Monthly Archives: February 2007

Round a Float to # of Significant Digits Following The Decimal Point

Unfortunately, this next couple of weeks I get to do some development in C, and have ran into the always lovely issue of rounding a floating point number within a given # of significant digits. First, the need to do … Continue reading

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Fortune Widget 0.3

[ This is an old version - Please see Fortune Widget 0.4 or the Fortune Widget project page] My very first widget for the WordPress2 “widgets” plugin. It’s very simple, in that it uses php-fortune to display a fortune from fortune … Continue reading

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Adding Widgets…

Things have been pretty slow here lately, but I’m going to try and get back into posting a little more often. Most of the posts will probably be about my dealings with linux and software development, but we’ll see how … Continue reading

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Windows Vista: Security? Not Here…

I’m really hoping this story I read this morning from Linux and Open Source Blog is true, about Russian hackers finding method to escalate a user’s privileges in Windows Vista. It is something like this that make it’s quite obvious … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs want to remove DRM?

Jobs said there appeared to be no benefit for the record companies in continuing to sell more than 90 percent of their music without DRM on compact discs, while selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a … Continue reading

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