I host an IP-restricted squid proxy at the digital machine. For anyone that’s using it, ad filtering is now ON, thanks to AdZapper. Feedback welcome.
Sounds like the NSA is still kicking butt, in this recent address to Congress by the director.
Most interesting paragraph:
Shortly after September 11 th , I had a meeting of my senior leaders. I asked them the following question: Is there any part of our transformation roadmap that we should change as a result of the
attacks? Unanimously, they responded, “No, but we need to accelerate these changes.†With the money the President has requested and Congress has provided, we have done just that. We still have much to do but these committees know better than most the performance of NSA in the current war. I know in my heart that this level of sustained excellence would not have been possible without the business process, organizational, personnel, and operational changes we have set in place and you have supported.
OK, skinning HTDJ well really requires rewriting all the controls to be my own. MFC is really nasty about getting it all right – I am sure it is possible to get controls that draw without flash over bitmapped backgrounds, but it is NOT fun. So… I am trying a shift in gears…
ZINF is very close to what I need for the next HTDJ – skinning, streaming, etc., etc. It has none of the cool features of HTDJ… time for a little MERGING wahoooooo!
There’s a new version of Visual Studio coming out called Everett – actually very interesting, compared to the current version of VS 7 – they are targeting C++ ISO conformance and hitting 98% or better – “But our favorite benchmark is that we’re compiling the popular Boost, Blitz, and Loki libraries without the need for special workarounds”. Excellent, sounds worth the switch this time.
