Archive for October, 2006

MSN should develop pets.msn.com

Posted on October 22, 2006. Filed under: Business/Technical Ideas |

I was watching a Bill Gates interview on CNBC last month. He was mostly talking about the competition with Google, how MSN is transforming into an online content provider, and the business potential for online advertising. However, the most interesting point he made was about his daughter. He mentioned that his daughter primarily [...]

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Idea about the Vista release

Posted on October 22, 2006. Filed under: Business/Technical Ideas |

Without further ado, Windows Vista, the most heavily scrutinized software product in the history of computing, will be released to volume licensed customers on November and to the general consumers on January, meaning that it’ll completely miss this year’s holiday sales season. This strategy makes sense from an engineering perspective, since I’ve tried [...]

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Memory management

Posted on October 14, 2006. Filed under: Languages and Algorithms | Tags: |

Dynamically memory allocation and deallocation is one of the most fundamental areas of computer programming. Usually the memory is dynamically allocated from the heap.
In order to properly manage memory, we need to be able to track what we are allocating and deallocating. We need to do things like mark blocks as unused after free has [...]

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