So I got my brand-spanking new desktop machine today (my old one barely lasted two years before it gave up the ghost), and I thought it would be fun to keep track of everything that I do to get a machine all set up "properly" for my needs. Step 1: reformat. I don't care what machine I get, who I get it from, etc. I always reformat it first thing -- this way, I can be sure the machine is setup the way I want it to be with no happy surprises. Today, I booted my new machine once just
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Phew, thank goodness for Park Plaza's explanatory text on their fire escape route signs! Now I know that the "alarm sounds like" Whoop, Whoop. Because.. you know.. if it went Beep, Beep or Buzzzzzz, I'd simply assume that it wasn't really an alarm, but was in fact something entirely else. Back to SoCal tomorrow morning. Our flight (the first of three, anyway) takes off at 6:30am. BLEH!
Wow, what a whirlwind of wackiness. Sorry, alliteration just isn't working for me today. ;-) What I really meant to say is that I've been super busy as of late, and so things like blog postings tend to be few and far between. In no particular order: I've been working several long days (including the entire weekend) on some really awesome new compiler features for the next beta. I'd tell you what they are, but then I'd have to kill you. But those of you who are in the betas program will probably know what I'm talking about when the
So I use Facebook as a way to keep in contact with friends from back home, as well as family members. But lately, Facebook has been sucking significantly due to it's "Applications" crap. Now, I like add-ons as much as the next person, so long as I can ignore them (which is something I do vehemently with FB). However, now the applications my *friends* install start showing up on my news feed. That's all well and fine, except I really don't care which friend won what movie trivia challenge, etc. I want my news feed to be nice and clean
Everyone on the net seems to think this is impossible to do... however, they're wrong. You can exclude files and folders from Vista's backup and restore by adding them to the FilesNotToBackup registry key, which lives under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore. For instance, I don't want to back up my virtual machines for Virtual PC (why back up 4+ GB of stuff that's meant to be ephemeral??), so I added this to my registry: Name=VirtualPC Value="C:\Users\Aaron Ballman\Documents\My Virtual Machines\*" That will exclude all files and folders within my virtual machine folder. For more information about this and some official documentation, see MSDN.
I'm very proud of my big sister, who was one of 16 teachers picked as the Los Angeles County teacher of the year. To put this into perspective, there are over 80,000 teachers in LA County, and she was one of sixteen to win. Very freakin awesome! I went to the banquet last Friday honoring these teachers, and had a really nice time. It was held at the Hilton in Universal City, and took pretty much the entire day. There was a media event (my sis was on TV and in the newspapers!), as well as an awards ceremony, etc.
1) Declares are case sensitive on all platforms, so if you use them, make you pay attention to case. At the OS level, export tables are case sensitive, which means that the REALbasic linker needs to generate a case sensitive import table in order to work properly. Since REALbasic can't guess what the appropriate case is for a given declare, it's up to the programmer to get it right. Note that this rule may not apply to the library names themselves -- just the declares the library exposes. Case sensitive library names is going to be platform-dependant. 2) If you
Life is so much fun, right? So I bet you're wondering what I've been up to. No good, that's what! After 2007r2 was released, I dove right in to r3 for my day job. That's been keeping me pretty busy for most of my days. And when I'm not working on that, I've been preparing my REAL World 2007 presentations (which are due Friday of next week, in case any presenters are reading). In my oh-so-ample free time, I've been working on a project that I've wanted to work on for ages, but never found the time to. My accessibility
So I found this link while cruising Fark today, and I decided I would correct their silly little mistakes. While I agree that some of those people should be on that list, here's my top twelve (in no particular order) ugliest musicians: Tom Petty Michael Jackson Iggy Pop David Bowie Marilyn Manson Steven Tyler Meatloaf Courtney Love Weird Al Keith Richards Sid Vicious K D Lang It's also pretty tough to chose, so I left in some honorable mentions for people who could very well make the cut. Rob Zombie Tiny Tim Both of the Indigo Girls George Clinton
It's been a really busy last few days, but what's strange is that I really can't recall why. lol. Life has just sorta been whizzing by. I've done some more work shoring up the last debugger feature I plan to do for this release. It involved structured exception handling and signal processing, so it was a rather interesting project. I think it'll be well received in some circles. :-) It was also mostly just a technology experiment to see how well the framework can handle hardware exceptions. Since it seems to handle them well enough, it paves the way for
