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When I say I crashed it, I mean... It just locked up and I had to soft reboot it... And when I say build server I mean one of the virtual machines on one of my Xen Hosts.... So, the machine is a fairly beefy 16 core machine with 48GB of RAM running on a Dell server under the desk, this disk base is a RAID-0 200GB unit over a bunch of 2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS Drives to a Perci5 RAID Controller.... The machine is only really spooled up for big builds, and this was one of them, I wanted to build LLVM support before bed. The problem?  When I performed the build with "make -j all" it would get to 16% and then blank the screen, and totally lock up, nothing, nada, nowt... I left it for a while but nothing happened, and yes the LLVM build is time consuming but it doesn't lock at 16% for minutes. Soft reboot, and the same happened again... I've started the build again with "make -j 15" rather than all sixteen cores.  And it's already up into the 35% area of the b

Many moons ago, when my then boss knew I was the dogs danglies, I used to get sent to work at offices all over the world, and today I want to tell you the story of one of those journeys to and from the "office". I live and work out of Nottingham, and this one time I had to go work out of Casablanca for a week.  Now, for those of you not aware of this, I do not mean I went to work in a black and white film... Casablanca is a real place, a city in fact, in the North African country of Morocco, exotic... Maybe, if you like that thing. Anyway, I was in my early twenties and sent on this trip, I spoke broken GCSE French, and was handed a few thousand French Francs (yes it's that long ago, France still had a proper currency, with a history and everything). The journey began at an indecently early hour, a driver to take myself and a pair of cow-orkers to Heathrow, no big deal, though the driver had a tin of sweets which he was really really over proud of; he was also sceptical I

I was just handed a technical test, this was for a job interview, and I was a little... well I'll say surprised, but then shocked, by the reply, lets take a look... I was handed these SQL statements, in several questions, and then told to summarise what I should see on any output of the various instructions.... create table customers (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name Text, age INTEGER, weight REAL); insert into customers values(73, "Brian", 42, 33); insert into customers values(1, "Helen", 12, 12.5); select * from customers; SELECT name, CASE WHEN age > 18 THEN "adult" ELSE "minor" END "type" FROM customers; create table orders (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, customer_id INTEGER, desc TEXT); insert into orders values (0, 73, "Apples"); insert into orders values (1, 73, "Oranges"); insert into orders values (2, 1, "Bananas"); select * from orders; SELECT customers.name, orders.desc FROM customers JOIN orders ON