Monthly Archives: September 2006

Dear Belgian News People and Lawmonsters, You might be surprised to know that it is extremely easy to prevent Google from indexing and caching your website. All you need to do is to add a tiny text file robots.txt containing … Continue reading →

Take out a piece of paper and write this down: Last Exile. You can add that title to your “anime I must watch” list, because it a damn good show. So far I have watched 8 first episodes, and I’m … Continue reading →

Here is bunch of random links for your amusement: Mathematical Genius – brilliant scans of mathematical stupidity among students. Salary Theorem – mathematical explanation why managers earn more money than programmers and engineers. Insane Orb – a flash pong clone … Continue reading →

Today after a reboot my [tag]Firefox[/tag] started acting very odd. I experienced the following symptoms: all the search engines disappeared from the [tag]search bar[/tag] the [tag]toolbar icons[/tag] reseted to the default large size [tag]bookmark toolbar[/tag] became enabled all my [tag]bookmarks[/tag] … Continue reading →

If you buy movies and/or music at Amazon, please go and download this awesome [tag]greasemonkey[/tag] script. In the words of the author: When visiting a product page at [tag]Amazon[/tag] this script will detect the ‘label’, ‘studio’ or ‘publisher’ field from … Continue reading →

For awesome, see the image below: click to enlarge; via myconfinedspace; author unknown I could turn this into a causation vs correlation rant but I’m just not in the mood. I will say this – the kids who do all … Continue reading →

I just found a link to a story titled Cambodian Troops Quarantine Quan’sul at BoingBoing. You can see the post here. This BBC story tells us about a new malaria strain in Cambodia that kills the victim and then somehow … Continue reading →

Tell me if this has ever happened to you: you sit down at machine that you are supposed to fix/configure and you realize that you don’t even know what version of OS is it running. That is, you know that … Continue reading →

[tag]Java[/tag] has no support for [tag]multiple inheritance[/tag], right? At least that’s what you have been told. You can’t explicitly declare a class to be a child of two different unrelated classes. That is true. But you also need to remember … Continue reading →

There are several ways to reliably [tag]crash IE[/tag] but this one is possibly the simplest and most effective way. All you need to do is to put the following line of j[tag]avascript[/tag] somewhere on your page: for (x in document.write) … Continue reading →

I think that [tag]HFS[/tag] is one of the more [tag]useful[/tag] and noteworthy tools I have seen in a while. It is a fully functional [tag]http server[/tag] that weighs in under 600KB and does not require any installation. You simply download … Continue reading →

My first computer was [tag]Amiga[/tag] 600. It came with the ultra speedy [tag]7.09 MHz[/tag] CPU and a whooping 1 MB of RAM. It may sound small to you now, but at the time these were really good specs. [tag]A600[/tag] was … Continue reading →

I posted this long time ago in another incarnation of the blog, but I figured it is worth revisiting again. The original was found on [tag]Cay Horstmann[/tag]’s homepage. 1980: [tag]C[/tag] printf(“%10.2f”, x); 1988: [tag]C++[/tag] cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << … Continue reading →

The other day they finally opened up port 22 on one of my workstations at school. We also got assigned a static IP on the school network which means I can now log into that box from anywhere in the … Continue reading →

Holly freakin batman! [tag]MGM[/tag] wants to hire [tag]Peter Jackson[/tag] to do a [tag]Hobbit[/tag] movie! Jackson apparently haven’t been approached about this yet which is kinda odd. But he did say at one time or another that he would love to … Continue reading →

There is one day in September when we should put aside the politics, conspiracy theories, and fear mongering. I’m going to refrain myself from any kind of political commentary today. All I will say on this topic is this: STFU, … Continue reading →

[tag]Norton[/tag] is getting worse and worse with every new release. In fact, these days most hard hitting worms and viruses flat out target NAV and disable it. So despite best efforts to stay on top of things, they are becoming … Continue reading →

I was just mindlessly hitting the StumbleUpon button today to find some interesting website. Surprisingly I encountered a really long streak of bland and uninteresting pages. I was little disappointed with my stumbling session, and then I found americansforpurity.org and … Continue reading →

You know, I had this idea the other day to take something that is absolutely trivial and commonplace and then file for a [tag]patent[/tag] and make big monies (yes, monies is the proper term to use when you mean mad, … Continue reading →

Here is a little confession: today was the first time I watched [tag]Serenity[/tag]. Back in the day, I watched one and a half episodes of [tag]Firefly[/tag] when it was still on the air. What I saw was fairly random content … Continue reading →

[tag]Dreamhost[/tag], my [tag]hosting[/tag] company, is having [tag]networking issues[/tag] once again. I think they have some sort of monthly [tag]downtime[/tag] quota they need to meet or something. I swear – I have yet to see a month without them suffering from … Continue reading →

You will only find this awesome if you play [tag]Warhammer 40,000[/tag]. These are some of the best 40K costumes I have seen in a while :mrgreen: source myconfinedspace, author unknown [tags]space marines, costumes[/tags]

Here is a nifty [tag]trick[/tag] that you can try at home: find a WinXP box near you open [tag]notepad[/tag] type in the exact phrase: [tag]bush hid the facts[/tag] don’t press enter, and save the file open the file with notepad … Continue reading →

Did you know that [tag]NTFS[/tag] supports [tag]hard links[/tag]? This is an interesting tidbit about windows that not many people know about. But let me quickly explain what is a hard link to the clueless windows people. Imagine the following file … Continue reading →

I think that Microsoft Office programmers deserve some sort of an award for coming up with the most descriptive error message ever. Can you even be more ambiguous than [tag]Unknown Error[/tag] [tag]0x80040119[/tag]? I submit that you cannot. What does this … Continue reading →