Archives » March, 2005

Back to Gaim

No disrespect to the Miranda developers, the product is great, and I will definitely consider using it once they get the MSN HTTP Gateway issues worked out. If you don’t need to use MSN behind a firewall or proxy, then by all means try Miranda, it’s a great IM product.
I have been trying for [...]

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Because when you think 1337, you think Microsoft.

In searching around the net today, I came across this page on Microsoft.com: A parent’s primer to computer slang.
Granted, ti’s relatively informative for parents, however, it’s always amusing to read a description of slang in proper English. As an example:
Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for [...]

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ATI Driver Memory Leak

Apparently there is a huge memory leak in the ATI CLI.EXE when you use remote desktop on WinXP. If I use RD from work, after a while I get a “Virtual Memory Too Low” message on my machine. I checked the VM usage for CLI.EXE, and it ends up being like 1 or [...]

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Speed and ASP

Working with ASP (not .NET, plain old ASP) teachs much about optimization. We had a page that calculated students grades for each assignment in a course, it took about 22 seconds to load.
I stared at the code for about 2 hours trying to decipher what had been written, and how to speed it up. [...]

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Neuron Submitted

Well, after much procrastination and a good couple of hours of design, I finally send Neuron to Alex King’s Wordpress theme competition.
Do I expect to win? Nope. But enough people have been downloading this thing that I figure I’d post it to a good theme library and let people use it as they [...]

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