Just some stuff I thought about today. Here’s a fibonacci function expressed in Lisp: (defun fibonacci (n) (if (<= n 1) n (+ (fibonacci (- n 1)) (fibonacci (- n 2))))) It can be used to compute the fibonacci sequence: => (mapcar #’fibonacci ‘(1 2 3 4 5 …
Note: These project templates have not been tested in XCode 4 but I do intend to revisit this and make sure everything is kept up to date. Here are a couple of Project templates I made for XCode 3.2. One for a WxWidgets based project (wxMac 2.8), and one for a GLUT project. Hope they …
I am forced to use a Windows based laptop in work and one of the more frustrating features is the updates that get pushed out by the IT ‘services’ group. Of course, updates are a good thing, but we do them during downtime when it won’t disrupt actual work. Here are the things I most …
I just ordered one of these kits The mainboard is supplied unassembled. The fact that computers contain hardware is something I can normally overlook. Hardware can spasm out of control, fizzle and burn in impressive colours or simply die slowly, bit-by-bit (if you’ll excuse the pun). I’d be happy to own a computer that operated …
This is an automated message from corporate I.T. We shut down your computer last night. Oh, we installed some updates first. You are too dumb to manually install updates, so we force them upon you at inconvenient times. Sorry for any inconvenience, loss of data, waste of time, closing all your browser pages, etc. Enjoy …
I almost missed this. Here’s a video of a very smart chap (Stephen Fry) celebrating 25 years of Free Software. In doing so he provides a clear and simple insight into the meaning and importance of freedom. http://www.gnu.org/fry/
I finally did something I should have done a long time ago and bought a macBook. It’s wonderful – like Linux only hardware works; like Windows only it doesn’t look like crap…and hardware works.A lot of thing on Windows I had started to take for granted: “If I want to do this, I must first …
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