Sans-serif fonts for coding

Uncategorized 19 September 2006 | 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Toilets and Thread Synchronization in C#

Uncategorized 16 September 2006 | 0 Comments

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

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The Ur-Quan Masters on Ubuntu AMD64

Uncategorized 15 September 2006 | 3 Comments

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, [...]

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