Source code readability!

During my studies, students were always brain stormed with the same message: “Your code must be readable by others”. And this one? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_=’ev al(“seek40D ATA,0, 0;”);foreach(1..2) {;}my @camel1hump;my$camel; my$Camel ;while( ){$_=sprintf(“%-6 9s”,$_);my@dromedary 1=split(//);if(defined($ _=)){@camel1hum p=split(//);}while(@dromeda ry1){my$camel1hump=0 ;my$CAMEL=3;if(defined($_=shif t(@dromedary1 ))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1;s$\s*$$g;( );;s ;^.*_;;;map{eval”print\”$_\””;}/.{4}/g; __DATA__ \124 \1 50\14540\165\163\14540\157\1 4640\1

Smart gun made in Belgium

“FN”, The Belgian “Fabrique Nationale” is developping an intelligent gun which could be “activated” only when handled by his owner (via a under skinned RFID chip) Robocop will be a reality soon? 😉 Source: http://www.fr.datanews.be/news/enterprise_computing/20060127006

Windows open-sourced?

Le numéro un mondial des logiciels, Microsoft, a annoncé mercredi qu’il allait communiquer aux éditeurs de logiciels le code-source de son système d’exploitation vedette Windows. Microsoft va entreprendre ce geste afin de se conformer aux exigences de l’Europe, qui l’a condamné en 2004 pour abus de position dominante. (Belga) #

mysqldump & foreign keys

Today, I had a problem while restoring a crashed MySQL server… The daily backup is done via a mysqldump (then the dump files are moved to a separate box). The DB to restore used InnoDB and foreign keys. I started to restore the data using: # mysql -u root -p

New urlwatch.be feature

I’m the owner of urlwatch.be. A service of webpage monitoring. Very basic: be notified when a registered pages is updated! Today, I added a specific features for webmaster: You can add a smal piece of HTML code on your page to allow visitors to be notified when you update something.

The ‘RSS’ effect on bandwidth!

Bandwidth will be always a limited resources on the Internet. Even if we benefit of “high speed” links today, bandwidth has a non-negative cost… Here is a story read on undeadly.org: they had to rate-limit the RSS traffic due to the too-high bandwidth amount required! Read the full story here.