Happy New Year 2023
What are there to look forward to in the year of rabbits? Rapid growth 😀
Windows Defender update error code 80070002 windows 8.1
A solution to the problem when Windows Update fails at updating Windows Defender in Windows 8.1 and especially when the problem is related to corrupted definitions is to remove all definitions using the following steps: 1. Run “Command prompt” as administrator 2. cd “C:\Program Files\Windows Defender” 3. MpCmdRun.exe -RemoveDefinitions -All 4. Update to the latest […]
CALayer: Implicit animation of a custom property
For Apple’s iOS, below is the code to implicitly animate a custom property, using float as an example, in a subclass of CALayer: /* MyLayer.m */ @interface MyLayer() { BOOL _isPresenting; /* TRUE for presentation layer */ } @property (nonatomic) float property; /* normally defined in MyLayer.h */ @end @implementation MyLayer @synthesize property = _property; […]
Apple’s GLKit framework for IOS 5
Apple’s GLKit framework for IOS 5 is a few objective-c classes that make it easier to program for OpenGL ES 2.0, especially when porting from OpenGL ES 1.1 applications to 2.0. OpenGL ES 2.0 of course is the new graphics API for creating pretty 3D scenes in mobile apps. What makes it particularly hard for […]
Site update
It is almost 2012 and perhaps the end of the world? Probably not as the odd of any super extra- or terrestrial event is still quite small; well, at least NASA and most scientists still have not predicted anything serious to happen in the next few years. And any tendency of the humanity to self-destruct […]
Sin of a Solar Empire Mod – TEC Supremacy
TEC Supremacy (Link, 15MB) is my first mod of Sin of a Solar Empire (PC game) – Entrenchment 1.051. Below are the changes: 1. New Ships: TEC Sova Strike Carrier – an experimental carrier with more fire power, but costs more (G3200, M450, C250). It carries advance strike crafts: interceptors and torpedo bombers. These strike […]
Zzzzzz
This is a sleep posting. Good night and sweet dream.
Human’s excess
Scarce resources are consumed in excess for the power that supposedly protects against scarcity. By using more prevents shortfall. The extra becomes credits, free to burn and free to deny. And when the credits run wild, everything does not seem so inevitable. For there were excess, where did the shortfall come from?
Word counts do count, but words count more.
..ah, a sentence without ai, and sounds weird and silly. There are times when it is not how much you say but how you say it, and it is not how you say it but you did say something. Happy Holidays!!
Recession
The collective or perhaps a sizable group of bankers, manufacturers and investors around the world is feeling the blues and has become pessimistic about the current state of the economy, and thus recession is in fashion. Something as important as the jobs and well beings of billions people, something also known as the economy, is […]