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Hey? Whats going on? Windows Vista is barely two years old and already the fellows at Richmond are talking about Windows Seven, not only is Window dissing Vista but user’s are not adopting the software as expected. Some people are already downgrading back to Windows XP, all this is happening and Mac is still doing those mac versus PC adverts, the bloodletting never ends.
Living in the United States has its risks,one such risk is that of getting sued. a year ago i got issued a “citizens” ticket, heck it cost me almost a thousand bucks but the experience is always worth, when getting sued information is a very big deal. Because the truth is “relative” and getting the most easilly verified data would do a lot for your case. Nowadays most data is digital. And getting Data which may have been deleted from hard drives is not a task for a novice, as you can attest to if you have have had to recover data from a formatted disk.
I have written previously on a project I was undertaking using a C# client calling a PHP-based XML-RPC webservice. Well, the project is near to completion. It should have been finished, but there were several delays from the client’s side - most notable of which was, they refused to even take a look at the software until it was 100% bug-free: they wouldn’t even test it! What a lot of people don’t realize is that the client plays a huge part in the design process. Simply saying, “go and design a Car rental management Software for me” without taking a look back, and then asking “why is it not ready yet?” without even looking at the software in development is a serious morale killer.
When I chose XML-RPC as my method of serialization, it was because I was learning XML and I needed something to sink my newly acquired fangs into. After attempting to serialize arrays of many-membered objects in tandem, I quickly realised how much overhead the xml tags add to the transport. I found myself almost wishing there was something lighter AND easier. Although JSON produces less data and is easy to use, it is still a bit of a problem for me because I transfer typed data, and support for clients other than web browsers is kind of shaky.
I had always known that the apache web server (God bless their souls) has built-in content compression capabilities, it wont work unless the client reports that it can deal with it - which was just what XML-RPC.NET could not do. Charles Cook has promised gzip http compression support in the next release of his wonderful component but it’s been almost a year now, and nothing’s showing up. So it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty.
Sometimes you just want to have more power than the average GNU/Linux distribution puts in your hands. Ordering the entire Debian Etch DVD collection is taking longer than I thought, so I opted to build my Linux using my own chosen collection of software. After some thorough searching, I came upon the site Linux from Scratch, which gives instructions on building your own ddistribution. There is a sort of twist, in that you need an existing,functional installation of Linux to build linux! In my case, i had Ubuntu on my laptop a Toshiba Tecra TE2300 (I have not found a single review on this laptop on the internet, not even a simple spec list! That is a topic for another article…). Miraculously, all the hardware on my laptop is detected and working. The only problem i have is, downloading build-essential package with an inconsistent network/internet connection had been frustrating: sometimes the dependent packages would install, and an attempt to compile would tell me crt1.o could not be found.Fortunately the LFS (Linux From Scratch) team provides a functional LiveCD, which you can use to begin your foray in to the wild, wild, world of Linux software compilation.
I am changing my wordpress theme for one of my sites (www.phlameworks.com), because the current one (Mambopress 2.2) is giving me some headaches. It has the best layout, the three-column look I’ve always wanted, but I have the following issues with it
If you ever had to format and reinstall that OLD, OLD PC, i guess you weren’t able to find the drivers, right? Well, usually if you give this job to a “computer engineer”, he won’t want to tell you he can’t (and is not willing to) find the sound, vga, modem etc drivers.
So what happens? He burdens your old PC with windows XP, hoping XP’s expansive driver database and wondrous hardware detection will do the trick. It works, yes, but now your PC is SLOW, because it was “designed for windows 98″ (check the labels/stickers on the pc’s casing). If you challenge him, he’ll tell you “upgrade your computer sir/ma’am. Buy a (outrageously expensive or unaffordable) Pentium III or Pentium 4 PC”.
I have to develop a client-server application, the connection bandwidth is not very high, the database is MySQL on a Linux server, and I have to use C# for the windows client. I can’t use ADO.NET for obvious reasons, and the MySQL ODBC Connector cannot be relied on for such a congested link. How do I do it? Thank God for XML and Web Services. After struggling with different models for days without success, the idea of using XML-RPC hit me when I saw the w.Bloggar application at work.
In this article, i want to just give you just a brief explanation of RealPlayer 10.5.
Just a few things you should know about it. Enjoy
I have been using the wxWidgets Cross-platform library for my C++ projects for about 3 years now, and I must say it rocks. A stable version 2.8.0 of the library has just been released, which deprecates some of the classes and functions in 2.6 so I had to upgrade. I had some problems initially with setting up my development environment to use the library, because it is distributed as source and thus it is the user’s responsibility to compile it. The authors supply a variety of makefiles for different compilers, but some work without hassles and the others you have to tweak.
