Microsoft WinDbg is Awesome

October 7, 2005 at 8:48 am · Filed under General

Debugging Tools for Windows

Although the UI takes a little getting used to, I have never used a debugger that was so capable and solid in my entire life. I mean it handles multiple threads very, very well. Then it has the best symbol library support of any debugger I have ever seen.

Overall, I just love the debugger. It’s not the prettiest, but it has gotten me out of a few tight spots. I thank and offer kudos to those who built this wonderful program.

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Andy Rooney on Iraq

October 5, 2005 at 10:07 am · Filed under General

Linkcourtesy of Steve

Timely.

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The War is Still on My Mind

October 5, 2005 at 8:49 am · Filed under General

As I was driving in to work today, the subject of a radio show I was listening to was the anti-war effort. They wanted to discuss how well it is going…

Regardless of how it is going or the complexity of the issues around it, I have a few solid beliefs. I want to put this out on the blog since I usually post just about technical topics. I feel like I’m contributing to the war by not saying something about it.

1. I still think about the war and I think it is wrong.
2. It pains me still, that I will look back at this era, and state that I had to endure 8 years with this idiot known as “our President”. I hold him and his administration responsible for this and a few other Really Bad Decisions.
3. I don’t like “war without effect”. I feel like we should all be constantly reminded of the war, who pulled the trigger, and what are the consequences. Instead, I, like many other people, probably get caught up with our daily lives. I think this disconnection with our foreign actions is what gets us into these disasters in the first place.

Thanks, for reading.

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Google’s Free WiFi - Hmmm.

October 3, 2005 at 11:15 am · Filed under General

Ok, so Google has let out the note that they are giving free Wifi to everyone in SF pretty soon. Ok, neat, but no big deal.

Then it hit me today…

I’m paying like $50 to have DSL to my house every month. I don’t get that much bandwidth on the upstream! Now people are going to have that kind of access for free, if they can get decent line of site to an Access Point.

This should actually be very interesting! I wonder what the effects of such a baseline infrastructure will be socially and economically?

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Physics Chip for Games

October 3, 2005 at 10:43 am · Filed under General

Neat!

Here is an EE Times news release for a company called Ageia that just raised $27 million dollars for a physics simulation processor. They are a fabless semiconductor house based in Mountain View, CA.

While I was looking at their web site, I found a link to this company called Secret Level Games. I really like their logo. Well it turns out that they are up in SOMA in San Francisco.

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