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Bug or feature: Mime Type Detection

Also known as MIME Sniffing, this is a feature or bug in IE which is the only browser able to dynamically determine the content type of the document it loads. So, in this case, it detects a plain text document with HTML content instead of a an JPG header. And the content of the “JPG” […]

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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

From : http://www.lulu.com/content/2167025 Description: Genetic programming (GP) is a systematic, domain-independent method for getting computers to solve problems automatically starting from a high-level statement of what needs to be done. Using ideas from natural evolution, GP starts from an ooze of random computer programs, and progressively refines them through processes of mutation and sexual recombination, […]

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Spam using Google’s Spreadsheets

It was Google Docs, Google Notes and now Google Spreadsheets: Interesting to notice is also the fact that the email was sent from a Google Mail Account *ONLY* to other Google Mail accounts. And, the famous Google Antispam didn’t mark it as SPAM:

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A Library Of Digital Photography

Reading this article, made think that I need such a list as well. I have create long time ago the same list, but so up2date and complete. So, here they are: Magazines Digital Photo Outdoor Photographer Popular Photography Shutterbug Image Sharing Flickr Kodak Snapfish Photography Books Camera Books Camera Reviews Dcviews Digital Photography Review Steve’s […]

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Google Maps is cool

I was searching recently some location on Google Maps and I accidentally found .. a plane 🙂 Google’s satellite took the picture from the orbit and photographed the plane in flight over that region. Nothing special, just pure accident 😉 See the picture below:

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Avira Techblog is online

At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page. I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing. Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/

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C++ evolved

C++ got since last update new functionalities: Regular expressions library Atomic operations library Thread support library Smart pointers Read more here: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2798.pdf These things are also added in Boost and in TR1 implementation for Visual Studio 2008. Read the Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions available here: Click to access n1836.pdf