bad software design sucks !?

Why ?
Because it does not reflect the real-world properly.

Think about the guys having designed the statistical software for USA


"A prominent example is President Barack Obama’s decision to not identify his multiracial ancestry on the 2010 Census Survey. Half white, Obama selected the “black” box option."

, BUT HEY WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS ?

So they are checking the “white,” “black” or “Asian” boxes.

Give me a break!!! The most multi-ethnical country in the world, and the db designers did not bother to put some more options ...

Edison vs . Tesla

It is strange that the famous quote from Thomas Edison :
"I have not failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work."

gets entirely new meaning after the words of his worst non-business competitor Nikola Tesla about him:

He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene  ... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense

how-to get nice file sizes with du and perl

du -BK /cygdrive/f/morphus/morphus.1.0.7.dev.ysg/ | perl -ne 'm/(\d{1,9})K(\s+)(.*?)(morphus\.)(.*)/; printf("%9d %3s %-100s \n" , $1 , " " , "$4" . "$5") ;' | sort -nr | less

Cool programs , utilities and programming environments for Windows, most of which free ( revised )

Cool programs , utilities and programming environments for Windows, most of which free ( revised )

Opera - simply the best browser on the planet

Google Chrome

Firefox

strawberry perl for Windows (with dmake for modules )

Cygwin

SysInternals Suite

izarc - the best zipper

Process Explorer - shows resources usage per running process on Windows

Google Earth

Picasa - the best free picture viewer , organizer

Mozilla Thunderbird

Textpad - the best text editor for Windows

FreeMind - mind maps freware

smstoolpack - create CRUD for sql server

GreenShot

Open diff - tool for comparing sql server 2005 databases

Skype - the best client for Internet and Video Telephony

NSIS - the best open source Windows installer maker

And the time plugin

Gears -- edit online documents offline

Free youtube to ipod converter -- get mp4 files easily to your phone

Defragler - Disk Defragment utility

DvdDecrypter - the best DVD free ripper

ImgBurner - burn ISO images - freeware

ArsClip remembers your clibboard stuff - Hint , Ctrl + Shift + Z , 2

colorpic - Color to hex utility

Expresso - a GUI tool for building and verifying Regular Expressions

a flv file player

Python - for cool scripts and programming

STARUML - the best open source UML editor

Infrarecorder - free CD / DVD burner

Paint.Net - freeware image editor

putty

winscp

Multiline Search and Replace utility program

Google Gears - use Gmail offline

HijackThis

tortoise svn - a stable gui and command line to subversion for Windows

slik svn - the command line tools for svn for windows

Data Recovery - recover Shift + del removed programs

Windows Sysinternal utilities

Cmdow is a Win32 commandline utility for NT4/2000/XP/2003 that allows windows to be listed, moved, resized, renamed, hidden/unhidden, disabled/enabled, minimized, maximized, restored, activated/inactivated, closed, killed and more.

Grep , FGrep and Egrep for windows (remember the dll's also )

Less for Windows ( remember the dll's also )

7-zip

Rise Editor - Entity Relationship Diagram tool

Adobe Acrobat

Virtual Clone Drive - Map ISO files

svn client and server

Doxygen - code documentation utility

Qt - Nokia's Development Platform

Dia - control flow chars freeware software

AudioGrabber - the best mp3 ripper

AutoHotKey - GUI automating

Fiddler - http sniffer

Windows GNU utils

Active Perl

Safari -