Recalling the lambda notation…

Eclipse 3.2 is approaching soon. Here you can read an article describing the new cool features
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Remember that Eclipse is not an IDE for Java: there are plugins for C/C++ and Python programming!

We’ve heard time and again from users: “I find great stores through Google search, but every time I try to buy from an online store, I have to re-enter the same billing, shipping, and credit card information. There are too many steps. Why can’t it be as fast as a Google search?” This motivated us to improve the online purchase process, and so today we’re announcing Google Checkout, a checkout option that makes buying across the web fast and easy.

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He listed a four step plan beginning with the creation of a new ext4 filesystem registered with the kernel temporarily as ‘ext3dev’, “this will be explicitly marked as an CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL filesystem, and will in affect be a ‘development fork’ of ext3. A similar split of the fs/jbd will be made in order to support 64-bit jbd, which will be used by fs/ext4 and future versions of ocfs2.” Theodore explained that new features will go into the ext3dev tree, with only bugfixes making their way back to the stable ext3 tree. He noted that it will remain important that the ext4 code base can mount ext3 filesystems, “this is necessary to ensure a future smooth upgrade path from ext3 to ext4 users.” Finally, “probably in 6-9 months when we are satisified with the set of features that have been added to fs/ext4, and confident that the filesystem format has stablized, we will submit a patch which causes the fs/ext4 code to register itself as the ext4 filesystem.” He further noted that once ext4 is deemed fully stable, it may completely replace ext3 in the source tree.

More here.

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Taken from IE7 blog.

1. First, make sure you’ve installed latest security patches

2. Hide the Apache Version number, and other sensitive information.

3. Make sure apache is running under its own user account and group

4. Ensure that files outside the web root are not served

5. Turn off directory browsing

More here.

WordPress by default doesn’t come with any sort of web site reporting tools (and it really shouldn’t). So if you want to know how many people visited your site, which pages they viewed, or where they came from, you’ll need to either rely on your raw web logs or use an online tracking service provided by a third party. There are many different third party web tracking services out there, but the two free and popular third party solutions that I highly recommend are Google Analytics (for web traffic) and Feedburner (for syndicated traffic).

Like most bloggers, I check my web stats pretty regularly, and I wanted a quicker way to get an overview of what’s going on with my site. So I created a WordPress plugin to do just that.

You can download the plugin here.

This article explains the communication between Xorg, Xgl, and an OpenGL client, through libGL and the GLX Protocol

Did you know that Eclipse TPTP can perform static analysis of your code? If I have lost you, static analysis is the process of digging through source code looking for patterns and usage that appears to be a bad programming practice. Through this process, you can typically find a significant number of problems.

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In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on an Apache2 web server. mod_deflate allows Apache2 to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do. With mod_deflate, you can compress HTML, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.

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Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example,

• when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse;
• when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker);
• on a palmtop computer;
• on a wearable computer.

The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 29 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.

More here.

FUDforum is a highly customizable forum package, with a large feature set. The easy to use administration control panel allows the administrator to easily configure and control the many features available. The forum also includes an interactive help package, which helps to familiarize users with the full potential of FUDforum.
Here are some of the core features offered by FUDforum:

• i18n support, with a number of languages distributed with the forum.
• Full template support with a FAST template compiler.
• Powerful groups management system, which allows fine grained control over forum’s resources.
• Private Messaging system, with post tracking & buddy lists
• Built in spell checker (using the pspell library)
• Ability to use FUDcode, HTML or Plain Text inside posts, configurable by the admin
• Administrator definable ranks for the users bases on number of posts as well as assign an unlimited number of custom tags to individual users
• 3 types of user avatars
• Ignore list, allows forum members to ignore posts made by other users.
• Threaded View (by default standard flat view is used)
• Customizable Find and Replace system, which fully supports both perl regexp (preg) and even str_replace for extremely fast simple replaces
• NNTP & Mailing List integration, allowing FUDforum to be used to archive newsgroups & mailing lists, as well as allow forum members to post messages to newsgroups and mailing lists via the forum.

You can try it here.

Microsoft has admitted that Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) will phone Redmond every day - something it neglected to tell users before they installed it.

WGA is designed to detect pirated copies of MS software but is also creating some false positives - two UK dealers have contacted the Reg to report customers complaining that WGA had branded their software as an illegal copy.

(Read entire article here from here - by RegDeveloper)

So, how can I remove it from my computer?

I found this interesting article explaining the use of WGA Remover.

Linux now forms a quarter of Dell’s server business and is growing fast, the company says. Should Microsoft be worried?

Article here from ZDnet.

After Windows 98 and Millenium, a new Microsoft product is about to remain without technical support. Don’t get scared, it’s not Windows XP, but the first service pack released for the old and vulnerable operating system.

More info here.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

More here.