Archive for December, 2005
Liu’s Reviews: AIM Clients (Miranda)
Today on Liu’s Reviews we’ll be looking at instant messenger programs. While it used to be that your best choice was probably AIM with an add-on program, there are a lot of alternatives nowadays, and we’ll be looking at the major clients for Windows.
Why does 64-bit matter anyway?
A lot of confusion has surrounded the launch of the new AMD and Intel 64-bit desktop CPUs. For one thing, very few people actually understand what 64-bit really is. Ask three fairly technical people what it means to have a 64-bit processor, and you will likely get three different answers. Some technical people will even [...]
What I’m reading 2 and other stuff
Merry Christmas Eve! http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/12/24/ap2413667.html http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f3fe9c4a-4bd1-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html By now, most people have heard about the debate over eroding privacy rights. The implication is that the government will be able to monitor and keep track of people, leading to a surveillance state where the feds can keep track of what we do and monitor all our actions. What [...]
The beauty of anonymous methods (aka lambda expressions)
Anonymous methods are a new feature in .Net 2.0. One who is unfamiliar with anonymous methods may not immediately see the usefulness of this construct. It would seem as if anonymous methods are no more powerful than named methods, but this is not true. Take this code for example: delegate void voidDelegate(); void SetEvent(InputEvent ie) [...]