takyoji> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/02/2056201/A-Second-Lessig-Fair-Use-Video-Is-Suppressed-By-WMG
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[20:38] <_diablo> has anyone here tried out Lubuntu?
[20:39] <Obsidian1723> what is that?
[20:39] <_diablo> Obsidian1723: LXDE Ubuntu
[20:40] <Obsidian1723> ah'
[20:40] <Obsidian1723> Nice DE, but I prefer Gnome.
[20:42] <_diablo> Lubuntu just looks prettier from the screen shots
[20:43] <Obsidian1723> THats the beauty of Linux, run whatever DE you want, or none at all. XFCE, Gnoime, KDE, Enlightenment, etc
[20:44] <_diablo> ya, I ran ratpoison for a while, but I couldn't deal with the tiling nature
[20:44] <Obsidian1723> I havent used that one.
[20:45] <Obsidian1723> I'm pretty born ing. I find what works, what I like, and then just run with it as is.
[20:45] <_diablo> lolz. yeah, I get that. idk, the inability to customize gnome with text files annoys the hell out of me
[20:46] <Obsidian1723> whatever ya need, its out there, but not all you need or wanty is in any one thyi9ng.
[20:46] <_diablo> exactly
[20:47]  * Obsidian1723 bbl
[21:04] <h00k> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1991
[21:04] <h00k> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
[21:06] <_diablo> god. I hate ubuntu.
[21:06] <_diablo> why the **** are we copying Mac's button placement?
[21:07] <_diablo> except worse. because you can't slide the mouse to the top and click, you have to move it over and then click
[21:07] <_diablo> sigh. it's so ugly
[23:04] <Takyoji> Just gotta love how the public education system works. If they went through college to become a teacher, viola, you get the job; regardless of knowing the topic you intend to teach or not.
[23:07] <Takyoji> the teacher for the "Introduction to Business Applications" has had the class type formal business memos, which nobody does anymore in this age (the learning material was probably written before the internet was most prevalent), for weeks
[23:09] <Takyoji> and so I ask him if he has a basic thing about web browsers or just general security, which he doesn't, and said it would be a great idea (but putting in a more verbose way) and then lastly implies that I could write such material
[23:10] <Takyoji> and he implied that one day I'd go over all those topics in 10 minutes, and then just move on with the rest of curriculum...
[23:11] <Takyoji> Spending weeks on outdated material, and just prioritizing 10 minutes for "Don't fall for phishing scams, popups, rogue malware scanners, etc"
[23:11] <Takyoji> A majority of students think a web browser is a search engine
[23:12] <Takyoji> (of those whom aren't Firefox/Chrome users)
[23:13] <Takyoji> but yea, the teacher for the class; the reason he's teaching is simply because he took the job offer, rather than having sufficient background knowledge using a workstation.
[23:27] <Takyoji> anyone know of a decent solution for recording video/audio from a TV tuner card?
[23:29] <_diablo> nope. sorry
[23:33] <Takyoji> Any thoughts? http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/ubuntu-dumps-the-brown-introduces-new-theme.ars
[23:36] <_diablo> ugly as hell
[23:46] <Takyoji> Same thought
[23:46] <_diablo> why do you put the close button anywhere other than the corner of a window?
[23:46] <_diablo> even if you do want it on the left side