I guess Zimbabwe now really has it bad

Finally Can$1 = Zim$-81.835. Is that good or bad??

Zim Dollar to Canadian Dollar excahneg rate
Zim Dollar to Canadian Dollar excahneg rate

Alberta, Canada loosing it

A friend just sent me this link - where Alberta is using this picture to promote their tourism:

Alberta Tourism
Alberta Tourism

Besides the obvious fact that it is not even from Alberta, why not use this instead (which IS from that province):

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Playing multiplayer starcraft on LAN with multiple subnets

One of the best games of all time must be StarCraft. I recently installed it again, and was delighted to see it now supports UDP instead of the archaic IPX protocol. But this is where the fun started.

My network is divided in to three subnets. I have the WAN connected to the Internet, a Wireless subnet for all my wireless devices (including my one gaming computer), and a LAN for the wired computers (including the game server). But this is where the problem lies - by default UDP broadcasting does not extend subnets - and for a good reason too. However StarCraft uses UDP broadcasting to discover servers to connect to.

Obviously I enabled routing of UDP traffic between the LAN and WiFi subnets, but this was not enough. To have broadcast traffic forwarded to the other subnet, I had to get my hands dirty.

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I love dedication like this

A very simple idea, yet the detail and subsequent result is amazing. Love it when people get creative.

WALL-E Computer

Microsoft may suck, but for development they rock.

Compare this official documentation on the exit value of a process for Java:

JavaDoc for Process.exitValue

with Microsoft's:

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