“Happy 15th Birthday to Windows 95, the Ugly Duckling that Conquered Your Desktop”
Yeah, happy birthday… and good riddance. š
Archive of posts filed under the Software and Software Development category.
Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
My New iPod, Continued
(This is the conclusion of yesterday’s post about my new fourth-generation 32GB iPod Touch. This first part is being written as iTunes loads my music and applications onto it for the first time.) Kid in a candy store… GoddessJ didn’t sleep well last night, so she was taking a nap. When she got up to …
“Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash”
It should have become obvious to people when the north-eastern US power outage happened a few years ago: malware is dangerous. The computer world is riddled with flaws that make it possible for a kid playing around on the computer in his bedroom (or more recently, a programmer writing a Trojan intended to steal money …
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“How to Rebuild Your Attention Span and Focus”
This is generally an excellent article, but I have to take exception with one of its assertions: I’ve been using a second monitor for nearly ten years, thinking that vast amounts of space were key to productivity. The second monitor myth has been around for quite some time. Yet the only actual scientific study I …
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“Human hive-mind game whups computer boffinry ass”
My high-school best friend and I both ended up in Virginia in the very early nineties, a few years after we graduated, he in the Air Force and I going to tech school. We decided to make a trip back to Connecticut to meet up with the old gang. Among the people we met were …
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“10 Funny Programming Cartoons”
Well, it’s not quite like this… but there’s an uncomfortably high amount of truth there too. š
“I could license you to use this software, but then Iād have to kill you”
Most of the licenses listed here are perfectly normal, but there are a few really odd ones…
Ubuntu’s “Bug #1”
This bug was filed back in 2005, but I just discovered it. It’s a nasty one, but between Apple and various Linux distributions, I think they’re making headway on it. The description starts out: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to …
“Keep Going. Concentrate on Something Useful.”
The text I quoted above got me thinking. As many of my readers know, I’ve been working on an extremely difficult programming problem for the last seven years. Many really smart people have attempted to solve it before me, and so far, none have succeeded; many others, equally intelligent, believe that it simply can’t be …
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“State of Decay”
I generally find Verity Stob pretty over-the-top, but she didn’t have to exaggerate this one much, if at all. It’s an old one, but it had me smiling and nodding because I’ve seen more than my fair share of Windows machines with nearly every one of the symptoms she mentions. Far too often they’ve been …