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Computers of the future

They are going to be just a monitor, a touch screen monitor, there will be a keyboard on the screen if you want to type anything, there will be no keyboard, mouse or touch pad.
Probably in the next 5 years they will be everywhere, you might not be able to buy one of these either :)

Computers of the future
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My problem with Microsoft and their products

A while back, I wrote two posts about Microsoft and I wrote them when I was upset so it might have offended people.

To be honest with you, I was a fan of Microsoft and their products up until Internet Explorer 7 came along.
I installed it on two computers and I had to disable all the addons other than the essentials in order to make them run smoothly and without so much issues.

Right now, my Internet Explorer process grows until it’s 1GB in size!!! and it then gets so slow or crashes and I loose all my open tabs and what ever I was doing.
It also crashed every once in a while for some reason and it’s still not standard compliant.

About Windows Vista; we also bought four computers with Vista and every single one, without an exception had issues right out of the box, big issues that I think Microsoft should have known about but shipped the product anyway.

Honestly, this is disappointing for me, because I liked Windows and it’s openness and the ability for everyone to write great applications for it and it’s huge documentation on Microsoft website.

I also think that Microsoft contributed a lot to the industry and I hope that this is not the end of it.

I’m a software developer and I don’t consider myself to be the best one but I know one thing, we don’t EVER ship until we fix all the obvious bugs, if we did, we wouldn’t have any clients right now.

Good Luck :)

My problem with Microsoft and their products
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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, I still have to go get some treats :) I have so much work too but I decided to work on Saturday too, it’s great to be a freelancer!

Happy Halloween
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Comparing Programming Languages

I just found this great tool and I thought I’d share it, it compares performance and memory usage in any two programming languages, it has a good list of languages too.

For example, this is the comparison between PHP and C:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=php

PHP vs Python:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=php

Python vs Ruby:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ruby

C vs Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=java

And finally C vs C++:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=gpp

Comparing Programming Languages
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How Small Are We???

How Small Are We???
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Cool free programming books you can download

Here is the link:
http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites

Use any of the mirror links to download these great books by Bruce Eckel.
I read his thinking in C++ a while ago and it’s really great.

His book on design patterns in Python is the one I’m reading now.

Cool free programming books you can download
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Problems installing ffmpeg: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID X

Here is how to install ffmpeg:

1 – Create a file named “dag.repo” (no quotes) in “/etc/yum.repos.d”
2 – Copy and paste these lines in it:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

You will need a newline at the end of the file.

3 – Then run “yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel” (no quotes)

This should install it with no issues, note that I set gpgcheck=0, if you search for it you will see a lot of people are suggesting: gpgcheck=1 which yields to something like:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID X

Problems installing ffmpeg: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID X
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service X does not support chkconfig

Here is how to fix this:

(Assume the name of my script is myscript)

1 – Copy your script into /etc/init.d folder
2 – cd /etc/init.d
3 – chmod +x myscript
4 – Add these lines, including #, right after #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh:

# chkconfig: 2345 95 20
# description: Some description
# What your script does (not sure if this is necessary though)
# processname: myscript

5 – chkconfig –level 2345 myscript on

service X does not support chkconfig
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Bill Gates in Doom

I know many of you probably know about this but here is the video for those who don’t:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)#Release_and_later_history

Bill Gates in Doom
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Cutest picture of Nou, my daughter

Cutest picture of Nou, my daughter
Comments (2)   Filed under: Fun,General   Posted by: Codehead
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