Monthly Archive: March 2012

Mar 08

Pointing at Things That do Stuff!

… that is, pointing at functions. Introduction Pointers in C++ are probably one of the most powerful aspects of programming using the language. They can allow you to easily pass data around with using additional memory and provide a very efficient way to access variables from elsewhere in the program. But, that’s not all they …

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Mar 04

Browserless Magic

Today I was asked to fix a computer, which isn’t anything new. But this one posed a slightly different problem to usual. The computer had been restored to factory settings, and in the process it had lost the settings that configured it for internet connection. Seemed like a simple enough job, Windows XP, just run …

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