Oracle sues Google

Oracle files suit against Google saying that Android breaches Java’s open source license. This is going to be interesting.

Alternatives to Roger's Internet

When I first came to Canada in 2007 I've signed up for the Rogers's Lite Internet package which offered 60 GB of bandwidth with 1Mbps upload and 128 Kbits download speeds. My monthly usage never went over this limit and speed was adequate for my needs. One year later Rogers reduced its allowance for this package to 25 GB for new customers, and later for existing customers as well. Recently Rogers went farther by reducing monthly usage allowance to just 15 GB for new customers. And of course all these cuts happened without any reduction in price. I assume that existing customers can expect service cuts some time soon.

Is there any alternatives to the Rogers in Vaughan?

ClearType

While looking for ways to reduce pressure on my eyes caused by the time in front of the computer I came across ClearType tuner from Microsoft. After installing and running this program font quality on my LCD screen improved a lot. You can instantly notice the difference. I am sorry I didn't find it out earlier :(

Get Date from DateTime in MS SQL

I needed to convert DATETIME to just DATE in standard format.
Simplest solution that I found out is:

CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE())

where DATE is format and GETDATE() is just a value in DATETIME format.

For example, 2010-04-16 09:44:41.323 will become 2010-04-16 after such conversion.

Students' home pages are not searchable

I am not sure about other departments, but every single CS student at Seneca College has its own web page http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~username. None of those sites can be found through the search engines because crawling's blocked by the line 7 "Disallow: /" in robots.txt file. All respectable search engines carefully follow these instructions.

Currently most students have automatically generated page which is not very informative. Some students spent time developing it only to find out that content will never be found. This fact is very disapointing.

I think that Seneca will encourage more students to develop their personal pages if it allows search engines to crawl it.

No DNS server were configured for local system

I run into this problem when I tried to join the domain installed on Windows Server 2003 inside of the Virtual PC.

To fix this problem I did the following:
1) Installed support tools
2) run from command line: netdiag /fix

The problem was fixed

Hello World!

We shall start!