If you have programmed for any amount of time at all, you have experienced it. You need to modify some of your old code. Maybe it is a few months old, maybe even a few years old. But as soon as you begin to try to parse it you wonder “Why did I do it this way?”, and “How does this slop even work?” Time may heal a broken heart, but why does it alter our perception of our old code so much? Read the rest of this entry »
When we last left this topic I had just installed Ubuntu, but in reality you can run virtual operating systems on just about any OS. I choose to install the latest 64-bit version of Ubuntu, and for virtulization Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox before Sun was acquired by Oracle). While I could have used VirtualBox on Windows 7, I just do not feel comfortable relying so heavily on a Microsoft OS, especially before Service Pack 1 
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artm once asked:
is there the maximum UDP datagram size?
is there some recomendation to chose one based on the application /network?
My reply: Read the rest of this entry »
While I love the appeal of free-open source operating systems like Linux, and love the polish on MacOS (but not the associated hardware costs), I am still a Windows user at heart. Since 1993 when I installed DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 onto a generic 486SX based PC, I have grown comfortable (in a love-hate kind of way) with Windows over the years. Read the rest of this entry »
Growing up in the United States, taught by the public educational system, I automatically tend to play it safe. In an educational system run like a manufacturing line -everyone got treated the same- teachers did not have the time to acknowledge free thinkers. Those students who questioned the lessons, or the way they were taught, were labeled disruptive. And their answers, if not the textbook answers, were marked as wrong, or mistakes. Like Natasha Bedingfield says in her song ‘Unwritten’, “I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines. We’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can’t live that way.” My thoughts exactly! Read the rest of this entry »
