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AMD Slashing Prices

Over the last three or so months, I've been eyeing an Athlon XP 3800+ X2 processor upgrade but just couldn't justify the expense given the delta in performance between a single processor XP3500+ and...

amd hardware competition
July 27, 2006
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.NET Memory Leaks

Conceptually I knew that eventually there would be a need to diagnose a memory leak problem in a .NET application. Sure a garbage collected environment automatically sorts out whole sets of memory...

memory-management debugging dotnet profiling cpp
July 18, 2006
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Shut the ding up

By default in Windows Forms a single line text box will sound an annoying ding/bell when the user presses the Enter key. Presumably this is suppose to inform the user that they shouldn't need to...

July 14, 2006
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Xwin32 MacroView Fonts

If you are using V7+ of the Xwin32 package, then there is the potential to get weird characters on your MacroView X window displays. See the box characters in the xfontsel screen capture below.

July 13, 2006
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ADSL2+

ADSL2+ is finally available at my local exchange. I've been watching the other exchanges in the Perth area get switched over to ADSL2+ from ADSL over the last year.

July 7, 2006
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