Usability

Handy RSS-reader on PPC

Live.comLast monthes I was using Google Reader, it is perfect on normal browsers and wide screens, but it does not work on my PocketPC. It did not become a big disappointment beacause Live.com works! It provides a full set for my every day morning: news, weather and mail.
But it has some problems too. The first one is that I can not change forecast properties to use centigrade. And the second is that I can not read all news in one page is it done in Google Reader, but I believe MS guys soon will fix this.

Long live UTF, no localization problems!

No localization problems at allI’ve bought a new notebook, and it was a big problem to make a good choice - which operation system to install? Really there is only two operation systems - Linux and Windows. So has been installed Ubuntu 6.10. Ubuntu is one of most popular Linux distribuions, it has a big and fast growing community, and if to be honest, I think this is most promising distribution.
But, after some minutes after installation I’ve fond such interesting window.
I thought UTF usage will solve all localization problems, but it seems not to be a silver bullet. Can you imagine such situation in Windows?

What is going on?

When I was installing Apache 2.0.59 on my Windows XP machine I missed to fill ServerName, ServerAdmin and ServerName. Than Apache service has failed to register because these fields were empty in httpd.conf but they shouldn’t be empty.
That is a crap, is it so difficult to check if these fields are not empty during installation process?
Apache, I thought you are better than you are.

Interesting to know

Keyword INTO in the INSERT statement is optional and serves only to make code more readable. In other words, queries:
INSERT INTO [MyTable] ([MyName], [MyValue]) VALUES (’TestName’, ‘TestValue’)
INSERT [MyTable] ([MyName], [MyValue]) VALUES (’TestName’, ‘TestValue’)
have not any differences.

Error messages

There is “one” application that I am working with/on, and one of error messages looks like:

Call of Complete URL failed. Response from the remote server is:200 Success.

It has not any sence, but originally this error appears when application gets wrong result by some URL. Please do not like this :)