Since I got my new drone I’ve been using my lunch breaks every now and then to go out and shoot some photos and videos and generally have fun. Also, this is often the only time of the week I can actually dedicate to taking pictures. Luckily there’s a ton of stuff right at my […]

How to check for IIS version installed.
Most of us actually ran into this. I just did once again. There’s a support.microsoft.com instructions on how to obtain each particular IIS version. The page also lists default IIS versions for each individual MS Windows version (check out the table below). Version Obtained from Operating System 1.0 Included with Windows NT 3.51 SP 3 […]

Why so many IT people is taking up photography and why it’s a good idea.
No one can deny an obvious trend of software engineers, or IT guys and gals in general, taking up photography in huge volumes, ever since digital photography became mainstream. This phenomenon, or I may even call it stereotype, was always funny and interesting to me, especially because I’m one of those guys. So let me […]

Beautiful Pocitelj as seen from the air
I relatively recently purchased a drone, DJI Phantom 3 to be more specific, and was blown away with the possibilities presented because of the thing. I started lugging the drone with myself almost everywhere, including my recent trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Needless to say, I got some great footage there, but on our trip back […]

OMG, I uploaded a bunch of (not mine) dicpics to our client’s server!!!
I’m a hobbyist photographer (and I started messing with audio and video too lately), and I’m watching this weekly photography webcast/podcast, FroKnowsPhoto Rawtalk, on regular basis. In the podcast, there’s section called Photo News, where one of the guys, Stephen, reads photography, video and audio related news from the past 7 days, and then they […]

Nasa released the original code for Apollo 11 guidance computer, few hours later the first “issue” has been reported.
NASA released the original source code for Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) yesterday. The code was released on GitHub, and few hours later someone reported the first “issue“. A customer has had a fairly serious problem with stirring the cryogenic tanks with a circuit fault present. To reproduce: Build CSM Perform mission up to translunar […]

Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10
Microsoft is reaching out to Linux developers in a way that the company never has before. “The Bash shell is coming to Windows. Yes, the real Bash is coming to Windows,” said Microsoft’s Kevin Gallo on stage at today’s Build 2016 keynote. The announcement received an uproarious applause from the crowd. The new functionality will […]

5 tips for starting out with a camera drone.
I recently bought a DJI Phantom 3 Standard on sale and started playing obsessively with it, every day it wasn’t raining. This post is to share a little bit of wisdom I acquired during this period. Oh, I’m not aiming this post towards people looking for highest end gear and considering purchasing Inspire 1, but […]

Javascript Catches And Pitfalls – part1 (equality and comparisons)
Javascript is a programming language originally written in 10 days, buy a chap named Brendan Eich for the Netscape Corporation. However brilliant, Brendan is still just a human, so you’d guess that Javascript was not without bugs and corks. Although a lot has changed since then, a solid number of JS specific “head scratchers” lives […]

Solution to the gcc error: undefined reference to `ilogb’ (C/C++)
The ilogb( ) functions return the exponent of their floating-point argument as a signed integer. If the argument is not normalized, ilogb( ) returns the exponent of its normalized value. Here’s simple program that uses ilogb()
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
#include <math.h> int main(int argc, char*argv[]){ double x = 1234.5678; int retval = ilogb(x); return 0; } |
Now, if You use this function and get the following gcc linker error: undefined reference to `ilogb’ […]