Well, it’s been a long time since I had a fly of Lock On, but I had a few sorties this weekend to get reacquainted with the Hog. Sometimes you come across some beautiful scenes, like here with the sun breaking through the clouds. Unfirtunately it was spoilt by the right engine fire and fuel [...]
“The Java Runtime Environment cannot be loaded from < \bin\server\jvm.dll>“ If you see this error message when loading a webpage or starting a browser after installing Tiger, do the following: Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data where you will see a folder called Sun. Rename Sun to Sun_backup. Restart your browser and a open webpage [...]
While we’re at it, check out this little nugget from DavidFlanagan.com. Hexadecimal floating point primitives. Eeek. Who would ever find a need for this: float z = 0Xf.aP1F; … which by the way resolves to 31.25 in decimal. Hideous. f.a = 15 + 10/16ths!
Today I thought I’d give the new JDK 5 (codenamed Tiger) a try. I ran into a snag straight away – the implementation of StringBuffer has been changed so that it now extends the package-visibility AbstractStringBuilder which specifies implementations for, for example, append(String) as returning an AbstractStringBuilder rather than a StringBuffer. Basically that means if [...]
Well, M301 is over for better or worse. I’ll be stunned if I don’t do well in part 1 (Java stuff and a bit on security); part 2 was a bit harder but I focused on the concurrency stuff and should do about 60-80% there and the final part (UML plus some curveballs that weren’t [...]
For those of us that are pro-war, but anti- the meathead US approach to the “peace” in Iraq, this article reinforces our belief that the culturally insensitive and heavy-handed approach by the occupying forces that was (and continues to be) responsible for the anti-western backlash that we are seeing; not the war itself. Let me [...]
THE BRAIN … SYSTEM: Attention. Alert registered. CENTRAL: Alert? Number One, report! NUMBER ONE: Sir! We’re picking up loud music. CENTRAL: Music? We were just asleep! NUMBER ONE: Yes sir. Ears report it’s “The Last Train to Clarksville.” CENTRAL: Good lord, are we being tortured? NUMBER ONE: Sir, Eyes are functional and request instruction. CENTRAL: [...]
Well, Howard is in the job for another few years. It’s not an unprecedented disaster, but neither is it the best result. It remains to be seen how much of the vote purchasing “policies” will actually see the light of day; my suspicion is that not many will. The Reserve Bank has already expressed concern [...]
Cath and I have lately been discussing division of labour once junior arrives. Due to various biological imperatives, we have (reluctantly in my case) settled upon the following generality: Catherine will be responsible for stuff that goes into the baby. I will be responsible for stuff that comes out of it. I think I just [...]
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