Hating MicrosoftHating Microsoft
In mailing list discussions I’ve seen Windows users get rather unhappy when people talk about “Hating Microsoft“, this often includes claims that it’s supposedly “unprofessional” to hate one vendor. Some[...]
Author: etbe
Sex and Lectures about ComputersSex and Lectures about Computers
I previously wrote about the appropriate references to porn in lectures about Computer Science [1]. It seemed that by providing a short list of all the appropriate ways that porn[...]
Journalism, Age, and MonoJournalism, Age, and Mono
Daniel Stone has criticised the IT journalist Sam Varghese for writing a negative article about a college student [1]. The student in question is 21 years old, that means he[...]
Released Bonnie++ 1.96Released Bonnie++ 1.96
I have released version 1.96 of Bonnie++ in the experimental branch [1]. The main changes are: Made it compile on Solaris again (version 1.95 broke that) Now supports more files[...]
DomainKeys and OpenSSL have Defeated MeDomainKeys and OpenSSL have Defeated Me
I have previously written about an error that valgrind reported in the STL when some string operations were performed by the DKIM library [1]. This turned out to be a[...]
Web Hosting After DeathWeb Hosting After Death
Steve Kemp writes about his concerns for what happens to his data after death [1]. Basically everything will go away when bills stop being paid. If you have hosting on[...]
Valgrind and OpenSSLValgrind and OpenSSL
I’ve just filed Debian bug report #534534 about Valgrind/Helgrind reporting “Possible data race during write” [1]. I included a patch that seems to fix that problem (by checking whether a[...]
Microsoft Open Source Information EveningMicrosoft Open Source Information Evening
I have just attended a Microsoft Open Source Information Evening. It was in some ways one of the stranger things that I have experienced in my computer career. Firstly there[...]
Unreasonably Large Source PackagesUnreasonably Large Source Packages
For the past few hours I’ve been going a build of the GCC packages on a dual-core Opteron system with 2.5G of RAM and a pair of reasonably fast SATA[...]
Valgrind/Helgrind and STL stringValgrind/Helgrind and STL string
I am trying to track down a thread-safety problem in one of my programs. Valgrind when run as “valgrind –tool=helgrind ./thread-test” claims that there is a problem with the following[...]