I bought a couple Zalman Ultra-Quiet CPU Coolers for my still-unfinished dual-processor system, discovered that I couldn't use them due to space issues with my MSI dual-core motherboard. So I put one on my old system. It's quieter than the stock Intel Pentium fan, but so is a coqui frog …

Okay, if you're interested in assembly language programming, read The Art of Assembly Language and use the included HLA compiler.

But, if you just need to occasionally compile some pre-existing code, MASM 8 is now available for download from Microsoft.

But seriously, read The Art of Assembly Language.

I have mixed feelings about AI for Game Developers." In the full Safari bookshelf, the AI category has Voice Application Development with VoiceXML which is a much more "enterprise-y" type of read.

On the other hand, even in "full Safari" there's only 8 books in the AI category, only 3 …

The blogging client schedules posts according to local time, but timestamps them for GMT. So posts I scheduled for this morning at 8 AM are showing up timestamped last night at 10 PM. That's no good.

This post is written using the "Elicit" blogging client. I somehow stumbled across it this morning and it does the one thing I've been missing in a dedicated blogging client: it allows posts to be scheduled. So I can write this at noon, set its post time for 6PM this …

I bought two Zalman "Ultra Quiet CPU Coolers" for my new dual-processor system (which I'm building because, in a classic example of bad timing, my old motherboard blew right at the beginning of this extremely deadline-driven month). They don't work (at least two won't) with an MSI ATX motherboard. Not …

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I get 'em all for free: this is one I pay for out of my own pocket.

Eiffel Software, makers of the Eiffel programming language, have made their IDE EiffelStudio available under a "dual license." Use it for commercial software, pay; use it for OSS, get it for free. Interesting idea and a good opportunity to see why Eiffel is a well-respected language.

Well-respected, but never very …

Just got the April 25th edition of PC Mag via Zinio. They've done a redesign and boy, do I not like it. Much more consumerist, big photos, second-class text. Automotive coverage is now a big thing with them: not only do they have a column, but this issue is some …