Topics on my particular interests.
Yesterday was trash-pickup day for our street. Our trash collectors aren’t too careful, so we sometimes get pieces of wind-blown garbage lying around. While walking to our local store for some cat-related supplies, I saw such an item. It was a 5.25″ floppy disk labeled “Turbo C.” That’s C, not C++. The copyright date in …
Looks like Microsoft is going to save the world, yet again. Yes, I’m cynical about anything Microsoft does that supposedly benefits anyone else. They didn’t get where they are through altruism. But a closer look shows that that cynicism might not be justified here. It is a real improvement to their product, and a valid …
A bonus post, in honor of the day.
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d started using a version-control system (Subversion) for my source code files. It worked well, but now that I’ve got a really good network-attached storage device (“the NAS” from here on), I wanted to put my repositories on there instead of keeping them on my local drive. …
I was quite surprised, a few days ago, when my official Apple “iPhone Apps” RSS feed came up with something called “InstallerApp 1.0,” because the description says that it’s a way to put iPhone apps that currently require jailbreaking on your unjailbroken iPhone: InstallerApp is a native Mac OS X application that allows you easily …
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I’ve long had a vision of the perfect computer storage device. It’s physically small, but holds an absolutely ludicrous amount of data. It’s instantly available to all my computers and other electronics, but I have full control over who can access its contents. And it’s reliable enough that, with the occasional off-site backup, I never …
Tom Foremski offers an interesting take on the usual advice about putting stuff on the ‘net, and one that I have to agree with: While being careful about what you post is still good advice, I have even better advice: be very active on the Internet — anything bad will be diluted into the long …
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A tongue-in-cheek rating system for C programmers. (For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’ve ever used three asterisks together in one of my programs. And since I moved to C++, I’ve rarely even needed to use two. I’m always using single asterisks though. I guess I’m only a one-star programmer these days. 😉 )
Oh great… a penis-lengthening system that might actually work?! The spam level is going to go through the roof now. 🙁
Darn, and I was really looking forward to moving this blog to www.geek.god…