Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
Back in university, we were using Amdahl terminals running off a mainframe running the MTS operating system. The speed we got from this machine was around 1 MHz. I wasn’t very impressed since my home computer was running at 4.77 MHz. However, the area where the mainframe wins is throughput. It could have hundreds of [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: How To
The tough part of being a web developer is that the technology is constantly changing. Its not like being a plumber. The skills they know will still be relevant 5 years from now. The equipment they use will still be useful 5 years from now. For web developers, in 5 years, we will likely have [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: How To
There are certain web sites which require an iPhone to view. For those who don’t have iPhones, its possible to use those sites by making them think that your web browser is an iPhone. This is accomplished by switching the user agent which is sent by your browser to the web site.
You can change the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 21 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: How To
After installing an older version of Fedora, I noticed an error message that quickly appeared every time the system boots and its starting the many services that Linux uses:
/var/lib/pgsql/data is missing
The solution to this PostgreSQL problem is shown with the error message but the screen scrolls very quickly (or is unreadable with a very fast [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: General
On November 13th, the download counter at WordPress showed its 3 millionth download. That is an incredible achievement and I have to ask myself, how does an application gain so much popularity? What does WordPress have that other blogs, many of them which are better and more advanced, do not have?
I think the one thing [...]