http://www.albahari.com/value%20vs%20reference%20types.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2006/09/06/743437.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/07/02/twin-paths-to-garbage-collector-nirvana.aspx
http://nick.gravelyn.com/code/
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/10/12/monitoring-the-garbage-collector.aspx
http://forums.xna.com/thread/25600.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2004/11/29/271829.aspx
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
awesome toys site.
Lots of cool toys for ADULTS to play with are also on this site. If you have kids this would be a good place to start shopping for them.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Numbers Fun Facts
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
Its little things like this I enjoy in life.
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
Its little things like this I enjoy in life.
Monday, October 15, 2007
One Child, Remembered
One Child, Remembered
By Yosef Lewis
---------------------
In recollections of Holocaust literature by a younger self, Poland is a dark,
menacing place, a land of terrible facts, its streets paved with the headstones
culled from graves of the defenseless. A land fertilized with the ash of innocents.
A malignant evil to be forgotten, but always remembered.
The indelible stigma stuck. If I were ever to journey to that accursed land, it
would be to reclaim a Jewish pride once lost by the downcast countenances of the
Nazis' dehumanized victims. Pride, I felt, that would be restored with an indignant
stare at a neighbor who once stood idly by, saying with my speechless eyes more then
a million spoken words.
But now I feel only the silence of the unwritten word. Rays of shining sun are
splashing over our car, and in a freshly cut field a lone stork nibbles on leftovers
from the recent harvest. A growing stink wafting through window relays the smell of
freshly laid fertilizer. I notice the decrepit roads of yesteryear quickly turning
into the smooth highways we so take for granted in America.
In a rebuilt Warsaw, flashy Mercedes racing through the streets, buses a most awful
shade of yellow. The Tower of Culture looms over the city's skyline, a vapid and
weird present from Comrade Stalin to the people of Poland, the ugly bastard child of
a forgotten marriage. A funny communion of old and new can be seen on every street
corner. New, brightly lit grocery stores with the unlikely sight of a babushka's
selling sad bunches of wilted scallions and bouquets of summer flowers in their
doorways. Sleek 18-wheeler milk trucks stopped dead in their tracks by a lone
milking cow slowly drudging across the road.
And so I found myself walking through Sieradz, my grandmother's town, a town only
found by a most circuitous route from Warsaw, oh so calmly.
Our translator "shibbitzed" (a term coined in light of the prevalent "shibing" that
is found in just about every Polish word) with an older couple. Lounging on a lazy
Sunday afternoon with family. "You want to talk with the old man up the road, he
remembers the Nazis" the husband says.
I strained to understand the quick chatter between the translator and the old man.
Spittle flying from his mouth and a lone tooth had me fixated. "When they came, the
Jews were quickly herded into a small ghetto, no communication or trade were
allowed." Though interesting, the story of ghettoization was one I'd heard many
times.
But then, swallowing hard he began tell the story of the final Aktion ("operation").
"We weren't all bad, we tried to help." A small gasp, a trickle of a tear. "The red
church you saw in the middle of town had its doors locked, all of Sieradz's Jews
crammed inside" wiping his finger across his nose, as tears streamed more steadily
down his face. "The doors were locked for two weeks, screams and cries of thirst
haunting the whole town. When they finally opened the door a stench spewed from
inside, feces and dead bodies sprawled about in cadence of horror. But slowly and
unbelievably a child staggered out, his face pallid and white, the face of death."
By now the old man's face was a wet mess as he wept the horrible memory. "A SS man
nonchalantly walked up to the child, and grabbing him by his legs, flung him in onto
the street in the path of a passing army jeep."
Parched wind pushed loudly through the car's open window, draining whatever remained
of the day's energies, as I thought over the day's experiences. Realizing, slowly,
that I did not need to look upon Bubby's neighbors with righteous indignation, as
the burning shame of passivity was alive and well, sixty years later, without my
stare. Crystallizing slowly over time has been the singular obligation of telling
the story of that child's last moments. Though not dissimilar to the ending of the
rest of the six million, every record is a truth, and I doubt that this nameless
child has been remembered since his horrible death. May this record be his Kaddish.
By Yosef Lewis
---------------------
In recollections of Holocaust literature by a younger self, Poland is a dark,
menacing place, a land of terrible facts, its streets paved with the headstones
culled from graves of the defenseless. A land fertilized with the ash of innocents.
A malignant evil to be forgotten, but always remembered.
The indelible stigma stuck. If I were ever to journey to that accursed land, it
would be to reclaim a Jewish pride once lost by the downcast countenances of the
Nazis' dehumanized victims. Pride, I felt, that would be restored with an indignant
stare at a neighbor who once stood idly by, saying with my speechless eyes more then
a million spoken words.
But now I feel only the silence of the unwritten word. Rays of shining sun are
splashing over our car, and in a freshly cut field a lone stork nibbles on leftovers
from the recent harvest. A growing stink wafting through window relays the smell of
freshly laid fertilizer. I notice the decrepit roads of yesteryear quickly turning
into the smooth highways we so take for granted in America.
In a rebuilt Warsaw, flashy Mercedes racing through the streets, buses a most awful
shade of yellow. The Tower of Culture looms over the city's skyline, a vapid and
weird present from Comrade Stalin to the people of Poland, the ugly bastard child of
a forgotten marriage. A funny communion of old and new can be seen on every street
corner. New, brightly lit grocery stores with the unlikely sight of a babushka's
selling sad bunches of wilted scallions and bouquets of summer flowers in their
doorways. Sleek 18-wheeler milk trucks stopped dead in their tracks by a lone
milking cow slowly drudging across the road.
And so I found myself walking through Sieradz, my grandmother's town, a town only
found by a most circuitous route from Warsaw, oh so calmly.
Our translator "shibbitzed" (a term coined in light of the prevalent "shibing" that
is found in just about every Polish word) with an older couple. Lounging on a lazy
Sunday afternoon with family. "You want to talk with the old man up the road, he
remembers the Nazis" the husband says.
I strained to understand the quick chatter between the translator and the old man.
Spittle flying from his mouth and a lone tooth had me fixated. "When they came, the
Jews were quickly herded into a small ghetto, no communication or trade were
allowed." Though interesting, the story of ghettoization was one I'd heard many
times.
But then, swallowing hard he began tell the story of the final Aktion ("operation").
"We weren't all bad, we tried to help." A small gasp, a trickle of a tear. "The red
church you saw in the middle of town had its doors locked, all of Sieradz's Jews
crammed inside" wiping his finger across his nose, as tears streamed more steadily
down his face. "The doors were locked for two weeks, screams and cries of thirst
haunting the whole town. When they finally opened the door a stench spewed from
inside, feces and dead bodies sprawled about in cadence of horror. But slowly and
unbelievably a child staggered out, his face pallid and white, the face of death."
By now the old man's face was a wet mess as he wept the horrible memory. "A SS man
nonchalantly walked up to the child, and grabbing him by his legs, flung him in onto
the street in the path of a passing army jeep."
Parched wind pushed loudly through the car's open window, draining whatever remained
of the day's energies, as I thought over the day's experiences. Realizing, slowly,
that I did not need to look upon Bubby's neighbors with righteous indignation, as
the burning shame of passivity was alive and well, sixty years later, without my
stare. Crystallizing slowly over time has been the singular obligation of telling
the story of that child's last moments. Though not dissimilar to the ending of the
rest of the six million, every record is a truth, and I doubt that this nameless
child has been remembered since his horrible death. May this record be his Kaddish.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
iphonelockbox, this is just asking for it.
Image installing this application on your Iphone, your asking for trouble. Shit keeping all your passwords and CC accounts on a single phone. Not that its so hard to really get this information from people to begin with. So I guess the real solution is to make sure you actually watch your bills for fraud and report it when it happens, no matter how small it is. I was a victim of fraud once (that I know of), I got almost 40k sucked out of my bank. The best part is the account did not even have that amount left in it.
Monday, September 17, 2007
MadTV Syphilis Girl
This video cracks me up, living in Las Vegas the clubs look just like that to me.
Friday, September 14, 2007
iphone-dev - Google Code
Here are some instructions for boot strapping a cross compiler for IPhone. I have not tried it out yet, but it looks like it should work since the apple headers the most important information on what function are going to be called for the code. I have yet to see a IPhone emulator, that would be nice : ) Maybe it will come along with the secret IPhone SDK that apple has.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
lidgren-library-network
Lidgren.Library.Network is a pure c# networking library using a single udp socket which delivers a simple API for connecting a client to a server, reading and sending messages.
Alternatives to Numerical Recipes
I'd like to add C# to these Recipes, not that C# is going to be useful , but it could lead to good examples of C# and Math combined.
Fog Of War Source Code Article
Fog of war is a cool technique used in a lot of strategy games. Focused Games presents a simple example of how to use FOW.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions
A very good collection of mathematical functions in one book. It's also free to download!
Function Memoization
This could be very useful for creating caches in algorithmic function that might computed more than once. Such as the fibonacci numbers, as provided in this example.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Neo-Nazi's found in Israel...
It is a very sad day to read this. Even the thought of it makes me sick. I hope the mossad has kept good records of all people that have been in contact with these Russians. I also hope that they are getting good treatment at the jails in Israel.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The fonts seem crisp in VS 2008 Beta 2
It could be me just seeing things, but the VS UI has added some font changes and gradients to the color scheme.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
My old skool days of knowing xterm colors is over!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Another phidget I dont need.
The IPod wheel has been a winning in the device market. So much that I know companies that patent the idea of using a wheel (just like the IPod).
Thursday, August 23, 2007
.NET IRC and Bots.
Some IRC libraries and chat clients for a project idea I have.
http://www.codeplex.com/GibberMonkey/
http://smuxi.meebey.net/jaws/?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartirc4net/
Cool bot ideas, all tho they are little old.
http://prelude.lennart-lopin.de/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spikenet
http://abbot.berlios.de/
I have been programming with wpf/C#/.NET and it seems to be easy to bang out something quick. It would be nice to have a 3d IRC client. The key to making a good 3d IRC client would be the type of key bindings it has and the way you can arrange the windows inside of the 3d environment. Maybe this weekend I will have some "free" time and get this done.
http://www.codeplex.com/GibberMonkey/
http://smuxi.meebey.net/jaws/?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartirc4net/
Cool bot ideas, all tho they are little old.
http://prelude.lennart-lopin.de/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spikenet
http://abbot.berlios.de/
I have been programming with wpf/C#/.NET and it seems to be easy to bang out something quick. It would be nice to have a 3d IRC client. The key to making a good 3d IRC client would be the type of key bindings it has and the way you can arrange the windows inside of the 3d environment. Maybe this weekend I will have some "free" time and get this done.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Syntax Highlighting Tool
Blogger does not have integrated syntax highlighting. So here is a quick solution.
My OpenBSD way of having colored man pages.
Here is something you can put in your .bashrc file for colored man pages:
#
# My OpenBSD way of having colored man pages. Its kind of nasty.
alias vmore="/usr/local/share/vim/vim70/macros/less.sh"
function vman {
manfiles=`man -w $1`
for manfile in $manfiles;
do
col -b < $manfile | vmore -V0 -i NONE -c "set verbose=0 ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE" -
done
}
# My OpenBSD way of having colored man pages. Its kind of nasty.
alias vmore="/usr/local/share/vim/vim70/macros/less.sh"
function vman {
manfiles=`man -w $1`
for manfile in $manfiles;
do
col -b < $manfile | vmore -V0 -i NONE -c "set verbose=0 ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE" -
done
}
Controlling Storybord Class
Today got burned by storyboard. So a tip I have is storyboard.Begin(this,true); since Storyboard class will not throw an exception if its not able to stop. This kind of seems a lot different then most other classes in .NET and WPF. If the function is not enabled or able to be used why the hell wouldn't it throw an exception! Who knows, just another hacked together thing by Microsoft.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Anatomy of the Linux networking stack
Here is a simple article on the Linux network stack. Nothing ground breaking but a nice read or refresher if you have not done any kernel programming in awhile.
Friday, August 10, 2007
New book I must read.
Some people seem to keep on being productive. Its amazing how much shit this guy has done.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
IPhone Hackers Rock!
I still do not have an IPhone, but a coworkers has one and we have been hacking around on it. The toolchain needs to be ported to x86 linux some time soon (Like when I buy a IPhone.)
Slut - suffering from a sex addiction (female)
PC phrases are great!
[...]
Stud - suffering from a sex addiction (male)
Stupid - differently-brained
Stupid - intellectually impaired
The Elderly - Senior citizens
Thin - horizontally challenged
Thirsty - osmotically challenged
Tone Deaf - musically delayed
Too old/young - other aged
Too Tall - people of height
Tree-Hugger - environmental activist
Trees - Oxygen Exchange Units
Ugly - aesthetically challenged
Ugly - Cosmetically different.
Ugly - facially challenged
Unemployed - Involuntarily leisured.
[...]
[...]
Stud - suffering from a sex addiction (male)
Stupid - differently-brained
Stupid - intellectually impaired
The Elderly - Senior citizens
Thin - horizontally challenged
Thirsty - osmotically challenged
Tone Deaf - musically delayed
Too old/young - other aged
Too Tall - people of height
Tree-Hugger - environmental activist
Trees - Oxygen Exchange Units
Ugly - aesthetically challenged
Ugly - Cosmetically different.
Ugly - facially challenged
Unemployed - Involuntarily leisured.
[...]
Another site for jewish music.
This site has more folk and traditional type music, no hardcore rap by Subliminal.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
IPSCAN for Windows.
Cant wait to play with this tool, now that I am a full time windows xp and vista luser. Switching development environments sucks, but there are some good pro's to development on windows platforms. Such as the nice sdk's with lots of example code.
Remote Exploit's BackTrack.
BackTrack looks almost like a complete distro of security tools for basic needs. I think a USB boot image should be provided.
Top 100 security tools list is out.
It might of been out for awhile, its nice to see new projects and some of the old ones are still around. Its amazing how much OpenBSD has lost its popularity, I guess its due to the rejection of the development community attitudes.
The PC PC.
The Politically Correct PC or also known as Vista!!! Vista is so PC, if it finds bad content on your Cdrom drive it will try and format it for you. Even if the CD has already been formatted and can't be written too! Also, if you want to explore folders on a floppy drive in Explorer, since floppy's are old Vista takes the Politically Correct route and does not open the floppy or even better, system crashes. There are tons of things vista wont let you do since its not PC! Its the PC PC.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
I still do not have an IPhone!!
I still do not have an IPhone!! Some of my friends have them and they are great! There is nothing missing, the UI is wonderful and it comes with head phones that I have always wanted. I hated the head phones for cell phones. Most of them come with a mic but the V shape to the single wire of the headphone, it is all off centered because they join at the mic. The IPhone comes with a very tiny mic that you can push as a button to answer calls. The head phones are the same shape as the IPod head phones which I really like. Anyways, here is a f![]()
unny picture from the SMS Mailbox.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
IntelliSense Dies
If you use Team Explorer and auto check out by typing in a source file IntelliSense might die. This happens to me when the objects you want to use are outside of the current project but not in the .NET framework. Best solution is to restart the IDE and things might be normal again.
Changes to Xaml does not force a recompile in Debug
Visual Studio 2008 is still dumb to when xaml source code needs to be recompiled. When changes are made to the xaml code and you want to run it under the debugger the IDE should recompile the code for you. Guess what, it doesn’t. This was also a problem I had with the Visual Studio 2005 Orcas Plugin (or whatever it was called).
Exception Window for Xaml Code.
The VS Orcas team thinks there pretty slick, now when you change a line of xaml and don’t recompile the IDE will tell you there is an exception. This is great when you want to check for them, but not when you are editing code! How do these guys think up this stuff. One of the first things they should of done is stopped the IDE from crashing from bad or even good xaml code. Now I face the problem that one of my usercontrols crashes the IDE when another application try's to load it. The usercontrol works fine during run time but crashes during editing time! This usercontrol is very simple, three rectangles and one line.. This might be too much for the new powerful Orcas IDE to handle! Remember just to press ESC when ever loading the designer part of Visual Studio Orcas, because it tends never to work.
Microsoft Robotics Studio and Lego Mindstorms NXT
I'm going to finally put my NXT to use. One more item I need to get is a wireless camera, then I could create a simple bot to rom around parts of the house. I could even build a track close to the ceiling that the robot could track around. That sounds like a cooler idea!
Thursday, July 12, 2007
East-West Cassino
This must be the craziest patent that I have ever seen. All kinds of spelling errors and insane rants. If you have time and want a good laugh I suggest you check this one out. If any of it makes sense to you please let me know.
Monday, June 25, 2007
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