Archives for: " 2008, week 17"
05/04/08
As a long time Slackware user, the recent announcement of Slackware 12.1 was a very welcome event. So I went to the Torrent download page to get the Slackware 12.1 DVD.
However, upon launching ktorrent, the KDE torrent client, to start the torrent down… more »
05/01/08
So, I got the Voter Information Guide for the June 3 elections in California.
Reading through the Propositions, it quickly became obvious that Prop. 98 is rather misleading and deceptive.
On the surface, it seems to be about Eminent Domain. But lookin… more »
04/30/08
Some time ago, Comcast got sued by a spammer, because they were blocking his spam emails.
On April 10, a judge ruled in favor of Comcast. That's of course how it should be, but unfortunately, not all judges are sufficiently clued-in about things comput… more »
Working with the Windows ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx APIs and the CreateProcess API I have come across a major annoyance:
The directory and filename passed into these APIs can not be longer than MAX_PATH (i.e., 260) characters.
This is particularl… more »
04/28/08
For a while now, I have received unsolicited bulk email, aka Spam, from an organization calling itself the "National Federation of the Blind."
Like all spammers, when I talked to somebody in their main office on the phone, they claimed that I subscribe… more »
