Posted by Ben on July 26, 2008
If you are having problems printing from Internet Explorer 7 under Windows Vista, check to see if you have AVG 8.0 installed. If so, get the latest version from http://free.grisoft.com. I did have build 8.0.101 and upgraded to build 8.0.138–everything works fine now. I’ve also seen reports that it could be an error while running [...]
Posted by Ben on July 14, 2008
I’m currently building a large-scale LEGO model of the Space Shuttle, and in order to get some detailed shots of a shuttle that are hard to find on the Internet, I visited the nearby Air & Space museum in Chantilly, VA. You can find the photos on flickr.
Posted by Ben on July 9, 2008
If you are following the instructions to build log4cxx 0.10 in Visual Studio 2005, and you have the Windows Platform SDK v6.0 installed, you may get errors compiling multicast.c in the apr project. I found the solution, and it’s pretty easy. Open up multicast.c and edit the lines: 136: #if MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP 148: #if MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP to [...]
Posted by Ben on July 3, 2008
In the replies to my article about nuclear power, there were statements about the supply of uranium the world can provide and that in the end, nuclear power may not be the panacea we hope it would be. I respectfully disagree. First, let me state my bias: I am an optimist. I almost never buy [...]