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Sans-serif fonts for coding

After reading a post about colour schemes and font choices for use in an IDE, it seems I’m one of the only people on the planet that uses non-monospace fonts for coding. So, in the spirit of equal access, I’ve decided to try a couple of different fonts in MonoDevelop. While it doesn’t have the [...]

Posted 19 September 2006 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Toilets and Thread Synchronization in C#

It dates from 2003, but this is still the best explanation of thread synchronization using Monitors that I’ve read.

Posted 16 September 2006 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

The Ur-Quan Masters on Ubuntu AMD64

At the moment, The Ur-Quan Masters doesn’t work on AMD64. This is a shame, because I just found it and realised Star Control II was the game that I had played on my friend-down-the-road’s computer so many years ago.
Attempting to fix this by forcing the install of the 32-bit version of uqm doesn’t work, because [...]

Posted 15 September 2006 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,