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Comment Re:I don't get the low resolution settings... (Score 1) 823

by BillAtHRST on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @06:39PM (#26226607) Attached to: Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen?

Actually, no they don't. Don't worry -- you'll understand in a few years :-)
The problem -- even for people with "normal" vision -- is that as you age you get more far-sighted, so you need correction for that. Of course, that correction totally screws up your near vision. So you end up needing different sets of glasses for reading, driving, etc.
And if you are already near-sighted, it's not like they cancel out -- you just get to be BOTH near-sighted AND far-sighted. Big PITA!
Don't even get me started on macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, etc.

Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail 131

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 07, 2007 @10:11AM from the because-you-can dept.

Fudgie writes "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong. A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X). It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at fudgie.org for an example movie, and more information."

How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? 731

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 08, 2003 @03:00PM from the there's-always-room-for-improvement-right dept.

redelvis asks: "I recently came across an article by MIT's Media Lab on 'The Debugging Scandal and What to Do About It'. It's a few years old now, but it really got me thinking about how little the debugging process has improved over the last 5,10 or even 30 years. I have developed applications using modern IDE debuggers such as Borland's JBuilder, Microsoft's Visual C++, as well as standard tools like gdb and jdb. Despite the slick graphical interfaces, nice thread stack traces and local variable browsers, I still make sure I have on hand plenty of notepads, graph paper, pens and pencils so I can try to build up a picture of what state the program is in and to help me play detective in pinpointing what is going wrong with my (or other peoples) programs. Do other developers have similar problems? Do they find modern IDEs and debuggers have shortcomings in helping track down bugs? What would make a better debugger? Why do you think so much effort been invested in areas such as advanced modelling tools but so little in improving debugging tools?"

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