COM stands for Component Object Model. This is the technology behind most of non-trivial things in Windows, the why of the obscure HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry subtree and the core of the infamous…
Mathematics can ask you to remember things that have no obvious connection to common sense. Either because it’s arbitrary (the name of a function in respect to what it computes) or because you…
Do you ever have pipe-dreams about what you should be able to do with your computer? Like those crazy virtual interfaces like they had in the movie Minority Report or like every CSI lab seems to…
Regardless of which operating you’re using, you’re bound to encounter applications that cause you problems. Some applications cause you problems so often that you eventually place a custom…
I’m very bad at keeping track of the time I spend working. This tends to require manual input, and something to remind me of doing the input. The later part is where I usually fail and lose…
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There’s always a question whether having “more bits” in a CPU will help. Is 64 bits better than 16? If so, how? Is it only that you have bigger integers to count further? Or maybe more accessible…
I work for Kryptiva, which is a small company creating security and collaboration tools. Our server products are deployed on Ubuntu and Debian Linux, but our client-side are naturally available on…
