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Reanmachine.CommandLine Library Released!

ReAn — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:44 +0000

So today I’ve finally jumped through all the hoops I needed to actually push out my first little library. It’s rather small and simple at the moment, but this is just temporary. I decided I would do the ground work for software package releases on something small so I pushed this one out the door.

Check the project page out at:

Project Page on Reanmachine.com Wiki

The wiki itself is still under development (and being used to write some of my class notes, heh) but most of the Software: Namespace is ready to roll.

Memory Diagnostic - Getting errors?

ReAn — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:45:26 +0000

So I’ve been having some issues with my desktop machine as of late, been getting some elegant crashes (read: swift). Recently some of my apps have been catching thier crashes before they dump to the inevitable Dr. Watson, and complaining about memory errors: Pointers to unreferenced memory, inability to read from this memory, etc.

Anyway, unfortunately for me, the problem wasn’t in my memory, but this wonderfull excursion in computer diagnostic process has led me to a wonderfull tool which I’d love to share with the world.

It’s called Memtest86+

http://www.memtest.org/

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Professors and Handwriting

ReAn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:44:26 +0000

It seems that lately a lot of older people (i.e. my father) are confused and shocked as to why handwriting is never taught/tested in school. They seem to think it’s an important thing to have in today’s digital world. Well I’ve noticed an interesting trend. The older someone is, the worse thier handwriting is. My father himself has some pretty neat handwriting, even his printing is particularly good. However, most older people i see have horrible handwiting, even worse than most of the younger folk, whom use computers much more frequently.

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Depth of Field - Simplified

ReAn — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:03:04 +0000

What is depth of field? Depth of field is the simulation in 3D graphics of a lens-based camera. Conventional rendering techniques model a pinhole camera paradigm, this means that all aspects of the picture share the same level of focus (the entire picture is in focus). With a lens-based camera, the rendered image will have varying levels of focus based on the ‘focus’ of the lens. Since we’re not using a ray-tracing engine, it’s hard to approximate the effects of light bending through a lens in the projection phase of rendering so we can ‘fake’ Depth of Field by breaking the problem down.
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IE8 Beta - First Impressions

ReAn — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:38:10 +0000

Well let’s begin by pointing out, I’ve never been a huge advocate of Internet Explorer. I enjoy IE6’s extremely quick loading time and use it from time to time when a page just up and refuses to load in Opera (My current browser of choice) and aside from that, It’s wonderfull for embedding into your applications.

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