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Monthly Archives: February 2004

A brand new blog (not mine)

My friend Tomas Jogin has a brand new blog (a very cool redesign): jogin.com. In the google cache you will find the old version. Good job Tomas, good job!

Mozilla Firefox Official Wallpaper

The Mozilla Visual Designed has created a wallpaper for their last browser http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/downloads/firefox/

Atom.NET 0.4 release

I’ve released the 0.4 version of the library. It’s a big rework against the past version.See the website for more infos: http://atomnet.sourceforge.net

Mozilla Thunderbird is the best IMAP client out there.

Thunderbird is an almost perfect IMAP client for Windows. If you use IMAP, this is the product for you.. That’s the opinion of a MS employee [via Omar Shahine]

Don Box joined Atom spec project

Very good news.[via Dare Obasanjo]

Choosing a RDBMS

In these two days I was looking forward to a Relational DBMS with the following features for my own stuff and also to study it more into deep. The DBMS that I took into consideration are: MySQL, PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL and MSDE. I admit that is not the whole plethora of RDBMS outta there (the list [...]

Yesterday (sysadmins version)

While I was surfing the net I’ve found this modified version of the lyrics of the great song Yesterday:YESTERDAYYesterday,All those backups seemed a waste of pay.Now my database has gone away.Oh I believe in yesterday.Suddenly,There’s not half the files there used to be,And there’s a milestone hanging over meThe system crashed so suddenly.I pushed something [...]

Uptime advice

I noticed that the snippet in the previous post doesn’t work correctly on Mono, because their implementation of Environment.TickCount is erroneous. The MS .NET implementation says that Environment.TickCount returns A 32-bit signed integer containing the amount of time in milliseconds that has passed since the last time the computer was started. but in the Mono [...]

Simple “uptime” snippet

I’ve written a snippet of code to compute the uptime of my win2k machine (i don’t have uptime like as in winxp).

[code lang="java"] // author: Lawrence Oluyede // date: 18 Feb 2004 // license: throw away code

using System; using System.Text;

public class Uptime { public static int Main(string[] argv) { if(argv.Length == 0) [...]

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