I’ve been watching the briefing on NASA TV concerning the status of the two Mars missions (Spirit and Opportunity). It’s amazing how much detail they give in the briefings compared to the amount of detail you can find in the press releases. I need to find transcripts. What I was able to glean from [...]
I posted earlier about Google not crawling my Rainbow site. Turns out, after a while, Google just started crawling it – maybe they have a process where a human has to review a site before they will actually start crawling and indexing it all, especially if it’s all dynamically generated.. I don’t know.. but it’s cool [...]
I don’t agree with it all (looks like a Java guy who just doesn’t think .NET is enough like Java) but .Not, the .Net Hall fo Shame is an interesting read. He’s right about a lot of it.
I recently picked up an Archos Jukebox Recorder 20, a 20gb MP3 player and recorder. It’s selling on eBay for about $210-$220 (US$) but I found a retailer selling it for under $200. I guess it’s obsolete now, replaced by the Gmini 120. Archos hasn’t tried to tie their player to any online service or [...]
SystemEvents.LowMemory doesn’t seem to work, at least not the way it’s documented. I wrote a little app that added a handler for the LowMemory event: SystemEvents.LowMemory += new EventHandler(SystemEvents_LowMemory); And then went mad allocating memory: // Go mad allocating memoryint iters = 0;while (true){ // Add a meg myJunk.Add(new byte[1024*1024]); iters++; Console.WriteLine(“Allocated ” + [...]
I found out through feeds.scripting.com that I have one other subscriber who subscribes to my RSS feed (who is a member of feeds.scripting.com anyway). Hi Thomas :) (The logs show that there may be others.. but feeds.scripting.com lets me put a name to my subscribers.. I wonder if that’s something people will mind). Presumably you [...]
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) isn’t really all that “simple”. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) isn’t really all that “Lightweight” (all things considered). Hmm.
Just ran across this great resource – the BBC has an interesting selection of short courses or introductions to various topics like Gardening, French, or Archaeology that you can you can take on their BBC Learning web site.
Strange limitation I ran into today: If you have a resource file (*.resx) and you have string resources in it, and one of your string resource names starts with “Text.” such as: <data name=“Text.Hello“><value>Hello</value></data> If you do a resourceManager.GetString(“Text.Hello“) you’ll get back null. I guess it’s interpreting the “Text.“ as something, but from the docs [...]
This post reminded me that I also ran into a system with strange corruption recently, but it had nothing to do with overclocking. In my case, it was bad RAM. It took me a while to clue in. My system would randomly crash, documents I was working with would get corrupted in RAM (I’d [...]