Date: | January 3, 2006 / year-entry #5 |
Tags: | other |
Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060103-09/?p=32813 |
Comments: | 11 |
Summary: | A quick list of links amassed over the past year. Not quite worth a posting on their own, but together they might mean something. ProFont, a font for code. Haven't tried it out, but it looks intriguing. Free annual credit reports, one per credit reporting agency per year. When people assume the system will never... |
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.] |
Comments (11)
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ProFont? Pah :) I use Andale Mono instead – which was designed for programming too :)
Consolas (included in the windows Vista betas) is also pretty good for coding.
"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…
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Thanks for the pick up tips Raymond
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.
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 :-)
Oh man, that ProFont makes me feel so leet. And the Windows Principal code is high-larious.