Steven Wolfram of Mathematica fame (and pure genius) has launched Wolfram Alpha, its a ‘computational knowledge engine’ and quite a cool tool too! Taking on the big giants Google and Yahoo, Live etc, this bit of kit allows you to search using natural language processing (NLP).
Let me demonstrate, suppose you want to know who the prime minister of Bulgaria is, it will not only give you the answer but also some background information on the person.
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Earlier I mentioned that getting CentOS 5.x to install on the ASUS P5WDH-Deluxe motherboard wasn’t as easy as I first thought and suggested you disable a few things (mentioned in the previous post). However today I’ve got another solution thats less headachey.
Forget disabling ACPI and booting with irqpoll, instead you will need to disable the onboard JMicron controller (mine was always disabled!
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As my journey to find the perfect setup for the new Zeus continues, I thought I’d try out CentOS 5.3. One of the many benefits of running on an open-setup, lots of HDDs, lots of room to move around, not much time though 🙁
If you find you get stuck during the installation for CentOS (and subsequently RHEL & Fedora) here’s how to get things to boot.
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Rarlab, the genius’s behind the WinRAR product have released a new beta version (v3.9) which brings some impressive new features:
Changes in Version 3.90 Beta 1:
WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.
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Here’s a quick guide on getting VirtualBox 2.x running in Ubuntu 9.04.
First make sure you add the VirtualBox repositorys to your sources:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.lst
Then add the following to the top of the file:
# VirtualBox Intrepid Repository deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free The Jaunty repository should be made available soon, in the meantime the intrepid release will work.
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If you own a ASUS P5WD-H Deluxe mobo and want to get the newer Intel E6750 (2.66Ghz) working with your DDR-800 memory (in my case some TWINX4096-6400C5‘s) you may find that when booting you get random clock speeds when posting, ranging from 2.12Ghz to 1.64Ghz and occasionally, if the Sun is aligning properly report a 2.
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In what may come as a surprise 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 a hypervisor which launched in 2007 and is based on the Xen Hypervisor), MySQL which was acquired by Sun a while ago (Oracle has this little RDBMS called Oracle btw), OpenOffice which will have another O added to it (oooo its OOo).
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Here’s a quicky for you. Iterating through an Enum in .NET, replace ‘IconResource‘ with the Enum you want to iterate.
CSharp 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 enumValues Console.
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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 (Socket 478), noisey little guy that sucked quite a bit of power which was my old development box that served me well.
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We just did a hardware upgrade of one of our SQLServer boxes during the Easter break. With SP1 for SQLServer 2008 available I followed the excellent instructions from Peter Saddow to slipstream SP1 into the SQL2008 ISO. Highly recommend you follow the guide 🙂
Whilst on the topic of SQLServer 2008, if you were recieving the following – as documented in this earlier post:
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