Archive for November, 2008

Bug Finding Program

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Typically, I am against reading comments in any sort of social-anything site but there are very few times where I am linked a fantastic comment that deserves its own post. This is one of those comments. From Reddit.com, the bug finding program comment by user G_Morgan:

I have a bug finding program. You pass in the name of a code file and it returns a truth value if there is a bug in that file or not.

The current prototype is:

bool hasBug(String &progFile) {
    return TRUE;
}

G_Morgan’s function could not be any more true.

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Connect to a Windows VPN (pptp) from Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Back in April, I wrote a post about how to connecct your Ubuntu box to a Windows VPN server linking back to another person’s blog explaining the setup. The install itself was pretty bumpy, but ultimately worked. If I recall correctly, the information in that post was mainly for Gutsy Gibbon. After upgrading to Hardy Haron, I was never able to get the VPN working again. I kind of left it like that. Now that I’ve installed Intrepid Ibex, I started working on trying to get VPN to work again. And thankfully after a few hours of work, I got it working in Gnome. I make no assurances that this will work with KDE or any other enviornment. Here is the process.

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Windows Live Mail Fail – Thanks for the Upgrade, Microsoft!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

A few months ago, I received an email in all of my Hotmail accounts that Microsoft will be disabling the Dav protocol which will break Outlook Express functionality. This was disheartening because I, for one, really dislike Hotmail’s web interface. I find it extremely clunky and slow and would never actually use my email if that were the only way for me to access it. Yes Hotmail is no longer my main email, however I do still maintain three accounts with them for legacy’s sake. From the email/website:

As of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you download Windows Live Mail, a free desktop e-mail client that has the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more.

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Slow to the Game – Distributed Processing and Humans

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I have been working on a post for about a month now titled “The Distributed Human” however, and sadly, life had been getting in the way of actually completing it. In a way I was bummed to see Kelly Sutton of HackCollege post up his blog, Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to Real Life. Bummed because in a way I’ve lost the desire to finish my post now. But he’s my friend, and I’m happy for him. I’m glad to see he is turning into such a great computer scientist. I’m sure an idiom such as the one about the early bird is applicible here, but I won’t give you the satisfaction.

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