I just caught wind a bit ago via this article (Japanese) from Lifehacker Japan and here from labnol.org that Microsoft is primed to release a beta version of Office 2010 dubbed “Starter” along with, but separate from, the other beta editions. While the other betas can be downloaded freely (available here from Microsoft), Starter must [...]
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Microsoft Office 2010 Starter: A good idea?
Posted in Tech, tagged Microsoft, Office on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: MuseScore
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, tagged music, open-source, software on November 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve had an interest in playing piano for a long time — a time mostly spent with wishful thinking that I could play rather than actually learning something. Though, over the course of trying to learn, I’ve had opportunity to try out a few computer-based music notation apps. I think I’ve finally found what I’ve [...]
Freakin’ Cool (kind of) App of the Week: Revealing Passwords with JavaScript
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Old, yet useful. Works in numerous browsers, not just Firefox. Just copy and paste the provided JavaScript (available here) as the URL in a bookmark, and click the bookmark on a page with an asterisked password entry field. All shall be revealed.
They really need JavaScript to read minds..
Actually, since Firefox can reveal all your saved [...]
I’m moving to Linux Mint
Posted in Tech on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry, Ubuntu, but I just can’t take it anymore. Linux Mint is my new bitch.
Actually, the real reason I’m switching is that I’ve managed to screw Ubuntu over again, and none of the solutions for the problem I’m having have worked (issues with locales). I just kept making it worse. And now I’ve pretty [...]
Programming project: TicTack
Posted in Programming on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After finding out Microsoft had released a free book for learning C++, I took them right up on it and downloaded it as soon as I could. The book is, well… not particularly well-proofread but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and say that the print edition is better.
Regardless, something about that book [...]
Hmm
Posted in Tech on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just read this on WebPagesThatSuck:
Recently there was an article about how popular web sites looked in the late 1990’s. While it’s interesting to see what Adobe or Apple looked liked back then, there isn’t much you can learn from these sites.
And I curiously wrote something eerily similar to what he’s describing (even with the [...]
HOWTO: openBVE on (Ubuntu) Linux
Posted in Tech, Tips on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While trying to remain as distribution-generic as I can, this HOWTO will, as a matter of course, focus on Debian and Ubuntu. This information is current as of openBVE 1.2 and Tao Framework 2.1.0.
If you just want it to work: openBVE is available in Ubuntu’s repository now (as of 9.04, see here), but it lags [...]
’90s Web design
Posted in Tech, tagged 90s, Internet, nostalgia, web, web design on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Something about the mid-1990s Web is intriguing. It’s very evocative of an amateurish spirit; perhaps one a bit more freeform than today’s. Dare I say it has a certain bit of charm about it.
But that’s not to say the designs were much good. Garish colors, terrible dithered GIFs, drop shadows, beveled edges and seamed tiled [...]
Passing by value and by reference, as I understand it
Posted in Programming on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spent a long, hard time yesterday trying to make sense of parameter passing. Oh, what a ‘joy’ it was. Just to make everyone else feel better about themselves, here’s my flawed understanding of it…at least in C++. Don’t take this to heart, because I guarantee there’re mistakes.
First, a couple definitions:
Parameter – what a function [...]
A few programming stumbling blocks
Posted in Programming on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so I (mostly) finished going through that book I mentioned the other day. Then I remembered that I have a book better-oriented toward C++, so I started reading it yesterday. It’s How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version. It’s also available for Java and Python, in various file formats.
I’ve read it with [...]
