Well after several months of putting up with my rebooting (sometimes looping) when I used any substantial amount of 3G data, I decided to upgrade. I was looking at the HTC Rezound and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and found this really good comparison article on phoneArena. Ultimately, after many recommendations …

I had just started writing a new C++ console app (under Visual Studio 2010 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel) to test something out, and had just this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <Windows.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    return 0;
}

I unintentionally clicked Start Debugging, and much to my …

After getting my new SSD installed, I really wanted to get everything setup so that my data was safe on the 1 TB RAID 1 array. This meant somehow moving the Users directory from C:\ (the SSD) to D:\ (the RAID).

The two main approaches are:

1. Use an unattend.xml …

I finally built a new computer. My previous one was a Pentium D machine I built my sophomore year of college, in 2007. I had seen evidence of bad capacitors over a year ago, but hadn't had any problems until recently. Since June, my system's stability had been getting worse …

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that int() in python is retarded and can't tell the difference between decimal, hex, and octal?

Your solution:

def parseint(val):
    if isinstance(val, int):
        return val
    if not isinstance(val, (unicode,str)):
        return None

    try:
        if val.startswith('0x'):
            return int(val …