Doing some estimations

This is again one of those topics which I like to rant about, so I give you the short version: when you see a number, question it! Most of the numbers thrown at us in different media can be disproven quite easily and it is our responsibility as people not ...

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Sorry for the malware warning!

If you have tried to visit my blog recently, you might have to a warning like this from your webbrowser:

Warning: Something's Not Right Here!

hype-free.blogspot.com contains content from randaclay.com
, a site known to distribute malware.
Your computer might catch a virus if you visit ...
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Setting up IMAP with Yahoo! Mail

Mail
Snail

I’m a long time Yahoo Mail user. Just to illustrate how long I’ve been with them: when I joined the space available was a couple of MBs! I staid with them because I was mostly ...

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Manually enabling IP routing in Windows XP

While Internet Connection Sharing is a nifty tool, there are some cases where you would like to do the steps manually. One such case would be if the “primary” network is already using the 192.168.0.1/24 address space, since ICS is hardcoded (as far as I can ...

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Augmenting Log4J stack traces with class versions

If you have multiple versions of your code in production, it is extremely useful for the log to include the version of the classes when producing a stacktrace, otherwise it is very hard to match the lines in the stacktrace with the lines of the source code (sidenote: there is ...

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