Effects of the genetic bottleneck event on life expectancy

In biology / paleobiology, it is argued that there must have been a genetic bottleneck event at some point in human history. That is, there must have been very few humans on earth at one point of time. I read this once, but sorry, no source at hand.

Creationists argue that the deluge was [...]

Definition: being adult

An interesting definition that came to me, based on personal experience whom I’d call an “adult” and whom not. Here it is: “Somebody is an adult if he / she cares for the mental well-being people, by his / her own initiative, with responsibility and regularly / as a habit. Caring for material elements of [...]

How to create a one-click scan-to-fax solution?

BTW, some tipps for scanning for fax reception.

Working alternatives (best first)

ScanToPDF with SMTP transfer plugin

software: http://www.scantopdf.co.uk/ silent SMTP transfer plugin: http://www.scantopdf.co.uk/scantopdf-plugins-smtp.html

File Send Automatically Outlook plug-in, plus scan-to-file software

File Send Automatically plug-in: http://www.office-addins.com/-outlook-addins/file-send-automatically.html scan-to-file software alternatives, by quality ScanToPDF, see http://www.scantopdf.co.uk Scandy 1.00 needs manual selection of the target file every [...]

What maximum amount of bytes is admissible for DVD ISO images?

As images are burnt 1:1 using byte by byte of the storage capacity of a DVD, an image may have exactly the size of the DVDs storage capayity.

The storage capacity differes by medium type (e.g. between DVD-R SL and DVD+R SL). It is listed, in byte units, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#DVD_capacity . Images of that size [...]

Maven2: native2ascii conversion from UTF-8 to ASCII

Sometime it’s necessary to convert .properties files which have been saved as UTF-8 to the native ascii format so they can be loaded by Java applications later on. If you use Maven2 you will run into some nasty problems. Whatever you do, the files seems to never be converted…

Let’s assume we want to convert [...]

IntelliJ: idea.vmoptions

In Linux I usually use:

-Xms128m -Xmx400m -XX:PermSize=96m -XX:MaxPermSize=196m -ea -Dsun.awt.keepWorkingSetOnMinimize=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing -XX:+UseBiasedLocking -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:CompileThreshold=2000 -Dswing.bufferPerWindow=false

I can’t explain why I chose these values

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