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Archives for October 2008
All these silly little Top 10 lists.
Okay, so I just love punditry sometimes… 10 Things That Won't Make Windows 7 A Success (and 1 That Will) 8. Death By A Thousand Versions Of The Same Product. How many versions of Vista are there again? Okay, if you say so. We only need 3 versions of Windows 7: a home version, a business version, [...]
Random Articles found through NetworkWorld
Sending a message to TSA will cost you time – the lesson here? Don’t try to be clever in what you take through security. Evan Roth has designed personalized plates that allow the bags screeners for TSA to see a “message” that you’ve had etched into a steel plate. Of course, these plates obstruct the [...]
Problem 1 from Project Euler . net ("set"-based solution)
This time, I fill a hash map for step values of 3 and of 5. No noticeable difference from my first try, until you start trying to find results for much larger than stopping at 999, at which point amount of memory consumed/allocated makes this method way more inefficient. x=0h = {} 3.step(999, 3) { |i| [...]
A fledgling blog on the progress of technology
I think I'm generally more interested in the small-time blogs than the well-established blog. Well-established blogs with a solid following can succumb to group-think in the guise of introspection. Sometimes, a newer blogging voice can present a different perspective on existing topics: Found from a @implu tweet Retire your desktop: The Future: – Greenspan's perception [...]
Problem 1 from Project Euler . net
Trying to reinforce the syntax in ruby, I did Problem 1 from Project Euler . net: If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 [...]
My first powershell
A foreach loop that calls ping with a specific buffer size, and sends output to a ping*.txt file corresponding to the buffer size: foreach ($number in 32, 256, 1024) { ping -n100 -l$number yahoo.com > ping$number.txt }
For when I really can’t get my brain fired up on a given day
Project Euler for programming problems.: "Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems." I was looking up [...]
PC World’s opinions on products and websites.
100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites Complete List by Category Complete List in Alphabetical Order The Bottom 10: The Web's Most Useless Sites – Digg made it! Wow. Some pretty ugly sites otherwise as well. The 10 Most Overrated Products — a little too much credit to Microsoft, especially with the underrated Zune vs. [...]
Cleaning up a brand new PC
I've found a new blog to scour: DigitalInspiration. Bought a New Computer? Now Remove all the Pre-Installed Trial Software – this article points to the program PC Decrapifier and the full list of programs that the program can remove. A related post of theirs, Spring Cleaning Utilities for your PC : Reclaim Hard Disk Space, [...]
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