Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-11-02
- Behind the Scenes with Apache’s .htaccess
- .htaccess tricks and tips.. — part one: tasty food for web serving thoughts.
- .htaccess tricks and tips.. — part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite.
Category: Technology
I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Identical is bad
I have two identical computers under my desk. One is to my left and another is to my right. My workstation is to the left. The computer to my right is not mine and I don’t have anything to do with it. It just has to stay there.
During the last two days I spent more than two hours troubleshooting all sorts of wierd problems with my PC. Yesterday I had a problem with DVD writing. I was inserting the empty disk, but the drive woldn’t recognize it. Software was insisting that no disk was in the drive. Today I had a problem with USB storage. I was sticking it in, but nothing was happening. Not like it wasn’t recognized. More like the USB port itself was dead.
I was running all sorts of debugging, tracing, and monitoring. I almost got as far as kernel compilation. Luckily I realized the source of the problem before that.
You see, I am right-handed, so reaching to my right is easier and simplier for me. Add to the fact that for the last five or so years, my office workstation was always to my right. Needless to say that I have to be more careful and pay more attention in my new setup. Otherwise, strange things can happen to my productivity.
Free tests at Brainbench
It’s been a really long while since I looked at Brainbench.com. I used to take a lot of tests an even have few certificates from the early days. I even remember when it was called something else.
Anyway, today I got reminded about this huge repository of tests and certifications and I decided to check it out. Overall there are more than 600 tests that cover a large part of both practical and theoretical computer industry. Here is the list of free tests that you can take.
Just to see if I still have it I took a couple. And passed. The results weren’t as high as they could have been because I wasn’t fully focusing and I was in the middle of the noisy office, but I am satisfied anyway. Check the results below, if you are interested enough.
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Daily del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-10-27
- The Object Oriented Programming Web — Programming and Computer Science Tutorials, Lecture notes and online books
- Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Missing some regexp knowledge
Once in a while I come across some topic that I should have learned a billion years ago. Something very basic and useful that I had a chance of seeing many times but haven’t, or probably had and ignored it. Today I found out that I was missing an important bit of Perl regexp knowledge. And you will probably laugh in my face when I’ll tell you.
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