Archive for March, 2006

OOP Concept explained: Polymorphism

Friday, March 17th, 2006

The problem with most computer science texts is the examples aren’t interesting. Polymorphism isn’t really hard to understand, but the examples are usually boring or difficult to understand. This is an alternative text which attempts to use a problem space that’s already familiar to the college student to make the concepts of programming simple.

Interesting, if not slightly rude.

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Intel iMac XP Boot-loader

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

The winner of the big $13,000 prize for getting WindowsXP and MacOSX to co-exist on Intel Macs has posted his solution. Come and get it!

This is great news for anyone with a new Intel Mac who has to live in the Windows world for those “very important” applications that you can’t get on OS X.

Nice work guys.

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Improved Video Quality

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I’ve managed to improve the quality of the video source I am capturing into my Mac. Now using a shielded SPDIF cable. This has reduced the diagonal lines, which may or may not have been visible previously.

Also tweaked about with the brightness/contrast settings so that the blacks no longer look grey. Hope you enjoy the improved quality.