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Entries for April, 2008

Why is MFC Not Dead?

I was reading through some blogs this morning, and ran across this one, from my MSDN Feed.
Here is my answer (I wanted to leave a comment, but it wasn’t working, and I figured it would be a good blog post anyways)
Right now you can make an MFC app and it can run on win98,2k,xp,vista, [...]

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Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard - Enable Root Access

Ok, maybe I am a real newb on Mac OSX, but I didn’t know this one. Took me some fooling around in the OS to get it working. A little background. I am getting into some iPhone development. I want to dig into the Native app dev, and using SDK.
Using the Native app stuff, [...]

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Can’t Play A Video? Try VLC

One application that I always install when I set up a new machine, is VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
What is nice, is that it will play just about anything. Video, Audio, whatever. It will play AVI’s, DVDs, Mp3s, FLV’s, and any other 3 letter acronym you can think of.
You can set it to be default for all [...]

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links for 2008-04-08

Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux
(tags: geek linux systemadmin)

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 this evening. Worked like a charm. Seems like everything is working fine. I really like the “automatic” plugin upgrades!!

Technorati Tags: WordPress,2.5,Upgrade,Blogging

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Senator Clinton Found Fibbing on War Support

Senator Hillary Clinton tells an Oregon audience that, if you start measuring war opposition in 2005 instead of 2003, then she actually opposed the Iraq war first. ABC News argues this is not only weird, but not actually true.read more | digg story

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links for 2008-04-06

Politics and Tech
(tags: obama politics tech)

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HowTo: Hack Your PS3: Installing Yellow Dog Linux 6.0, and Actually Getting It To Work!

So, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a PS3, for the Blu-Ray disc capabilities. Since HD-DVD has died and I can get Blu-Ray discs through Netflix, and since the PS3 can be updated with new features, I figured I would give it a try. (The 100 dollar EB games credit I had made the [...]

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Presidential Ads on the Web - Observations around the Web and What It Says About the Candidates

I have noticed recently that Hillary and McCain ads are showing on my site. Now, that is fine, but I don’t support them. I could probably filter them out, but that is ok, let them spend their money.
The observation though, is that McCain and Hillary are spending their money on getting ads on a site [...]

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OBAMA raises MORE than $40 MILLION dollars in March

CHICAGO, IL-Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced today that more than 442,000 contributors across the country gave more than $40 million in March. More than 218,000 donors contributed to the campaign for the first time, and the average contribution level was $96.read more | digg story

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