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Computers And Schools
Needless to say, Computers, and the internet, have become nearly ubiquitous today. And it’s no surprise that they have found a spot in our schools. [...]
What exactly is a Computer?
Whenever a new “discovery” is made of an ancient device like this one, it sparks debates about wether such a device is or is not a computer; in [...]
a rant about “download managers”
So I was bored and decided to update my Flash plugin, a chore that I recollect stopping in it’s tracks previously, for reasons I couldn’t [...]
Microsoft and why the mob-thinking is wrong.
Microsoft. It’s unheard of to find a person who hasn’t at least used a Microsoft product; it’s even less likely to find somebody who [...]
Porting BASeBlock To Linux, and thoughts on Mono
No, Not the kissing disease, Infectious mononucleosis, the open-source .NET CLR interpreter and class library. .NET; I might have ranted about this before, [...]
An old Devlog…
I was looking over some of my old project folders, and I found a 54-page (well, 54K text file) development log (devlog.txt) for my VB6 version of [...]
Unexpectedly Comedic blog posts
We often hear marketing speak, and management speak- usually it’s just a bunch of meaningless words. Sometimes this type of stuff can be used to [...]
It’s not network lag unless there is a network involved.
In the early days of networked gaming (I mean, the days of Doom- (not to things like imaginet)) connections were slow. If a game or application tried to [...]
The importance of keyboard layout
For the user interface between a user and a computer, the basic options are mouse, and keyboard. Of course, joypads and joysticks are available and can be [...]
How Vista ruined my computing habits
As with most people, when Vista was first released/announced, I was skeptical. Perhaps it was the rather high system requirements compared to XP, or, far [...]