Archive for the 'Technical' Category

Google announces $10 million contest for Android devs, “early look” SDK (JAVA!)

To coincide with today’s launch of the Android SDK, Google has announced a two-phase, $10 million contest to spur development on the Android platform. There will be lots of winners with this one: let the coding begin! And it’s JAVA!

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Europe jumping on the IPv6 bandwagon with enough IPs for everyone.

The organization responsible for giving out IP addresses in Europe has a message for us: IPv4 addresses will be gone in two to four years, but we have enough IPv6 for everyone.
And a video with this subject, “The Day The Routers Died…”:

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Technical Problems

For the next few days (up to 3) there will be some issues with the blog. This is due to our provider who’s upgrading the services and will generate some unexpected side-effects :(

WordPress 2.2.2 upgrade

The WordPress team has released new versions with security updates, 2.2.2 and 2.0.11. This blog has been upgraded without issues (as far as I’ve test it). If you have any issues please contact me ;)

Seven Financial Reasons to Use Linux in the Enterprise

And the seven reasons to use Linux …”there is a compelling financial argument for the use of Linux as the default solution in the enterprise.”…

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Seven Financial Reasons Not to Use Windows

…”more and more companies are discovering that they have alternatives when it comes to choosing an IT infrastructure, and that there really are some sound reasons not to go with Windows.”…

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Yahoo Messenger login problem with IE proxy

Today I had a nasty issue with the Yahoo Messenger client on Windows XP. Due to some internal upgrades the network gateway configuration had change and requires all the traffic to go through a web proxy (squid). I knew about it and updated the YM settings (use proxy). But no connection was possible, the only result was the sign-in problem dialog. I’ve change the connection settings but I got the same dialog no matter which alternatives I’ve tried.
After a few minutes of tests and frustration I’ve found the source of the issue and the solution.
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NTFS partition resize with free tools

My first post on the company’s blog - how to resize a NTFS partition from an external HDD drive (USB) using free tools.
For more information please visit the original article.