I'm at Walmart for new tires. There's a two hour wait, but one new tire cost $37. It is hard to beat that. The only bad thing about the prices here is that it takes them 3 times as long to do anything. It has been an hour and twenty minutes. :(
July 03, 2005
Re-inspired...
Being in the a computer lab with 56 PC's sitting idle for most of the day has renewed my zeal for my thesis project. After working so long and hard on the code that runs the system, I had started to believe that the work wasn't entirely worth it...
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July 08, 2005
Oldest first could be better
There seems to be a de facto standard among search engines (of all natures) to give preference to newer material. It occurs to me that this is more of a hinderance than a help when conducting research. It seems that finding the oldest material first would be the most beneficial approach.
July 10, 2005
Want a good laugh?
If you are a Unix developer and you want a good laugh, read through Microsoft's documentation for createDirectory() . Specifically, assume that you DON'T want to simply inherit the security settings from the parent directory, so follow the link for the SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure...
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July 15, 2005
Macosxhints to the rescue
I am one of the people who does not like Safari displaying PDF files. I want to down load them and read them in preview, thank you very much. The tip from was apparently slightly incorrect and subsequently removed, but it was close enough to figure the rest out...
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July 16, 2005
An early morning
After 4 hours of sleep, I am up again to go work in the lab. I'm working a double shift today to make up the hours I missed because of July 4th.
July 21, 2005
A new OS exploit
There seems to be a new OS X exploit out there. Somehow, someone is causing an NFS volume called Library to be mounted: (/Network/Library). This can only be bad news. When I try clicking on the volume for information, I get nothing. They changed the default view from icon to column...
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July 23, 2005
Sorry Saif
Ops... fat-fingered Saif's last name on my links page .... which he so graciously pointed out on his links page :Old Sears co-worker - who at least at first - couldn't spell my last name it seems... K H A N! lolHe he he... I found Saif last time using GeoURL.org...
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July 25, 2005
VC++ 6.x doesn't support the addrinfo structure
The version of Visual C++ that I have doesn't support the addrinfo structure :( I'm upgrading the Platform SDK, I wonder if this will help. I know they have support for addrinfo, because it is on MSDN. :( I just hope I can make the compiler I have work......
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