Monday, March 22, 2004 - Posts

Idiots of the month????

posted Monday, March 22, 2004 10:57 PM by demiliani

This notice is really ridiculous...

Today Michael Bradley, a California man, has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google.

He has developed a software to flood the Google advertisements with fake clicks, potentially costing the company millions of dollars. He advice Google that if they did not pay, he would release his software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits. The ridiculous part is that he was so sure that the folks at Google would pay up, so he even turned up at their offices for a meeting to sell his software. So, what's the end of this story? Federal law enforcement agents were already on the case and videotaped the alleged extortion attempt.

Good luck man... :)

Nemerle: what about it?

posted Monday, March 22, 2004 10:47 PM by demiliani

Has someone of us tryed Nemerle?

Nemerle is a new hybrid (functional, object-oriented and imperative) programming language for the .NET platform.

Key features of the language include:

  • simplicity
  • C#-like syntax
  • easy to use object system (derived directly from the .NET)
  • easy access to both functional and imperative features
  • powerful code-generating macros
  • variants
  • pattern matching
  • static and on-demand dynamic typing
  • type inference.

I think it could be an interesting project, but it's not so much famous in the developer community.

Sintax is like C or C++... Personally I don't like the XML representation:

For example, the following tree: 

<tree>
  <branch>
    <leaf/>
  </branch>
  <branch>
    Foo  
</branch>
</tree>

 

would be represented by: 

Element ("tree",
   [Element ("branch", [Element ("leaf", [])]),
   Element ("branch", [Text ("Foo")])])


I think it's not so intuitive...

New VMWare Release

posted Monday, March 22, 2004 10:34 PM by demiliani

New VMWare release (4.5.1) is out. This new release includes many improvements, such as updates a more reliable SCSI implementation, better support for Linux (expecially the new 2.6 Kernel), an increased memory range up to 3.6GB per virtual machine (4GB to all VMS), support for PXE on virtual network hardware, support for Novell NetWare 5.1, 6, and 6.5 and SUSE LINUX 9.0 and and interesting last feature... an experimental support for Longhorn.

Interesting!