Published on July 28th, 2006 in Programming, Windows
Microsoft finally decided to offer its excellent MSDN Library for download. These are not outdated versions! The current version they offer is May 2006, which seems to be the most current one. Go get your MSDN Library here!
For those who don’t know what the MSDN Library is: It’s a great collection of documentation and sample [...]
Published on July 28th, 2006 in Windows, Windows Installer
Having worked as a system engineer for the Windows platform for a few years, a few ideas recently came up my mind on what Microsoft should do to make Windows a better platform.
As I started to use Linux as my main platform about a year ago (I still use Windows for some tasks, but inside [...]
Published on July 28th, 2006 in LinuxHi everyone! It’s been quite some time since my last post. Well, everything’s been a bit more quiet anyway, probably due to the summer heat. It’s also been a while since my last “App Tip” post. This month’s App Tip is “gFTP”. A WSFTP work-a-like using GTK. Having a good gui-based ftp program is very [...]
Published on July 19th, 2006 in Gentoo, LinuxMany Linux users might have been surprised the first time they found out they needed to burn CDs and DVDs as root. Well, here’s an easy solution how to safely change the permission for cdrecord. Cdrecord is a command-line application which most front-ends use to burn the actual discs. So, to enable all users to [...]
Published on July 19th, 2006 in FunThat’s right! It’s called “.kkrieger” and was developed by German demo group “.theprodukkt”. It was created for a demo competition where only entries with 96 kb were allowed. So how did they do it? Well, needless to say, they were (probably still are) very good programmers, but the biggest reason today’s games are soooo huge, [...]
Published on July 18th, 2006 in Fun, GeneralThis is just so true: “Foamy the Squirrel” just wrecked his Windows installation. Now he’s calling tech support just to find out it was outsourced to India and they can’t help him no matter how hard they try.
A funny look at the outsourcing trend in IT. I wish some big company executives could see this.
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Published on July 17th, 2006 in JavaFinally I came across a project that made heavy use of multithreading. As I wanted to pause and resume one particular thread, I had to use synchronized variables instead of the deprecated suspend and resume methods. I implemented them into my own, clean MyThread class. But since those two, deprecated methods were defined as final [...]
Published on July 15th, 2006 in FunThis one’s really geeky. After writing about how you could watch the World Cup 2006 in Germany via telnet, I found this and had to share it with you. I just wonder, how much time it took those guys to create it. Watch it here: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Published on July 14th, 2006 in Product Reviews, WebThere are a lot of people these days using more than one computer. For example, at home you’re using a desktop, but when going to campus you’re taking that tiny laptop with you. Or another scenario: You have another desktop at your company’s office which you work on during the day, but you also tend [...]
Published on July 14th, 2006 in PSPSony announced, it will soon release two new memory sticks for the PSP portable gaming system. The sticks will be available in two different versions: 1 GB ($60) and 2 GB ($100). They will be labeled as “Sony Memory Stick Entertainment Pack”. The good thing about these is, they will contain a movie on the [...]
