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Expensive watches
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…
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.NET Garbage Collector making me batty, again
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.
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Delay-loading assemblies in .NET
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…
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.NET garbage collector making me batty
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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Large Hadron Collider
The world’s most powerful particle-accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is scheduled to be switched on for the first time tomorrow. There are assorted kooks who believe that the LHC will destroy the world in one or more of the following ways: Create a microscopic black hole which will devour the Earth. Trigger the hypothetical vacuum…