From a really detailed and approachable post by Gustavo Duarte: The text segment also maps your binary file in memory, but writes to this area earn your program a Segmentation Fault. This helps prevent pointer bugs, though not as effectively as avoiding C in the first place.

PS. I wish Windows had a tiling window manager, this explorer thing sucks

I just bought a GNU from Richard Stallman. Seriously, he's here at Arisia selling small stuffed GNUs to people in the registration line.

http://secrettweet.com/ is heart rending.

I very much wish that cash registers would include the transaction info on the back of the receipt as QR Code. Then I could hopefully just take a picture of the back of each receipt, and dump all those pictures onto a personal finance program ( Read more... )

I went to Willoughby & Baltic tonight, it was lots of fun! I got food with Jimmie P. Rodgers afterwards, he's a cool guy.

I gotta go hang out there more often! If you're in Boston, come with me!

I'd really like to use CsharpRepl on Windows XP, but I am having much trouble compiling with cygwin. Has anyone successfully built CsharpRepl on Windows XP and could give me some tips?

Luke posted interesting stuff about XOOS (what is that anyway?). By the time I was done replying, I decided it was worth posting here.

Neat hardware:

• The $100 Propeller is an embedded system with eight cores.
• The $30 Arduino is halfway between programming and electronics, has many nifty daughterboards, and is the cheapest fun thing around.
• The $630 ( Read more... )

I don't know if this is common knowledge, but I ran out of change for parking meters and I had several one dollar bills, so I put a dollar into a vending machine and then asked it to return my money. Vending machines only return coins, so it gave me four quarters, and I could pay the parking meter.

Is this trick common knowledge?

My BUG from BUGlabs has been shipped! I should have it in the next day or so.

The BUG gives me occasional idea storms, one question I had today is... can I hack the 10/100 Ethernet plug on the BUG to sip from Power over Ethernet ?

I found the power requirements for a running bug, they're 40 to 80 milliAmps, and PoE furnishes between 10 and 400 ( Read more... )

If a manager asks you to talk to him, and asks "What happened on this project?" they don't actually want you to point out how the system is broken, and how it could be fixed, they are actually saying "Do you have any excuses for screwing this up?" (even if you had nothing to do with anything screwing up) and "Are you going to live up to our Death ( Read more... )