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FreeBSD 6.2 is released

Read from freebsd.org that 6.2 is now available. FreeBSD has been choice of server OS since 1998 and it works reliably on my servers for many years.

This server is still running an older version and I won’t upgrade it until I have more free time. I suppose my other server be upgraded very soon since it is running an even older version of FreeBSD.

Updated Simple Polarity Inverter for foobar2000 v0.9.x

Updated from the old one to version 1.01, it is a 3 in 1 channel polarity inverter, no longer limited to both channels, you simply pick inverter for channel 0, 1 or both 0 & 1 from the DSP manager.

Simple Polarity Inverter v1.01 for foobar2000 v0.9.x (file size 46.02 KB)

Hope you like it.

Happy new year !

Wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year !

Bought Chaos Wars today

Bought Chaos Wars brand new at a bargain price (~US$11) today, but hadn’t played it yet.

This is the only game that I bought recently, too busy working these days !

Akismet has caught 2101 spam messages for me

Not much for a number but for a little site like mine, it is quite a lot comparing to the 15 comment, ha ha !

Thank you, Akismet.

Gaming sites : stay where they are or shut them down

I won’t have time to update/maintain my gaming sites for at least 2-3 years, I think I won’t even have time to play games. Seriously considering whether I should shut them down (only maintain this blog once in a while) or let them stay where they are (which I don’t prefer).

Haven’t updated anything on my sites for a while

Very busy these days, I have taken a new career lately. I can forsee that I will have even less leisure time for games and my sites, sorry to those who are waiting for updates.

And BTW, I am very happy with the performance of Akismet, it has caught 181 spam for me since I first installed it.

Borland’s ‘Turbo’ products and Roadmaps

From the published Roadmaps, I’m glad to see that there are further development on the tools. I was worried about the development of the tools and held off upgrading to BDS 2006 after reading Borland’s intention to sell the IDE business to somebody else (well, partly because of my purchased VCL components might not work with it).

I like Borland’s development tools since Turbo Pascal on CPM and I had purchased and used C++ Builder since version 1, and currently C++ Builder 6 Pro is my major development tool (I am a C/Assembly guy, and C++ is my natural choice, ha ha).

I have recently worked on other IDEs, like Sun’s NetBeans IDE (for Java projects), Nokia’s Carbide.c++ (Eclipse developed IDE for Symbian C++ projects) and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Pro 2005 (for Windows Mobile development, very slick IMHO). I’d considered completely changing to VS2005 Pro but I miss the C++ RAD environment, and I have my clients running apps 24/7 that I still need to support.

I think the free Turbo explorer series will get more developers to appreciate Borland’s RAD environment.

Caught a cold 2 days ago

I think because of the lack of sleep, I caught a cold while talking to a client/friend in a mall. It was pretty bad, have a running nose the whole day yesterday and used up a box full of tissues.

The last time I was in a similar situation was during a working trip in China, but fortunately no fever this time, just running nose. Off-the-shelf medicines are mostly not working from my past experience. The Ads on those Panadol tablets flashed in my mind, and instead of visiting a doctor, I tried the Panadol cold & flu Day pills, but they didn’t help at all and I think that I should visit a doctor instead if the Night tablets also didn’t work.

So, before sleeping, I tried Panadol cold & flu Night tablets and they worked, my running nose had finally stopped running and I had a good sleep. No more running nose today but I think I should visit a doctor because my throat is aching. :)

Have been working nights and days

It seems like everything comes to me all of a sudden, hardware failure, development jobs, new opportunities, so busy all of a sudden, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down these 2 weeks.

Lack of sleep is killing me.




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