Brad Hards Brad Hughes* of Trolltech says that future versions of Qt4 (perhaps as soon as Qt4.2) will start using the Glib event dispatch loop. This is downright wonderful news for a couple of reasons. The technical reason is that you will be able to use binary Qt4 plugins in Glib/Gtk apps and vice versa […]
Just read a classic 1999 paper, How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security by Arkin, Hill, et al. The security researchers found horrible weaknesses in the algorithm that an online poker site used to shuffle cards. Basically, just by looking at their own hand and the first 3 cards […]
I am greatly annoyed by people who for some reason feel the need to buy or pirate Adobe Photoshop, a $600 piece of software, even though they have no clue how to use it — it’s as if they feel that the hallowed Adobe trademark residing on their hard drive will somehow automagically make their […]
Studio Ghibli is making a film based on Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series. The English title is Tales from Earthsea (the Japanese Gedo Senki means something like Ged’s War Chronicle). Apparently, it will be based mostly on the third book of Earthsea (The Farthest Shore). And, if you read the director’s blog (well, its English […]
I open my university’s newspaper today and see the following advertisement (and yes, the ad gave two distinct spellings for “cell phone”):
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Plus, naturally, a photo […]
Generally, I dislike Woody Allen’s films. However, I heard that Match Point was a completely un-Woody-Allen-ish Woody Allen move, and so I went to see it last weekend. Basic idea: guy fails as a professional tennis player, lands a job in London as a tennis instructor, no money, no prospects, crummy apartment. Meets a rich […]
I am back from the dead — due to exams and other work, didn’t have time to post anything for the entire month of January. Updated Wordpress to version 2.0.1; the admin interface is now much spiffier, and it’s a bit faster (but that could also be because my host got a hardware upgrade). There […]