Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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I’m ditching Chrome because of the http:// stripping.
New development builds, and apparently the Beta build of Chrome for the Mac, strip the ‘http://’ part from the URL input field. Since I run Chromium for Linux, which uses nightly builds of Chrome, I am already affected by this retarded decision. For this reason I will no longer be using Chrome, nor will I […]
SQuirreL SQL database browser
I finally found a decent replacement for the MySQLcc database browser: SQuirreL SQL SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc It’s Java, so it’s slow, but it does everything I want, and […]
Simple Revision Control with RCS
I do a lot of stuff in text file on my system. I keep notes and todo’s in them, I write drafts using a text editor and even complete user guides and other documentation. I also keep my personal planning in Gnome Planner which stores its data in an XML file, which in essence is […]
Performance optimization: The first thing to do
In the last couple of years, I’ve done a lot of performance optimization. I’ve optimized raw C, Python and PHP code. I’ve optimized databases: tweaked settings, memory usage, caches, SQL code, the query analyzer, hardware and indexes. I’ve optimized templates for disk I/O, compilation and rendering. I’ve optimize various caches and all kinds of other […]
Run mobile Midlets on your PC
In anticipation of my new phone (a Sony Ericsson W910i), I decided to spend some time finding various Java Midlets which I need for the phone. I was looking for a decent calculator, translator, dictionary and a E-book reader. I wanted to try the applications, but since I don’t have the new phone yet, I […]
Why Ethernet didn’t work, the real story
I was just browsing around on Slashdot a bit, and I found an article on the topic of Token Ring Networks. We all know that back in the day, Token Ring was considered ‘better’ than Ethernet because Ethernet would start colliding like mad under heavy (60/70% and higher) loads. This was because there was no […]
Android
Android is here. There’s been a lot of rumours about a Google mobile phone. Now, it appears that there is no gPhone (thank god), but there is a Google Mobile Phone Software Development Kit! The SDK appears to have everything you need to build third-party applications for your mobile phone. The SDK is created in […]
Firefox, IE, Opera and Safary all equally safe?
NU.nl reports about a (English) Report about the safety of the web. In it, CA reports: Browsers are one of the most commonly used applications today. Many people believe that Mozilla Firefox is more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer, but their vulnerabilities are on par. In the first half of 2007, NIST reported 52 vulnerabilities […]
DDoS attack paralyses Estonia
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe: At exactly 11 pm, Estonia was slammed with traffic coming in at more than 4 million packets per second, a 200-fold surge. Globally, nearly 1 million computers suddenly navigated to a multitude of Estonian sites, ranging from the foreign ministry to the major banks. It was […]
RDesktop goodness
Every now and then, I have to log into a windows machine in order to log expense reports or make a leave request for my work. (The application they use for that at my work doesn’t work properly in Firefox. Welcome to 2007.) Fortunately, we’ve got a big VMWare platform where I can login to […]
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