Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Gears and the Mashup Problem
via Google Video
Douglas Crockford from Yahoo talks about how mashups are insecure, and how google gears might solve the problem.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Windows install date
wmic os get InstallDate
Same output:
C:\Documents and Settings\adnan_wasim>wmic os get InstallDate
InstallDate
20060918120036.000000-300
Sunday, September 23, 2007
FreeBSD and ZFS screencasts
FreeBSD ZFS practical examples screencasts and slide.s: "Here, you can learn some ZFS basics, like adding/replacing disks into a zpool, while in this screencast you will learn how to create disk snapshots on ZFS. After that, you can try some more interesting stuff, like snapshoting and cloning UFS on top of ZFS. ZFS also offers compression features, which you can learn more about, as well as doing some compression ratio analysis, in this screencast. Finally, the useful self-healing feature demonstration here."
(Via bsdnews.com.)
Friday, September 21, 2007
Firefox Leak Debugging Screencasts
Leak Debugging Screencasts: "I was asked to record some screencasts showing how I debug memory leaks so that other people could understand better how I use our memory leak debugging tools. So I've been recording (and talking) while I'm debugging memory leaks."
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Links for 9/19/07 [my NetNewsWire tabs]
- Mac developer? Clean up your app › Vacuous Virtuoso
- Windows Embedded Blog : Micro Framework Invaders...
- Alexandre Vassalotti » Pretty Emacs Reloaded
- Gathering Scattered I/O
- This ain't the 80s. Google ain't Lotus.
- Xen With Graphical User Interface On A Fedora 7 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Lotus Symphony
Its a pretty standard office suite, though the interface kind of reminded me of the eclipse IDE.
Update: Its funny, but I just ran into Joel Spolsky's article about the old and new Lotus Symphony:
IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they’re probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat. It was the software equivalent of Gigli.
Update 2: Ok, so Joel is talking about a version way older than what I was thinking of. I was thinking of Lotus Smartsuite. Why didn't they open source Smartsuite? I guess its way easier to adopt Openoffice.org code base after Sun has done all the hardwork around license issues and such!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Launchd: One Program to Rule them All
From the description:
Launchd isn't just an init replacement though--it provides a powerful XML interface for defining when, where, and how programs should be invoked on OS X. In this talk, Dave, who developed launchd, will discuss the rationale behind launchd and how the program came to be.
via Google Video
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Linux Finds Home On More Desktops
This is good news, however, I still find reasons to have another operating system around. I occassionally need to do video chats with my family back home. I can't do it on Linux. No driver for the webcam on my system. And even if I did have the driver, none of the popular chatting solutions (skype, msn messenger on gaim) would support video chat on Linux.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Saturday, September 01, 2007
python 3000 breaks hello world
python 3000 breaks hello world:
" ./python
Python 3.0a1 (py3k, Sep 1 2007, 14:48:21)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type 'help', 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information.
>>> print 'hello world'
File '', line 1
print 'hello world'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Weird. I've been trying to learn this python programming language, but the first command in my lecture notes, the three textbooks I have, and all the online tutorials seem to be wrong.
Anyone know how to get hello world working?
Update: oh it seems that print is a function. ---> ;)
Maybe it should show this in the shell, kind of like what typing help does:
>>> help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.
>>>print 'hello world'
Type print('hello world') to print a string, or print(object) to print an object."(Via unofficial planet python.)
hahaha... Now I thought that was funny! :)
Even hello world is different in Python 3000!
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