Google fixes Chrome vulnerabilities--but won't say whichI find this article a bit distressing... first and foremost, that Google is avoiding full disclosure with regard to security updates, going so far as redacting their public changelogs. Sounds like this project won't be so "open source" after all ( Read more... )

Some say that pointers are a difficult programming concept to grasp, but I never saw the difficulty. I was pretty much 100% fluent with pointers after my dad spent 30 minutes explaining them to me, and then I sat down and wrote linked lists using references and arrays using pointer arithmetic soon after ( Read more... )

ghc-core is one of the best tools I've added to my Haskell repertoire in a while. It outputs the intermediate results of GHC in a halfway-readable form, enabling one to get a better idea of what exactly is going on beneath the hood, and useful for verifying that GHC is indeed performing various optimizations you want it to perform ( Read more... )

So the right shift key on my trusty, 7-8 year old Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard stopped working on Saturday, so I bought a new Microsoft Natural 4000 They've changed a few things, and I tend to be picky about my keyboards, so I hope I end up liking it. The thing I'm most skeptical about is the new curve from the home position out to the ( Read more... )

I am not a quick learner, unless I'm on the verge of discovering for myself something you try to teach me. Indeed, I flew through Calculus BC in high school, skipping Pre-Calc and Trig, but on the other hand I was trying to do integrals on my own at the beginning of Algebra II, without referring to any pre-existing work on the subject. ( Read more... )

So I re-examined OpenOCD today, the latest version as well as a older version that reportedly works for somebody else. The older version kind of works, but is still super-flaky, and the latest version dumps core for every command. A quick examination of the latter reveals brand new code that's transparently, and profoundly, broken ( Read more... )

Heh, so I started examining core dumps from OpenOCD, which immediately uncovered this totally farcical bit of code:

( int stm32x_protect(struct flash_bank_s *bank, int set, int first, int last); )

So I've been taking a break from the embedded project, and last night I set myself to the task of re-writing some graphics code of mine that was in desperate need of a major overhaul. It's useful code, but the codebase has grown ugly with maturity, and it was getting difficult to move forward ( Read more... )

Gahhhahahah. I hate the computer industry sometimes ( Read more... )

I've had my eye on Technologic's TS-7800 for a minute. It's a nice computer, but ultimately the 10-bit A/D converter just didn't have adequate resolution for my purposes. I've been looking at PC/104 Analog IO boards, including Diamond System's offerings, but I finally opted for something rather different, an ARM Cortex microcontroller ( Read more... )