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As our population ages, here’s one feature that consumer electronics makers really have to start thinking about: lock-down modes for old people.
I need a way to set up my Mom’s TV, cable box and DVD player in such a way that she can’t possibly screw it up.
The world of watches is a strange place. The best watches tend to be relatively inexpensive, while some rather poor watches are priced out of range of all but the very wealthy. By “best” and “poor”, I’m referring not to subjective things like aesthetics. I’m not even going to bother thinking about whether a Gucci watch is “better” than a Prada watch. I don’t give a rat’s ass about either of them. I mean the qualities that watchmakers have striven for centuries to achieve: accuracy, reliability, and useful features.
It’s pretty common knowledge that a $20 Timex is much more accurate than a $20,000 Patek Phillipe. From a purely practical point of view, the Timex is a better watch in almost every respect. So why is it that I am so drawn to look at these crazy expensive mechanical watches?
I wrote previously about two things I had learned, through great pain, about the .NET garbage collector.
Now I have another lesson to add to that.
Continue reading ‘.NET Garbage Collector making me batty, again’
I was trying to find a .NET equivalent to the “/delayload” option that the linker has for unmanaged code. For the uninitiated, “/delayload:someDLL.dll” changes the resulting .EXE/.DLL so that someDLL.dll will not be loaded until the first time a function in it is called. It’s a handy option you can use so that you do not need to install someDLL.dll on computers where you know it’s not going to be needed.
Continue reading ‘Delay-loading assemblies in .NET’
I’ve spent a few days trying to track down a garbage collection problem in some code I’ve been working on. I finally figured it out. Along the way, I’ve learned more about .NET garbage collection than I ever wanted to know, and discovered a useful tool to help with these kinds of problems.
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