There isn’t much I can say about this company. They seem very legitimate by all indications (domain name registered more than 10 years ago, with the physical address of the company, no complaints on the web, etc). Their goal seems also very laudable: creating playground surfacing out of recycled ...
more ...Today I’m reviewing a site which has the goal of comparing different private health insurance companies and giving you the cheapest one. Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the USA insurance rules (because I’m on a different continent :-)), so I can only comment on generic impressions related to ...
more ...As I found out “on my own skin”, setting fs.file-max in /etc/sysctl.conf is a BAD idea. It can render your system useless in one step. Please don’t do it! If you did it, use the recovery mode to roll back the change. Also, currently I would ...
more ...I have the following problem: a Java application was running out of memory. It was not feasible to mandate 64 bit JVM for this application and the \~1.4G limit wasn’t enough.
My solution was to implement a Map which - when an element is added - also saves the value ...
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I just realized that running sushi is the best fast-food ever. (Yes, I have strong opinions weakly held):
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website.
Microbenchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance characteristics (like CPU, memory or I/O) of a small piece of code to determine which would be better suited for a particular scenario. If I could offer but one advice on this, it would be ...
more ...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 ...
more ...This is just one of those topics which comes up from time to time in my life (probably because I consume a lot of media). I was recently watching the Jim Zemlin interviewed by Jeremy Allison (Jim Zemlin is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation) on the Google Open ...
more ...If you have tried to visit my blog recently, you might have to a warning like this from your webbrowser:
more ...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 ...
My assignment - which I choose to accept :-) - was to review a mobile accessories site, namely mytrendyphone.co.uk. All the signs for this site check out: