[CentralOH] CentralOH Digest, Vol 31, Issue 3

Tom Wilcox ntwilcox at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 15:37:42 CET 2009


Okay, "Snakes on a Plain" is pretty hilarious!

Too bad I'm a GFX programmer and not a GFX designer.

Incidentally, is anyone on the list doing GFX programming with  
Python?  (See how a sneaked that in?  VBG.)

Tom

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On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:00 AM, centraloh-request at python.org wrote:

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>   4. Re: Website Logo! (Nick Albright)
>   5. Re: Website Logo! (miles groman)
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:05:15 -0500
> From: Chris Chandler <chris at developingchris.com>
> To: Nick Albright <nick.albright at gmail.com>
> Cc: centraloh <centraloh at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentralOH] Website Logo!
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> My personal preference is that its a font based logo, and not some  
> gimicky
> modification to the state of ohio.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Chandler
> 352-871-0712
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>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Nick Albright  
> <nick.albright at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Oh!  So we also discussed that we should see if we can get  
>> ourselves a
>> logo!  So there are kinda 2 bits:
>>
>> 1) Any thoughts on what our logo should look like?
>>
>> 2) Anyone know anyone with graphic arts capabilities?  :)
>>
>> Peace!
>> -Nick
>>
>> --
>>
>> "Five out of every four people have trouble with fractions." --  
>> Unknown
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:36:44 -0500
> From: Brian Costlow <brian.costlow at gmail.com>
> To: "Harris, Bryan W." <Bryan.Harris at udri.udayton.edu>,    centraloh
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> Bryan,
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> If you have not read the links I posted yet, read the Beazley slides  
> from
> slide 33 to 42, if nothing else.
>
> It's not that you are missing something simple, it's the way python  
> does
> threading (or really in a sense, doesn't). In Dave's threading tests,
> rewriting some processor-bound code to use 2 threads on one core  
> added over
> 3 million mach system calls on an OS X box. Running the same code on  
> dual
> cores added over 9 million calls and slowed it down even further.  
> There's
> your 280%.
>
> I haven't personally done anything with the multiprocessing module,  
> the only
> code I have that coordinates multiple processes just forks children
> directly, is I/O (network) bound, and since it needs to play nice  
> with other
> things, we set it via a config to only use 1/2 the available cores  
> on any
> given box. But in general I would expect performance of a processor- 
> bound
> app to fall off when you add more processes than you have cores. I  
> don't
> know why it falls off a cliff though.
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:14:30 -0500
> From: Brian Costlow <brian.costlow at gmail.com>
> To: Chris Chandler <chris at developingchris.com>
> Cc: centraloh <centraloh at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentralOH] Website Logo!
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> Dang.
>
> Since it's CENTRAL Ohio Python Users, I was all geared up for  
> "Snakes on a
> Plain".
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Chris Chandler
> <chris at developingchris.com>wrote:
>
>> My personal preference is that its a font based logo, and not some  
>> gimicky
>> modification to the state of ohio.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Chandler
>> 352-871-0712
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Nick Albright <nick.albright at gmail.com 
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> Oh!  So we also discussed that we should see if we can get  
>>> ourselves a
>>> logo!  So there are kinda 2 bits:
>>>
>>> 1) Any thoughts on what our logo should look like?
>>>
>>> 2) Anyone know anyone with graphic arts capabilities?  :)
>>>
>>> Peace!
>>> -Nick
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> "Five out of every four people have trouble with fractions." --  
>>> Unknown
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentralOH mailing list
>>> CentralOH at python.org
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:22:21 -0500
> From: Nick Albright <nick.albright at gmail.com>
> To: Brian Costlow <brian.costlow at gmail.com>
> Cc: centraloh <centraloh at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentralOH] Website Logo!
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> Someone threw out a python wrapped around a Buckeye at the meeting.  
> = )
>  -Nick
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> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Brian Costlow  
> <brian.costlow at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Dang.
>>
>> Since it's CENTRAL Ohio Python Users, I was all geared up for  
>> "Snakes on a
>> Plain".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Chris Chandler <chris at developingchris.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> My personal preference is that its a font based logo, and not some  
>>> gimicky
>>> modification to the state of ohio.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris Chandler
>>> 352-871-0712
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Nick Albright <nick.albright at gmail.com 
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh!  So we also discussed that we should see if we can get  
>>>> ourselves a
>>>> logo!  So there are kinda 2 bits:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Any thoughts on what our logo should look like?
>>>>
>>>> 2) Anyone know anyone with graphic arts capabilities?  :)
>>>>
>>>> Peace!
>>>> -Nick
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> "Five out of every four people have trouble with fractions." --  
>>>> Unknown
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> CentralOH mailing list
>>>> CentralOH at python.org
>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh
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