Archive for April, 2008
The REAL difference between C++ and Java
Some people argue about the difference between C++ and Java, well, I think I’ve finally figured it out.
With C++, the experience is ultimately rewarding. Sure you want to beat your head in with a slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick(even though that’s considered enjoyable for some people); but in the end, it makes you feel like a king of computers. You finally shake off that last compiler error and finalize the debugging and you feel like all 1337 having done so, ever the more confident until you sit down for another session with it.
Java, by contrast, makes you feel like you’ve just been halfway through brain surgery and the surgeon went for lunch, so no all you’re left with is the janitor and a pair of rats, who have found their way to your brain after trying to flee from the janitor attempting to smash them. Even once you DO finish with the compiler(which is stupidly annoying), and take care of the few odd bugs(you WON’T be able to fix them all lest you risk more compiler errors) you feel like a couple of Ewoks are using your once shiny helmet as a musical drum.
Even so, I guess it’s possible to accomplish a lot with Java, still, doesn’t stop it from being annoying.
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This is a simple dice simulation program that accepts the amount of sides of a die to cast, then generates random numbers, stores those in a vector, generates another random number to select which vector element to use, then outputs it, and finally asks the user if they’d like to rerun the program.
License: MIT
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The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2008 Tyler Earman
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
Currently, OSI Compliant
Need a backup manager?
A lot of people use Symantec’s Ghost but I’m really not a fan of the software. Have to reboot your PC into their Live OS, takes forever, and doesn’t support many drives. Well I went searching and I found Paragon Drive Backup.
Not only is the software cheap($30 for the personal edition at time of writing), its FAST(backed up 25gb of data from my main drive to an aux drive in around 30 minutes, while compressing it to < 20gb), it runs within Windows(installs a driver of some sort to allow it to open protected files).
And, unlike Ghost, it supports any drive your OS does because it runs within Windows and uses Windows drivers.
Not only does it support Windows file systems(NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16), but also Linux file systems(Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS at time of writing).
You can do incremental backups(called differential backups), scheduled backups, 1-button drive copies, bootable recovery disks, and all number of things.
Check it out at Paragon’s Website
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Ok so I’m the only contributor right now. Page is up and coming, hang tight
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