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June, 2005
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Submitted by reeses on Sat, 2005-06-18 13:05.The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX or SarbOx) is one of the wonderful by-products of the Enron case.
The most important aspect is that it exposes officers of the company to prosecution for financial wrongdoing. Because the people at the top are culpable, this tends to be an important initiative in the short-term project portfolio at various companies.
It also covers accounting practices, auditing, governance, etc., with outlines for each. Because of the degree of disclosure and transparency required by the act, it has pervasive influence throughout any public organisation.
Disgustinger Savages
Submitted by reeses on Tue, 2005-06-07 20:59. | nada
I think I may have seen the culprit of a previous post in the bathroom yesterday.
While doing one of the things one does in a bathroom, I was hearing a lot of cellophane rattling and other strange noises coming from one of the stalls. I didn't really think much of it, because a disturbing number of people take reading material into the bathroom at this place, instead of doing what all civilised people do when pooing at work -- by that I mean, play battleship or Bejeweled on their phones.
Grade negotiation
Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2005-06-05 20:56. | nada
I've been avoiding a California-Bar-studying juggernaut in the living room this weekend, so I've been catching up on my reading, my web surfing, and other projects. Today I was reading a random blog and saw a quote from this article about students upset by getting lower grades than they feel they deserve.
Fixing Tiger gracelessness
Submitted by reeses on Fri, 2005-06-03 21:08. | MacI had previously complained about a lack of smoothness and grace with Tiger, theorising that it was the result of some performance optimisations. When triggering Expose or Dashboard, the visual transformation was very jittery, which reminded me of jump-scrolling optimisations in early xterm alternatives such as rxvt.
I just applied this hint and the smoothness is restored.
Apparently the "Beam Synchronisation" ties the Quartz display refresh rate to that of the display's vertical refresh rate, when an electron gun spray goes from the lower right to the upper left of the display. On the bright side, this means a single frame from the application is rendered as a single frame on the display, which should make things smoother in general.