Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
This may be considered heresy by some, but for the first twenty years of my programming career, I never used a version control system. In fact, I barely even knew what one was. I’d heard of CVS, and I knew that there was something called Visual SourceSafe in Visual Studio, but I never saw the …
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The subtitle says it all: “Free music apps worth every penny.” But this is an encouraging step forward nonetheless, in that it shows that the record labels are starting to get the idea.
For the past couple weeks I’ve been working on a side-project, a Markdown translator in C++. I finally finished the first release-quality version of it, so I’ve applied to release it on SourceForge, under the MIT license. Once it’s approved (and I don’t foresee any problems with that), the main page will be here. Here’s …
You can’t help but admire the imagination of these malware writers. I doubt the approach will catch on though, it doesn’t scale and makes it a lot easier to pinpoint the culprit.
Um… didn’t they cause it in the first place? 😉 Seriously, it sounds like a good idea, in general. I have to wonder why they didn’t think of it before.
If you noticed any problems with Geek Drivel’s configuration this morning, I apologize. I was trying to upgrade WordPress using the new “automatic upgrade” stuff for the first time, and had some permissions problems. It looks like everything’s fixed now though; we’ll see after the next release. If you see any problems after this post …
Some possible good news on the economic front.
See the cover of this book? That black circle that contains the words “Ubuntu 8.04 on DVD” and some smaller writing that you can’t really read in that image? I saw it in the bookstore today. It says “Free upgrade to 8.10.” Earth to publisher: Ubuntu is free software. That means that they’re all free …
Come on guys, even geeks have better things to pay attention to.
A nice piece of work. I installed it yesterday, and I’ve used it a few times now. It works as advertised, plugging a gaping hole in my iPod Touch’s features.