My main computer is playing up again…. I am just rebooting it now. Windows is SLOWLY shutting down and will then slowly restart. Good old windows. VisualBasic.Net was crashing again… And that is a good pointer that I need to reboot the machine. I do not like restarting machines. You should not have to restart a machine if it is operating correctly, except to replace the core kernel of the operating system. That says sometimes it is needed.
Windows just seems to need rebooting at times. As programs get more complex, it takes longer to debug the software. Leading to problems. And software interacts. Meaning that a program that crashes is likely to cause other things to crash… Or more correctly more likely to cause other things to crash than a working program.
OK… On rebooting windows things do not seem to work much better… Seems that when I leal with an ‘ImageList’ the program crashes soon after. 10-20 crashes later I magage to get the changes done and saved, maning that the program is now stable. And I have uploaded it for the client to play with. With the exception of some Web stuff, I think that this program is almost finished.
10 Years of the SMH on the Web
The Sydney Morning Herald has now been on The Web for about 10 years. Would you believe that I published my first HTML page about the same time. Time really does fly. You can read more about it on the SMH WWW site
It is also 40 years since Gordon Moore proposed Moore’s Law. There is a story about it on Yahoo. It links to the original article he wrote so many years ago. The world has changed a bit since then. One comment from the article was that at one point in the 1950’s the transistor cost $5.52 each. Now you can buy a billion of them for about a dollar. That is a huge price difference.
In some other technology news, Yahoo is also reporting that the Sistine Chappel will be jammed from Cellphones for the Papal Election.
Music:
Hoodoo Gurus with ‘I want you back’. Cool tune… You can find the Lyrics here. They were not what I expected when I started actually listening to them…