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Symbols used to represent functions

I was looking for some standard symbols to represent the Control key and the Alt key, and couldn’t find one until I came across ISO/IEC 9995-7.
Because I had much trouble finding a free copy of the document on the ’Net, I have made a table of the symbols and their functions below. I have [...]

Posted 22 June 2009 † Porges § utility ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Implementing futures in C#

Why?
I was bored, and it didn’t seem to have been done before, so here’s some Future action in C#.
The Code

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading;
 
public class Future<T> {
public delegate R FutureDelegate<R>();
public Future (FutureDelegate<T> del) {
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Posted 13 February 2007 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Using OpenDNS servers with bind9 easily

The OpenDNS FAQ purports to have a solution to this problem, but it does something obscure to a file I don’t have on my system. So I quickly checked the man page and came up with this:
/etc/bind/named.conf.options
//Add this somewhere inside the options{}; section…
forward only;
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Posted 09 October 2006 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Easier local DNS cache

After a while pdnsd stopped working for me, and try as I might I can’t fix it. So I purged pdnsd and found an easier method, with no configuration this time!apt-get install bind9 resolvconf

Posted 09 October 2006 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,