December 28, 2004 – 6:13 am
I was about to cross the street downtown today when a woman driving a large SVU came screaming into the crosswalk stoping very suddenly more than half way into it. Apparently the guy driving behind her wasn’t paying much more attention than she was and smashed right into her. Had I crossed any faster (they [...]
December 27, 2004 – 4:08 am
Since I haven’t been posting here enough, here’s the week (well, more like the past two or three days since my memory sucks…) in review.
People who hard-code SQL connection strings into every single asp source file, then copy the entire website, create a subdirectory, paste it in there, and tell half the company to use [...]
December 25, 2004 – 7:21 am
One of the problems with using Gtk# is that Gtk/X are not thread safe, meaning you cannot manipulate the GUI from another thread and expect it to work very well.
To get around this, there you can have GLib run methods in the main loop by using GLib.Idle.Add. In windows, Form.Invoke performs the same task, [...]
December 23, 2004 – 9:50 pm
So as some of you have noticed I/this blog have been having some connectivity issues these past two days… We just went out and got a new cable modem from the Comcast office, as our preveous one was apparently the oldest model that they have. Hopefully this one won’t cause any issues.
By the way, if [...]
December 21, 2004 – 4:02 am
More details to come soon :)
December 17, 2004 – 7:30 am
So I finally broke down today and converted libMeshwork from VB.net to C#. I used SharpDevelop which has a converter tool. Unfortunetly it’s quite incomplete and still left me with about 6 hours of cleanup work (over 700 build errors). The main problems were:
Doesn’t convert MyArray(index) to MyArray[index]. Manually replacing hundreds and hundreds of ()s [...]
December 16, 2004 – 6:31 am
Those of you who test Meshwork will be very happy to know that I wrote a brand new auto-updater that’s simple, fast, and much more efficiant than all preveous attempts. Rather than just compare version numbers, it compares MD5 hashes of each file, so it won’t download unchanged files for no reason. Files are also [...]
December 15, 2004 – 5:07 am
I finally got one of these nifty 256MB USB memory sticks. It’s funny how only 4 years ago people were still using floppies.
This was also a pretty cool test of all the new support for removable devices in linux thanks to HAL. I plug in the USB memory stick and instantly get a MighyDrive icon [...]
December 15, 2004 – 4:32 am
Hm, haven’t had anything to blog about for a while…but that just all changed…
I beat Half Life 2 today!!
This was, without a doubt, the coolest game I have ever seen. The whole game was just amazing… the graphics, the gameplay, everything. It’s quite amazing just how far technology has come, and I am not easily [...]