Jason's Place

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 this usually stems from the fact that atof(char*) or strtof(char*,char**) return values one wouldn’t [...]

[ 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 files, which you can either copy into place or point towards ones installed on your [...]

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 things go. One definite reality is the lack of free time that results [...]

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 that over-hyping and marking the security of a product doesn’t make the product more [...]

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 DRM system… …”If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx [...]