Too many blogs to manage. I’ve decided to stop updating this blog, and move to Blogspot. Some justification here.
So the new blog is at:
http://adarshbhat.blogspot.com
Feed url:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/adarsh
You’re right that’s hotmail. Microsoft keeps sending me email about
their all new msn messenger. And then there’s this disclaimer at the
bottom of the screen. Its the rudest I’ve seen so far.
As
a Hotmail member, you have received this e-mail to inform you of updates,
changes to the Hotmail service, or special news and information from MSN. Our
policy is to send e-mail messages only to announce such information, and we’ll continue
to honor this policy. Free Hotmail users: If you do not wish to receive Hotmail
member letters, you may close your Hotmail account close your Hotmail account.
Thank you for being a Hotmail member.
Delete account, huh? That’s exactly what I did! Only to be presented with a horde of contradictions and duh’s.
By closing this
account, you are marking your account inactive. Stored e-mail will be
permanently deleted and inbound mail will be refused. Your .NET Passport will
still function, and your e-mail name will be reserved.
To re-activate
your account, simply go to http://www.hotmail.com
and enter your Sign-In name and password. You will then be able to send and
receive e-mail using MSN Hotmail once again.
If
your account stays ‘inactive’ for over a period of 0 days, it will be
permanently deleted. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging
in fraudulent activity. Additionally, due to the limited number of names
available, we may allow other users to sign up for and use your current e-mail
name after your account has been permanently deleted.
How does one come up with such great policies?
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My Windows XP box at work is doing great. Or atleast, I thought so. Until our IS admin sent me an email saying that my box was hogging network bandwidth. It was actually using more than 75% of the whole – and that too worldwide. Thats my box in red.
Looks like there’s something on my machine thats sending out emails at an average of 71 a minute.
Suspected virus like activity. Not good.
Such an innocent looking cute box. Et tu Brute?
Ever wanted to create a demo of your software app for someone? Wink can help you create lovely flash demos.
Wink runs on both Windows and Linux. Creating a demo/presentation using Wink is really easy. All you have to do is select the window you want to focus on, and then keep pressing the “Pause” key on your keyboard. Every time you press Pause, a snapshot is saved. Once you’re done, you can add callouts and manage transition timings. Callouts help you communicate with the end user.
The nice thing about Wink is that unnecessary delays and mouse movements during recording are not recorded. Only screenshots are captured, and mouse movements are automatically added by Wink.
You can choose whether you want the output as an swf or a standalone exe.
It may be difficult at first to know exactly when a screen shot should be taken. But with a little practice and a few cycles, the picture perfect end result is easily attainable.
* 2 GB (although my mailbox says 1225 MB)
* Compose: rich text formatting
* Spell checker (really love the way they do this)
nice
I’ve been doing vanilla C# for some time now. (For the uninitiated, thats read as C sharp – as in music. If you say C hash or C pound, they will kill you.) The latest being some Windows.Forms. While this has been interesting, it looks like its now time to move on to some more exciting stuff. I started reading up a bit on Managed extensions to C++ today. And I thought, what the hell, its something to fill up my blog with. Most of the stuff you will find here can be found elsewhere too. “MSDN?” you ask. Yes.
The philosophy behind managed C++ seems to be this:
You have a legacy C++ library, do you? And is that holding you from writing a .net app? Don’t let it.
Since interop is what this really is for, there have to be two sides to it. One side that can talk to your legacy C++ (which is just regular C++), and the other side that can talk to the Common Language Runtime (CLR). This other side is the “managed extension” part of it. Which to a programmer means that we have some new syntax and some new semantics. The biggest noticeable change in managed C++, as compared to standard C++, is the ability to utilize the garbage collection provided by the CLR and to make use of the .net library.
Consider an example of the syntax change. There is now a new keyword called __gc. So if you want to create a class which gets “managed” by the CLR, here’s how you would define it.
#using <mscorlib.dll>
__gc class GCExample
{
};
And… it magically becomes managed. With the GC at your service, you no longer have to call delete on objects of this class.
More to come…
contacted me yesterday over IM. All the ex Yahoo! finance team members at Bangalore are meeting up tonight.
, ,, Gaj, Divy, Akshay, Ankit will all be there (or so I hope). Sounds like fun. Looking forward to the evening.
People generally have vague notions about heaven. Even hell for that matter. But if you were asked to actually depict heaven – say for a movie – how would you do it? This makes an interesting reading of how heaven was created for the movie Constantine.
Reflecting on our own (indian television’s) depiction of heaven…
Anyway, the point is that it can be really difficult to convince another person of your model of heaven, however good it is, however close it is to your perception of heaven.
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