Author Archives: dru
NeWS, NeXT, VMS, and Windows NT … connections
Quick note… As you may recall in the past, I’m late to the game in noticing that WNT was 1 letter off from VMS. Well, as I was thinking about a neat old windowing system (more on the great history … Continue reading
Error handling
Updated: there is now a page on this site dedicated to this topic. About 8 months ago, I was going to a big blog post on error handling in programs. I think its an interesting and practical topic. Proper code … Continue reading
Apple’s New iPhone
Steve keeps talking about how he is waiting to buy a phone when the iPhone comes out. For a while, I thought this phone was just BS. I told him to just get a RAZR. Well there has been recent … Continue reading
New Desktop Theme for XP
MS released some new themes for XP that look kinda cool. Until Vista comes out, I will be using the above pictured Zune theme. The artist who knows about it (who uses a MacBook) was using an internal incarnation of … Continue reading
more vids…
old, yet still accurate… listen to the lyrics… The Band: The The Album: Mind Bomb Note, this band had Johnny Marr of the Smiths in the band at the time.
64 bits is necessary… for me at least
For quite a while, I thought that 32 bits was more than enough for most people. I had this belief in 1999 and I had it up to yesterday. Today, I read something that made me change my mind. For … Continue reading
My new favorite scm – SVK
Many years ago, I used CVS for my personal projects. After that, I used Perforce. The free perforce license for small guys was a good thing, but I didn’t find perforce to be the perfect solution. It had its issues … Continue reading
Era of the Mega, Giga and Tera
In the 80’s we had megahertz speed processors, megabyte sized disks, and kilobit speed wans with megabit lans. In the 90’s we still had megahertz processors, but gigabyte sized disks, megabit wans and 100 megabit lans. wireless was megabit. Here … Continue reading