Monthly Archives: October 2006

It’s Been a Nice Vacation, But…

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 11, 2006

…it’s time to get myself back into life. Before I get into that, though, everyone should take a look at Sunbird, or the Thunderbird plug-in of the same, Lightning. Also check into Enigmail and Addressbooks Synchronizer. There’s also Tor (with the Torbutton). When everything settles out, that provides a portable, effective, feature-heavy, and reasonably secure [...]

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Who lacks rationality?

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 8, 2006

Why say no to free money? It’s neuro-economics, stupid While it’s gratifying that economics is finally getting past the idea of man as a simplistic economic creature, I don’t think either the economists or the physcologists (two groups that, in general, are not known for their astute logic) have thought the matter through. I’d argue [...]

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Same Stupidity, Different Datatype

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 7, 2006

I had an annoying surprise recently.  I discovered that gcc has decided that long longs are 64 bits- on both 32- and 64-bit platforms.  I discovered this when I wanted to do a double-word multiply.  On 32-bit gcc this is easy- to multiply two 32-bit unsigned longs and get the 64-bit result, you simply cast [...]

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