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May 2003 - CraigBlog
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As part of my occasional “science in the morning” postings:
The Washington Post had this
article this morning, describing an exciting discovery in the field of cell biology.
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Tim Bray has an interesting piece that
he summarizes as
Journalism
su...
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A few people pointed to this
link. It’s a (roughly) 500MB video of what appears to be a demonstration
of what’s coming in Half-Life 2. It took me about four hours to download the
sucker, but…wow. And…wow. I want this game yesterday.
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Like many programmers, I subscribe to a handful of fairly active mailing
lists. After a while, you start to recognize names, since something like 90% of the
traffic on a list comes from the same 5% of the membership. Read a little longer,
and you can even sort of get to know people you’ve never met in person.
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After getting pretty well fed up with the extreme email latency I’ve
been dealing with on and off this week (imagine trying to sync source code with someone
by email when it takes twenty hours to arrive), I decided to set up my own email server.
I didn’t have too much in mind other than that it should be free. Fortunately,
IR...
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There has been remarkably little
media discussion about the upcoming FCC decision, which looks set to pave the way
for further homogenization of the media market. Pretty much everyone except giant
media companies appears to think this is a bad idea. Especially interesting is
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This link has
an amusing and interesting discussion of how the authors of “The Matrix
Reloaded” made use of a real-life cracker tool in the movie. Gotta love touches
like this.
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Quicken was broken
When running as non-admin
Now it’s working again
So apparently whatever stupid, administrative-privilege-needing thing Quicken
was doing was a startup issue, because now that I’ve used it a few times and
confi...
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Raj Chaudhuri posted a
comment trying to help me with
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I see Greg has announced that
NewsGator 1.2 will be available tomorrow. Cool. I love NewsGator because I live in
Outlook. His latest
post suggests that support for IBlogExten...
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There’s
been a lot of talk about developers not running as admin. I’ve been successfully
doing it for a few months now. Tonight I hit my first real roadblock: Quicken.
So far...
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I had asked my wife (then girlfriend) as we were driving all my possessions across the country en route to Washington D.C.: What would it look like if an asteroid slammed into the Earth? My idea was to write a visual simulation of this. From there...
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I've used my brand-spanking new content creation system to post an article here . Here's what it's about: One of the great things about working at DevelopMentor is access to the internal mailing lists. Being able to send a message off to that particular...
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BlogX is great for posting little blurbs that occur to me. But it doesn't have a good facility for writing long-form pieces, like the Direct3D tutorial series I've been working on. So I set out to write one myself. I wanted it to be based on XSLT so I...
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Hugh Brown posted this link over on the WinTech Off-Topic Mailing List recently. I've seen it before, but it's one of my all-time favorites. Following the advice contained in this gem will greatly increase your chances of getting a good answer...
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