Surrey, Canada vs Quartermain Hotel in South Africa

Canada

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Canada Network Graph

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Life, Death and In Between

What happens when you have found the perfect theorem to describe nature? You worked your whole life to discover and compose the one theorem that perfectly describes all of science. With it you can make perfect predictions about anything that will ever happen or has ever happened.

A seasoned scientist will tell you such a theorem does not yet exist. Superstring theory (M-Theory) goes a long way but Calabi-Yau manifold abundanness causes some trouble for answering even a basic question such as why the electron has the mass it has been measured to possess? Regardless, if such a theory were to be discovered, it would be pretty amazing.

However, consider what happens when that theory is discovered amongst a sea of false theories, limited theories. It would be subject to intense scrutiny because scientists would want to be sure that it is consistent. The problem with scrutiny is that sometimes it can lead to false negatives. Meaning sometimes one can over scrutinize something and find a problem where no problem exists. And if the scientist making that claim is prominent enough, it might even overthrow the theory. A perfect theory. Nobody would ever know.

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JBoss Seam throwing java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

I have been pulling my hair out at the JBoss error:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

when trying to start JBoss. It starts fine with one of my ear files, but when I added the second ear file it loads, but on access of any page in JBoss it crashed. After two hours of this, I finally figured it out.

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Security theatre....

here....

Is this progress? My God. What a mess.

Firstly, trying to run telnet on any modern Windows 2008 server will cause severe distress to say the least. Why? Because Microsoft deemed that useful little command unnecessary to be installed by default. Anyway... So you go to Programs and Features and add the Telnet Client feature.

To my mind Telnet Client is a very, very small executable. It cannot possibly have large DLL dependencies. So it was much to my dismay and horror when I realised installing this took over 4 minutes on a modern server. So much for progress...

Installation Progress
Installation Progress
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