A while ago I got as a gift a wireless router – a ZoneAlarm Z100G. When I got it at first I defaulted to securing the wireless network from public access (by following this article). Then I thought about it a little and decided to be nice to my neighbors who want to access a [...]
A friend of mine called me to tell me that some of the characters on keyboard were now emitting numbers to the screen. It was the classic “your NumLock is on” problem on a laptop. I thought it would be a nice service to take the domain g66g3e.com and provide it to geeky-enough-people who type [...]
אין לי טלוויזיה בבית. זה לא אומר שאני לא רואה תוכניות טלוויזיה, אבל מה שבטוח זה שאני לא רואה פרסומות. עדיין אני נחשף לשלטי חוצות כשאני נוסע בכבישי ארצנו עמוסי השלטים. לאחרונה אני רואה את הקמפיין החדש של תלמה. על השלטים כתוב “תלמה. הכח להצליח.” אני שואל את עצמי: למה חברה שעיסוקה מזון צריכה כזה [...]
Imagine for a moment that there is a place where the results of all non-trivial computations are kept. Kind of a universal cache with unlimited capacity. To access this cache and get the results of a desired computation you need to specify the computation type and the problem set. For example, a computation type may [...]
Lately I started exploring Facebook dating applications. I know I said I won’t be using Facebook any more, but since Facebook is natural as a dating platform, I decided to give it another shot. One of those dating-related applications is “Are YOU Interested”. In this application you get to see an image of a person [...]
After the initial joy of joining Facebook and playing around with it a little, I find myself entering the website less and less. Applications always seemed annoying to me (some of them are nice, but very few are useful.) I didn’t want to post anything too personal on Facebook because I have this blog and [...]
Even if the following were motivated by business interests, they are still good things: Lowered Windows Vista’s price (I already switched to Ubuntu Linux) Opened “high volume” Microsoft software specifications (It’s still not a good idea to try and implement a “perfect” Office clone) Decided that Internet Explorer 8 will be standards compliant by default [...]
What makes good software? I always felt this question was too big for me to answer, never seeing myself as astute in the software development business as the big guns like Herb Sutter, Raymond Chen and the likes. However, this is a blog and as blogs go you can post something today and say the [...]
In a recent post I wrote that I installed the non-free driver for my video card on my new Ubuntu Linux installation. A friend asked me why I had to pay for the driver. I didn’t. The word “free” has two main meanings in the software world: Costs nothing (also known as “Free as in [...]
Scott Adams announced that he will write less on his blog from now on. He kept a one-post-per-day schedule for over 2 years, which is big even for a writer. Scott’s blog was one of my favorite daily reads and since I started reading the blog over a year ago, I haven’t missed even one [...]