http://winpdb.org Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:52:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Where I live the media goes on and on about how The Iranian people is using web technology against its regime - for example Twitter, Youtube, e-mails and also cellular phones, SMS, etc... These technologies are described as giving an upper hand to the people as opposed for example to ... http://winpdb.org/2009/06/revolutionary-technology/ I've got a Core 2 Duo with 3GB of memory running Ubuntu 64 bit and it can barely handle 3 or 4 applications I use for everyday development work. Both memory usage and CPU load are annoyingly high. Firefox has about 5-10 open tabs and needs restarting every day or so ... http://winpdb.org/2009/06/bigfoot-linux/ Code is like poetry, difficult to understand and often has other meaning than intended. http://winpdb.org/2009/05/code-is-poetry/ Standard captcha are either broken or are an accessibility nuisance or both. In its most noble form - reCaptcha - it is used brilliantly to digitize books and provide people over at India with a living: http://recaptcha.net http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1835 http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ Smart engineers all over the world are busy trying to invent the most inaccessible new ... http://winpdb.org/2009/05/the-spam-therapist/ Two years late I have stumbled on this ongoing unreal Gotham style cyber crime - the Storm Botnet - An ants-nest like hydra made of 100,000 to 50,000,000 infected computers using p2p technology with enough combined power to knock countries off the Internet, involved in a variety of crimes and ... http://winpdb.org/2009/05/superman-where-art-thou/ Can someone enlighten me to the fundamental difference between Amazon's EC2 service and a standard dedicated hosting service? All this cloud computing crap is nothing more than a money sucking machine for brain-dead hype lovers. Today I chatted with a support person from Rackspace cloud servers and tried to figure out ... http://winpdb.org/2009/05/elastic-plastic/ LAMP web hosting can evolve to offer the scalability of Google App Engine (GAE for short). As discussed in the post "Google App Engine Limited", GAE does not currently scale bigger than a dedicated server. What it offers is "natural" scalability up to that size and "pay for what you use" ... http://winpdb.org/2009/05/the-lamp-engine/ "How much are 72 Goggle CPU minutes per minute?" asked himself a critical geek. "About the power of 2 (8 core) modern Xeon servers" was the conclusion. "How much are 500 requests per second, or 740 MB per minute?" he asked him self again. "Nothing a single well configured dedicated server ... http://winpdb.org/2009/05/the-clouds-of-hype/ This is from the Linux magazine: "Just days after Stallman finished celebrating the 25th anniversary of his GNU Open Source project, the controversial free software activist was again making headlines." www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/richard_stallman_cloud_computing_a_trap http://winpdb.org/2009/04/oh-the-irony/ Winpdb 1.4.6 Tychod is now available for download at http://winpdb.org/download. As of this version Winpdb can debug runaway recursions. Runway recursions are an Achilles Heel of all Python debuggers. Since debugger logic is invoked with each new script frame, recursion limit is naturally hit by debugger code causing it to ... http://winpdb.org/2009/04/winpdb-146-tychod-released/