Hmm....Interesting....
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( 2.6 / 49 )After some thought, project Wafer has been put on hold and Guardian is underway. This weekend is going to be a little tough due to an assignment due in a couple of hours, 1 exam and 1 quiz coming up next week.
But I want to get this rolling. Let me hope, I balance the time well. Here we take step 1.
Just as a sneak peek on Guardian - a php based security system for user authentication and authorization. Well, it may not be a peek... thats what Guardian aims to be. When version 0.1 is ready, I'll run it through some public testing...hopefully, i can find enough people interested in testing it.
I realize there are many such systems out there...but when its out we'll see whats different about it
The design methodology is an ad hoc mix (may be i should say partial understanding) based on agile development methodology. Well, there are two other goals, probably applicable to all projects I do - learn and have fun. I hope I get a better understanding of and experience in the design, development, testing, release, and support process as a whole from this.
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( 3.1 / 29 )Going back to the optimization problem I identified in August 29, 2007. To be honest, it slipped my mind the next day...so I never actually got to finding an algorithm for it.
Well, but looking at what we are doing in our statistics class, I think I might have the right line of thinking towards the solution. I feel the problem may be less complicated than I imagined...may be..
The only difference in this problem, which is the factor adding some complexity to the problem is that this has to be divided into subsets of almost equal weight. Well, I'll think about it later...I have something else to do before.
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( 3.1 / 15 )EDIT: THIS IS SPECIFIC TO WINDOWS
Have you ever experienced, the keyboard layout changes for no reason, and you struggle to fix it, may be you do fix it by going to the language bar and choosing the right layout. I find this VERY ANNOYING. You may experience this, when you choose a country with multiple languages, and Windows recognizes the keyboard layout for these languages.
When you choose Canada, you get both French layout and the English layout, and when the computer "seems"to switch for no reason, it can get annoying. After some digging (and luck!), I found out that the computer changes the layout when you press LeftAlt+Shift.
The seeming automatic behaviour happened because I don't just do Alt+Tab, but also Alt+Shift+Tab to switch between windows.
Well, so, I guess the FIX, is just press LeftAlt+Shift, when the wrong layout is chosen. OR better yet, just remove the other layout, if you don't use it!
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( 3.2 / 17 )I recently got my new laptop - hp dv2432ca. The laptop comes with Windows XP Home Premium edition. I just started exploring how cool really is Vista and I like what I see!
Here are the list of cool things, I have discovered so far:
* Cycle through windows (Windows Logo Key + Tab) and cycle through windows in task bar (again with preview) (Windows Logo Key + T)
* There is no outlook express (no..no..that's not the cool part
), instead Vista has a PIM (Personal Information Manager) built in. What I mean is there is a built-in Windows Calendar (thats the name as well). The calendar is not just some no-good barebone windows utility, but it actually is useful, it looks like Microsoft Outlook's (not Outlook Express) calendar interface* Cool search ... its search as you type. Now, you can add tags to photos, and search using the tags. It sort of is like Launchy, the search in the start menu, you can press the windows key and start typing and you see programs come up. Its like search is integrated in every place. The power of Search seems to have become very obivious after Google's popularity
* Live Previews!!! Doesn't matter if its Alt+Tab or Windows Logo+Tab or Windows Logo+T, its live preview, you see whats actually going on in the application including Videos!!
* I have not used this one, but it is just so awesomee... ReadyBoost - its like an external RAM! you can attach a flash drive onto your USB port and using ReadyBoost use that for cacheing ... providing improved performance. You ask how is this different from caching on the hard disk? Well, hard disk read/write speed is slow compared to flash drives, so the data access is much faster! and I am sure there are a lot of other reasons
* Background defragmenter - automatic defragment is run when the computer is idle. Let me be honest, of all the years I have used a computer, I have defragmented less that a dozen times in total! just because the computer had to take its own time and some bad experiences from the days of pre-XP
Overall, I love Vista. Its like Microsoft looked at all the great utilities used by users with Windows XP, and decided to integrate them into the OS. Sure, Vista is big...may be even huge...but common...we have the logical resources now, technology is moving forward...lets make the most of it
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