I think many of us can relate to this - including my current project. :roll: Project Management - how to test

Need I say more? Race condition explained

Unfortunately (or fortunately), depending on your perspective, this is so me! Still no sleep

The wife has one of these and can absolutely relate to this!

This is quite cool – now only if MS hurry’s up and incorporated this to Bing Maps. MS Street Slide

Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 3.0 - two clicks and I was done - can it get any simpler? What a pleasant surprise compared to the pile of crap that CS 2007+ turned out to be. Try upgrading that in something like two clicks? Ha! Well done WordPress!

Next post in the interesting find series. Speccy - an advanced and very cool System Information tool for your PC. Channeling Earth - Rivers Seen From Space The SSD Relapse - Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD Turn off laptop screen – every machine does not have an option to switch off the screen (say at night) and this small app is perfect for those situations – very handy at night. How to save and share ridiculously large files – well the name says it all. :) SQL Server I/O Internals – if you wanted to know how SQL Server handles I/O then this is a very interesting read. Clustered Tables vs Heap Tables – interesting to understand the comparisons in SQL Server (especially if/when you will be dealing with SQL Azure). Cloud Computing footprint – is it time we started measuring our digital footprint just the same as we have our carbon footprint? Zettabytes – Petabytes is so yesterday; hello Zettabytes ! I wonder how one indexes that? Let me Google that for you – perfect for when you get a question from a few lazy people. Let me Bing that for you – same as above, except this uses Bing. 15 RDP Solutions for Linux – good write up comparing the various options you have if you want to RDP to Linux from Windows/Mac. Ninite easy PC Setup - Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next. Quite handy if you have less-technical friends/family. :)

… the average wife spends nearly 8,000 minutes a year nagging her husband!

This computer hardware chart is quite cool. Not sure why, where and who would want to use this. But, it does beg the question – can things get any geekier? :)

When you try and compile some code and you get an error along the lines of invalid use of an incomplete type ‘whatever type’ then in most cases it means you need to include the header file where that type is displayed. For example I had the following events in my header file: 1 2 3 protected: void mousePressEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent *event); void mouseReleaseEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent *event); When when I tried to compile gave the following error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent’ ...

Microsoft is giving away a free eBook on SQL Server 2008 R2 for free. It gives you insight into exciting new implementations in the DB such as complex event processing (CEP) and StreamInsight. You can check out the Table of Contents here and download the book in either pdf format or xps format .

Pixels is Awesome! Any self righteous geek has to check this out. :)

Channel 9 has a number of free technical courses on a number of emerging MS technologies covering a wide range such as Azure , Win7 , Identity, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 , Silverlight 4 , MOSS 2010 , Office 2010 , etc. ...

Often you need to search through an array or list to find a specific element and of course you need this search to be as fast and efficient as possible. One of the best ways to do this is using a binary predicate function. A binary function is a function object (which are also called Functors ) and is any object which can be called as if it was a function. Depending on your language and platform of choice, Function objects are also known as callback functions , function pointers and delegates (.NET). Generally, there are three types of function objects: ...

If you are a newbie to Ubuntu like me (or any other Unix distro) and you tried deleting a folder which is not empty contains files or subdirectories then you get the annoying error "Directory not empty". To delete such a folder (from a terminal) use the rm -rf command. For example to delete a folder called amitbahree run the following: rm -rf amitbahree/

Evolution clearly has been failing us. :roll:

Need I say anything more? :) History of Gadgets

If you were interested in algorithms and interested in some mathematical foundations for algorithm analysis? For example if you are interested in proof techniques, probability, Amortization analysis techniques, Case studies and Asymptotic notions (such as Big-Oh, Big-Omega, Little-oh, little-omega, Big-Theta) then check out these lecture notes (in ppt, 224kb) from California State University.

Next post in the Interesting Find series. [InstEd It](InstEd - Make packaging more productive) - an interesting tool that allows one to edit MSI files - handy when you don’t want to install the full Windows SDK just to get the Orca editor. (you can also just download the SDK samples and use that instead of the full SDK). WHS backup to LAN - If for some reason you don’t want to use WHS’s built-in backup option and prefer to back it up to LAN 10 Beautiful Login screen for Ubuntu - very nice themes to change your login screen. Fast Car Wallpapers - name says it all. Microsoft Pivot - Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. PlantUML - UML add-in (jar file) for Eclipse. You cannot draw a diagram, instead you describe it using a language . Papyrus 4 UML - another UML add-in (also for Eclipse), which seems to be more professional looking than PlantUML. However this does not support Activity diagrams (yet), which PlantUML does. Spinlocks, page frame number locks (and the meaning of life) - I don’t think any more needs to be said. :) FlipText.net - write upside down (: sıɥʇ ǝʞıl. Google Goggles - use pictures to search the web. Haystack - very interesting idea which encrypts your data and then hides it in regular http traffic. Mainly used to help out the citizens of Iran, but useful elsewhere as well. BeRTOS - a real-time OS hits a major stable milestone.

Forbes rich list is Slim pickings. Only lack of ability, inheritance and money keeps the rest of us off the Forbes list of world’s billionaires. It’s not fair? Here is Guardian's recipe for billionaire success: get born into a rich family, invent something and sell it to Americans. Win. :)

New Paradigm, old habits – brilliant. :) Click on the picture to see the original size. reboot the cloud

Well this is the phone I have maybe some day I will try this - pretty geeky albeit useless. :)

I did not know until today that there is something called gnome-rdp using which one can RDP to Windows machines from Ubuntu (or any other linux flavour I imagine). Installation is simple on Ubuntu, with it available in Synaptic Package Manager. To start it you can type in gnome-rdp in a console or go to Applications -> Internet -> Gnome-RDP. Once it has started, usage is quite simple - though you might want to change the remote desktop size and colours. Interestingly this also supports VNC and SSH.

If you ever need to find out which version of Ubuntu you are running (if you have a few machines it is quite easy to forget what is running where), the easiest way is to run the following command in a terminal: cat /etc/issue For example here is the output from the machine I am on now: 1 2 amit@xps:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

Wow, this is cool , though a bit too much. I am not sure how many people use this - if its only one person, isn’t that just too much information for one of us to crunch?