IP Change

I have always been annoyed by certain file sharing services who make the users wait for some time before initiating another download… Best examples are Rapidshare and Megaupload… Megaupload used to be free from all this waiting, but now it too joined the club… What they do is…

Array of Pointers & Pointer to an entire array

Lets take it by an example: int *p[N]; , where N is any integer number is a declaration for an array of N pointers of type int. This means that if we declare as:int *p[5]; then, p[0], p[1]. … ,p[4] will all be pointers of type int, ie,,…

Java vs JavaScript

First of all: Java is not JavaScript and JavaScript is not Java. Java is an Object oriented programming language created at Sun Microsystems, where as JavaScript is a scripting language and is a product of Netscape. Many of their programming structures are similar as they both use the…

Norton Confidential

Symantec’s products have always been successful in gaining my hatred, always and I don’t have a clue as to why they keep maintaining that. Whenever I install any of Symantec’s products, the working speed of my computer just gets cut into half. My computers’ vitals go like Intel…

Microsoft .NET a programmers’ perspective

Let’s see what Microsoft .NET is. Microsoft .NET is an umbrella term that applies to a wide collection of products and technologies from Microsoft. Most have in common a dependence on the Microsoft .NET Framework, a component of the Windows operating system. Microsoft products and components that fall…

What is “dd” ???

Google define:dd Definitions of dd on the Web: Indicates the processor position on the processor board. It canbe 00 or 01. publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/genprogc/iding_processors.htm Default. Securities are not meeting current obligations and are extremely speculative. ‘DDD’ designates the highest potential for recovery of amounts outstanding on any securities involved. For…

4 Brains in 1

As we may have heard during the elementary computer classes, the processor is the “brain” of a computer… Now, how many brains do we humans have??? I beleive we have only 1. But so happens that nowadays computers have more than one “brains”… This revoloution started with AMD’s…