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April 2007 - Posts

Dell is now offering WindowsXP as an option to purchasers of their home computers, something they'd previously stopped when Vista came out.  Apparently, people figured out that Vista's kinda crap.

"We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell responded in a Web posting Thursday.
From PC maker Dell again offers Windows XP, Seattle PI, today.
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Lots of network traffic lately and wireshark revealed that it's these guys Project Playlist, a "service" for myspace noobs and, what looks like, gang members, to stream mp3s. Well, our friend Cameron's blog playlist. somehow got on their site, causing my pipe to be filled. That's lame of them, but whatever. All fixed. Carry on.

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The one non-automated reader of this blog might be astute enough to note that every so often I dink around with spinny globe apps and that the one I use for screenshots, etc. of locations is NASA WorldWind.  It's an open source .NET (soon to be Java) application and that means I should be poking about in the code.  I try to, honestly, but when work's a soul-sucking morass, it doesn't make me want to play with my hobby.  Anyhow, back to the point you didn't see coming: I made some documentation.  (Said cute, like a child who's done something wrong and knows it).  At least I didn't say it like Michael Moore.

I used the vendor-neutral Doxygen and the vendor-specific (Microsoft) Sandcastle tools to create NASA WorldWind 1.4.0 API documentation on my WorldWind dev page.  Yay for default settings (and slight tweakings)! Sandcastle took about 17 minutes to run through the svn source and produce the HTML, etc. Not too bad.

I'm sure the NASA WorldWind community will be adding in doc generation into (at least) the nightly builds and will hopefully host the docs off their wiki, so whether (and god forbid) this is the permanent location, I don't know.  What I do know is that I'll be making tweaks to both the doxyfile and the shfb and changing the look & feel (and content) of what's placed in the API docs. I'm also going to try to automate (NAnt or MSBuild) the doc production, but no promises! 

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