Friday, so that means time to start relaxing again.
My song to start of the weekend is definitely Stereo Love from Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina.
If you want to get a copy of this song on MP3, Amazon.com has MP3 downloads available at $0.99 for this song. Click here
On a side note, don’t you just love House and Trance music videos, always the most awesome Babes 😉 .
Great new addition to GMail.
When working offline with the great technology Gears.
When working offline, usually you can’t add attachments whilst offline, but now you can, simply add the attachment as usual whilst offline, and it will add the attachment to your mail and when you connect again, it will send out your email with the attached document.
Unfortunately this does not work for inline images thought, but I reckon they will come up with a genius way around that soon.
This can become very useful, especially with the cellphone networks in South Africa dropping me frequently when on the road. With this feature, all mails go through the ‘Offline Outbox’ and send send the email and this will also result in messages not vanishing due to connection issues.
This is amazing.
On the 21st November 2009, a meteor was spotted over Gauteng at around 23h00. Everybody managed to get pictures of just after the meteor already went past, but luckily this CCTV camera footage was found of the meteor entering the atmosphere. It is amazing the light it is generating, almost looks like lightning.
more information at Eye Witness News
One Account, Many Devices.
For the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with Evernote.
If you’ve some of the other note ‘pads’ out there you’ll really find Evernote useful.
First, What is Evernote ?
Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For Free.
Evernote is a note taking application, where you can add text notes, write notes on your Touch phone and save it to Evernote, or add multimedia files to your notes.
Making Evernote different is the “availability” of your notes across different devices and operating systems.
Everytime you save a note, it is saved into the cloud, and then when accessing the note on another device it retrieves the notes from the cloud.
Some nice immediate features I used was taking pictures of things I see during the day, and letting the pictures be OCR-ed for some things like slips etc.
Evernote is available is a wide variety of operating system and devices.
Evernote clients include:
Like all FREE products there always is a catch, but with Evernote the catch is just that the FREE product is just limited space and features.
The basic restrictions are that you only have 40MB space, File sync is only limited to images,audio,ink(drawing) and PDF, where the Premium product support any type of file. The only other drawback is the Advertisement on the free product, although it is not the ‘in-you-face’ type of banners, and does not bother you when you really need to work.
I’ll suggest – give Evernote it a try, again, FREE for use, so why not?
About time to post something about software development.
Today’s post is about a nice read I found from one of http://dotnet.org.za ‘s blogs.
Threads, the thrilling and not-so-much thought about elements of modern development practices.
What is the magic number for a simple application, Threads at the right places doing the right things, are you using lock() to lock appropriate object at the right times.
Here is a nice post on Coding Sanity, an South Africa .net blog, discussing Threads Do’s and Don’ts .
work recently I was asked to write a little document on some threading tips, and while I was about it, I noticed this thread on StackOverflow asking for the same thing. I don’t pretend that this is comprehensive or even necessarily 100% correct. However, it’s a start to try and apply some simple guidelines to threading. Any improvements, suggestions, additions, please let me know and I’ll make the necessary changes. Since I see this as a “living” page I won’t clutter it with edit marks as it changes. Look in the comments for change history.
DO reconsider your optionsConcurrency is very tricky and difficult to get right. It often leads to subtle and difficult to debug programming errors, and far too commonly does not result in significant speed improvements. Make absolutely certain that there are not other alternatives.
DO Use lock() { … } ….
Virgin is launching there new airline route from South Africa to Australia, called VAustralia.
Yesterday I booked myself tickets on their maiden flight between Johannesburg and Auckland, with a stopover in Melbourne.
(I still don’t get the “FREE” stopover idea yet)
If anybody is planning on flying over, I’ll recommend you have a look at the flight costs for the launch of this new route which is on the 13th of March 2010. I bought tickets for 2 adults and 1 infant Economy for around R19000 return. Compared to some of the other airline costs this is quite low.
Our first concern flying with this new airline was the fact that it is a new route and would they be reliable. We were reassured by the call centre lady as it is falling under Richard Branson’s Virgin brand it would be top notch.
And they are using the reliable and standardised Boeing 777-300ER.
Look at this, a Boeing 777-300ER being put together very quickly 😉
Well, it’s Friday again and that means some YouTube videos.
This week, I found the Thomson Airways Safety video which they play onboard which is quite cute, although not so funny
And then for the laugh today, I found a Music Video Spoof for Twilight : New Moon
Enjoy your Friday!
It’s Friday, so that means time to lay back and enjoy some of the joys of the internet, start slacking down for the weekend.
Found this video on the internet this morning.
Halfway through the guy calls his friend to go fetch his wallet, he wants to give this guy even more money for singing the song . Classic.
…. just found this one as well … lol … what people will do for a good tip
Just to give you some background on why I started posting here. Recently a fast one was pulled on me, I was made junior linux administrator at work, that with Zero linux experience ect. First thing I was concerned about was the fact that I have to un-install my Windows and install a linux OS.
Now being the hardcore gamer that I am, second concern was, is my world of warcraft going to work and how do I get it on seeing that linux does not work with .exe files. When I asked my senior, the server admin what to do, the only reply I got was..”Google is your friend”. And after browsing through hundreds of pages and chewing my finger nails to the bones, mainly because I had now idea what all this stuff meant I started with my installation.
So 2 months later and after a couple of re-installs I’ve finally got it to work, run smoothly and not giving me any hiccups. So to spare some unlucky guy out there the agony of what I had to go through, here it is a step by step on how to install World of Warcraft on you linux machiene.
Please note though that there is a lot a options ang guidance available on google and this is only to show you how I did my insallation. I am using ubuntu and wine for this installation
First things First.
Installing Wine
Fastest way to do this is to go the following route.
System, administration, synaptic packet manager
In the search bar type wine, and select it underneath for installation proceed with installing wine.
Make sure you have the latest version of wine installed, you can google for how this is done. Basically all you need to do is add a certificate and get a public key, it is going to take you less than 5 min to do.
Installing WOW
First you need to create a directory
eg. mkdir wowinstall
Now we will install World of Warcraft. Get out your cd’s and copy all of the first CD to a directory, after this copy the MPQ’s from the rest of the CD’s to the same directory.
eg. CD1
cp /dev/cdrom/*
eg. Rest of CD’s
cp /dev/cdrom/*.mpq
Now you can start to run the instal
eg.
wine /directory/were/you copied the cd's/installer.exe
Go through the installer, i would suggest taking out all the spaces in the directory where its installed, for easier acces in the future.
Once you have installed WoW, the /World of Warcraft/wtf/Config.wtf file needs to be modified. Add the following lines:
SET gxApi "opengl" SET SoundOutputSystem "1" SET SoundBufferSize "100" SET gxColorBits "24" SET gxDepthBits "24"
Now if you did this right, there should be a icon on your desktop, you can just double click the icon and your wow will launch with wine, dont update your account yet as we first have to install the expansions.
Installing wow Burning Crusade expansion
The steps to install
Just a little bit of news from the Oracle – MySQL empire.
Cofounder and creator Michael Monty, said in his blog post on Monday that Oracle should sell the open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, to resolve the antitrust concerns over it’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
The key objective by Widenius is to find a home outside Oracle for MySQL, where the database can be developed and compete with existing products, including Oracle’s, according to Florian Mueller, a former MySQL shareholder who is currently working with Monty Program AB on this matter.”
This is now getting a bit crazy, if MySQL starts changing “hands” too much it could start to influence the quality of the product and then we may see it dying altogether, but hopefully that won’t happy and we will see MySQL to become the competitor everybody dreamed about.