Vista rocks

Picture of UAC missing continue button .

iPhone picture post

My friend tied the knot as a pimp.

Roadmap for Subtext, anything blogish C# rocks!

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.

My emailed blog post

I was looking for a way to post via my iPhone :>

Sent from my iPhone

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.

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.

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.

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.

My old skool days of knowing xterm colors is over!

I had to lookup xtermcolors today for my PS1 shell variable. Its sad, I spent a lot of my computer youth on BSDand Linuxsystems. Now I feel like a unix newbie again! Thats what happens when you program windows systems in .NET . But the rush of rapid development is always a plus!

Trying to get back into NetBSD.

I had no idea why 3ddesktop was running so slow. Well now I know, DRI is not enabled by default on X.Org in NetBSD. It looks like NetBSD has no real support yet for DRM/DRI.

Awsome .screenrc file.

cool screenrc file.

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).

.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.

The best deal on a lock picking set.

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
}

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.

Design Patterns

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.

New book I must read.

Some people seem to keep on being productive. Its amazing how much shit this guy has done.

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.

[...]

Another site for jewish music.

This site has more folk and traditional type music, no hardcore rap by Subliminal.

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.

stupid insane signs

This video rocks!

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 funny picture from the SMS Mailbox.

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!

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.

Matzah!

You have to click on this link, funny JibJab Matzah Hip Hop Animation.

Funny bush kid

JibJab has a great collection of funny videos.

Gates vs. Jobs

Family.Show

Nice software that shows a lot of nice controls for wpf. There is source code.

Fishy @ Ebaums

This game is way to much fun!

Nice PhotoHandler in .NET

Poker Bot Artificial Intelligence Resources

Nice site for poker bot developers.

The 2/4 Rule For Calculating Odds

This is a dirty rule for texas holdem, some people swear by it... I think its a good starting point.. But I'm a fake poker player. Here are some other texas holdem links:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MoreTexasHoldemAnalysis1.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MoreTexasHoldemAnalysis2.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/pokerhandevaldoc.asp

Crazy Ass Quantification

Proff That Online Poker Is Rigged!

HAHAHA, this is too funny.

Design Patterns for Searching in C#

http://www.frontiernet.net/~fredm/dps/Contents.htm

ukraine army fun commercial

The Matrix as directed by Kusturica