Improve your language skills dept.:
O'Hare Approach: "United 143, best forward speed to the marker. You are number one." United 143 (male voice): "Roger, balls to the wall." ORD Approach: "American 245, you're number two behind a United 737. Follow him, cleared visual, at your best forward speed." American 245 (female voice): "Well, I can't do balls to the wall, but I can go wide open." Radio silence. Unknown male voice: "Is American hiring?"
[cyberjoke3000] October 29, 2013
It was easy to find the "ball to the wall" etymology. It took a little bit of a creative googling to fit the "to go wide open" in the context". It is interesting that "to go wide open" refers to the not-technically-correct explanation of the "balls to the wall". Still, a gem of the professionally-related humour.
1. balls to the wall
term used by pilots. when accelerating quickly, the throttle is pushed all the way to the panel and the throttle lever (ball) actually touches the panel (wall). Hence, balls to the wall.
6. balls to the wall
This term significantly predates airplanes all together. The term "balls to the wall" originated with James Watt's invention of the centrifugal governor used on early steam engines (circa 1774, well before the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk). Over the years, these types of governors were adapted for use on various other types of engines, including many aircraft engines. Some aircraft have a ball shape at the end of the throttle control, which is actually a clever reference to the governor mechanism, no doubt conceived by a witty designer. It is easy to see where one could get the (wrong) impression that "balls to the wall" would indicate the position of the throttle lever, when in fact, the term, strictly speaking, is a reference to the position of the weights on the governor.
Increase engine speed! Balls to the wall!
7. balls to the wall
Intense, extreme, to the max. The phrase comes from olde-fashioned steam engines; basically, they had two weighted balls attached to a vertical shaft which was connected to the engine. As the engine speed increased, these two balls would be raised higher because of centrifugal force! At top speed, they would be parallel to the ground, nearly touching the "walls" of the shaft! Hence, "balls to the wall."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=balls%20to%20the%20wall
"On the morning of May 20, 1927, the Spirit of St. Louis stood poised at the end of the runway at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. At 7:51 a.m., Lindbergh tucked a paper bag containing five sandwiches and a canteen of water under his seat, buckled his seat belt, pulled googles over his eyes, nodded to the mechanics below, and eased the throttle wide open. The heavily laden plane moved slowly forward, then picked up speed, and took off."
Airplane, Harold Faber, 2006, p.61
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Visual Studio .NET symbol server uri
set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
The following command attaches CDB to the application noninvasively, prints all call stacks to the console and to the log file, and exits:
cdb -pv -pn myapp.exe -logo out.txt -lines -c "~*kb;q"
[http://www.debuginfo.com/articles/easywindbg.html]
The following command attaches CDB to the application noninvasively, prints all call stacks to the console and to the log file, and exits:
cdb -pv -pn myapp.exe -logo out.txt -lines -c "~*kb;q"
[http://www.debuginfo.com/articles/easywindbg.html]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Boomerang a bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc, textual data.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/
Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations—that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats. Every lens program, when read from left to right, describes a function that maps an input to an output; when read from right to left, the very same program describes a "backwards" function that maps a modified output, together with the original input, back to a modified input.
Lenses have been used to solve problems across a wide range of areas in computing including: in data converters and synchronizers, in parsers and pretty printers, in picklers and unpicklers, in structure editors, in constraint maintainers for user interfaces, in software model transformations, in schema evolution, in tools for managing system configuration files, and in databases where they provide updatable views.
Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations—that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats. Every lens program, when read from left to right, describes a function that maps an input to an output; when read from right to left, the very same program describes a "backwards" function that maps a modified output, together with the original input, back to a modified input.
Lenses have been used to solve problems across a wide range of areas in computing including: in data converters and synchronizers, in parsers and pretty printers, in picklers and unpicklers, in structure editors, in constraint maintainers for user interfaces, in software model transformations, in schema evolution, in tools for managing system configuration files, and in databases where they provide updatable views.
Monday, August 18, 2008
ToRead:
http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Voice-Making-Singer/dp/0670033510
The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer (Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Voice-Making-Singer/dp/0670033510
The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer (Hardcover)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
TechTip.Weblogic: class ...jaxws... "could not be found"
It's one of those issues when seemingly simple code gets disproportionally hard to run. Try to get something like
@WebService(serviceName="helloworldservice")
public class HelloWorldImpl {
public String sayHelloWorld(String message) {
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'"; }
}
deployed in wls10 and get wierd error message...
then look for the problme on the Google and fund a bunch of frustrated comrades that also are buffled by it, leaving a trail of un-answered threads until someone gets it solved.
duh!
the laurels this time goes to Mr. cretz
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=190547
the answer is:
@SOAPBinding(parameterStyle=ParameterStyle.BARE) or wrapping element.
@WebService(serviceName="helloworldservice")
public class HelloWorldImpl {
public String sayHelloWorld(String message) {
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'"; }
}
deployed in wls10 and get wierd error message...
then look for the problme on the Google and fund a bunch of frustrated comrades that also are buffled by it, leaving a trail of un-answered threads until someone gets it solved.
duh!
the laurels this time goes to Mr. cretz
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=190547
the answer is:
@SOAPBinding(parameterStyle=ParameterStyle.BARE) or wrapping element.
TechTip.Weblogic: Testing Web Services with the Test Client
Testing Web Services with the Test Client
http://edocs.bea.com/wlw/docs101/guide/webservices/conTestingWebServices.html
http://edocs.bea.com/wlw/docs101/guide/webservices/conTestingWebServices.html
ToRead:
http://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Software-Development-Best-Practices/dp/0735623198
Dynamics of Software Development (Best Practices) (Paperback)by Jim McCarthy (Author)
accompanied by:
http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3108351
http://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Software-Development-Best-Practices/dp/0735623198
Dynamics of Software Development (Best Practices) (Paperback)by Jim McCarthy (Author)
accompanied by:
http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3108351
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
IYV: Chateauneuf du Baps, anyone?
Improve Your Vocabulary Department
Metro, Wed, Feb 6, 2008, p8
A new bra supports breasts and booze by turning women from a size A to a double D... and acting as a secret drinking flask.
The crafty lingerie, called the Wine Rack, has a special boob-enhancing polyutrethane bladder that can be filled with alcohol.
...
A spokeswoman for online retailer Firebox said: "Secretly guzzling from your gazongas means no more queuing up and forking out for overpriced drinks at festivals and pubs."
Metro, Wed, Feb 6, 2008, p8
A new bra supports breasts and booze by turning women from a size A to a double D... and acting as a secret drinking flask.
The crafty lingerie, called the Wine Rack, has a special boob-enhancing polyutrethane bladder that can be filled with alcohol.
...
A spokeswoman for online retailer Firebox said: "Secretly guzzling from your gazongas means no more queuing up and forking out for overpriced drinks at festivals and pubs."
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