Category Archives: General

Debugging Tools for Windows Although the UI takes a little getting used to, I have never used a debugger that was so capable and solid in my entire life. I mean it handles multiple threads very, very well. Then it … Continue reading →

As I was driving in to work today, the subject of a radio show I was listening to was the anti-war effort. They wanted to discuss how well it is going… Regardless of how it is going or the complexity … Continue reading →

Ok, so Google has let out the note that they are giving free Wifi to everyone in SF pretty soon. Ok, neat, but no big deal. Then it hit me today… I’m paying like $50 to have DSL to my … Continue reading →

Neat! Here is an EE Times news release for a company called Ageia that just raised $27 million dollars for a physics simulation processor. They are a fabless semiconductor house based in Mountain View, CA. While I was looking at … Continue reading →

Back in 1998, at eGroups, the founders were keen on these removable hard drive trays that were inexpensive. They were also prone to failure since they were so cheap. This effectively made them useless. With SATA here, and USB 2.0, … Continue reading →

A lot of noise has been generated about Ruby on Rails over the last year, and it is only getting louder. I decided to check it out as well as the clones of it for PHP and Python. In fact … Continue reading →

This is an error I got when compiling some code I wrote. Can you guess what the issue is? error C2440: ‘initializing’ : cannot convert from ‘class std::Tree

I pre-ordered the latest Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but my daughter and wife took priority in the reading order. It’s been at the house, but I didn’t have the inclination to pick it up and … Continue reading →