Dror's Blog

I was shopping around lately for wikis. On the way, I stumbled on twiki wiki and registered there to get to try it. Today, I found that when I search for my name in Google, it brings up a page in twiki.org with the registration details I gave ( http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/DrorHarari ). A nice place for one to create a personal wiki though I really did not like to see this registeration fiasco.

Jon Udell wrote ( http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/20.html#a1155 ) on alternative programming models based on, for example, the tree structure underlying languages such as Java. He referred to a screencast and paper by Jonathan Edwards. The factorial example brings me back about 22 years to the hilarious April 1984 CACM issue where Dijkstra's "Goto Statement Considered Harmful" was "solved" using the COME FROM statement including its more advanced variants of ON x COME FROM label, COMPUTED COME FROM (See http://www.fortranlib.com/gotoless.htm ). That article culminated with a demonstration of the powerful of this new construct. The factorials function was built using COME FROM. Of course it took considerable effort to decipher the logic and understand what it does and how. When I look at Subtext, I get a similar feeling -- I cannot see and get it at once. I really have to work to decipher it. I guess the main reason for that is that us humans think in...

Need to burn an ISO image on disk - DeepBurner is a free utility for that The other day I downloaded a Knoppix clone (GNU Linux Kinneret) as an ISO and needed to burn it to a CDROM. I do not shy from using and buying shareware programs but the options I saw were really pricey (Nero BurningRom for example was around $80 - way to much for what I needed). Then I found DeepBurner at http://www.deepburner.com/ - a free utility for burning data CDs/DVDs, audio CDs as well as ISO images. This great program also let you design an autorun screen, create labels and more. I would have paid for that a reasonable sum if they had asked but they don't, so I just highly recommend them.

Mailinator - an instant anonymous email accounr Now that's a neat idea for an instant mailbox for the common occasion where you need to provide an email address but really want no email or just one or two emails from the person or body you give the email address to. Go to Mailinator and see this for yourself. Other related services: Jetable SpamGourmet Note that both delivers the email to your normal mailbox.

On getting a Belkin wireless gateway/router to work with Bezeq ADSL using Alcatel modem It has been long time that I was planning to connect to the Internet over a broad band connection. I even bought a Belkin 54g Cable/DSL Gateway Router to allow me to hook several machines to the Internet at once. Yesterday I finally got my ADSL modem (an Alcatel ADSL modem) from Bezeq and an ISP account with Bezeq International. Making my computer connect to the internet required a call to Bezeq's ADSL support who where giving me just the minimal information I needed to connect one machine, nothing more. Bezeq's ADSL help desk told me to change my Local Area Connection (under Start->Connect_To->Show_All_Connections) setting from the one I use at work (dynamic IP via DHCP) to use a fixed IP address of 10.200.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. I asked them if I can go about without touching the LAN configuration I use at work, and to this they said that they do not support networki...

Hi there. My name is Dror Harari and I am a programmer at heart, a tool builder and a happy thinker. I am working as a product architect at Attunity Ltd. - an integration tools company. I have been with the company for over 16 years and am pleased with that! Lurking around blogspace for quite some time, it is time now to start squeaking...