User Account Control is an important security feature in the latest versions of Windows. While we’ve explained how to disable UAC in the past, you shouldn’t disable it – it helps keep your computer secure. If you reflexively disable UAC when setting up a computer, you should give it another try – UAC and the Windows software ecosystem have come a…
I was watching http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/06/27.html and laughed at Jon Skeet joke about 0.3 not being 0.3. I personally never had problems with floats/decimals/doubles but then I remember I learned 6502 very early and never needed floats in most of my programs. The only time I used it was for graphics and math where inaccurate…
For data integration projects, IT organization look for a robust but an easy-to-use solution, which simplifies enterprise data architecture while providing exceptional value-- not one that adds complexity and costs. This is a major challenge today for customers who are using IBM InfoSphere products like DataStage or Change Data Capture.…
We've all heard of the old Decorator Design Pattern (here) or used it at one time or another either directly or indirectly. A decorator is a class that wraps a given abstract class or interface and presents the same (or a superset) public interface but "decorated" with additional functionality. As a really simplistic…
This is a Canonical Question about the Cost of Enterprise Storage.
See also the following question:
What's the best way to explain storage issues to developers and other users
Regarding general questions like:
Why do I have to pay 50 bucks a month per extra gigabyte of storage?
Our file server is always running out…
ubuntu-community!
Again I have a problem with my special friend MySQL :D
I have got two servers - a database-server and a web-server - who are connected via VLAN.
Now I want the web-server to have remote access to the database-server's MySQL. So I created the user user in mysql.user.
user's Host is xxx.yyy.zzz.9 which is the…
I understand 'invariant' in its literal sense. I also recognize them when I type code. But I don't think I understand the importance of this term in the context of computer science.
Whenever I read conversations\white papers about language design from famous programmers\computer scientists, the term 'invariant' keeps popping…
I try to install mysql-server on my Ubuntu vps server, and it's able to install, but not to configure. If it tries to configure I get this:
...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit…
I try to add simple Like button to my Facebook Canvas app (iframe). The button (and all other XFBML elements) works in Safari, Firefox, Opera, but in Google Chrome. How can I find the problem?
EDIT1:
This is ERB-layout in my Rails app
<html xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'…
"Every long journey, starts with a single step" says Confucius. And with every successful SEO campaign, one must start with proper keyword research. Keyword research is more than just knowing which keywords to use for a campaign, it also determines the direction of your campaign in relation…
When database documentation is mentioned in an IT Department, everybody nods wisely, yet everyone does their best to avoid doing it. Attention to the database documentation can be the best invertment in time a development group can make. It is essential, and no system can be properly…
The Brother MFC 7440N printer has the capabilities to be the professional print shop while sitting conveniently on the home desk or table. When the Brother 7440N laser toners (http://www.qtoner.us/Br... [Author: Ben Pate - Computers and Internet - March 21, 2010]
I decided to use writing a new tool as a way to learn WPF and MVVM and I thought I'd write down a few of my problems as a way of cathartic release. I decided to read a book before attempting WPF for the first time as I've heard others complain about the steep learning curve. I chose…
AdMob, the mobile advertiser that was bought by Google some months ago, has released its latest market share figures for the mobile browsers.Their main findings have already been discussed extensively: Smartphones are on the rise; 48% versus 35% last month. Feature phones are falling…
I am trying to make a pixel shader that achieves an effect similar to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1uZvurrhig&feature=related
My basic idea is render the scene to a temp render target then
Render the previously rendered image with a slight fade on to another temp…
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. I use English (USA) and Bangla (probhat) layout. Everything regarding keyboard layout was perfect since I've installed Ubuntu about 5 months ago. Suddenly, I can't write bangla anywhere (naming folder etc.) without LibreOffice. when I'm trying to write…
Do you use GC ergonomics, -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy,
with the UseParallelGC collector? The jist of GC ergonomics
for that collector is
that it tries to grow or shrink the heap to meet a specified goal.
The goals that you can choose are maximum pause time and/or throughput.…
I am trying to install ejabberd 2.1.10-2 on my Ubuntu 12.04.1 server. This is a fresh install, and ejabberd is never successfully installed.
The Install
Every time, apt-get hangs on this:
Setting up ejabberd (2.1.10-2ubuntu1) ...
Generating SSL certificate…
Ever since I have installed 12.04 (clean install not an upgrade), i have been having a drop in the Internet connection. The drop in the connection can be anything from 15 seconds to about 3 mins, and then the connection comes back. This behaviour happens…
At SSW we use gated check-in for all of our projects. The benefits are based on the number of developers you have working on your project. Lets say you have 30 developers and each developer breaks the build once per month. That could mean that you have…
Just signed in to the Embarcadero Developer Network and got this:
EXPORT CONTROLS ON EMBARCADERO SOFTWARE
Your EDN membership and access to Embarcadero Software is subject to your agreement to and compliance with the following terms:
-You…
I have a soundcard that I'd like to use and I've been trying to install it and being a new Ubuntu user, I get about half way through this in the Terminal and it stops cooperating with me... See the link (soundcard hyperlink) but basically what I…
I have installed a lot of fonts before, but this time things are really different. I have downloaded some True Type Font (ttf) fonts. Then paste them in the directory
usr/share/fonts
after that I've restarted LibreOffice writer but don't…