Distractions
I'm sure you've sat down at your desk with the best intentions of being productive and ticking off more items on your todo list, but somehow you get...
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Zanthos's Blog
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Doomed to fail...
Whenever I boot a computer from cold, I'm always slightly nervy until the OS had loaded, this is probably from the number of times seemingly OK...
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.MSI error woes
The installer tells me..."Error 2203. There's something wrong with this package. kthxbye."The log file tells me..."Ack something bad happened....
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Long time no siege
Well the time for exams has sprung up on me again, like some cunningly placed jungle trap. And naturally my response to this immense burden of work...
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Super-lightweight testing for the lazy
Today I've been working on a texture manager as part of my library of useful components which I'll hopefully use on my next project. Now I don't want...
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Network Stuff
Over the past couple of days I've been looking at some low-level network APIs(so this disregards behemoths like Raknet, etc), in an attempt to find...
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A warning would be nice
Grrrr....class X { }class M{ public: M(X* x) {}}class Y{ private: M m; X* x; public: Y(X* nx): x(nx), m(x) {}}The above code raises an exception when...
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Single-user version control software
An answer:Google Desktop Search.Not only is it incredibly easy to set up, installing the correct plugins will give you a simple versioning system for...
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Steam engine simulation.
*Wouldn't it be cool if* a physics engine could be used to construct a working steam train? Afaik the components missing from today's physics engines...
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Trend in maths explanations?
I'm pretty sure I'm not just imagining things(unfortunately) when I talk about explanations given by maths lecturers.. This is what I've noticed:-...
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Sorting my act out.
I took time out yesterday to reflect on what I've managed through my many years of coding as a hobby, and it's pretty pathetic really, with respect...
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Not sure if this is a good thing...
Recently I've been working like crazy on my second year group project at uni, and i've managed to (inavertently) pull two 80~ hour weeks :( Now, I've...
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Nine Inch Nails
Omg. well, I went to go and see Trent and his posse perform at the Astoria in London on the 30th, and it was so amazing I actually nearly passed out...
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SDL Project Generator
MAKEPROJ v1.0 : Get it hereI know how many people hate so much to faff around with the project settings just to get a quick prototype SDL project to...
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Exams *
I dislike the majority of exams, they want me to regurgitate whatever I've been reading exactly as it was in the text book, and it's not particularly...
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Yay Pressies!
C++ Fourth Edition (McGraw Hill)Design PatternsPython In A Nutshell (O'Reilly)The C++ Programming LanguageNothing better than eating through 2 months...
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Daydream In Blue
me ..<240miles>.. her, go figure :( She kissed another guy, and considers our relationship over, she wants to be "free and single", ...I'd much...
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Visual Assist X
My trial version ran out :( And I felt so lonely... and naked... I couldn't look at myself in the mirror, or leave the house...I felt the world was...
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