Web Worker Daily links to the article titled “AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010“. Here is a summary: Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not be able to … Continue reading It is NOT the end of the world, as we know it
Here is a quote from a wise comment in the discussion of the “Linux system programming” book review: Build your code with -Wall -Werror (or your compiler’s equivalent). Once you clean up all the crud, that pops up, crank it up with -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith. Once there — add -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wswitch -Wshadow … Continue reading Thou shalt not ignore warnings
IRC is one of the best things that happened in the world of online communications ever. But, it’s a pity that most non-technical users have no idea of its existence. Getting on IRC usually required downloading and installing a client software, and then going through a list of networks, picking a server, a nickname, and … Continue reading Mibbit – IRC the easy way
Yesterday I celebrated my 30th birthday. That was a blast! I received congratulations and best wishes from more people (and bots) than I ever did. In fact, there were so many that I can publish some statistics (numbers are approximated): Automated greeting messages from forums and social services: 35 Phone calls: 15 SMS messages: 10 … Continue reading 30, here I come!
I just watched “Alpha Dog“. It wasn’t the movie I was looking for, I just grabbed it by accident. It had a cheesy title, way too many people on the cover, and an overall B-movie feel to it. I got it anyway, just to have some extra movies to watch over the weekend. I’m glad … Continue reading Alpha Dog