Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Friday, April 21st, 2006
Just a quick tip, but the book C++ How to Program, 5th Ed. by Deitel & Deitel thoroughly covers beginnning C++, and each example works just as well on Windows using a compiler such as Microsoft Visual C++ as well as on Linux using GCC. GCC ships installed with ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
I figured it was time to test desktop Linux. Suffice to say that some things still need to be worked out with the new MacBook Pros, and I am too stubborn to run Windows. A slightly used HP OmniBook happened upon my way, and I figured what the heck.
My first ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Mac OS X is now five years old.
In many ways much of what reigns true from 1984's Macintosh experience still reigns true today. But since X came along, so much has changed, and so much for the better.
I almost never like to heap praise on Steve Jobs. He gets plenty ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
I'm deeply concerned for Apple's lip service to web standards support in their latest suite of products.
First of all, the iPhoto 6 RSS generation is invalid, proprietary, Safari/Apple-only code. Let me get out my yea flag and give it a wave. I'll use that feature approximately never. What is ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
I found the iTunes Signature Maker at the blog of Ryan Shaw this evening. Extremely cool little idea to take your iTunes playlist and make a short little audio avitar of your musical tastes. Here is mine.
The creation of the file requires you to trust a Java applet to scan ...
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