Archive for the “IT” category
Autism seen as asset, not liability, in some jobs
by mboulou on December 10, 2009
Ron Brix, a retired computer systems developer for Wrigley who has Asperger Syndrome, is on the board of Aspiritech, a company that trains high-functioning autistic people to work as testers for software companies. He works on homework for a class on Java programing at his Westmont, Ill., home. Ron (…)
Android vs iPhone for sysadmins
by mboulou on November 25, 2009
There are plenty of reviews comparing Android to iPhone generally so this post will focus specifically on the features sysadmins would find useful. This is comparing an iPhone 3G running OS 3.1.2 (not jailbroken) against a T-Mobile Pulse running Android (…)
The Go Programming Language
by mboulou on November 24, 2009
New Programming language from Google (Go Programming Language Home) : No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends: Computers are enormously quicker but software (…)
It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors To Out-Think a Single Cat Brain
by mboulou on November 19, 2009
IBM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer that requires millions of watts of electricity and over 150,000 gigabytes of memory. The brain simulation is a feat for neuroscience and computer (…)
Android Test Enviroment
by mboulou on October 22, 2009
Below there are the steps in order to run Android Platform in your Computer ( using Virtual Box ) Go to the Live Android Google Code Project and download the latest liveCD (0.3 as of this writing. Torrent available here.) (…)
The next generation of Google Search
by mboulou on October 14, 2009
Goolge secretly working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search – http://www2.sandbox.google.com/. This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of (…)
MacOS Leopard Repair Tricks – Startup Keystrokes
by mboulou on October 6, 2009
Yesterday a friend of mine give me his MacBook Pro with nothing seen in Monitor but a soft blue screen ( Its the Apple version of famous Windows Screen Of Death). It was my first time facing critical problems in (…)
Επιφανείς καθηγητές και γιατροί προειδοποιούν για τη χρήση τους και βάζουν στο στόχαστρο τις καθυστερήσεις στην έρευνα
by mboulou on September 2, 2009
«Κινητά τηλέφωνα και όγκοι στον εγκέφαλο: 15 λόγοι ανησυχίας» είναι ο τίτλος μιας νέας έκθεσης με την υπογραφή 43 καταξιωμένων επιστημόνων από 14 χώρες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Ελλάδας. Οι ερευνητές βάζουν στο στόχαστρο την Ιnterphone, τη μεγαλύτερη επιδημιολογική έρευνα στον τομέα (…)
IIS SSL configuring ( with selfsigned certificate )
by mboulou on September 1, 2009
Its so nice when you read and apply a howto post and all of them works. For example i recently have to activate SSL encryption in the main project that i develop this time. After googling for 5 minutes, i (…)
Web Application Open Security Test Checklist
by mboulou on August 25, 2009
One good document to start measure your web application security. (Open Web ApplicationSecurity Test Checklist )