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I got a very interesting message this morning. It …

Posted by on December 12, 2002 Comments Off

I got a very interesting message this morning. It appears that Black & White will be supporting the new P5 virtual-reality glove from Essential Reality.

Basically, the P5 is the first commercially available glove that I’ve seen that is priced for the consumer. Honestly, I don’t remember seeing anything much like this since the old Nintento Power Glove for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.

In any case, at US$150 I do wonder how good it is. As someone who owns both a first (Logitech WingMan Force Feedback Mouse) and second generation (Logitech iFeel Mouseman) Force Feedback mice from Logitech, I do have to say that any new controller like this does get me thinking though.

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Installscript Tip for the day:

Posted by on December 9, 2002 Comments Off

While InstallShield’s Installscript does not have any String functions that can handle case sensitive comparison, the List functions do!

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//	function NRS_StrCompare
//	Case-sensitive compare of 2 strings.
//	Returns 0 if the strings match, -1 if they don't.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function NUMBER NRS_StrCompare ( szStr1 , szStr2 )
	NUMBER	nReturn , nResult;
	LIST	listList;
begin
	nReturn = -1;
	listList = ListCreate ( STRINGLIST );
	ListAddString ( listList , szStr1 , AFTER );
	nResult = ListFindString ( listList , szStr2);
	ListDestroy ( listList );
	if ( nResult == 0 ) then
		nReturn = 0;
	endif;
	return nReturn;
end;
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Got to reinstall the OS on the server today. Ooooo…

Posted by on December 1, 2002 Comments Off

Got to reinstall the OS on the server today. Ooooo. All fresh and nice. Not grotty and full of crap.

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