The Hacks of Life

In C++ you can write things like this: void get_some_strings(vector & out_strings) { out_strings.clear(); for (some loop) out_strings.pu...

Whoever reads the man pages anyway? Turns out pthread_cond_timedwait takes an absolute time! In otherwords, if you want it to sleep for 1 ...

Here's a video of a very very low visibility approach in X-Plane. Note how the "fog" (that is, the mixing of the runway and g...

(The great is the enemy of the good - in preparing my 10-part series on why iostreams totally suck, I've been putting off blogging anyth...

It only took about 8 hours of total time, but my MacBook Pro can now triple-boot into OS X 10.4.7, Windows XP Home SP2, and Ubuntu Linux (6...

This is not really a tutorial but rather a quick summary of how to do this so I can find this information quickly in the future: On the ...

This is just me blogging about getting a new toy...I just upgraded my work Mac laptop to one of the new 15" MacBook Pros. Some random ...