yea yea, we all know about that stupid linux kernel bug that would allow a program to crash the operating system. it affected the floating point unit or something…
as soon as I read about it, I tried it on my machine the night I got home, and… it does hang my computer quite well #include …
no more killing! KILL? that’s for linux and unix for QNX, you would SLAY My current task for the aerial robotics group (WARG) is to write an interfacing program to read images off camera sensors through I2C bus. Today I tried to write a little program to read off the temperature sensor on octagon 5070 board… in the process, I …
read more »no, not GKrellM or similar non-minimalistic stuff like that for the longest time, I wanted something like Coolmon or Samurize on Linux nothing but pure text maybe it’s because I never searched enough or the fact that there’s nobody out there who wants the same as me to me, stuff like GKrellM is plain ugly I hate having lotta stuff …
read more »I recently discovered acovea - an optimization tool to test different GCC flags acovea uses Genetic Algorithm to find a good set of GCC CFLAGS.
Why bother? Well, since there are 62 different optimization flags available in GCC, to test all of them requires 2^62 different combinations.
That is 2^62 = 4611686018427387904!!! With genetic programming, you won’t necessarily …
pronounced… well, however you pronounce it… I do zim ian anyways, I’ve been using OpenOffice for work related stuff (I bring work home so I can leave office early…), and I’ve used it for writing my resume couple days ago. I just figured out how to get spellcheck working in OOWriter, here’s the link: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html There’s a macro that will …
read more »that’s right! I found my new love :) she’s my love source: linux kernel-2.6.5-love4 :D basically a set of patches for the linux kernel put together by some people @ Gentoo forums. What I do want to mention is the built-in supermount feature. since I’ve been lazy and haven’t got around to find out how to get supermount, love-source is …
read more »hahaha man! gotta get me this magazine! check out these comic strips! bsd01 | bsd02 | bsd03 | bsd04 | bsd05 | bsd06 | bsd07 | bsd08 BSD history??? is it? somebody who knows japanese tell me please! page 1 page 2 magazine cover - damn! BSD Daemon looks so cool here! more cool pics here I found these originally …
read more »In order to type chinese to friends… you gotta set up XCIN or similar stuff so one of the reasons why windows is so good is that I can name my files in CJK languages… I can also play my mp3s in foobar2000 viewing CJK text In the process of finding how I can name my files in different languages …
read more »Accelerated-X is a commercial X Windows System made by Xi Graphics (xig.com) I knew that there are commercial X alternatives to XFree, but I didn’t know any of the names. Last night I found out about xig.com, so I decided to give their product a try. The installation was very easy. They provided RPMs for all the things required. The …
read more »it’s called FreeSBIE Kevin is trying to set up DUMMYNET at ScanSoft Montreal so they can simulate network conditions for testing. I told him about thewall, which was able to load 3COM driver needed by the computers in the lab. However, there’s one problem: DUMMYNET wasn’t compiled into thewall’s kernel by default :( so what do you do? I thought …
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