Posts in the category “Software”

the code that runs your life

AOL Instant Messenger

I finally broke down and got an AIM account: GatorDVG For some reason I cannot send eMail from my davidgagne.net account. I can receive eMail with no problem. If it takes me longer than you would expect to reply, that is the reason. Hopefully the problem is temporary and will resolve itself soon. <knocks on

mp3 ripping

Shareware for ripping m3s from CDs

Anti-Mac

Anti-Mac – By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interface emerges that is based on language, a richer representation of objects, expert users, and shared control.

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3

Sometimes I think they are just trying to confuse people. Could they have possibly made the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Download instructions any more confusing? Actually it’s only step 4 that bugs me.

Excellent Error Message

Jason received this error message from one of the NT Servers at work: While validating that COM3 was really a serial port, the contents of the divisor latch register was identical to the interrupt enable and the receive registers. The device is assumed not to be a serial port and will be deleted.

Excellent Freeware

Two programs that you *need* on your computer: EditPad is an excellent replacement for notepad. I use it for all my webbing, and have (exclusively) since ’94 or so … URLMenu sits in your system tray and gives you easy access to all your bookmarks. It’s skinnable and has several other cool features. A must

WinCE

This wins the Quote-of-the-Day award from the hundreds of workers slaving away here at davidgagne.net: “plus, it runs winCE on a RISC processor. when will people learn: winCE is for toothless vietnamese hookers with no thumbs. if you’re serious about mobile computing, at least use PalmOS, if not Mobile Linux on a Crusoe” – My

[Newsflashes]

Blogger‘s Been Updated and Upgraded But Still No Searching Thousands of Egomaniacal Webheads Near Rioting “This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved.” “The proliferation of weekday afternoon syndicated original programming coupled with the arrival of cable TV spelled

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.