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Farewell C/C++ Users Journal

The final issue of C/C++ Users Journal arrived today at my house, and it is somewhat shocking. The magazine has been around for nearly 30 years: that’s a lot when you talk about a magazine which focuses on such a precise group of readers. I personally was raised with my father telling me about how great the articles used to be, and 2-3 years ago I managed to build my skills in C/C++ to the level of being able to understand the magazine. It would be impossible to list all the things that I learned by reading this magazine, there is so much stuff that one day you wonder about and then you get the issue and there you have the article on the exact topic you were thinking about. And the most special parts of the magazine are the tricks than seem totally wacky until the day you are writing a program and you think to yourself “Didn’t I read how to do this in one of the issues of C/C++ Users Journal“? It’s a great feeling to have that happen. Well that’s the end of that, I can only wonder what the next big magazine will be, the one that perhaps I’ll tell my children about as if it had the meaning to life.

Object Oriented v.2

So after 2 years using Movable Type to run this site I decided to make the switch to WordPress. Reason being that, Movable Type corrupted all half of my site after upgrading and so I decided to try something new and different. I look forward to using all the cool things that WordPress has to offer.

Version 2 should be good.

iTunes troubles

Problem If you are like me and haven’t been able to load iTune’s music store (IMS) for days on end, here is the solution for you! Every time I tried to open IMS I recieved the mind boggling message that went along the lines of “Check that your internet connection is active”. Except that every other program on my computer was finding the internet connection quite active.

Solution

1. Open the C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad (If you are using w2k this file will be under C:\winnt\…)
2. Inside this file you should see a line or two starting with 127.0.0.1 followed by some text. Change the text on those lines to localhost

1. Restart iTunes and now IMS should work like a charm