TechnoSNACK

Effective Use of VIM - Part 5

prolink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:47:00 +0000

The Effective Use of VIM Series...» Effective Use of VIM - Part 1» Effective Use of VIM - Part 2» Effective Use of VIM - Part 3» Effective Use of VIM - Part 4» » Effective Use of VIM - Part 5It has been some while since Part 4, and here is Part 5...

Crazy stuff over DNS

Kris Buytaert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:44:58 +0000

Pascal tweeted me te following link.

From the site :

I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that's boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not offer it over DNS - it is basically a huge associative array and DNS is designed for this stuff.

Some people send way to much stuff over a TXT record .. and then one wonders why DNS is a problem.. it's being abused for all the things wasn't designed in the first place. And people also trust it too much while it never was desgined for that either.

Oh well.. at least IP over DNS is usefull :)

Daily Share Market Update

prolink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:16:00 +0000

DateMarketIndexChangeChange %Wed, Jan 07 2008BSE Sensex9,586.88-749.05-7.25%S&P CNX Nifty2,920.40-192.40-6.18%Tue, Jan 06 2008BSE Sensex10,335.93+60.33+0.59%S&P CNX Nifty3,112.80-8.65-0.28%Mon, Jan 05 2008BSE Sensex10,275.60+317.38+3.19%S&P...

Command on All Windows

prolink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:13:00 +0000

Here's a neat trick. If you want to execute an ex command on all windows, you can do the following::windo commandso...:windo %s/foo/bar/g would find and replace foo with bar in all windows.

The LG Burner Strikes Again

prolink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:06:00 +0000

As I've blogged about before, the DVD writer I bought from LG last year was giving me nothing else but coasters and headaches. But now I suspect I have some clues about the problem. With this LG GSA-H22N DVD WRITER, I've encountered writing... Conti...

The Next Generation Multi Media Autoresponder Software

Nelson Tan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:36:25 +0000

There’s something about autoresponder scripts that you need to be forewarned about. Although the investment in such scripts is comparative cheap in the form of a one-time course as compared to monthly subscriptions, because the scripts are to be installed in your web account, some web hosting services are concerned that massive mailouts can destabilize [...]

Satyam, The Lost Samurai

Chirag — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:23:43 +0000

Here is a quick post on the letter sent by Mr B. Ramalinga Raju to the shareholders. You can read the letter here, sounds more like a last the lost samurai. A very apologetic stance, A good read for what not to do as a business leader. Posted in Business, India Tagged: Maytas, Raju, Ramalinga, Satyam [...]

EVE Online and the week of Milestones

prolink — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:32:00 +0000

The new year has barely started, and already we're being bombarded with new milestones in the world of New Eden.

The world's biggest sand box MMO, EVE Online, recently surpassed the 45,000 peak concurrent user (PCU) mark. An amazing achievement when you consider that most MMOs run on much smaller servers - of about 5,000 players. All the hard work that has been done over the last few months, as well as the multitude of upgrades planned for the near future, will allow for even bigger fleet battles. I look forward to the days where we'll see 1000-plus ship fleet battles! I remember the days when we passed the 10k mark, then the 20k, then 25k! Now we're almost half-way to the 100,00 PCU! I for one am looking forward to CCP's HPC roll-out!

Additionally, we learned today that another capsuler had reached the 100 million skill point mark. Though this was not the first character to reach that record milestone, it's still a great honor to bestow a fellow capsuler. As a player who is about to reach the 50 million SP myself, I can vow how monumental such an achievement is!

Speaking of personal achievements, I'm happy to report that this humble blog, reached the impressive mark of 300,000 pageviews yesterday, as well as 200,000 visitor mark today. I say impressive because in the MMO industry EVE holds a niche position, similar to the Mac in the computer markets. Such results would not be attainable without you, the reader. So thank you for dropping by!

Finally, I leave you with the latest CCP video interview, in which Hilmar mentions that the next EVE expansion will be released on March 10th, followed 2 days later by a retail launch of the game - published in partnership with Atari!

Two words come to mind: modular ships!!! Oh yeah!!

Affiliate Marketing Staying Away From Scams

Nelson Tan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:03:26 +0000

Affiliate Marketers - Steer Clear of Scammers Many of us are upset and frustrated with our current jobs. Because of the stressful economic situations and the amount of income we get from our current jobs, many people dream about starting their own private business. However, the costs combines with the risk factors stops [...]

Full HD in 22-inches: The Dell S2209W

Herbert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:16:56 +0000

I’ve read a bunch of articles on dual-monitors and their benefit towards productivity. I even tried a pair of dual monitors on my own, which wasn’t a bad experience — but I had to return the monitor to its original owners, so it was a pain moving it back and forth after use. I really [...]

Nokia Express Music 5320 with Linux Ubuntu

taufanlubis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:22:56 +0000

When I choose to buy this mobile phone, my main concerns are the 3G, Bluetooth, Music and Camera features. But, Nokia Express Music 5320 comes with some other features like Radio, Recorder, Video, 2 Camera (front & back), Nokia Map, GPS data (need external GPS), Message Reader, Real Player, Quick Office, Adobe Reader, N-gage games, [...]

Comux 000010

prolink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:50:00 +0000

My first article is up at Simple Talk: Exchange

prolink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:07:00 +0000

My first column is up at Simple Talk: Exchange. If you like it, make sure to vote it up! I hope you get something from it. You might also look at my sysadvent contribution as a peripheral to this. Thanks very much to my editor, Michael Francis. He work...

Fedora, Two Weeks On

prolink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:00 +0000

After two weeks of using Fedora on a daily basis, i thought it important to give an overview. With any OS there are pros and cons, and we always miss things that we are used to, this is normal human behavior. Fedora 10 is definitely no exception, but t...

Security add-ons for Firefox

prolink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:00 +0000

Firefox is currently the fastest growing web browser in the world and at last count commands over 20% of the browser market share. Firefox is popular not only because it costs us nothing to download/use/distribute but it also seem to have an inexhausti...

Buddylist, Buddlist2, Friendlist

Kris Buytaert — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:45:41 +0000

Dear LazyWeb

Buddylist is aimed at Drupal 5, so when porting to a site to Drupal 6, you need Buddylist2. However the BuddyList page mentions one should look at FriendList as that project is supposed finished ..

At first sight it seems like FriendList indeed most advanced in its efforts
As I was also using Invite, which also is still under development for 6,
I was assuming that upon installing it the dependencies would tell me which one to use.. however it seems none of them already hooks into Invite

Am I overlooking a module that solves my needs . ?

Everything is a Funky DNS problem.

Kris Buytaert — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:27:32 +0000

Nils has a good writeup of what Dan Kaminsky talked about at 25C3 Interesting read as after al.. Everything is a funky DNS problem.

Should send him a T-Shirt one day .. he seems to appreciate my site slogan :)

The Masters Gathering…

Nelson Tan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:20:14 +0000

The world’s top transformation experts and best selling authors have come together for one of 2009’s biggest launches… THE MASTERS GATHERING An All-Star Cast includes: - T.Harv Eker - Jack Canfield - Bob Proctor - Joe Vitale - John Demartini - Bob Doyle - David Wolfe - Loral Langemeier - Dr. Ben Johnson - John Asaraf - Marci Shimoff - Janet Atwood - Mary Morrissey - And more!! And they have gathered [...]

Nokia Express Music 5320 with Linux Ubuntu – Internet Connection with bluetooth

taufanlubis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:32:46 +0000

Step 1. Activate your USB Bluetooth Open your Linux Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) then type ‘lsusb‘ and press ‘Enter‘ to check if your USB bluetooth is recognized or not by Ubuntu. After that, type ‘sudo hciconfig hci0 up‘ and press ‘Enter‘ to turn on your bluetooth device. You can check the result using ‘hciconfig hci0‘. Step [...]

Use Double Driver to simplify your next reinstall

prolink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:00 +0000

I honestly don't remember what I was looking for today when I came across Double Driver, but I don't think it was anything as cool as what I found. Double driver is for Windows systems, and when you run it, it scans the system to find all the used driv...

The e-book of the week: a new fantastic tutorial about Oracle and PL/SQL - useful for DBAs (pdf)

The e-book of the week, from the web, free for all users of the TechnoSNACK project: "Oracle/SQL tutorial". Very useful guide to SQL, trigger, stored procedures, and all other things necessary to be a good Database Administrator.

More news from TechnoSNACK...