Windows Pay - Per Use ? maybe soon

Microsoft has applied a patent of renting an operation system and probably hardware .
Imagine that you have a small cheap computer and suddenly you have an urge to kill, you know ... you just need to kick ass .. what shall you do ?

What I do is - take my Lenovo T61P Super Mega Laptop, run a battlefield and then have a nice time while shooting bad guys , flying helicopters and wasting time, however as I told you have a cheap computer . A problem ? Not anymore!

You can rent an nVidia Video card and a good sound adapter for a hour of two , pay some bucks (two three .. whatever) and when you done using them you just stop paying. Now of course you will not see a Microsoft delivery guy bringing you the hardware, it will be installed in your computer, but deactivated.

Moreover, all the XboxLinux project and the others taught Microsoft a lesson about obfuscating options of the computer hardware, therefore, we shall see more Hackers and security professionals hacking the security infrastructure of this "Device".

Here is a quote from Microsoft's patent application form

A different business model may allow a more granular approach to hardware and software sales. A computer may have individually metered hardware and software components that a user can select and activate based on current need. Beyond simple activation, the user may be able to select a level of performance related to processor, memory, graphics power, etc. that is driven not by a lifetime maximum requirement, but rather by the need of the moment. When the need is browsing, a low level of performance may be used and when network-based interactive gaming is the need of the moment, the highest available performance may be made available to the user.

let the fun begin !

yo'moma joke

- yo momma is so ugly, that I would never sent an ICMP packet in her direction

reply:
talk to the firewall, 'cause the port ain't listening!

Firefox vs Internet Explorer

Another frustrating difference between the Firefox and Internet Explorer. A simple script in one of my pages selects all of the checkboxes in the page

function ChangeCheckBoxState(id, checkState)
{
var cb = document.getElementById(id);
if (cb != null)
cb.checked = checkState;
}

function ChangeAllCheckBoxStates(sender)
{
var checkState = sender.checked;
// Toggles through all of the checkboxes defined in the CheckBoxIDs array
// and updates their value to the checkState input parameter

alert('1');
if (cbCheckBoxList != null)
{
for (var i = 0; i < cbCheckBoxList.length; i++)
ChangeCheckBoxState(cbCheckBoxList[i], checkState);
}
}

here is a trigger


&lt input type="checkbox" id="cbSelectAll" onchange="ChangeAllCheckBoxStates(this)" &gt


So, here is the issue: while Firefox handles everything well , Internet Explorer needs me to check or uncheck the box and then to click on some other area on the scree

I Hate that , why ? isn't is the meaning of ONCHAGE event ??!@ huh ?

Hightech is in shit

I have been programming for the whole morning .. well not for the whole morning , because I could not stand on my feet in the morning .. We were presenting ourselves at the IGT2008 - The World Summit of Cloud Computing, and my feet were ruined. I will write a post about it as soon as i get the pictures.

Anyway when I went to find myself a sandwich , I was surrounded with sewerage. It looked like a huge buffer overflow with no debugger available and the smell was the same the buffer overflow should have .

They are right, Israeli Hi Tech is in deep shit .

VoTP

Voice over Though Protocol (VoTP) is a general name for a set of telepathy communications.

VoTP is usually observed in human beings, and is thought to exist in other mammals as well.

VoTP can deliver a short message or initiate a conversation, but only with the rise of telephony systems, have these become into popular use.

It can be used as a toll-free initiation method for a call.

When you call someone, thinking you just wanted to talk to them, and they reply "thanks for calling, I was just thinking of you and wanted to talk to you", they've used it!

Buisness card

A good friend of mine, the one who sent me to make her a coffee five minutes after I first met her, told me that a business cards of the company we worked in (Comsec consulting) are very good for making a shopping list, since they are made of a good paper and the back side of them is free of text. It was nice and handy. Now working in Rocketier, we have a problem with that since the back side of the card has some text saying
Startup your engines

• Detect
• Rate
• Immediate Effective Relief
• Roadmap Planning
• Scale up & Scale out

After talking about the card with the colleagues of mine and telling them that I will probably have to buy a notepad (a paper one) or write some program to the PDA , I noticed that the card, actually, fits me perfectly, becaue it describes the beer drinking process. Next time I drink beer (tonnight ?!) - I will be prepared.

High Performance CEO Blog

This blog started as a means to conserve internal jokes, persist them from the erasable board, and bring the R&D team closer.

Management wondered where did the jokes disappear from the whiteboard, and made room for some agile management tasks list.

And then... the Cloud Computing, Software and System Performance blog came online!

Now you can finally catch up on what we are WORKING on, when we are not writing in this blog.

Find us at IGT2008 - The World Summit of Cloud Computing, next to Google, Sun and Amazon.