My Presentation for Wurbe #14

It’s here. A bit too much assembler for a JavaScript-related presentation, but …

IgNobel 2008 winners are in!

And they are funnier than ever:

NUTRITION PRIZE. Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy
and Charles
Spence
of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound
of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper
and fresher than it really is.

MEDICINE PRIZE. Dan Ariely of
Duke University, USA, for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine
is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.

PC Server preview in Mac OS X

What can I say but LOL:

IIS should be more fault-tolerant to stack overflow

I had a website crashing randomly with

A process serving application pool suffered a fatal communication error with the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The process id was ‘5240′. The data field contains the error number.

Congrats to Pisi …

… for her first book! Albeit it’s a collective novel:

Modified BIOS for 2 cores in Leopard

For Asrock 4Core1333-GLAN: here, congrats to OriginalMACNUT.

Now only if I can get the dual monitor setup….

Mac OS X on PC

After trying at least 4 distributions, it seems this one finally works, give it a shot if you have issues:

Firefox Undo Close Tab

Did you know of this ? Very useful – right-click on the tab bar / undo close tab. Now only if Ctrl-Z was assigned to do this …

Massive ActionScript Gotcha

var srcR:Rectangle = r;
srcR.offset( -srcBm.x, -srcBm.y);

But as Rectangle is a reference class, in fact, in ActionScript every class is passed by reference so the above code will modify r also.

Linq Join Two Lists side-by-side

Easy: Enumerable.Range( 0, list1.Count).Select( i => list1[i] + ” – ” + list2[i])