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I’m gearing up to run the entire project through astyle. I think I just finished configuring my local astyle settings file but I’ll take another look another day to see if anything else stands out. The style is pretty inconsistent so I figure that I’ll try running it through the styler this go around instead of doing it manually like I did with…[Read more]

Whoops! So Archazia’s Island for Lorcana launched on March 7 for small shops. The big guys will get it on the 14th or 21st. The set contains a lot of goodies. It’s got a board wipe for your ink well as well as a weaker version of Half Shark in the Form of Ratigan along with a host of other useful cards. 🙂

On February 28, 2025 at 1:15 am DeVaultSetter said It’s the culture of corps too, many of the denizens in existence within their hallowed walls have no choice but declare there is no such thing as life outside, before, or after the corp, therefore the corp is seen as the provider and maintainer of all the means of existence and sustenance for the…

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Geany’s all ready to go. I’ll make more tweaks to the settings as I need to. All I really need is a text-editor with syntax highlighting 🙂

Fun fact, I used Notepad for Java initially as I hated the IDE we were made to use and I wasn’t allowed to install Notepad++ on the school computers. 😛

Found out this morning as I shutting down Linux that…[Read more]

Over the course of the series, you can see how technology advances in their Stone Age society. For instance, cars are initially powered by running and are powered by critters in a hamster wheel by season 4. There are other bits too, such as the advancement of arms.

I believe it was due to Lucas never being quite happy with the result and wanted…[Read more]

Here’s the updated run on rfuzzo’s repository: https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cppcheck-cpplint.zip

cpplint is much better while cppcheck hasn’t changed at all. However, the cpplint changes look due to it actually respecting the braces filter this go around. The first time I ran it, it ignored me when I told it to ignore the…[Read more]

After several bad starts, I think I’m getting the hang of OpenTTD again. Right now, I’ve got a basic network of four trains and two coal mines all connected to a power plant. Nothing fancy but it works. I’ve also got a few buses and a mail route between two towns.

Not sure how I want to expand it but I’ll do some more reading of the help files.…[Read more]

Yep, flushdns is pretty useful. Used to use it often back in the DSL days when the network information changed but the cache didn’t update for whatever and resetting the network connection didn’t do the trick. Pretty sure it was a Windows bug in XP at the time. Looks like they suggest trying the Pi Hole in the GitHub issue, which has come up…[Read more]

Ah, okay. Sounds good 🙂

Don’t forget about WinDbg! Pretty helpful to track down driver issues. And it’s also helpful to turn off the automatic restart on STOP errors so that you can better see what’s going on. Of course, Windows has become much more resilient in recent years so, fortunately, BSoDs don’t happen as much as they used to 🙂

Unlike The Simpsons, The Flintstones doesn’t contain a whole lot of satire so I’m not sure that is entirely accurate. It was a carbon copy of The Honeymooners at first, however. Fred definitely starts to mellow once he decides he wants a child in the third season but his abusiveness still rears its head from time to time. Interestingly, the…[Read more]

In honor of this product, here’s some AC/DC:

And in related products, here’s a unique design:…[Read more]

Forgot to mention that they also confirmed that their changes were to mostly satisfy changes to the Windows API over the last twenty years.

It’s wonderful! I’ve been playing it off and on on Linux and Windows for years 🙂

It also has a hidden sandbox mode that lets you remove most of the limitations. I forget the key combination, though.

It’s definitely taking time to relearn it and not go too fast at the beginning but I’m getting better. I don’t really care about the scoring, I…[Read more]

So I reinstalled OpenTTD the other day and it’s still just as relaxing as it was last time I gave it a whirl. Now, though, there are a lot more add-ons for better graphics in the online content menu. Haven’t tried those out yet.

Okay, my finger is healed enough to work now so I’ve reached out to rfuzzo about the warnings 🙂

For reference, this is how I ran cpplint:
./cpplint --filter=-whitespace,-readabiltiy/braces --recursive ~/Code/mwedit/

Another note:

We’ll want to make sure we compile the Windows executable as a static executable. This is important as, unlike *nix systems, Windows doesn’t have a central repository on system for libraries so each program needs to bundle its DLLs with them if built dynamically. The distribution can get a bit messy. Makes it harder to update…[Read more]

Part of the issue is also the hoarding of resources. Instead of investing it back into new markets and advances, corporations are simply letting the resources accumulate. This kills growth as there is little to no incentive to continue purchasing more services and products so things tend to stagnate over time. It also does harm to general society.…[Read more]

Wiki’s got a pretty extensive list, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft Lots of stuff in there!

Haven’t used Watcom before but I’ve definitely run across it. Can’t forget about Borland, either! It still lives as C++ Builder 🙂

Yeah, I’ll keep an eye out. Did an ISO conversion once using the built-in tools on Windows when I was having some issues with the CD drive twenty-years ago as requested by tech support to test out the drive. Turned out to be a failing drive at the time and the process wasn’t pretty. Had to use a weird xcopy command 😛

Sounds good. I’ve had my…[Read more]

Looks like he may have disabled new comments some years ago. Maybe he had a spam problem? He’s got some good information!

Have you looked into Hyper-V? Never used it before but it looks like it may be a good native option, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Sadly, it only supports back to W7 from the official list.

I can’t…[Read more]