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Hi, Some time ago (sometime around 10/2006) I installed Windows Vista (a release candidate at that time) on my home machine in order to "try" it (to be sincere I've installed various Vista beta/release candidates). Performance was not impressive but since Read More...
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There really is nothing better than being in your home town at a pub surrounded by several hundred screaming fans when the home side is playing in the Grand Final of its league and then watching them trounce the opposition 40 to 0. Photo by Brendan Esposito, Read More...
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I noticed a news on an additional source of Impedance mismatch: Cloude Computing... Geir Magnusson, vice president of engineering and co-founder of 10gen, presented at a conference called Web 2.0 Expo, a talk: "The Sequel to SQL: Why You Won't Find Your Read More...
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In the previous post I just said I'd think aloud about advantages/drawbacks of working from home. Let's take the half-full approach and present the advantages first starting with not needing to commute . Well, before joining db4o I used to live in São Read More...
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As I posted here , some time ago (to be more precise, exactly one year ago) I joined db4o and started to work from my home; that was not an easy decision/move but (thanks God and some really good friends also) I took it. Since one year has passed, I think Read More...
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The things that drive you crazy… There’s one (and only one) legacy Windows application that we have. We used to run it in VMware, which worked, but that was a pain, looked terrible, and of course was required us to have our copy of Windows Read More...
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Dennis Tsichritzis got his PhD from Princeton 1968 in Computer Engineering and he spent 40 years in different positions in North America (US and Canada) and Europe (Switzerland, Germany and Greece) doing Research and Research Management. His main Research Read More...
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A week ago, I was writing about the ability to use Mono ’s System.Core to run C# 3 and LINQ applications on .net 2. A few months ago, I was writing about the new LINQ provider that friends at db4o released. This LINQ provider uses LINQ expression Read More...
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One of the more interesting logistical problems faced by the people who run the Microsoft Conference Center is that several events are often running in parallel, and each has their own catering provisions--one might get snacks, another may have lunch Read More...
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The full list is here . It's a pretty prestigious group--and I'm totally floored that I'm there next to some pretty big names. In homage to Ms. Sally Fields, of so many years ago... "You like me, you really like me". Having somebody come up to me at a Read More...
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My friend Patrick is wondering what’s the best way to use the type System.Collections.Generic.HashSet , in NDepend , that he wants to deploy on computers with only .net 2 installed. Well it’s pretty simple, the best way to get it, is to get Read More...
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In these couple of days, I have tried to get Hadoop Word Count ruuning on my local cluster with 3 CentOS boxes. Thanks to Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Multi-Node Cluster , 90% of set up was easy as described. But there are two problems that I had to Read More...
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One of the nice things about Gentoo Linux is that they tend to leave the upstream defaults alone. This applies to file system locations, build configurations, but also things like preferences across the GNOME Desktop. This is good, in that Gentoo users Read More...
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Well, after some time researching and comparing prices I've ordered my new toy with the following configuration : Component Detail Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R Processor INTEL Core 2 Quad Q3300 2.66GHz 12MB 1.333MHz Memoty 8 Gb - OCZ DDR2 800 Cooler Read More...
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