Author Archives: David Terrell

m4 quoting

Posted on September 21, 2005 by David Terrell

m4 quoting examples: define(A,1)dnl define(B,A)dnl define(`A’,2)dnl B should be 1 define(`B’,`A’)dnl A should be 2 B should be 2 define(`B’,“A”)dnl B should be `A’

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Jury Duty

Posted on September 16, 2005 by David Terrell

Off to go get picked for a jury … or not. Gotta bring a book or 4.

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War On Tape?

Posted on September 14, 2005 by David Terrell

Is that like a book on tape? Terror Leader in Iraq Declares War on Tape

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Katrina and Busing

Posted on September 13, 2005 by David Terrell

Look familiar? By now you’ve probably seen this image on the news, the daily show and convservative websites. To many people, it proves that mayor Nagin was incompetant, for not using these buses to evacuate people from the city. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Katrina, Again

Posted on September 8, 2005 by David Terrell

Nobody was raped and killed in the Superdome bathrooms. Nobody was shooting at helicopters. There weren’t race riots in Baton Rouge. But these rumors probably killed people by guiding them away from shelter. Also, it wasn’t just a rumor that … Continue reading →

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2008

Posted on September 8, 2005 by David Terrell

Lots of people have been talking about how Katrina affects various people’s candidacies for 2008 presidential nominees and the general election. In my view, this is relatively crass considering there are still bodies floating in the muck. However, I have … Continue reading →

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NOLA

Posted on September 1, 2005 by David Terrell

What can I say. You can donate to the Red Cross here or directly at RedCross.org. Not much to say on the politics of it other than maybe actually funding the levee repairs earmarked after flooding in 1995 might have … Continue reading →

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MFC: Create a resource-based default frame view

Posted on August 25, 2005 by David Terrell

CMyFrame is a CFrameWnd created with class wizard CMyView is a CFormView created with the class wizard I want CMyFrame to always incorporate CMyView as the view. Make sure MyFrame.cpp includes MyView.h bool CMyFrame::LoadFrame(…, CCreateContext* pContext) {  CCreateContext ctxt;  if … Continue reading →

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MFC warning

Posted on August 25, 2005 by David Terrell

I might as well warn you know, I’m going to be blogging lots of frustrating things about MFC in this space for a while.

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google talk

Posted on August 24, 2005 by David Terrell

My google username is dterrell@gm… you can imagine where it goes from there. gtalk is totally awesome. Update: ok, here’s what I want from google talk: SIP support so I can hook it up to my IPtel gear multiparty chat … Continue reading →

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