After years trying to create filters in Gmail to catch messages sent by a couple of different addresses, I finally decided to google it and found that you have to use the search syntax, like in (john@example.com OR mary@example.com) – with the parentheses. Please guise, commas are so much better here.
For some reason all the major news sites think that it’s great to force an auto-reload of the home page every few minutes. Unfortunately sometimes there’s not enough time to read all the content, and with the refresh the information the visitor was reading may disappear to give place to something else. Even worse, some very clever sites put videos in the home page with lengths greater than the time for the auto-reload, meaning you can never watch the full video.
I was looking for some way to block these automatic page refreshes and found the Firefox extension RefreshBlocker. It’s working pretty well so far.
I’m a little paranoid regarding which processes are running im my computer in a given time. Although I use a firewall (Comodo, which is great), I don’t have any other security program running, mainly because they all seem to suck. So, every once in a while (actually more often than necessary), I check the list of running processes to see if I recognize all of them.
The problem is that the most common process running in any Windows XP computer is almost always svchost.exe, which is a generic host process, meaning it is used to run other programs (Windows services) that can’t run by itself (because they’re actually .DLLs).
So, tired of not knowing what was running inside svchost, I did a interwebs search and found this article, which explain how to determine what services are running under svchost.
If you use Process Explorer (if you don’t, start using), you can go in “Options” and then in “Select Columns” and check the “Command Line” box, and uncheck the “Image Path” box in case it’s checked. This will list the whole command line used to run each process in the list, showing the parameters passed to svchost.exe, which reveals the service being running.
“Visualization is an efficient way of transferring a large amount of information from a database into an individual’s head.”
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Interesting reading about the challenges of the Netflix Prize competition.
If your company have a product named X, don’t create complete different products named X Super, X Extra, X Megazord, and so on, because the people who own a X hates when they’re searching for specific information about X and have to go through hundreds of results for the other products because there’s no way to avoid them (except maybe using advanced search operators that wouldn’t work anyway in most of the cases).
Creative, this post is for you.
Problema: você usa o provedor de banda larga Oi Velox e, ao abrir um programa cliente de BitTorrent, o carregamento de sites fica lento, mesmo quando o torrent não está gastando toda a banda disponível (exemplo, sua conexão é 1mb e mesmo o torrent baixando a 15kb/s e enviando a 5kb/s sua conexão fica lenta).
Solução: habilitar a criptografia do protocolo (protocol encryption) no programa de torrent. No caso do uTorrent, basta ir em Options -> Preferences -> BitTorrent -> Protocol Encryption -> Enabled -> OK.
Não posso garantir que vá funcionar, mas aqui a lentidão acabou.
Every single site is being flagged as harmful by the search engine:
Palestra do Sandro Reiller no Instituto Infnet sobre como calcular o custo de desenvolvimento de um site e cobrar do cliente de maneira adequada.
Problema: na versão 5.2.6 do PHP para Windows, a extensão do PostgreSQL (php_pgsql.dll) não é carregada durante a inicialização do Apache, mesmo estando configurada corretamente no PHP.ini, gerando uma mensagem de erro no arquivo de log do servidor.
Solução: fazer o download da versão 5.2.5 do PHP e copiar o arquivo ext/php_pgsql.dll sobre o mesmo arquivo da sua instalação.
Referência: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44905