Monthly Archives: September 2008

Prevent Thumbs.db Files From Being Created And Stored

Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 by Matti

By default, whenever you pick “thumbnail” or “tiles” view, in your Windows Explorer, a local cache of a pictures thumbnail will be stored in that directory, in a file called Thumbs.db. It speeds things up next time you open that … Continue reading →

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Comics Related To IT/Programming

Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 by Matti

Here are some (really) good ones (the layout can get messy from time to time, but they’re still viewable). *Edit; this has been getting a bit more attention than I anticipated, and wasn’t ment to be this “popular”. A lot … Continue reading →

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When A RegEx Goes Bad – For Cisco

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 by Matti

Combine the following; a broken coffee machine, a long day at work and the sudden need to rush home, but quickly finish off one task. (but too bad, they fixed it already!) You get a regular expression that replaces “\\t” … Continue reading →

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Little Coding Habits

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 by Matti

Every programmer has his method of doing things, his own set of rules he follows. Here are a few small things I do, syntax-wise. I’m curious to see what you do, and how often you change other people’s code so … Continue reading →

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ISP: It’s Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P

Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 by Matti

TorrentFreak reports on the case of a Belgian ISP (Scarlet) vs The Copyright Group (SABAM). An ISP which was ordered by a court to stop illegal file-sharing on its network, says it simply can not. The Belgian ISP Scarlet says … Continue reading →

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