tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66526088979626008172011-09-23T14:01:26.335+02:00This Blog is dedicated to computering, linux world and other things that keeps me busy everyday...StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-20998512633849642962011-09-23T14:01:00.001+02:002011-09-23T14:01:26.988+02:00

W3C has set since much time ago, several set of standards to rule rendering of webpages and to unify criteria among navigators. This time, I am not refering to how IE treats margins in a completelly different way than all the others, but I am refering at how internet explorer does not seem to look at the provided charset of an X/HTML page. But this is not the first time that Microsoft

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I've been testing the new akonadi based KMail2 and I got dissapointed. My last version tested was from KDE 4.7.0 and now, I decided to change to another software for productivity reasons. The main reason for this change is that KMail fails to mark messages as read and it fails to differentiate read messages from unread (for example, like previous KMail did, having different colours for read and

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Despite this kind of attack is very old, it is still the primary source of database and website attacks so it really deserves a little speak here and everywhere. In an ideal world, maybe this will not worth a cent, but unfortunatelly we are not in an ideal world. Many people say that this is due to malicious people and/or hackers fault, but the guilt comes from both sides: bad programmers and

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As the time goes by, Reiser FS v3 is becoming outdated, but this is not the reason I will drop it in the near future in favour of ext4.Last night, I was renaming a couple of files (14GiB ones), and my laptop's battery went out.When I rebooted and after checking disk consistency with reiserfsck, one of those files became empty! (I must explain that that file was not in cache nor it had been

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Nowdays in Spain, it is well known by everyone, that we have a democracy. But unfortunatelly, that is not that well known is how government and police react when people want a change, when we want to fire some politicians, and when we want to have them have LESS power than they currently have.Spanish revolution started as a pacific demonstration against current democracy system (two party system)

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Warning: Using stored procedures and triggers in PostgreSQL is addictive!I've been playing around with stored procedures using PLpgSQL language, just to try performance improvements and they are just addictive!For example, PostgreSQL has the ability to inherit all data from one or more tables to other table, but unfortunately, any constraint will be inherited as of 9.0.4, and thus, you can not

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Microsoft, did it again: left its users alone with new versions of its programs.I am referring for example to Internet Explorer 9, new Version of Windows Live Messenger, etc....Rather than make it compatible with its own older O.S., they just require you to upgrade (and BUY) another version of their O.S.This is TOTALLY UNFAIR! Specially taking into account the fact that ANY of its O.S. is FREE,

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Finally I had the time to dig a bit this issue, and finally, decided to drop all MySQL support in favor of PostgreSQL.Despite PostgreSQL is not as known nor as used as MySQL, it has MANY advantages:Referential Integrity: MySQL's default engine (MyIsam) does NOT support any kind of referential integrity, which could lead to corruption and inconsistencies in DB.On the other hand, the other MySQL's

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I've been programming a bit with php for first time, realizing that it is true what my friends told me: it is really close to C/C++.I managed to have an abstract class to handle and execute SQL's prepared statements, and a bit more that I want to share with world.But first, just an example of how I made prepared statements really easy to handle with only inheriting from my MySQLDatabase class!

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-12504535878765981122011-02-11T04:18:00.006+01:002011-05-04T18:24:04.224+02:00

Well, I didn't know much about the benefit of having prepared statements as of today. But thanks to trinitycore I discovered a lot.As well as trinitycore (which is a framework for a World of Warcraft server and they do it for learning purposes), I learnt too.I saw they were moving to Prepared Statements almost all their queries, and wanted to do so on my own projects (specially php ones).If you

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Thanks to nvclock 0.8 which is currently in beta state, we have a great utility: smartdimmerThis comes into account specially for people (like me) who has some laptop models which is not that easy to adjust screen brightness (in my case, a Sony Vaio which does not work with sonypi).With smartdimmer, you can easily increase or decrease screen brightness, or by giving a number between 15 to 100, or

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-11863726801957983502009-04-06T18:45:00.003+02:002009-04-06T19:01:54.846+02:00

This guide will instruct you in create a tarball with a up to date Gentoo system which can be used to save much time when formatting and reinstalling.First of all, I will call those tarballs as follows (from here on): 1. stage4 -> A complete bootable system with kernel, grub but without Xorg, Desktop environment nor anything Xorg related. 2. stage5 -> It will contain all from stage4 and it

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-10931344436980797802009-04-01T23:34:00.002+02:002009-04-01T23:40:07.126+02:00

I've been trying out ext4 since a couple of months right now, specially since it was renamed from ext4dev to ext4, but nowadays I don't advise anyone to use it, at least until kernel 2.6.30 or so [1] under severe risk of massive data loss!!The problem I had comes from when I changed several kernel option wich made my system completely freeze on shutdown without properly syncing disks, and I

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I recently bought a Sony Vaio (VGN-AW21Z) with a 64GB Solid State Drive and it is just amazing.For those who does not know what it is, it is a hard drive made with flash chips which improves read/write performance and battery durability.What I noted more are tarball extractions, system load, compile times and it is definitely worth, but there is a huge problem: its price.Even with that high price

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Firt of all a brief explanation of how gentoo works (a simplification of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 look for a more extensive explanation).Gentoo works with two kinds of software trees: the stable tree, and the unstable one; Gentoo's installer portage works with ebuilds which contains all installation data, and everything gentoo needs to install a package

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-53070232776912663162008-08-10T14:37:00.003+02:002008-08-10T14:47:37.044+02:00

After receiving tons of spam from friends who argue not sending it, I decided to write something in order to help prevent missuse of MSN account information.I've heard so much times from people arguing that someone has a virus that send links to some MSN related pages(third party ones), for example those pages which appears to tell you who is blocking you in MSN, but almost anyone knows that this

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-26899142963482149452008-08-05T18:22:00.006+02:002008-08-05T18:45:18.949+02:00

KDE 4.1 is finally here and thus, everyone can go ahead and try it (I recommend doing so) because it is really improved and it does not have that huge amount of bugs and loss of implementations KDE 4.0 had.If you red my last post about the KDE 4.1 MIRACLE, you'll notice I was speaking about a huge performance impact in processing some events. After much research and tests, I've discovered the

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-549625507118704142008-07-11T22:27:00.005+02:002008-07-11T23:02:14.969+02:00

As of July 2008, we can have finally the first betas of what most of KDE users were waiting for: the betas of KDE 4.1 series.I've been using KDE 4.0 series since it was in early stages, and I've been keeping track of all SVN changes by rebuilding it at least two times per week, and trying to report as much bugs as I could. I must admit that it was (and *is*) a really exciting thing to have svn

StormBytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039040765422285766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652608897962600817.post-66782306790093127372008-04-08T14:32:00.005+02:002009-04-01T02:29:50.760+02:00

Since 1978, we have had the first x86 architecture (8086 CPU), and it kept changing since then. The question is: ¿why don't start a new CPU from scratch with the nowadays aknowledge?I can't see the point of keep adding new instructions for that much time. I agree that SSE instructions and similar are really a good idea to have, but nowadays we have several aditions to a standard x86 CPU (SSE,

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For people who thinks that wait is over: you are wrong! As flameeyes said in his blog "GCC 4.3 will be a bloodshed", I agree with that, but this needn't to be bad at all!Is true that most of pedantic warnings are now promoted to errors, and it is really fine, as that leads in most of cases to runtime errors. For example redefinition of macros: When a project is large enough, allowing redefinition

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