Posts in the category “technology”
e-Holster
I’m only somewhat suprised to see that e-Holster is still alive and kicking. I found a two-year-old shortcut to this place and surfed to their site. It looks like they still offer the exact same wacky product that they offered when I created the shortcut. “Is that a concealed weapon?!” “Nope. Just my PDA.”
AI
Life began with direct coding on bare, carbon-chemistry hardware, like amino acids and proteins. Higher programming languages, like DNA and RNA, evolved gradually. Computers began in a similar fashion, with programmers coding on to the bare machinery of their circuits. Higher programming languages have followed, each generation more powerful than the last. There is, of
Notepad
It really drives me nuts that you can’t delete Notepad.exe in Windows 2000. Oh, you can, but only if you really muck around with your files. Here is a tutorial on getting rid of the pesky application. Note that you must delete the notepad.ex_ file from your I386 directory before you try to delete the
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UPC
Want to learn some really cool stuff? There is a soopah-neat-o article on Howstuffworks.com about UPC product bar codes. Y’know … you aren’t going to find high quality links like this just anywhere, dear reader.
Menu Help
Here’s a pretty cool trick from the January 1997 issue of PCComputing.Com: The Windows Start Menu has a built-in stutter, a brief delay in the appearance of the Programs, Documents, Settings, and Find fly-out menus that’s supposed to make Windows easier for mouse newbies. If you tend to think of any intentional PC delay as
Observation
from inessential.com: Of course, my hope is that any programmer who uses the Web also gives back to the Web, posts their solved problems, tips, sample code, and so on. (I’m lucky that I get to do this as part of my job.) For a programmer these days, knowing how to learn on the Web
More Hacks
Reghacks – Tips, Tricks and Registry Hacks for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP
Intellivision Video Game Console
For about a year and a half … somewhere between the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo, between grade school and high school … there was Intellivision. My mom bought Jenny (my little sister) and I an Atari 2600 the second Christmas they were available. We lived in Holly Hill, FL – the closest thing to