Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
Several years ago, before GoddessJ got the MP3 religion, she always carried huge “books” of CDs around with her when we went on long car trips — until on one trip she lost a case containing a dozen or so of her all-time favorite CDs, and realized that she’d never given those CDs to me …
Getting kind of desperate, Microsoft?
I can see this annoying, rather than helping, several of my acquaintances (such as a girl who prefers Lego sets rather than dolls). And I’m sure there are some people for whom it would always choose the wrong gender. On the plus side, it means guys might not be subjected to quite so many ads …
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I’ve talked about ThunderBayes (the Thunderbird front-end for the SpamBayes anti-spam engine) here before, several times. It’s great. Unfortunately it’s no longer supported, and I don’t have the time to properly learn Javascript so I can fix it myself. So when an SSL update broke my customized version of it a couple days ago, I …
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If they can do it, it’ll be very significant — for one thing, there’s little need to hibernate or suspend a system that boots up essentially instantly.
This is like catnip for us programmer-geeks.
I wondered why I wasn’t allowed to smile for my passport photo… apparently it screws up the software.
I needed a new side-project, something to keep me occupied when I just couldn’t work on Project X any longer for the day. So on the spur of the moment, I decided to learn Python. (Why Python? I’ve heard good things about it. I can use it as a scripting language, which is something that …
This is the third follow-up to my my previous entry on self-knowledge and motivation. The entire series can be found here. I’ve finally figured out the problem that I’ve been having with motivation for working on Project X. It’s really pretty simple, and I don’t know why I didn’t realize it before. I’ve taken some …
I never thought I’d see the day… 🙂