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Archive for September, 2005

TV for Geeks

Friday, September 9th, 2005

I discovered an awsome geek TV show, Systm which is very cool (young hosts and cool content). They have shows on war driving and MythTV!
Also, Robert X. Cringely has launched NerdTV, available exclusively online. He will be interviewing high profile geeks on a wide range of topics. The first episode is with Andy Hertzfeld of […]

Binary data loading in Java

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

I need to get something off my chest: DataInputStream.readFloat(), I hate you!! Today I had one of those annoying bugs pop up that are hard to chase down. I know how to read/write my binary IEEE754 floats in C (all tested and working) but my Java code is really not liking it. Turns out readFloat() […]