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My name is Mark Doliner. I’m a computer software engineer living and working in North Carolina, USA. I worked in the San Francisco Bay area for 13 years before moving back East in 2019. My email address is mark@kingant.net.
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Potpourri
I took some pictures. Everyone loves pictures. Although these are pretty boring. I find it pretty annoying that I have to log into Yahoo! webmail every time I go there. I’ve been logged into Gmail for like a week straight … Continue reading
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Coverity
Some folks at Coverity recently (within the past few months) set up their code analysis product to run on the Gaim source code, and they’re giving us access to the results for free. I must say I’m very happy with … Continue reading
Rental cars a go-go
San Francisco International Airport has 8 rental car companies operating out of their rental car center. Today I called all 8 of them to figure out which had the best price for what I wanted. Dollar turned out to be … Continue reading
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Gaim direct connect and file transfer
I up and rewrote large parts of the oscar protocol in Gaim. Direct connect and file transfer work very smoothly now (it’s not in 2.0.0 beta3, but it’ll be in the next release). And best of all the peer connection … Continue reading
Ah! My leg!
Here’s a note I found interesting: “The U.S. sets high sugar prices to support its producers with the effect that many sugar consumers have switched to corn syrup (beverage manufacturers) or moved out of the country (candy makers).” Seems like … Continue reading
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Coincidence? I think not.
I got an email from Doug Bellamy with the subject, “Something is brewing” and I got excited because I thought maybe it was Bill Bellamy’s brother and he was inviting me to a party. But it was spam.
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New found land
I wonder what would happen if the world suddenly discovered a huge new continent somewhere? Or if a giant land mass suddenly formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? Would random people move their hoping to start their own … Continue reading
Everything is possible (why not?)
Desktop managers or windows managers or whatever should automatically create a notification area if an application needs one. Is that possible? Does it make sense? Someone should do that in Gnome, KDE and XFCE. If I had bounty money to … Continue reading