What? Me ask what flavor of Linux to run? With all the hype of Star Wars, have I been consumed by the dark side??? On the contrary, I have been running a version in a virtual environment, and now have a old old machine, where I am comfortable running it natively. So, what version do you recommend and why? I do need a GUI since its been a while I worked in any of the Linux/Unix shells?...
There are two options when it comes to encoding in the context of webservices, e.g. .NET and Weblogic use document literal encoding while IBM and other vendors (Java) use RPC encoding. What is the difference and which one is better for which scenarios? Also, how easy is it to switch between the two? Well for those new to webservices, there are two options that you can choose when encoding your wsdl messages....
I have not tried this myself, no intention too either (one, am quite happy with my TomTom and two, maps are only for the US), but Moving Gmap adds moving map functionality for Google Maps using a connected GPS unit. (It makes the map recenter on you as you walk/drive around). If someone tries it out let me know how it goes. Also, in case you did not notice then Google maps now have satellite views, I know for a fact that they don’t cover all the areas the satellite view (yet)....
This recent post on slashdot got me thinking again. As you may or may not be aware of I work for Avanade , a leading consulting company - a company to which I am fairly new and still learning about. We a few weeks ago, internally had a interesting debate about what a companies policies should be about letting their employees blog. This gets even more interesting, with all the interest with EntLibs - we built it after all and we would like to help other developers out there....
Microsoft and Canadian authorities on Thursday launched a software program designed to help police worldwide hunt down child porn traffickers by enabling authorities for the first time to link information such as credit card purchases, Internet chat room messages and arrest records. Microsoft said the Child Exploitation Tracking System is the first software designed specifically to capture pornographers who prey on children and sell their images via the Internet. It will allow police departments worldwide to share and track previously unlinked information on investigations and suspects....
Got this via Megha (my sister). By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ‘‘The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,’’ to be published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and from which this article is adapted. His column appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his television documentary ‘‘Does Europe Hate Us?’’ will be shown on the Discovery Channel on April 7 at 8 p....
Firstly, MSN 7.0 is launched, so have fun downloading it. Interesting developments on the latest version of the instant-messaging program lets people automatically display to others the name of the song playing at that moment on their computer. In a twist, however, the feature works not only with Windows Media Player but also with Apple’s rival iTunes music player.
Now that my Media Center is up and running (yes, yes I know, I will be posting the specs and pictures soon, as I am travelling on work in Brussels will do it when I get back), I have been thinking of how to extend that to make it a fuller experience (if there is such a word). Here are some things that I was thinking of integrating/extending/playing with (and hopefully have more stuff up on the sandbox)....
PCMag has a very interesting look into a Wireless Home - could this be our home of the future? You can check out things from Buglar’s beware , some place you can always be connected , the paranoids who should not read this, meter readers going the way of the milkman, a bluetooth hub , among others . I guess I should start saving to buy… :)
If you ever mange to screw up your IP Stack on Windows how to fix it? Well one way is to remove the protocol from all the network cards and then possibly also your network cards and adding them again (after rebooting of course). Alternatively, depending on your OS version you could apply a service pack. Also, in Windows XP, the TCP/IP stack is considered a core component of the operating system, and you cannot remove TCP/IP....
Here’s the untold secret of married life as told my Meenakshi my lovely wife *grin* A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Their domestic tranquillity had long been the talk of the town. What a peaceful & loving couple. A local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage. “Well, it dates back to our honeymoon,” explained the man." We visited the Grand Canyon and took a trip down to the bottom on the canyon by horse....
Well, you can either start a blog like me (pun intended) *grin*, or you can stack pennies - which are quite cool, but then how much time is needed for creating each art thinggy ??? ;)
I got this via my lovely wife Meenakshi (who still has not bothered to start blogging ;)). Google is further increasing the storage space on Gmail (on the occasion of its 1st birthday) and running something interesting on their website which shows how the space is increasing. They are beginning to roll out their “top secret"Infinity + 1 plan, with the key being the gift that keeps on giving… storage space that is....
Yes, its true! MS is going to port SQL Server for Linux! I don’t think they would be releasing the code for it though. ;)
I don’t agree with Microsoft’s approach here . Essentially if you are running XP and don’t have SP2 installed, then that will be forced down your throat. Now, I had SP2 running the day it went Beta and have not had any problems, but I am not sure if this really is to get the security patches out or forcing people running pirated copy of Windows to buy legal versions (remember SP2 cannot be installed on a pirated version)?...
OSNews has an article Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative seems like an odd mix for the company when it works openly and a clever shot across the bow of open source when it works selfishly. How can the rest of us reconcile both positions? Microsoft ex-employee Stephen Walli shares his perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative from within and without the company - quite an interesting read. First, recognize that Shared Source isn’t one program with one license....
I personally don’t like New York at all - especially New York city, it is a great place for a weekend, but that is it, I won’t live there for a million bucks! And this just makes it another reason on my “don’t like it” list. A telecommuter who lives out of state while working by computer for a New York employer must pay New York tax on his full income, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have wide implications in the growing practice....
If you are like me and shy away from RealPlayer because of all the “junk” it installs with and the persistent nagging, well you don’t need to anymore. Check out RealAlternative (as of now at v1.33) which lets you play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer (or RealOne player). You do need a player that is capable of playing RealMedia. The included Media Player Classic supports it and works very well....
Though there have been lots of talk in Longhorn (especially recently), and I have dabbed in it previously, now some interesting bits are being released on what are the new features in IIS 7. The coolest one of these is the componentization of IIS where all of IIS’s functions will be specific components which can be turned on or off. This means that when you install the Web server, you’ll be able to add only the functionality you need, one piece at a time....
Got this one from Karan, if you have problems waking up in the morning, especially with an Alarm clock, you might want to check out Clocky . If you wondered what is so exceptional about this well read on… When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest....
If you’re a Silicon Valley geek, and you want to keep your “geek ID” what’s the best way to do it? That’s right, build your own Segway . Hmm … with the Summer approaching… just need to convince my lovely wife of this… can anyone help with a business case here?
Want to get more out of Firefox, then check out the Firefox tweak guide .
Ever wondered what is happening inside regsvc.exe? Well so did Tomas Restrepo, and here is what he found out.
At work, recently I needed to simulate a GPS connection while sitting inside the building and while finding a solution for that I came across GPSGate , which is a cool piece of code. You can use this to share one GPS connected to a Pocket PC or laptop to other computers connected to the same LAN. On each computer running GpsGate you can in turn connect any number of GPS applications to GpsGate, everything running at the same time....
If you ever wanted a quick sample of some system programming - something you know is fairly simple to do but did not have the time to do it from scratch - just something quick and dirty, then you should check out this link - which has all the basic stuff Thread Pools, Waitable Handles, Monitors, Secure Remoting channel, etc.