About code. Mostly on C++
For several months, after I installed Windows 7 at home I had a very annoying problem: whenever I was writing double quotes (“) or single quotes (‘) in some text editors and all browsers, the quotes did not appear. Only after I was typing another character, then both the opening and the closing quotes were … Read more
In the book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins explains how evolution happens through accumulated small random variations (or mutations) filtered by the natural selection, as opposed to the mainstream misinterpretation that evolution happens in big leaps. He proposes a computer program, called weasel, to demonstrate how the accumulated small improvements (mutations that bring a benefit … Read more
In my previous post I wrote about a feature called “god mode” available in Windows 7 and Vista. By creating a folder with a specific name you get one entry point to all the commands available in Control Panel. It was reported that several such shortcuts exits. Below is an image with the 16 folders … Read more
There has been some buzz in the last few days about a feature in Windows 7 called “God mode”. Well, it doesn’t empower you as a God but allows you to access all the nested features available in Control Panel from a single entry point. All you have to do is creating a folder (or … Read more