Author Archives: David Terrell

Earthquake!

Posted on June 28, 2004 by David Terrell

There’s something brutally ironic about living in california for 4 years and never feeling an earthquake, then moving back to Illinois and feeling one: quake map

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Font Selection

Posted on June 28, 2004 by David Terrell

this is so broken. I installed the Bitstream Vera fonts (download from here) on Windows XP. I rebooted, changed font display options from 120 dpi to 96 dpi (which is more appropriate anyway since I’m only running at 1280×1024, to … Continue reading →

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Who writes this stuff?

Posted on June 15, 2004 by David Terrell

If, for some reason, I append “.exe” to devenv, when running a command line build in a batch file, the build runs but is completely silent. If I copy and paste that same command into a regular command prompt window, … Continue reading →

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An anti-abortion scumbag

Posted on June 9, 2004 by David Terrell

No, that’s not redundant. read this

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windows XP idiocy of the day

Posted on June 8, 2004 by David Terrell

Apparently (and I say only “apparently” because I’m not too big on testing this) — if I leave a process in the debug state using the MSVC.NET debugger and the screen saver kicks in, after I unlock the screen the … Continue reading →

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Club for Growths

Posted on June 6, 2004 by David Terrell

A dictionary definition of fracturing the base?

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MSVC Bitch, Pt 3

Posted on June 3, 2004 by David Terrell

Ugh, pimpl makes things WORSE, not better. I can’t complete on the pimpl struct at all when implementing class methods that use it — and often not anywhere after that either. Man, what a terrible IDE.

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Is this a bug?

Posted on June 3, 2004 by David Terrell

Ok, the title might be a slightly rhetorical question: I’m writing an application in C++ using VStudio.NET and Windows XP. The application asserts an error, I choose to examine it under a debugger, I fix the error, stop the application, … Continue reading →

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Tenet Resigns

Posted on June 3, 2004 by David Terrell

… Nobody shocked. The question a lot of people are asking is, why now? Theory 1: A new senate report is going to rake him over the coals Theory 2: Bush asked him to resign (but why would he do … Continue reading →

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Schadendorsement

Posted on June 2, 2004 by David Terrell

Mayor of Crawford, TX, endorses Kerry for President. Not a schocker — he is a democrat. Just one of those things that gives you a chuckle….

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