I got remote debugging working today for RB 6. It's a whole new protocol (which I'll probably expound on at a later date) and a total rewrite of the stub and IDE functionality. I did most of the work for the file transfer part of it ages ago (like back in May!), so it was basically just hooking things up. After a few minor hiccups with things, I am able to run remote from Windows->Windows and Windows->OS X. I'm assuming it'll work in reverse (but obviously I'll have to test it) as well as with Linux. I just don't have the time to do that testing right now. Yeesh!
We had a few sales guys saunter into our office today. What's weird about this is the fact that our front door stays locked -- you need a keycode to get in. They just snuck in while some maint. workers were on their way out. So to counteract this rather brash approach, our salesguy (Matt) walked them back to the door under the guise of wanting to listen to them. Then he said "let's talk out here" and walked them into the hallway. Finally, he told them "we have a secure office, and not just anyone can come waltzing into it. Thanks for your time." and walked back inside. Damn was it funny watching him handle those two goons. They couldn't even get to their schpeel because Matt worked em over so well. Certainly made my morning brighter.
I think I am going to play some racquetball tonight after work. I'll prolly leave late again (haven't decided how late though) so I can get some more stuff take care of. But it'll be nice to get out and play a bit too.
I've been looking at houses online for the last week or so. I want to get an idea of what I can buy and how much it'll cost, etc. I've mostly been looking around central MN since that's where I'm from. But I think I am going to focus on getting a home near Becker/Clearwater/Clear Lake/Monticello. I'm not going to truly start looking (like to purchase) until after I've moved back though, so my plans may change.
I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the other night -- damn, what a good movie! But it's sad too. Who thought that frontal labotomies was a good idea? I mean, you basically take a stick, shove it up someone's nose, stir their brain around and figure "eh, he'll be more calm now." Cripe! Calm? They're a vegetable! :: sighs :: Anyways, if you've never seen the movie, go rent it -- it's well worth your time.
oh yeah lobotomies.
Well, in the 1920's we had a very renowed neurosurgeon in montréal Dr Wilder Penfield. He was famous for his work on epilepsia, he used local anaesthetic to open the skull of patient and probe their brain tissue with his finger, the patient still awake with the skull open would then tell him what happen, like "I smell chocolate" or "I fell cold". That's how he mapped the brain ( location of memory, dream etc ). Anyways between that he also did normal excisions of brain tumor. In 1935 he presented a conference where he explained the result of one of his patient, who was his own sister, which had her frontal lobes removed because of a brain tumor, ( she died in 1931, 3 years after the operation ). He noted that she kept her mental abilities, but the procedure had a pronunced disabling effect.
Attending the conference was a portuguese neurologist, Dr. Egas Moniz. He kind of connected the dot : excisions of frontol lobe = mental abilities intact but disabling effect. So he went on to commercialise this as a way to cure mental illness. He got a nobel prize in 1949 for that strike of genius.
It was an american that invented and popularized the shove-stick-up-nose method. Dr. Walter Freeman, was a self-described "medical messiah who spread the gospel", entertaining caracter...
It was the second discoveries of Dr Penfield that turned wrong, the first was that you can drastically improve the memory of people with small electric current in the cortex. Then some people turned that into electroshock, but they tried to "fry" the memory.
Matt corrected me this morning. He never thanked them. :-P
Wow -- that's something I never knew! Thanks for the history lesson (and sorry about the moderation queue picking your post up). :-)
As for houses, make sure you don't settle for anything -- ESPECIALLY with interest rates so low. IMHO, get a house that you really like and you can keep the payments low (or get a more expensive house). When rates get back up there, you won't have to upgrade the house cause the one you first bought sucks.
There are new houses going into my subdivision. Pretty nice ;) Andrea and I looked between CW and Medina. Even Monticello seemed a little overpriced for my tastes. As the Cities are moving north, you may want to get a place that's fairly isolated from the overpriced Twin Cities effect (Monticello-ish and north). When the Cities gobbles up St. Cloud, you'll be able to sell your house for cash money. Bling.
@Adam -- I agree. I'm not going to settle for anything, and I plan on finding a house in a growing area so that the resale value goes up.