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Yesterday I was under the impression that all was well with the updates on my Windows 10 development computer. To learn more about it take a look at the section labeled ORIGINAL POST in this entry. Continue reading “While Switching to C++ (edited)”
Do not recall exactly when it happened last time, but earlier this year my development computer running Windows 10 received a Windows update. The update was applied (as far as I could tell). From then on, when I would shutdown or restart my computer, I was asked to update and restart or update and shutdown. Something was not right. I do not recall what I did to get out of such state last time, but it worked. Continue reading “Windows 10 Update Not Completing”
Over the weekend a container cargo ship sailing near Japan collided with the USS Fitzgerald causing loss of life (reportedly seven sailors die in the event). My sincere condolences to the family, relatives and friends affected. Over the weekend I read a few articles regarding this incident. For the reasons I am going to cover in this post, the news called my attention and motivated me to write this entry. Continue reading “Container ship collides with USS Fitzgerald”
To recap on the log file sub system, the initial software was able to log from any thread in any process in a single computer messages which included values of variables. Following is a snippet from a log file: Continue reading “Log File – Next Step”
Thinking of ways to architect / design software is a good way to improve your software skills. In this case I will try to come up with an initial design to implement a set of settings. The approach will look at the server and the client software. The idea is that different applications / sub systems would use a single application to manage their settings. Continue reading “Settings – Part I”
About a couple decades ago I came up with the idea for a storage server. This occurred while experimenting and working with a Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) product that worked on a Sun Solaris system and used tapes in an automated library to manage the contents of the files. At that time the idea of a Content Addressable Storage (CAS) was several years away. Continue reading “Log Files”
While programming in most (never say all) programming languages and platforms one often runs into the need to swap the values of two variables. The following code in Java illustrates a first attempt to swap two integers: Continue reading “Swap Values”