"Michael Yon, the man who has re-defined wartime journalism in the new media era, swings by the Editor's Desk to update the Military.com audience on the war in Afghanistan. In the middle of a pitched battle (audible in the background), Mike explains how the war is going, what the near-term mission is, and what America needs to do to if it ultimately wants to win."
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"So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."
- Zeno Davatz
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"In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
- Zeno Davatz
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"Die traditionellen Anlageklassen Obligationen (neu 20%; im Fiskaljahr 2008/09: 23%), Immobilien (10%; 12%) und Cash (9%; 2%) werden abgebaut. Aktienanlagen (49%; 41%) und inflationsabsichernde Produkte (5%; 2%) hingegen sollen künftig mehr Gewicht bekommen. Mit diesem Ansatz nimmt Calpers aber zwangsläufig höhere Wertschwankungen in Kauf."
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"Tweak Kernel's Overcommit Behavior You can change the behavior of the Linux kernel through the /proc filesystem, as documented in Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting in the Linux kernel's source code. You have three choices when tuning kernel overcommit, expressed as numbers in /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory:"
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"Dear All Our Kernel-Version: Linux thinpower 2.6.29 #5 SMP Sun Apr 5 20:04:08 UTC 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux This morning our Server ran out of memory and had to be hard rebooted. The system hast 32 GB or memory and 4 QuadCore Xeon CPUs. /var/log/kernel/current tells us the following:"
- Zeno Davatz
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