I finally got a dual-processor motherboard that boots (a Tyan S2885) only to discover that I only have 2GB of "registered" DDRAM, making my other 4GB of RAM worthless on this computer. Well, easy enough to deal with later, I think, happily screwing the motherboard down into my case. Now …

AMD unveiled new chip pricing today, trying to steal some thunder from the outstanding reviews garnered by \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=a33e3e93-f321-4afd-98ec-b909cfed4275&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.intel.com%2fproducts%2fprocessor%2fcore2%2findex.htm"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Intel's Core2Duo chips. Personally, I've got …

This site claims there is a car with powered wheels that can do 0-60 in 1.67 seconds.

You'd have to have wheels made out of glue to do that, but assuming that's possible, I make that out as 1.6 gees as the average! Must be pretty hard to …

The C99 language standard added support for variable length arrays (VLAs):

 void foo(int len){  float myArray[len];  ... }

In porting some C# code to C++, I had a method signature like that, so I tried to use a VLA. Sadly, VC++ 2005 produces "error C2057: expected constant expression," "error C2466 …

Word is that Borland has come to an agreement with a still-secret savior to purchase and support "DevCo": the former languages and tools division.

Details as they emerge, but that won't be for a few weeks

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NaturallySpeaking 9, coming out in August, claims to dramatically reduce the time it takes to model your voice, achieving the best-possible recognition soon after opening the box.

For some people, that best-possible recognition is said to be 99%. Maybe. I've probably gone throught the "voice training" process a dozen or …

The last thing I saw last night was something about "Do not turn off or remove the power cord from your computer" for some no-doubt-critical update. This morning, my desktop doesn't POST. It hangs right at the point the RAM count happens.

Now, I don't think an OS upgrade can …

When Software Development was killed, I predicted that Dr. Dobb's wouldn't change markedly. Boy, was I wrong. Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Erickson and Publisher Stan Barnes clearly decided that the time had come to create what is essentially a new magazine: I don't think Dobb's has changed this much since at least …

One of the cable channels (FX, I think) has been playing "The Core" in medium rotation lately. I've been trying to expose myself to it in small amounts, to inoculate myself and accept it as cheesy "so bad it's good" fun(ref. "The Fast and the Furious": One of my …