11/27/2005

The 3.5″ Floppy Is The Last Surviving Dinosaur

Filed under: Humoristic — Guus @ 11:57 pm
One stalwart component has survived through all of these innovations: the 3.5″ floppy. Originally designed by Sony, it quickly became a standard feature on IBM-compatible PCs (remember when they were called that?). The floppy is the only component that still remains in use today, practically unchanged in its 18 years of service, running at 360 rpm and offering a transfer rate of 34 kB/s. Once again, let’s put that in perspective with regard to today’s world: Transferring a file to your computer from a server that is 10,000 miles away on another continent is three times or even faster than getting it from your internal disk drive. And despite all this - the floppy lives.

Tom’s Hardware Guide Processors: The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006 - Facts & Figures - The Evolution Of Performance

Meet the IT Gigolo

Filed under: Humoristic — Guus @ 11:54 pm

Systems Engineer “Ray Digerati” enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two. This picture says all:

My server is down

Meet the IT Gigolo

11/10/2005

Pimp my Nano

Filed under: Humoristic — Guus @ 10:45 am

The new innovative Nano from Apple has many features. But for some people this just isn’t enough.

What do you think about a cordless headset?

Or maybe you want to play Doom on your Nano?

11/8/2005

Iterating over Collections in JDK 1.5

Filed under: Developing — Guus @ 7:28 pm

Iterating over a collection or array in a ugly old manner:

void process(Collection processes) {
for (Iterator
p = processes.iterator(); processes.hasNext();) {
processes.next().process();
}
}

Iterating according to JDK 1.5:

void process(Collection processes) {
for (Process p : processes) {
p.process();
}
}

This very clean !!

Source article

11/4/2005

Ronaldinho, a true magician

Filed under: Common interest — Guus @ 10:36 am

Playing for Barcalona, a true magician: Ronaldinho!
VIDEO: Ronaldinho

11/3/2005

XML editor - XML Editor & XSLT Debugger

Filed under: Developing — Guus @ 10:55 am

XML editor

A very nice XML editor is the XML editor. It is also available as a Eclipse plugin (see screenshot).