After countless, endless hours of nagging on my part, my girlfriend finally put Linux on her laptop. I thought it would be interesting to hear what a long-time Windows-using non-programmer thinks of Linux (Kubuntu in this case) after a few weeks of use. So I interviewed her. Read on. My thoughts […]

Vista has this really cool feature. When I log in to work via VPN and then close my laptop’s lid to put it to sleep, when I open the lid later, I get the CTRL+ALT+DEL login screen as normal, except that my mouse cursor is now invisible! If I can somehow manage to […]

We got a new laptop at work with Windows XP. Our company like so many others wouldn’t touch Vista with a 12-foot pole. Not sure how much good that policy is doing us; I got three BSoD’s in 15 minutes. Thanks, Microsoft!
Yesterday one of my coworkers asked me to look at her laptop. […]

I was just working on an Access DB, and I noticed that it’s now somehow 415 MB. Want to know the funny part? There’s no data in it. Not a SINGLE ROW. Just two EMPTY TABLES. HOW?! Someone was paying me to do this as a side-project, and I’m […]

I’m working on an Access database for work using Office 2007. This is probably the most painful thing I’ve had to do in a long, long time. Oh the things we do for money.
Do you want to know how to get Access to crash? Step 1: Add a label to a form. […]

Today I rammed smack up against a brick wall in my C# endeavors. The problem at hand was something that seems pretty simple: Randomly shuffle an array. Anyone who knows Ruby knows that this is super easy. Here’s one way:
arr.sort_by { rand }
How do you do this in C#? Search google for […]

I had to buy a mouse for my laptop, and this Microsoft mouse is what I got. Microsoft does actually seem to make decent mouses. It’s a nice little mouse, takes one AA batter that supposedly lasts 6 months, has a little USB antenna that snaps into the base of the mouse for […]

At work recently (as in, yesterday) I was faced with the problem of re-writing a scientific app written in the mid-nineties. This thing was a full-screen DOS sort of app and today what with laptops and their widescreen huge-resolution displays, the program wasn’t readable for the average human being. All it does is […]

After moving recently 2,500 miles across the country, my Gentoo machine is on the east coast while I’m on the west coast. All I have with me is my laptop, which to my everlasting regret runs Vista.
Having been forced to use Vista exclusively for a week now, I find myself more and […]

I got a laptop the other day. I looked around a lot and decided just to get a Dell in the end, because I didn’t know where else to turn. You can’t really build your own laptop, sadly, so you have to go with someone. I have a lot of anecdotal evidence […]