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2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

A quick list of links amassed over the past year. Not quite worth a posting on their own, but together they might mean something.

[While Raymond was on vacation, the autopilot stopped working due to a power outage. This entry has been backdated.]

Published Friday, December 30, 2005 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:47 AM by Simon Cooke
ProFont? Pah :) I use Andale Mono instead - which was designed for programming too :)

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:58 AM by Alexander Groß
Consolas (included in the windows Vista betas) is also pretty good for coding.

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:18 AM by Marcel
"Living in America": Entertaining read, thanks.

"Crashed cars of Kuwait": That reminds me of this http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Crazy-Arab-Driving
Notice the police car a minute into the video...

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:49 PM by Adam G
I really like ProFont - I've used it in my editor for a two years or so now. The readability at small size is amazing.

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:02 PM by Starfish
Profont user for two years, ever since it appeared on Joel on Software. Smaller is better!

(tip: play SkiFree with the number pad, not the mouse, and reduce the keyboard repeat delay. The tricks earn you loads of points.)

# Heresy!

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:07 PM by memet
I don't know if I'm the only one, but if there's anything I approve fully and love about Microsoft, it's their default font selection. And this goes for the Visual Studio IDE as well.

Who knows, maybe I'm just too used to it...

I tried the pro font for about an hour, and then reverted back to the original Courier New.

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:30 AM by John Elliott
I stayed with Courier until I found the truetype version of the One True Font, misc-fixed-semicondensed. <http://www.twoevils.org/html/files.html>
Other people have created bitmap versions of it which can be used in console windows.

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:04 AM by Matt
Thanks for the pick up tips Raymond

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:24 PM by Norman Diamond
The downloadable files for ProFont look pretty small. They're even smaller than the BOOTFONT.BIN file that Windows puts in the root directory of C: (along with NTLDR, BOOT.INI, etc.). This arouses suspicion that ProFont would likely only be usable for code that contains no comments or character strings.

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:03 AM by Simon Mourier
Being an old ex-Microsoftee, I have used the old "MSMAIL3.FON" font for more than 10 years. The best programming font in my opinion! This profont is cool thought :-)

# re: 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale

Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:48 AM by Dustin
Oh man, that ProFont makes me feel so leet. And the Windows Principal code is high-larious.
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