RHUB review

RHUB is a company which offers “meeting recording, Web Conference, Remote Access, Webinar software Delivered in Appliances”. It is an interesting model, especially given that there are a lot “software only” solutions in this space (GoTo meeting for example, just to name the biggest of them). They tout the simplicity ...

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String.intern() – there are better ways

4349787041_f31a40baf4_o I don’t want to write a “considered harmful” article (because they are harmful), but after experimenting with different solutions I do have a strong opinion that there almost no reason to use String.intern() in Java. But let us proceed step-by-step.

First of all, what does String.intern() do ...

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alreadyhosting.com review

There are many “web hosting review” sites out there and alreadyhosting.com is one of them doing reviews for Dedicated Server Hosting. These sites usually get their revenue by using affiliate links in their lists, and this particular one is no different. In general such lists are a good starting ...

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eDirectHost review

eDirectHost is one of the many companies which offer websites for people who don’t want to get bogged down in technical details. The particular niche eDirectHost focuses on is ecommerce web design. In particular, they offer many features specific to such sites like: coupons, support for different payment providers ...

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Spammy Mike

3475284847_377416d47c_b While most of the time I simply skip / delete any malicious content encountered, from time to time I do some quick investigation on items which peak my interest. For example the following comment was posted on a friends blog:

You make a good point, and it is one I often ...

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Fixing a dead Asus WL-500g

A short story with a happy ending: my Asus WL-500g locked up and it wasn’t starting, even after I hard-reset it (removed the power and plugged it back in). All the LEDs were constantly on (normally, when you plug in the power, they should light up for a ...

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Computing the last digit of b^e efficiently

Geek PSA: Yesterday was PI day (3.14, get it?). Lets celebrate with this spiked math comic:

Last week I saw the following problem which peaked my interest:

Compute the last (decimal) digit of 2 raised to the power e where e might be very large.

We assume that we ...

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