Myself and friend had a chat about the fastest programming language. To my surprise he said that they are (in order) C++,C,Java. After talking about a bit with comments like "more people are working on C++ compilers etc" I do tend to agree with him.

The one that took the cake was Java - 3rd place !!! But then, again after some thought etc we came up with the following - The language hardly matters...if you are a bad programmer, you will write bad code.

This is yet again, one of those posts where enough is indeed, enough. As those that know me knows, I often hang out on IRC and get to deal with quite a few people in my day-to-day life.

Over the past years I have noticed something - People have a problem...and the problem is that they can't accept. I know that leaves it quite broad, but it suites and here is why...

One of the people I get virtually on a day to day basis, is the "groovers" - I will call them that, because all they can do is follow the groove, cutting it deeper day after day.

Sorry Star Trek fans, this one is not for you.

I was quite bored at work and I decided, I would love to see how Linux handles huge drives etc. It all started with a test install of Debian GNU/Hurd (which I aborted - hard drive access was SLOW...)

So there I was, I fired up Sun VirtualBox 2.1.4 and created a Linux and Windows host with the following drive setup

Linux:

* Boot Drive - 10gig
* 16x2TB Virtual Disks

Windows

* Boot Drive - 20gig
* 16x2TB Virtual Disks

The virtual disks where created using VB's Disk Manager with the Dynamic option selected.

This page is going to serve as documentation on my experience with programming the following:

* Sockets (TCP,UDP Communication)
* Threads (Using pthreads and extending it to Windows)
* General Linux Programming
* General Windows Programming
* Cross compiling for Windows on Linux

I also feel it fair to "justify" why I feel I can write this. I have been in programming for 18+ years now, started out with Pascal and moved along to C,C++,Delphi,PHP,Perl,Phyton,ASM and a few others. My primary focus is Delphi,C,C++ while I do dip into the others every now and then.

(Notice step 2 on http://co.za/faq/reg.shtml before reading this page...)

After quite a heated phone call to "teh mail administrator" at Uniforum, the .co.za domain administrators, I decided that enough is indeed, enough. A word of warning – don’t think that you can call them to talk about it, it just ends in a one-way screaming match.

My phone call to them was regarding the mail filter that they have in place. They hate spam, I hate spam, we all *hate* spam. The catch is that they took spam filter one step further…

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Hello All,

As you might have noted we took the site out of maintenance. The theme isn't 100% complete but it will do for now :-) (You might notice some odd bits and things, please drop a comment about it)

In the mean time I have now moved jobs from a Senior Network Admin/Do-it-all to a more relaxed Analyst Programmer. It doesn't mean that the stuff I have been working on in my spare time will disappear, as a matter of fact, I now have more time to work on them :-)