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• Weekend Nerding: Ubuntu 9.04 and GCC 4.4.0 released!

  Posted: 24 Apr 2009 at 02:14 by Thushan Fernando

  Just verfied that today is Friday - they really need an RSS feed for this. What better time to release GCC 4.4.0 and the highly anticipated Ubuntu 9.04. GCC 4.4.0 brings improved C++0x support, a new register allocator and with the merge of the Graphite branch, which is “a new framework for loop optimizations based [...]

• Dawn of the GUI: Operating System GUIs from 1981 to 2009

  Posted: 23 Apr 2009 at 00:20 by Thushan Fernando

  Here’s an interesting post from WebDesignDepot, a tour of Operating System GUIs from 1981 to the present. vs Of particular note is Steve Jobs’ NeXTSTEP GUI from 1989, way ahead of its time. All other operating systems look so paltry and boring in comparison.

• COOL: wotnews.com.au, Search, scrape and analyses news for you!

  Posted: 21 Apr 2009 at 13:11 by Thushan Fernando

  Got told by a co-worker about this today, a news site that searches, scrapes and analyses news items for you. wotnews.com.au, even has a Google Alerts style notification system to get told when interesting news items trickle through. Whats really impressive about this little beauty is that its written by a very small team and [...]

• MILF: Apples answer to the Laptop Hunters.

  Posted: 21 Apr 2009 at 09:33 by Thushan Fernando

  CrApple in all its glory has released four new ads to off-beat the recent mentioning of Mac in the Laptop Hunters series. For your enjoyment: Bio-Hazard Suite Watchout, theres a nasty little botnet going around if you grabbed any pirated copies of Photoshop. *APPARENTLY* OS X also comes with Photoshop for free and doesnt with PC - yes, [...]

• HEAT OF THE MOMENT: Breaking News, Oracle buys Sun MicroSystems!

  Posted: 20 Apr 2009 at 14:38 by Thushan Fernando

  In what may come as a suprise to everyone, Oracle Corporation has bought Sun MicroSystems for a cool $7.4Billion benjamins. IBM was eying a buyout for quite sometime but (I reckons for the better of mankind) has failed to secure the epic deal. Question is, what will happen to the buyouts such as VirtualBox (Oracle has [...]

• Quick Tip: Iterate through an enum in .NET

  Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 10:33 by Thushan Fernando

  Here’s a quicky for you. Iterating through an Enum in .NET, replace ‘IconResource‘ with the Enum you want to iterate. C# Array enumValues = System.Enum.GetValues(typeof(IconResource)); foreach (IconResource resource in enumValues) { Console.WriteLine("Resource: {0}", resource); } VB.NET Dim enumValues As Array = System.[Enum].GetValues(GetType(IconResource)) For Each resource As IconResource In enumValue

• Rebuilding Zeus: Part 1 - Preliminary Research and Installing Ubuntu 9.04 RC1

  Posted: 18 Apr 2009 at 14:22 by Thushan Fernando

  Just spent a fair chunk of today getting a rebuild of Zeus going - our affectionately dubbed Ubuntu server at home. This is the third rebuild (hardware wise) in the past 5 years (sheesh its been that long?), but I’m not complaining. First Ubuntu’fied version (5.10 - Breezy Badger) ran on an Pentium 4 3Ghz [...]

• XKCD: New Car

  Posted: 18 Apr 2009 at 06:53 by Thushan Fernando

• Funky Jaunty: Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate, its almost here!

  Posted: 17 Apr 2009 at 01:58 by Thushan Fernando

  Excited Jen? You should be. Ubuntu 9.04 (aka Jaunty Jackalope) will be out in less than a week, and if you cant wait, grab the Release candidate and give it ago. Amongst the highlights: Ext4 - see how to go about upgrading of the Ext3 partitions. Linux Kernel v2.6.28 Gnome 2.26 - checkout the shinny new inclusions. X.org Server v1.6 Cloud [...]

• Laptop Hunger: Homeless Frank

  Posted: 17 Apr 2009 at 01:32 by Thushan Fernando

  I’m poor, but I’m not retarded.

• Hot Butter: Slipstreaming SQL Server 2008 with SP1 and an easier FIX for Rule “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008″ failed.

  Posted: 16 Apr 2009 at 13:58 by Thushan Fernando

  We just did a hardware upgrade of one of our SQL Server boxes during the Easter break. With SP1 for SQL Server 2008 available I followed the excellent instructions from Peter Saddow to slipstream SP1 into the SQL 2008 ISO. Highly recommend you follow the guide Whilst on the topic of SQL Server 2008, [...]

• TortoiseSVN 1.6.1 Released

  Posted: 13 Apr 2009 at 09:57 by Thushan Fernando

  TortoiseSVN 1.6.1 is out with several changes & fixes linked with Subversion 1.6.1. Download: x86 MSI x64 MSI Release Notes for v1.6 Whilst on the subject of all things Subversion, have you seen the Subversion v1.6 Quick Reference Card? Enjoy. Waiting for a VisualSVN 1.7.1 update anytime soon.

• AMD Releases Catalyst 9.4 WHQL

  Posted: 11 Apr 2009 at 15:03 by Thushan Fernando

  Quick note before I head to bed, AMD has released a new Catalyst Driver package  for April which are WHQL certified. Amongst the usual fixes, it also comes with a new ATI Overdrive utility which has been enhanced to pick the optimal OC for your box. Download pages: Windows XP x86 Windows XP x64 Windows Vista x86 Windows Vista x64 Windows [...]

• CrApple iTunes sucks the life out of your CPUz

  Posted: 11 Apr 2009 at 14:42 by Thushan Fernando

  Now that CrApple has set off the 1-Billionth iTunes Store download ticking promo, I figured it was about time I upgraded to the latest iTunes and update the iPod Touch. Install the latest, greatest, sucks-the-will-to-live iPod Touch molester. Then as every !n00b would realise that it installs a bunch of crapolaware (like crapola, only applies [...]

• Dilbert: Sex appeal of the NERD.

  Posted: 11 Apr 2009 at 13:22 by Thushan Fernando

• QuickTip: Extracting all files in multiple folders in Linux

  Posted: 11 Apr 2009 at 01:17 by Thushan Fernando

  I just got sent a bunch of backup snapshots nicely compressed in RAR format in 20Mb segments in multiple folders. Nice I thought, now you’d have to iterate through 80 folders, and extract each rar file and merge them all into the same folder. /media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090201/*.rar /media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090202/*.rar /media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090203/*.rar &#

• Hot Icecubes: Sun releases VirtualBox 2.2

  Posted: 09 Apr 2009 at 10:53 by Thushan Fernando

  My favourite hypervisor, VirtualBox has just been upgraded to 2.2. Sun ushered in v2.2 recently and this release brings some uber-goodness. From the changelog; This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55) Host-only [...]

• Give me the Greenlight: Resharper 4.5 Released!!!

  Posted: 09 Apr 2009 at 04:36 by Thushan Fernando

  I’m ready to go right now, I’m ready to go right now. I see you move, I’m checking your smile working your back like it’s going out of style Shake just a little bit faster shake just a little now girl Dying to meet you, so lets mess around I’ve got an obsession of us getting down Come just a little bit closer I [...]

• If Bill Gates had Facebook…

  Posted: 07 Apr 2009 at 10:00 by Thushan Fernando

  What would it look like? Maybe something like this?

• Right Track: I’m a PC because I’m really picky

  Posted: 05 Apr 2009 at 00:45 by Thushan Fernando

  Finally it seems Microsoft are on the right track and delivering ads that actually have value and a point - unlike the Apple Switch ads that seem to glorify the Mac and the Apple socialite. Perfect timing too. Video: Laptop Hunters $1500 – Giampaolo gets an HP HDX And if you don’t like Silverlight, heres a direct [...]