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Archive for April, 2010

The C language is #1 again… Sorry Java…

by @ Wednesday, April 7th, 2010. Filed under tech

After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C’s number 1 position is not C’s uprise, but the decline […]

We like open source… Oh wait, you mean you want to do it around our main frames too???

by @ Wednesday, April 7th, 2010. Filed under tech

According to a letter published today by NosoftwarePatents founder Florian Mueller, Big Blue has abandoned its commitment to the open source community by attacking the Hercules project, which was founded by Roger Bowler more than a decade ago. The mainframe emulator code was written to enable users to run IBM’s z/OS on x64 or Itanium […]

Had to disable the highlighter…

by @ Tuesday, April 6th, 2010. Filed under general

I was informed by Brian that my new highlighter addon for the blog was tossing extra gunk into the RSS feed… So I had to turn it off, I will ping the author about it.     Rating 3.00 out of 5

DARPA – Critical Geek Shortage…

by @ Monday, April 5th, 2010. Filed under general

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/03/darpa-chief-fix-americas-critical-geek-shortage/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

Comcast finally gives a way to monitor bandwidth usage…

by @ Monday, April 5th, 2010. Filed under general

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/comcast-broadband-meters/   Rating 3.00 out of 5

Dedicated Dump File for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

by @ Monday, April 5th, 2010. Filed under tech

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2010/04/02/how-to-use-the-dedicateddumpfile-registry-value-to-overcome-space-limitations-on-the-system-drive-when-capturing-a-system-memory-dump.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

PKI Cert expiration times

by @ Thursday, April 1st, 2010. Filed under tech

I just had to perform the yearly renew my Cert on my Smart Card for my MVP Source Code Access to the Windows OS. I also have a Smart Card Cert for work I have to renew yearly for authentication as well. Something that annoys me is that everyone likes to use a one year […]

A different kind of company….

by @ Thursday, April 1st, 2010. Filed under humour

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html Rating 3.00 out of 5

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