Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax

A collegue of mine pointed to me today a chapter from a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook”, published by IDG Books Worldwide Inc. in 1994 (ISBN 1-56884-203-1). One of the latest chapters is called “Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax”. In this chapter the authors say that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan addmited…

MFC in Orcas: support for Vista’s command button

MFC in Orcas comes with several important changes, such as support for Vista specific command button and split button. I have put together a small demo application displaying a command button with the tex Say “Hello Vista” and the note “Click on this button to show a “Hello Vista” message!”. The command button is still…

Google and the April Fool’s Day

Google seems to take the April’s Fool Day very seriously. 😉 They did two practical jokes, and I’m wondering how many people did fall for it. First, was the Toilet Internet Service Provider, or TiSP. Yes that was a practical joke, of course. 🙂 Second, they posted this page about a new service: Gmail on…

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What’s new in Orcas for VC++

Channel9 has posted recently an interview with Sarita Bafna, a Program Manager on the VC++ Libraries team, about the new features available in Orcas (in March CTP also) for VC++. The interview is focused on 2 things: marshaling library and MFC updates. The marshaling library consists on one single API, marshal_as, for marshaling between managed…

TiSP, latest service from Google

Google did it again: they just launched a free in-home wireless broadband service, called TiSP, available for now in a BETA version. According to google, TiSP is a Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP…

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