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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Slightly truths - equipment frustration ++ (approx.)

Living in the world of software and is does not someone of material, usually need confidence that the equipment is ok. My new PC (no name because I like the and this is my 2nd) began starts for the first time yesterday and frozen to halfway through it. Death as a dodo. It was the end of the installation for Windows 7, which was not a good sign. Fortunately, he had the good grace, not die until after I had received the login account setup, and it has sussed LAN.

Windows 7 does not really differ much from XP (although 64-bit, more ram, more gentle and softer but otherwise identical) and after the safe mode startup and rooting in the event log viewer, I find the error - error code cryptic "c:\windows\Pather\setup.etl" 3221225485 and employment have fortunately as Google. Certain aspects of the power management was not pleasant and moving blue my PC for testing. Disabling the high precision event timer to BIOS Setup screen management fixed it and it is now usable at least. Next comes the fun bit. Migrating my my old PC without reinstalling software...

Frustration 2 has discovered that a web server rent for some web sites had been "improved" to a new server box and that they had missed some Apache modules such as mcrypt broken form captcha contact and gzip compression modules. Two well heard arrived at the end of week, which is at this time support weekends off the ground, so I expect answers Monday.

The point is that change is not always a good thing and a certain amount of "friction" comes with the territory. You need patience allows attitude "try a few things. My Manager at work never put at its software except for firearms.

Put yourself in shoes user of your try and anticipate problems with upgrades, etc., all errors, provide test tools and Advisor of what to do if key files are missing etc. The most important lesson is never trust the user to that say that they are "not I delete the file password", te confused and so on. Always check with tools, newspapers, etc.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Is it you pay $19 for the code? (Approx.)

From a command line compiler Windows c? If you want to make a C command-line compiler and then you can download Miracle C. $19 Gets you the compiler source code, the linker and the preprocessor.

Personally if I was interested in the C compilers, I see this as a case. Yes there are many free C compiler, but that $19 also gets you the Tadeusz Szocik developer technical support, and which is generally much. I would expect support wants to use the compiler, but I bet that if you show interest in the operation, it can give (speculation on my part!) you clues on its functioning.

Shareware is how the authors made before money software Internet and advertising came along. If someone has used C-miracle, I would like to hear.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Get imprisoned for free download? (Approx.)

A few years ago to United Kingdom, a law was passed that criminalized possession of hacking tools. I think it is stupid, because many tools have legitimate uses. It seems an injustice if you had been imprisoned unless you really, knowingly, intentionally had done something wrong. Possession of hacking tools can throw you in two years in prison and use for ten years.

The news was filled with recent events involving Wikileaks and DDOS attacks by the anonymous group against those that it believes are conspiring against Wikileaks. They used a tool that is freely available on sourceforge.NET and is written in c# opensource.

Why is that I am mentioning it? Because if you come by in prison by having a copy of the low Earth orbit Ion Cannon, you'd probably denied access to visit the United States (committed an indictable offence... sorry you refused entry) even if it is not (AFAIK) a criminal offence, he possesses the United States!

Just repeat the point, while it is probably unlikely that anyone at the United Kingdom will get trapped, just to get the source code, just be aware that if you use, it does not hide your IP address and bad things can happen. 16 Years Netherlands (4th paragraph in the history of the New York Times) has been arrested.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

What is the Creative coding? (Approx.)

Best that I can do, it is a loosely defined term but covers the use of computer programs in art as a real-life installation art, interactive video, public projections on a large scale computer vision projects and interactive sound recordings etc.. If you are familiar with the open-source language processing, then you'll have a good feel for what creative coding is.

Treatment is however written in Java, but the C++ world has its own system open-source creative coding and it is called Cinder. Summarizing the words "Cinder is a powerful and intuitive cross-platform toolkit for graphics, audio, video, programming, networking, image processing and computational geometry." "Usually the same exact code runs under Mac OS X, Windows and other platforms more recently iPhone and iPad", although Linux support seems a bit low at present.

Simply Cinder is a C++ library that allows you to draw and to make things like particle, animated for input devices. Flight404 has examples of use of Cinder. If you want to experiment with say stolen algorithms then Cinder enables you to do so. You can even use it with Kinect for entry!

Initially Cinder started life as a project internal services and digital creation of interactive, advertising company because they wanted a little more offered treatment. Now it offers Mac & PC independent windowing native platform and management events, screensavers, Internet e S, flat files, I/O and memory, resource networks, a soul in C++, iOS support applications and about events in the user interface, XML parser and more.

Friday, December 10, 2010

What is the Creative coding? (Approx.)

Best that I can do, it is a loosely defined term but covers the use of computer programs in art as a real-life installation art, interactive video, public projections on a large scale computer vision projects and interactive sound recordings etc.. If you are familiar with the open-source language processing, then you'll have a good feel for what creative coding is.

Treatment is however written in Java, but the C++ world has its own system open-source creative coding and it is called Cinder. Summarizing the words "Cinder is a powerful and intuitive cross-platform toolkit for graphics, audio, video, programming, networking, image processing and computational geometry." "Usually the same exact code runs under Mac OS X, Windows and other platforms more recently iPhone and iPad", although Linux support seems a bit low at present.

Simply Cinder is a C++ library that allows you to draw and to make things like particle, animated for input devices. Flight404 has examples of use of Cinder. If you want to experiment with say stolen algorithms then Cinder enables you to do so. You can even use it with Kinect for entry!

Initially Cinder started life as a project internal services and digital creation of interactive, advertising company because they wanted a little more offered treatment. Now it offers Mac & PC independent windowing native platform and management events, screensavers, Internet e S, flat files, I/O and memory, resource networks, a soul in C++, iOS support applications and about events in the user interface, XML parser and more.