I've kind of got used to Ed Wilson's chaotic style of presenting. He must be clever to achieve such a position inside Microsoft, but each of his presentations looks and feels as though he has done no preparation what so ever. It really comes over as off the cuff with all the problems associated with that. Here we are in part 4; in real time this is the fourth consecutive day he has presented and again it really feels like he hasn't bothered with his practice run. more »
Category: "Techie"
You know how you see an article and you think “ooh I’d love to play with that"? Well that’s what this article is about! The tutorial section contains links to comprehensive step-by-step walk throughs of setting up and getting started… more »
Download and install Eclipse
Even though you will be developing Python you will still need Eclipse with the Java SDK. I think this is for 2 reasons. Firstly Python support for Eclipse is in the form of an Eclipse plug-in as opposed to a fully… more »
The current hot topic in the news at the moment is Mohamed Hassan writing an article for Network World claiming that Samsumg laptops arrive pre-installed with StarLogger. StarLogger records every keystroke made on your computer on every window… more »
1&1's documentation is pretty awful but to be fair they only expect real system administrators to be using their dedicated servers. They give you a copy of Plesk 10 but it doesn't have any capabilities to alter the disk or volume group layouts. 1&1 layout their default image in a way that only gives you 4GB on each of the major partitions and it leaves the other 212GB as unallocated. So in order to use the server properly you have to get interested in the Logical Volume Manager. more »