It was inevitable. I believe the Mail.app mail client that we all love has been exploited. (Or, given the benefit of the doubt, this could be an obscure bug of some kind, or related to some other compromise somewhere else in the system - i.e...
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March 03, 2005
A nice tip for XCode users
Something I learned, lost, and recently rediscovered. There is a pragma tag that will allow you to separate your functions in the function drop-down menu in the editor. #pragma mark -
#pragma mark < Name >The first line above draws a nice line...
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March 07, 2005
I have been in the vacuum too long.
I've been in the vacuum too long. Now, I just want to finish my thesis work so that I can move on to something different for a while. Looking back, I can say that life would have been simpler if I had chosen to do only a simulation but I wouldn't have learned as much.
March 08, 2005
Widgets I would like to see
I posted these suggestions on , *ops* didn't realize I was supposed to suggest only one. Since I really would like to see these kinds of widgets, and haven't nearly enough time to tackle any of them...
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March 10, 2005
Memory Leak in libtar-1.2.11
Okay, so I've discovered that there are memory leaks in libtar-1.2.11, and at one point I thought that I had located them... but I haven't. It seems that the project's programmer implemented his own linked list structure...
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March 16, 2005
ZeroLink to standard libraries in XCode without errors.
So, on one of the list I follow a fellow posted an entry like: "I'm using XCode and ZeroLink and linking against the math library using -lm, when ZeroLink is off the build works, but when ZeroLink is on I get linker errors. What should I do?"Of course...
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March 18, 2005
My thesis project: one day it will work, just not today.
I've been pulling my hair out since Monday trying to get the newly revamped Beta code for my thesis project to run correctly on Linux. What I found was that GPGME 1.x wasn't working correctly because I didn't compile my code with Large File Support...
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March 20, 2005
I'm in the lab today. When I stopped to get the key, the security guard was sleeping in front of his monitor. At least he looked awake. It took him about a minute to realize somebody was at the counter asking for help...
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March 24, 2005
A nice thing about iWorks'05
I can draw a diagram using Omni Graffle, copy the drawing onto the clip board and paste it wholesale into Pages. No exporting or saving it as an image. Ahhh.... perfection.
March 26, 2005
Aspiring to STL Mastery
You know you're well on the way to mastering the STL when you start using declarations like this in your code...map< string, list< pair<SDSFile, string> > > workToReturn;
map< string, list< pair<SDSFile...
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March 31, 2005
I'm trying to remember...
I'm trying to remember how quiet Europe is. There are precious few quiet places here in Tulsa.
