Why Do I Have to Keep Resetting My Router, and How Can I Fix It?
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. HTTPS Connection. HTTPS. How to set up a safe and secure Web server. Fifteen years ago, you weren't a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage.
Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most famous is the now-defunct GeoCities, but there were many others (remember Angelfire and Tripod?). These were the days before the "social" Web, before MySpace and Facebook. Instant messaging was in its infancy and creating an online presence required no small familiarity with HTML (though automated Web design programs did exist). Things are certainly different now, but there's still a tremendous amount of value in controlling an actual honest-to-God website rather than relying solely on the social Web to provide your online presence. The flexibility of being able to set up and run anything at all, be it a wiki or a blog with a tipjar or a photo hosting site, is awesome. The hardware.
LDAP. Printing Mobile. Bandwidth. Browsers. Wireshark · Go deep. Blogs. It’s a very exciting week for me and my team!
This week I’m attending the SNIA SDC 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA and this is where we will announce Message Analyzer. There are so many new features and aspects to discuss, but for now I’ll leave you with the official announcement: Microsoft Message Analyzer has been released to the public, available here: (you’ll have to join the Message Analyzer and Network Monitor program to see the downloads and access other parts of or our site.) As you might guess from the name, Message Analyzer is much more than a network sniffer or packet tracing tool. We are providing this beta release to give you an opportunity to let us know what you like and don’t like and where we need to focus our energy as we drive towards a mid-2013 RTM date. Please install, take it for a spin, and send us your thoughts! Have a ball! [update: adding a picture]
Developers vs. Bigcorp. With all the rage recently on Twitter's changes to their API and how it affects developers and their apps who rely on it, it's easy to forget that Twitter is hardly the first major tech company to take such an approach to lifeblood of its ecosystem. have we learned nothing from Apple?
"F**k developers" is not just a valid strategy, it's the only sensible strategy.— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 28, 2012 Yes, most of the large tech companies today are taking a hardline approach when dealing with developers who use their platform, treating them with entitlement as they hand down "our-way-or-the-highway" rules and regulations that leave little recourse when things go wrong.
And yet, developers are the lifeblood of those companies, and are the main reason they became big in the first place. Without developers building apps for the iPhone or software for windows, or extending the Twitter platform in a myriad of ways - would Apple, Twitter and Microsoft be where they are today? Hadoop on your PC: Cloudera's CDH4 virtual machine. Everyone's talking Big Data and Hadoop, but how can you start to learn the technology if you have to set up a whole cluster first?
This isn't just about the servers, but also the Hadoop software itself, and various companion products like Hive and Pig. If you're Windows person without Linux/Unix skills, this may be more daunting still. But there is a solution. Cloudera, maker of perhaps the most widely-deployed Hadoop distribution, offers a a pre-built, training-appropriate, 1-node Hadoop cluster in virtual machine (VM) form, and it's free. In this gallery, I'll show you the step-by-step of how to download, configure and use the VM, and how to get at the various Hadoop distro components within it. To start, visit Cloudera's Web site to download the CDH4 (Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop, version 4) VM, as shown here. If you're using Windows Server Hyper-V, you can download the VMWare image and convert it to VHD format.