Why the hell does everyone own an iPod? It’s really an inferior player with cheap earbuds, a fragile/weak case design, and unbelievably bad battery life.
Yet, 9 out of 10 mp3-player owners on the PATH train have one. DAMN THAT CLICKWHEEL!
I am currently looking at buying this. The Sansa has received exceptional reviews so far, offers a far greater variety of features, and yet costs cheaper than that other player.
On that note, anyone want my iRiver?
Cause if you don’t know… well now you know… jigga. ~Notorious B.I.G.
Krugle is not another search again (ie lycos, askjeeves, and everything else that is not Google). It’s a haven for geeks, developers, and anyone who’s stuck with a code-related issue. In their bio, the fine folks at Krugle describe their engine as an effective tool to find source code and code-related documentation, fast.
My own limited experience has shown their initiative to be true. For example, searching for “initialcontext jms” in java returns a multitude of solutions regarding the creation of a jms connection session. If you’re having trouble with regex, simply search “regex” for whatever language (My personal weapon of choice == Perl) you want, and you’ll get hits providing examples of the implementation(s).
Now, I am aware that the examples I’ve provided are simplistic in nature at best, but one should know that if you’re looking for a regex pattern to parse through file x for the string, say… onomatopoeia, you’re likely not to find it. However, if you want examples of regular expression that will lead you to that regex (Extra Credit for anyone who submits that regex), you’re likely to find that Krugle is a useful tool. As anyone who codes well knows, you can never have enough examples when you’re stuck with a problem (except maybe the implementation of a ‘for’ loop… in any language).
By the way, a note about the Krugle site itself- fairly clean layout and implementation. Not the fastest load times, but hey, worth the wait for what you need.
My phone pwns your phone.
I recently forked the $200 to purchase the Sony Ericsson K750i. Having used it for approximately 1.5 months now, I am both ecstatic and saddened when discussing it…
Extremely satisfied: because this phone has all that and a bag of chips in terms of features. It includes bluetooth, stereo headphones (that also act as the FM radio antenna), SUBSTANTIALLY long battery life (I left it uncharged for 4 days and there was still ~25% left), speakerphone, mp3 player, and the recipe for Coca-Cola… ok- maybe not, but you get the idea.
The one problem? It’s a GSM phone from Europe- so it works on the 800/1800/1900 mhz bands- so it will work only at areas in the US where there are 1900 mhz towers, since we’re backwards about phone technology just like we are with everything else. Luckily for me, it’s worked everywhere in NJ and NY.
And oh, did I mention the 2 MP camera? yeah….
Here at work, I’ve had to set up a wiki engine because even though our MWS group has super documentation, it’s somehow still not enough to ward off users who often have strange requests.
After some short reading, i’ve decided to go with PmWiki. It’s a very lightweight engine that is perfect if you’re in a super-structured IT environment. I.E., if you have to submit a remedy ticket to get anything and everything done, this is the wiki engine for you. I say this because I was lucky enough to find a box that had both apache and php installed. I simply unpacked the pmwiki.tar and changed a few configs, and voila!
It doesn’t even require a MySQL instance, which is good in the case of my environment. Although the idea of having to deal with a flatfile doesn’t seem so friendly… but then again, JMS supports it too, and just look at what you can do with that.
