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How to make a DSP hardware project be on time

Here is an article describing a fairy tale (sadly) idea of how one would run a project for creating a product from DSP chips. I’ll have to say it makes a lot of sense but what would be more interesting is some hard data on anyone that has actually managed to apply this idea: This […]

The state of software engineering

If you’re curious on one person’s viewpoint on software engineering as a discipline (academic and professional) this is a very nice summary / rant on it. One minor niggling point is that I think the author could spend a little time fixing small grammatical mistakes. Since the mistakes make a serious criticism like this look […]

Virtual Hosting in IIS

For an Apache user, coming to IIS can be a little disorienting. One thing you’ll eventually come across is wanting Virtual Hosts. Here are some links I found useful in telling you where in the forest of menus you can enable it: IIS Answers MSDN’s very own

Locking down IIS

These I found useful in helping identify pieces that need to be looked at if you want to lock down an IIS server before putting it online: U of Washington’s Guidelines Security Focus Guidelines

Hints on getting JOnAS + RMI + firewalls happy

I’ve been playing with JOnAS lately and have been puzzling out how to get RMI working through a firewall. Normally RMI uses dynamic ports which represents pain and suffering if you want to use JMX. The documentation for JOnAS is located here. After glancing at the JOnAS config I was disheartened to find it wasn’t […]

An interesting Plan 9 Review

Penguin Pete took a whirlwind test drive of Plan 9 and posted a review here. I found his review quite informative and I learned a bit from his travails trying to get the hang of Plan 9. One thing that was disappointing was reading his comments. It seems there are some people who have to […]

An expat’s view of life in Vietnam

Here’s one expat’s impressions after spending a year in Vietnam. He compares it to life in China… In China, the most common observations were: No one speaks Chinese to foreigners No such thing as lining up Spitting Read it yourself

Amusing Quotes on Microsoft stuff

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Microsoft’s Outlook email client (historically, the world’s flypaper of security bugs) -Jeffrey Friedl Read it yourself

A humorous summary on Blu-Ray versus HD DVD

If you are one of those waiting to get onto the HD bandwagon I’m sure you’re now wondering which format will win out. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. I have no answers but Cracked.com has a rather tongue-in-cheek breakdown on the format wars My personal opinion? Stay away until the dust clears if you can live without […]

The mubot

This looks very cool If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts as a portable mini speaker for your music devices Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from Quick Journal.

The mubot

This looks very cool If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts as a portable mini speaker for your music devices Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from Quick Journal.

NFS Clients can’t mount NFS server share issues…

One day I started having issues with my clients trying to mount or re-mount a NFS share. Here’s what it looked like: On machine 1: $ mount /shared mount: RPC: Program not registered On machine 2: :~$ mount /shared mount to NFS server ‘nfs’ failed: server is down. I have something like /shared as a […]

sudo can break if you sync your system clock time on Ubuntu

Well I got hit by this bug and it’s really annoying. On reboot of a Linux box I’m working with I noticed the system clock was majorly skewed. Since I wasn’t running anything really critical, I decided to update the time via ntpdate so all the system clock would ‘right’ itself out. Then I get […]

The alma mater in the news again…

This time they’re researching…. solar cooled beer! Won’t solve poverty but will solve lots of other problems. Read it yourself. Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up.