20060923 You must be a linux expert

Yesterday after work was quite funny. Following british habits, almost everybody in the office went to a near pub for some drinks. That’s quite interesting since that way you can learn what everybody else in the office is doing, or what do they do outside office hours, etc. Then somebody asked me: You must be [...]

20060531 Surprise from the past

After patches and more patches, major upgrades and even a new operating system, I have just realized that we still can’t create a folder called “AUX” in windows XPSP2. Well, actually, you can’t create a folder called CON, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN or  NUL either. I wonder if they will fix [...]

20051016 Desgracia de sistema operativo

Llevo como media una hora y cuarenta minutos intentando aplicar un patch en mi antiguo pc para poder conectar con encriptacion WPA. Se supone que lo tengo actualizado con el service pack 2 de windows xp, pero parece ser que mi update fue de segunda categoría, porque desde que cambiamos la encriptación del router a [...]

20050809 Puñales a euro

¡¡Hoy me apetece flamear!! Objetivo: windows XP y windows Vista (el anteriormente conocido como Longhorn). Todo ha empezado esta tarde. Estaba añadiendo un par de cosillas en el CVS y mientras aquello procesaba los archivos, me he quedado mirando el pop up, … y los bordes del susodicho. Por dios, pero que bordes más horrendos. [...]

20050724 From mac to windows: god bless opengl!

Yesterday I decided to compile my current project in windows. I didn’t know if it was going to bring me too much trouble, as it was the first time I developed in one platform (mac) and then compiled for another (windows). So I turned on my old laptop, opened visual C and created a new [...]