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9 years ago
Way to wait for all threads to finish in Python

Not sure if it's the best way, but I found this example in an webarchive page and it kind of makes more sense than keeping a list of the threads and cycling all the time checking if they are active or not: while threading.activeCount()>1:...

9 years ago
My computer

My computer is amazing. He (I will always refer to it as an entity, even though I am aware that *it* is still not aware of itself) is capable of executing a tremendous amount of operations per second and, yet, it's not capable of remembering and asking...

9 years ago
Optimizing external (USB) hard drives for performance on WinXP

I just found a really cool option on Windows XP for USB disks.  It seems that, if you go to the device manager and check the properties on an external (USB) hard drive, there is an option to optimize the drive for performance.  This means that windows...

9 years ago
My new TomTom One v5

With traffic information :D

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