Darn. I was hoping it was true, and apparently I wasn’t alone. Maybe the Mafia’s PR department spread the story.
Archive of entries posted on October 2007
Old-School Linux
An associate and I have been using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), with the Off The Record (OTR) plug-in, to securely collaborate on Project X. Although OTR worked, there were times that it didn’t work very well… longer messages got errors instead of being transmitted properly, and some days it didn’t seem to want to work at [...]
“Ferritin proteins yield ultrathin computer memory”
We’ll get that Dick Tracy watch down to a usable size sooner or later.
“Voice-stress ice-cream dispenser increases portions for the miserable”
I’d be a little less happy after the machine decided that I only needed a tiny portion.
E-Mail: A Modest Proposal
E-mail is a wonderful invention. I’ve been using it since 1987 or thereabouts, when one of my uncles gave me a 300 baud acoustic modem that I could plug into my Sinclair QL, and I discovered the local FidoNet node. However, this wonderful innovation started becoming a burden about a decade ago — that’s when [...]
Dual Monitors
As someone who uses two monitors in the office, I found today’s Dilbert comic strip very amusing. Bu-wa-haha!
“Carmen Sandiego found in train station”
For all those who’ve ever played Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, you can stop now. She’s been found.
Lisp Practice Revisited
Last weekend I ported some MD5 calculation code to Lisp, for practice. But once it was done, I wasn’t happy with it, so I’ve been improving it since.
Multithreaded Programs on Multiprocessor Systems
My company is still on contract to help out with a program we developed, which another company bought a few years ago. I’ve spent part of the last two weeks working with that company’s lead programmer, trying to track down a minor but particularly pernicious intermittent bug involving TCP/IP, multithreading, and what seemed to be [...]
“Vista: Windows ME’s Successor”
Another Windows Vista love note. Wake up, Microsoft!