how about:
“const applies to what is on its left”
So 1 and 2 are the same, they both point to fixed text with variable pointer. 3 has fixed pointer with variable text. If const is first, move it one token to the right.
this is just a reminder for myself 😉
Just testing the blog publishing feature in Google Docs.. Quite nice of Google to also support other blog API’s besides the Blogger API 😉
(open)SUSE is a wonderful distro, but with its latest release, 10.1, there definitely was something wrong. In trying to overhaul the whole packaging/updating system, they messed up pretty bad. I reinstalled my 10.1 about 5 times so far, and am still not satisfied 😉 The updating process is simply a pain the ….. back.
However, suse fans all over the world, please rejoice! as the openSUSE team has rereleased a fully patched 10.1! 🙂 openSUSE team, I love you! 🙂 I am really happy the suse team bravely admitted that this updating issue was a major showstopper and that they did something about it!
thanks David for reporting this important news so fast 😉
At work, Microsoft’s Systems Management Server (SMS) is used to distribute new software version, take over remote screens, make catalogs of all software running on each pc, etc… Somehow, I have always found SMS to be one of the most crappy MS products I have ever seen. SMS has its deficiencies but its competitors also have some others. So there is no motive for innovation. It just sells because it is Microsoft’s.
What bothers me about such a product is not as much that it has bugs — every product has — but more that you can’t do anything about it because it’s fully closed source. I thought no OSS alternatives existed in this area, so I had given up on any improvement until recently.. I stumbled across an open source alternative, OCS inventory NG. 🙂 OSS is everywhere 😉
Some while ago, I start coding a feed reader in J2ME to run on mobile phones. After some searching, it seemed like Netbeans would be the way to go.. They provide a nice UI builder including modeling of the flow between the different screens, tailored towards cell phones. Also, it seems the Sony Ericsson SDK provides nice integration with Netbeans.
My favorite java IDE IntelliJ doesn’t seem to support mobile development at all. (for the record, I wouldn’t use IntelliJ if I had to pay for it myself ;)) The next best thing, Eclipse, seems to be less mature in this area, although they are progressing fast. So Netbeans it became.
To my surprise, I even found a tutorial on the netbeans site which already gave me a bootstrap to my task! 🙂
So, where’s the problem?
Well, I set up netbeans and created a project and all, so I could get to serious work on my 2h train trip. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to write a single line of code! 🙂 As soon as I opened my laptop, the Netbeans IDE seemed to have become very unresponsive! Opening a menu could take 10 seconds, scrolling through the code is impossible. I couldn’t believe my eyes at first, so I rebooted because I thought my laptop was having trouble waking up after having the short nap. However, not improved. I had to give up.
At home, I searched the internet, and indeed, netbeans has problems with my ATI X600 ‘s PowerPlay function! Who would have imagined that. 😉 Especially since this is the only Java app I have trouble with… Anyhow, just disabling the PowerPlay function solves the problem! It’s probably related to my ATI drivers, but since I have a fricking Dell laptop, I’m not allowed to install drivers other than from Dell, so, as you can imagine, Dell never supplies updates to the driver! If anyone knows how to circumvent the checks going on in the driver installer from ATI, please let me know…
I recently found out, Google is not the only one issueing summers of code! The Netherlands are showing the example, I hope other countries follow! *sigh*, wish I were student again.. 😉
lip syncing fun
When reading through the WineConf 2006 Summary , I was really excited to read that there finally could potentially be some progress in the area of supporting copy protection schemes.. I quote:
As far as 1.0 goes, […] copy protection would be really nice to get in the tree and Ivan Leo Puoti reiterated that he had patches available. Alexandre responded that there are some critical parts of the design that need to be fleshed out because “the Wine maintainer is a pain in the ass.”
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I overheard a conversation between Ivan and Alexandre about copy protection that basically laid out a roadmap for getting it into Wine. There’s quite a bit of work involved since Alexandre would like to see a services.exe created that can be used to load the Safedisc drivers. In turn, that means there needs to be some communication with it, most likely via RPC, and that will require quite a bit of interface design.
Why do I care? 🙂 I believe it’s one of the main showstoppers for running windows games on linux. Okay, there’s always a lot of work on the DirectX emulation and stuff, but there are a lot of people able to help there. Supporting the ‘dark routines’ or intricacies of windows, which copy protection schemes rely on, seems like a lot more difficult , so less people commit themselves..
I don’t buy many games, but I do own Trackmania Sunrise, which I think is a marvelous game, yet simple in design. I believe it would run pretty well in wine, but right now it’s impossible due to the starforce protection… which I find a real pity! It is even more a pity when you realise the Trackmania Nations edition is even a free game but still has the copy protection applied!
So the day Wine will support Trackmania, I’ll be a happy linux gamer 😉 Please vote! 😉
Do you ever use Google to assist in debugging? 🙂 I do, sometimes. Mostly to see the usage of a particular function in a similar scenario. “Programming by example” 😉
Now Google has made this even easier by providing the Google code search.