Finally. Official proof of what I have been saying for years. 🙂
A new book seeks to demolish the concept that computer science is rooted in mathematics and, in particular that the notion of the algorithm is fundamental to computer science.
Source: iTWire – Want to be a computer scientist? Forget maths
– Suramya
Hey,
We have a directory on the server thats password protected and we needed to give access to a subdirectory of that folder to everyone (Without having them enter a password). Turns out it is possible to do so using .htaccess
Create a .htaccess file in the subfolder that you want to give full access to with the following content:
AuthType none
Satisfy any
Save and exit. This overrides the password protection of the parent folder and gives anonymous access to the folder.
Thanks to Vinit for the tip.
– Suramya
These past few days I have been going on early morning walks with my mom. Its a nice time to take a walk as long I don’t have to wake up at that time. Earlier we used to do Yoga but I prefer to walk/jog. The reason we switched is because of the heat; as past few weeks have been pretty hot. However now that the monsoon is finally here the temperatures have gone down a lot which I love.
Today it started raining just as we were getting home from our walk. Another few mins and we both would have been drenched, which I guess would have been fun. When we were kids I loved playing in the rain. Actually I still do but don’t get the time and don’t have company. We used to play soccer in the rain. Now that I think about it I feel sorry for mom, when I remember the state of our clothes after our games. We would be covered in mud. It used to get so bad that we were forbidden to enter through the front door and had to come in through the back door straight to the bathroom. God I miss those days.
Sakshi came over day before Yesterday with her parents came over for a visit and we had a really nice time catching up with each other’s lives. Have to visit her before she moves to Hongkong. Might do that today or tomorrow (Depending on whether I wake up on time or not). Her kid is cute. As long as he doesn’t cry (Crying baby’s and me don’t go together that well)
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
Take care,
Suramya
All geeks rejoice on 29th June:
well.. maybe not all 😉
Source: Hoodydoo
– Suramya
PS: In case you haven’t figured it out by reading this blog entry; Yes I am back and I survived the weekend. So the blog will now again get updated semi-randomly based on the lunar cycle and my mood.
It still surprises me sometimes when I look at the stats for my blog and see that so many people visit my blog. Its flattering to think that so many people find what I write interesting.
Any ways this is just to let everyone know that I have been crazily busy at work so have no time/energy for blogging. I hope to have most of this stuff taken care of soon so maybe, just maybe I will start blogging again next week. Till then, take care and thanks for visiting.
– Suramya
Hit this issue recently on a web server that I was setting up on Windows 2003 server using IIS. Now everything was installed correctly and I had copied all the files to the server, then I created a virtual directory for my asp.net application and when I went to http://localhost/Test it would show me the directory listing (Yes I had enabled that so that I could debug). However when I clicked on the service.asmx file it would tell me that the file didn’t exist and I would get a 404 error. Now I knew that the file was there and I could see it in the directory listing but for some reason the IIS refused to show it.
The problem was caused because the server was running the 64 bit version of ASP.NET 2.0 while we were expecting the 32 bit version. Yes, it took me a couple of hours to figure that out. To fix it basically what you have to do is tell IIS that you want to use the 32 bit version for this particular Virtual Directory by changing the Script Map. The steps to change this are:
The Executable Path column of the dialog box lists the path to the ASP.NET ISAPI extension used by the application. By default, the ASP.NET ISAPI extension is installed in the following location:
%system root%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber. Browse to the appropriate directory and select the aspnet_isapi.dll file.
Now you should be able to access the files on the server without issues.
BTW, also make sure that the user IIS is running as also has permissions to read files and execute scripts in the directory where you have copied your files.
Hope fully you found this helpful.
Source for the steps to change the mapping: How to: Configure ASP.NET Applications for an ASP.NET Version
Thanks,
Suramya
So how do you wash clothes?
In my case I give it to mom 😀
– Suramya
I am getting pretty tired of the hype that is surrounding the iPhone. Every website I check there are atleast 2 articles/news on it about the iPhone and a lot of people I know are eagerly waiting for it. I am not.
I am a person who usually goes for the latest software and products. e.g. I am typing this entry using Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3 Alpha 5) and when I bought my phone it was one of the latest in the market. But I don’t fall in for the hype. If a product has too much hype surrounding it and if it becomes a status symbol to own it then I am more likely than not to not buy it/get it. e.g. gMail accounts were the big things 2(?) years ago but since it was considered so much of a status symbol and considering the fact that I didn’t need another email account I never bothered getting one till almost an year ago when I had to get it to start using Orkut.
So why am I not getting the iPhone? Many reasons… First, I don’t like the way it looks. It looks ugly. Everyone is jumping around claiming that the interface is revolutionary but none of them have actually used it (Well, neither have I but..). Once they do they will come to the same conclusion that I have. Its clunky. Yes its shiny and new. But thats not a reason for which I would buy a $600 phone.
Second, it doesn’t allow you to install other apps. I love adding new software to my phone. That way I can enhance it by adding features that it doesn’t support by default. I might not, but that that doesn’t excuse them making the phone so that I can not. (Yes I know that they are making Safari a platform for development on iPhone)
The battery like sucks. It only gives you abut 6 hours of talk time/net access.
My Nokia 6270 gives me most of the features for 1/2 the price and the new N series from Nokia does pretty much everything that iPhone does for a lot cheaper.
Ah well, hopefully this craze will pass soon. I am sure that the iPhone is going to sell a lot initially thanks to the ohh shiny crowd, the apple fans and the gotta have the latest status symbol crowd. But in the long run I don’t think its a worthwhile investment. I would rather spend my money somewhere else like a new laptop. or maybe a new mp3 player.
– Suramya
A lot of must have seen the advertisements on MS Vista where they talk about the wow factor. Well today I used it on a clients machine and it certainly made we go wow. Read on for the details…
I had a 90 MB file that I needed to extract on their system (224 MB uncompressed), so I copied the file to their system,right clicked and chose extract. Then came the wow factor. Vista told me that it out need ~13 hours to extract the file. Waited for a few mins and it didn’t go down. It really was going to take it 13 hours + change to extract it. Certainly made me go wow.
I didn’t take a screen shot of it at the time, but then as I was telling my cousin about it, I decided to blog it so needed to take a screen shot. When I took the following screen shot it was telling me that it would take 5 days to extract. I waited for a couple of mins in case it was just exaggerating like Windows XP and it would show the correct time in a few mins. But alas it kept showing me the same time.
So here goes:
BTW, just as a comparison, my Windows XP system on a 1 GZ system with 512 MB of RAM takes ~2 mins to extract this file. Haven’t timed it on Linux yet. And this vista install is a running on a new machine thats pretty powerful. And i am not the only one who saw this. Another guy was complaining about it on one of the forums that I visited. His file was taking ~15 mins to extract on vista while on Linux it took about 11 secs to extract.
Ah well. I think I can do without the wow in my life. Pretty happy with Debian and XP for my systems. Don’t think I will be upgrading to Vista anytime soon.
– Suramya
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