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The latest 20 Google Tech Talks

GTAC 2011 Closing Keynote Secrets of… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-t5J7hnHE Human Perception Viewed as a… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGxZUno5qY GTAC 2011 Angular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQclnI_8Vmg GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks II (Web Testing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5lb32EY8s GTAC 2011 The Latest in Google Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtBrmUU8Uk GTAC 2011 WebDriver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNkcUq0veI GTAC 2011 Browser Automation with… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJdgTz8LwQ GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kk-WdiPy0 GTAC 2011 Keynote – How Hackers [...]

BBC ONE HD changes

I was to watch the Canadian F1 GP qualifying broadcast, only to discover that BBC HD and BBC ONE HD have changed. The full explanation here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/06/changes_to_bbc_hd_channels_on.html The new location here: Satellite: Astra 2D tp.50 Frequency: 10,847MHz (vertical polarity) Modulation: DVB-S2, QPSK Symbol Rate: 23.0 FEC: 8/9

Cassandra vs relational databases

Some big Web databases are making people more aware of *NO* relational databases alternatives. For example, Twitter and Digg are going Cassandra‘s way – as Facebook did.

NASA Worldwind [on Windows 7]

Here are some tips and notes for those running Worldwind on Windows 7: (1) After installing the application, run it ONCE, so that it can write the configuration file. Then close the application and open the corresponding XML code at C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\NASA\World Wind\1.4.0.0\WorldWind.xml The purpose of editing the XML is one setting alone: the [...]

Opera 11 not showing full URL?

Opera is my favorite brower, but the latest version is doing something absolutely crazy in my view: the address bar does NOT show the full URL, by default. They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL’s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, [...]

20090618 – Eden Lake (2008)

I watched Eden Lake on 2009–06–18. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/ I was expecting an intense movie and indeed it was. Labelled as of the horror genre, it could be more precisely classified as a torture sick flic, with a twist. The twist is that the torturers are british children and the victims are a young couple, with a life [...]

How to run C# binaries, as CGI applications, in IIS

If you want to use C# to write CGI applications, you might stumble on some technical difficulties, when using the IIS web server: no matter what are the permissions you set for the folder holding the CGI executable, whenever executing it, the web server doesn’t process the file and tries to serve it as if [...]

Microsoft ITeach @ Microsoft Portugal, 2006-11-16

ITeach é mais uma iniciativa da Microsoft Portugal, para a educação. A sua apresentação aconteceu na quinta-feira, 2006–11–16.O site oficial está em http://www.iteach.pt/default.aspx. Cheguei ao evento ITeach, pelas 13:55, tendo logo encontrado Vitor Santos – Gestor de Programas Académicos de Ciência dos Computadores da Microsoft Portugal – e o Professor Brasileiro Flávio Soares Silva, do Laboratório de [...]