I’m Not a FanI’m Not a Fan
Fandom is something that has never made sense to me. If a sport such as football interested me then I would play it. Being good at something is not a[...]
Category: Misc Computer
Random Computer stuff that doesn’t fit the other categories.
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Lies and Online DatingLies and Online Dating
Separating Fact From Fiction: An Examination of Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles is a really interesting paper by Catalina L. Toma and Jeffrey Hancock of Cornell University and Nicole[...]
McDonalds – Wifi Without PowerMcDonalds – Wifi Without Power
I am writing this post at a small cafe while my car is being serviced. I tried a local Red Rooster food store, a KFC, and a McDonalds but none[...]
Actually You Do CareActually You Do Care
A reasonably common feature in Internet debates is that of one party claiming to not care about the issue. Statements such as “I haven’t got time to debate this” or[...]
CPLCPL
I’ve just bught an NVidia video card from Computers and Parts Land (CPL) [1]. I asked for a PCIe*8 card but was assured that a PCIe*16 card would work. However[...]