http://www.reanmachine.com My own little world of nonsense Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.reanmachine.com/2008/05/26/reanmachinecommandline-library-released/ 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 ... http://www.reanmachine.com/2008/03/24/memory-diagnostic-getting-errors/ 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 ... http://www.reanmachine.com/2008/03/13/professors-and-handwriting/ 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, ... http://www.reanmachine.com/2008/03/11/depth-of-field-simplified/ 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 ... http://www.reanmachine.com/2008/03/11/ie8-beta-first-impressions/