Beware of Inequalities with Floating Point Types- April 26, 2004 I have been playing around with the inaccuracies of floats and decided to share some of the simplest comparisons that might surprise folks that use the equality comparisons of floats indiscriminately. The following code listing pretty much captures the issues: using System.Diagnostics;...decimal decimalNumber = 4.2M;double doubleNumber1 = 0.1F 42F;double doubleNumber2 = 0.1D 42D;float floatNumber = 0.1F 42F; Trace.Assert(decimalNumber != (decimal)doubleNumber1);...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/04/25.html#a598 Cyruslink - 802.11b Enabled Stereo System and More- April 25, 2004 For the past year my wonderful wife has been complaining about the hand-me-down stereo system that we have. Although the system is relatively good the CD player has packed up and the amplifier takes about 20 minutes to warm up due to a bad capacitor that I haven't taken the time to fix. We temporarily replaced it with a boom box but the CD player gave out on that to We also purchased and under-the-counter CD player and radio but last week the CD player on that died to. ...http://www.cyrus.co.uk/cyruslink/cl_detail.htm Outlook's "I'm sorry.... MapiExcption..." Dialog- April 24, 2004 I unexpectedly received the following dialog from Microsoft Outlook 2003 after dialing in to my VPN. Perhaps what puzzles me most is exactly who "I'm" is referring to. I was not aware that my computer had feelings of remorse -- or any feelings for that matter.http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/04/23.html#a596 News Readers for Microsoft Outlook- April 23, 2004 I came across two NNTP news reader add-ins for Microsoft Outlook recently. The first is NewsLook and the second is from MAPILab's. It appears none of the have the fast efficient newsgroup reading support that comes with Agent Newsreader but still, the idea of integrating email, newsgroups and RSS (via NewsGator) is intriguing. By the way, why doesn't Outlook support the efficiencies of Agent I can go through hundreds of messages in Agent in short order and Outlook is an order of...http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/04/23.html#a595 NAS Versus SAN- April 23, 2004 This article contains a good introduction into the NAS and SAN storage options. I recently received a quote for a custom built half-terabyte computer with hot swappable hard drives and an ATA serial controller. The price was over $2,500, however, and this seemed higher than necessary. You can by off the shelf NAS devices for less than that. The unexpected costs were in the case (SuperMicro SC742T-550 for $600) and the AMD mother board (TYAN AMD-8000 Chipset...http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_05/magazine/features/tclark/default.aspx To write a book- April 23, 2004 There is little that can be added to Chris Anderson's post on writing a book. As an author of several, I think he hits the mark quite well. However, I must agree with Mike's comment that, "Writing is a great way to learn something." This is perhaps the greatest motivator for me.http://www.simplegeek.com/commentview.aspx/d0eaf161-1a37-4562-acc4-61156e2943f7 MobileWireless highlights from around the Web- April 23, 2004 This story is noteworthy just because it puts Spokane on the map in a technology rag which is a pretty rare occurrence. I confess, however, I have never connected to the "city-wide" wireless network as I rarely go downtown (although it is only 20 minutes drive from my house) and when I do it is usually for recreational purposes and my laptop doesn't accompany me. As it turns out, I am more likely to use the wireless networks in Chicago's airports than the ones in Spokane as I travel there.http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,74404,00.html?nas=MW-74404 RSS and SourceSafe- April 23, 2004 Today I updated the Source Safe FAQ with information about the RSS Feed for Source Safe that Greg Reinacker posted.http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=615 |