So, I bought a brand new Samsung Android phone, and it was a huge disappointment due to all the distracting, annoying, and completely useles...

So, the brightness keys on my Asus Laptop do not work anymore.  All other Fn keys still work, but the Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 keys which control bri...

This was written on 2021-11-26 but it is retro-dated so as to not appear among my recent posts, and thus avoid embarrassing certain unnamed ...

Summary: This is a story about the most elusive and sinister software bug I ever came across in my decades-long career as a programmer. T...

Back in 1999-2000 the state of the art in computer telephony was called Interactive Voice Response (IVR).  Nowadays when we speak of "...

Techniques demonstrated: Solving an intractable problem using a scoring heuristic Super-indexing data structures for ultra-fast domain-speci...

I added a page where I list posts on this blog that can collectively serve as my portfolio. It can be found here: Michael Belivanakis ...

This question was asked on Programmers SE on Jun 12, 2015. I answered it, but after a few days the question was closed as primarily opinion-...

Oracle talks a lot about 11g Express Edition, and how it differs from the full (paid) versions of their database, but it does not say a word...

The question is on a controversial topic, and as usual, I take the controversial stance.  So, it is no wonder that people do not agree with ...