MacKiDo – Where is Stac?
The company that gave us Stacker is all but gone. How did that happen? (MacKiDo c.1997)
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Starship Titanic
Being on sort of a Douglas Adams kick lately (the h2g2 movie teaser just came out, and we listened to the first six episodes of the h2g2 radio drama on our trip this weekend) and browsing through some crap I had laying about that I’m determined to look at one last time before I throw …
All access IP addresses appear as my own
A question for the LazyWeb: This is probably something pretty stupid, and likely stems from the fact that I’m not yet that experienced in Unix administration, but… For whatever reason, when I get an email from my WordPress blog install to approve (or more likely disapprove and delete) a new comment that might be spam, …
Embedding passwords in URLs
This is more for me to remember it, as I’m guessing everyone else knows about this already. If you have a web or FTP site that you need to link someone to, but that site requires a user name and password, you can embed that information in the url as such: http://userid:password@www.anywhere.com/ftp://userid:password@ftp.anywhere.com/
The Early History of Smalltalk
Alan C. Kay’s The Early History of Smalltalk, courtesy Thomas Gagné. As I understand it, extensions to the C language were based on Smalltalk-80, to create the Objective-C language I’m learning right now.
Peasant’s Quest
Yay! I just finished Peasant’s Quest! It’s an awesome parody of the original King’s Quest, and it’s ilk. (And no, I most certainly did not get lots of hints from the walkthrough. Hunh-uh! How dare you think that! 😉 )
Bitwise Operators?
So, I’m working through Programming in Objective-C, and I come to the second half of Chapter 4: Data Types and Expressions, and I am totally stumped with the section on bitwise operators. I mean, I guess I understand what they’re doing, but the question I have at the moment is what use are they? I …