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[...]
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[...]
A “Well Rounded” CVA “Well Rounded” CV
When discussing career advice one idea that occasionally comes up is that someone should be “well rounded” and should demonstrate this by listing skills that are entirely unrelated to the[...]