Archive for November, 2005

Managing music for your Palm

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

To really get the most out of music on your Palm, you need to have good music management software on your desktop machine. A good music manager will automatically find and catalog your existing music. As well, it will allow you to set properties and search (or create playlists) using combinations of properties.
MediaMonkey […]

Software warranties

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Why doesn’t most software have a warranty? You can find software that comes with warranties and guarantees–just not from a major software company. Many small companies will routinely put a warranty and guarantee on their software, saying that the software will work substantially as specified in the manual or you get your money […]

Practical Computer Science Theory

Monday, November 7th, 2005

There are two useful pieces of computer science that are fairly easy to understand. These are the halting problem and P versus NP.
Simply stated, the halting problem says that we can’t (in general) tell whether or not a given program halts. This is important because the two steps in formally proving that a […]