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I stumbled across this while looking at the references used on a wikipedia article for “Watt” and thought I would share. This is the most complete and organized collection of Units of Measurement you will find anywhere – period. You’ll find everything you need to be able to do conversion methods in your software too.
NASA launched a radio staiton just a few days ago … good music and interesting commentary between songs. Check it out:
http://www.rfcmedia.com/thirdrockradio
Third Rock is Live!
Welcome to something brand new! It’s THIRD ROCK RADIO, and it’s all about exploration.
While NASA is synonymous with the exploration of space, technology, and science education, THIRD ROCK, which is focused on NASA and the great things going on there every day, is all about the exploration of New Rock.
On THIRD ROCK, you’ll hear New Rock of all kinds, including a whole galaxy full of new music that seems to go largely unexplored by ordinary radio. Just like a healthy scientific curiosity leads to great discoveries in technology, a good musical curiosity is constantly leading us to great New Rock, which we will immediately share with you!
You will also hear some things that you recognize, of course, but we’re excited about the opportunity to really roll up our sleeves and share great music with you. You can also “like” us on Facebook, and “follow” us on Twitter by clicking the links on the home page.
We have a lot of exciting things to share with you in the coming days, but for now, you’ve landed on the home of great new music and information about NASA itself! This is AMERICA’S SPACE STATION–THIRD ROCK! Welcome!
Using standard equipment and manufacturing techniques IBM has developed a brand new type of solid-state memory based on nano-type wires. Good bye spinning harddrives… can someone say its about freaking TIME!??
“This breakthrough could lead to a new type of data-centric computing that allows massive amounts of stored information to be accessed in less than a billionth of a second,” said a statement from IBM.
If you are in need of a port scanner this is the best one I have found in over a decade:
It is rock solid stable and comes with advanced scripting built in.
For all you VS techies, these are pretty cool to mess around with if you just want some change in your life. God I am a nerd.
In the past month I have written over 1,000 lines of code every single week (not that this is anything new) but without realizing it I was spending a lot of time highlighting, deleting text, then removing the carriage return/line feed. This short-cut may not seem like much but it is a huge time-saver as you work to design your classes in a structured extensible way and it has speed up my editing by over 10%.
Keyboard: CTRL + L (cut text); SHIFT + DEL(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + X(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + SHIFT + L (delete)
Command: Edit.LineCut; Edit.Cut; Edit.Cut; Edit.LineDelete
Versions: 2008,2010
Here is a nice open source class to work with Excel files that does not use COM and therefore does not require Excel to be installed on the client machine.
I found this to be one of the better Diff type programs available (yes it is free).
Try it out for yourself, http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/index.html
If you are anything like me you spend the greater part of your day doing more than one thing at a time. This keeps even the best of us under a lot of pressure as we rush to get things done. Often times I realize AFTER I send an email that there is a simple error: spelling mistakes, wrong subject, etc.
There is a way you can create a delay after pressing “send” that will cause your emails to not be sent right away. This provides you with the extra time to make corrections.
After reading several articles online about using the native functions in windows for working with INI files via Kernel32 I decided to write my own class that does not require COM and thus does not incurr the performance and memory characteristics of a com wrapper in C#.
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