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The Core Dump of Thought

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This is the repository of my wild thoughts, general comments and ideas that I don't have the time to actually work on.

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2010 1

  1. The end

2009 9

  1. Finally!
  2. Unpredictability of execution times
  3. A tricky bug
  4. Foxit PDF reader -- no go
  5. Unexpected behavior of std::bitset in visual studio 2008
  6. OODraw align nonsense...
  7. Git's way to the thrashcan
  8. The meaningless school...
  9. Win32 threading API anomaly

2008 20

  1. Visual Studio 2008, take 2
  2. New CSPIM release
  3. CMake and assembly sources
  4. NetBSD 4 dissapointment
  5. Acrobat Reader 9 annoying accessibility feature
  6. R
  7. Windows Vista and Visual Studio
  8. New site
  9. New code release: ext2frag
  10. Free society ; some tips
  11. Few rants...
  12. To hell with climate change, time to speak up for the fish!
  13. Sudoku solvers and cairo graphics
  14. Dent game: an example of nonexistant security
  15. Inkscape
  16. MIPS CPU simulator, CMake
  17. IT Underground 2008
  18. MIPS CPU
  19. Java leaks memory
  20. Some regexps

2007 34

  1. OpenSUSE install and some luck
  2. Weekend in northern Sweden
  3. Netbeans
  4. IT Underground 2007
  5. How to raise SW patent hell
  6. A critique of C++
  7. News and 3-d logic solver
  8. DTrace and C++
  9. OOXML vs. ODF
  10. Spam, viruses and addressbooks
  11. Linus on volatile
  12. More python brokenness: distutils
  13. Concurrent shared memory allocator
  14. Prex, DTrace and linux lameness
  15. Solaris signal handling bug, part 2
  16. A possible signal handling bug in Solaris
  17. Summary
  18. X11 ssh forwarding
  19. Windows Research Kernel
  20. Window managers
  21. One end and one beginning
  22. Digitally signing files
  23. Algorithm toolbox
  24. Solaris 11, xemacs and dbx
  25. Linux signal handling is broken
  26. Three jewels
  27. Subverting the GPL (again!)
  28. Another look on climate change
  29. Hungarian notation
  30. Giants meet
  31. A thought on neural networks
  32. x86-64 ISA oddity
  33. Enforcing mandatory exercise at work
  34. Assembler as a first "language" ?

2006 75

  1. AMD64 TLB invalidation performance
  2. Ashgabat
  3. Peter Gutmann on Vista content protection
  4. How to not debug programs
  5. Nokia 770
  6. C, C++ and width of integer types
  7. Spammers have gotten smarter
  8. 10 Immutable Laws of Security
  9. New C++
  10. NILFS for Linux
  11. XML sucks (again!)
  12. LinkedIn
  13. Makefile madness
  14. Software vs. hardware virtualization
  15. A small laugh
  16. Anti-virus, virtualization and security paradigm
  17. Object-orientation
  18. Interfaces and stability
  19. Another critique of "free" software zealots
  20. The terrorists have won
  21. How do commitees invent?
  22. In defense of Tcl
  23. Category theory
  24. How the questions shape the answers
  25. A critical view on upstart
  26. Deliberate bad engineering
  27. An idea for gmail
  28. Rant and new stuff
  29. Prime sieves
  30. The plague of mailing lists
  31. Switching to emacs
  32. C++ std::vector problems
  33. Few links
  34. Another GPL rant
  35. New stuff...
  36. Dangerous Javascript
  37. The (not always so) powerful valgrind
  38. Intel's (foul) marketing
  39. Vesta: yet another source management tool
  40. Hosting - found!
  41. Support the inhabitants of Travno
  42. Broken getrusage() in Linux
  43. Free Trac + Subversion hosting?
  44. RedHat - a nice surprise
  45. Radio streaming over internet
  46. The devil is in the details: assertions
  47. Linux performance counters
  48. A neat trick
  49. Airplane traveling
  50. Vacation
  51. GCC obscenity
  52. Root shell or no root shell?
  53. Applied algebra
  54. Fractals!
  55. GPL vs. the world
  56. Decent calculator
  57. Tea in coffee
  58. On commercial SW
  59. TODO lists
  60. A bit on Java
  61. "Smart" x86 design
  62. Public message to mr. Fabrice Bellard, author of qemu
  63. IT Underground report
  64. Linux is stupid..
  65. Gmail chat
  66. A time for...
  67. A simple puzzle
  68. Mathematica
  69. Programming challenges
  70. The sad state of free software
  71. Perl, python, security and vision
  72. NetBSD again..
  73. Java sucks
  74. Hacker's Delight
  75. Sudoku solver

2005 55

  1. Kakuro solver.. and solvability by logic
  2. Luajit
  3. "Killer sudoku" solver
  4. The uglyness of C++ locale
  5. Linus Torvalds on GNOME
  6. The nonsense of XML
  7. TCP/IP checksum revisited
  8. IP checksumming code
  9. Google code
  10. Monitors are broken
  11. Python scopes, again
  12. Python global stupidity
  13. Eclipse IDE
  14. Security, Microsoft, WinNT, Java, .NET, etc.
  15. DRM could help privacy
  16. The opera problem is fixed!
  17. Disk encryption
  18. Blogger opera problems: update
  19. Blogger ate my post!
  20. Another NetBSD kernel crash
  21. Linguistics part 2: tenses in indirect speech
  22. mutt 1.5.10i
  23. NetBSD hard crash
  24. James Bond sucks
  25. Classic buffer overflow bug; another YES for segmentation
  26. Linguistics (long time - no update)
  27. Switched to Opera
  28. Secure programming
  29. a pleasant surprise - gentoo
  30. apt-get remove ubuntu
  31. Java exceptions
  32. Consumer clubs and privacy
  33. Ubuntu criticism
  34. GPL no more - part 2
  35. GPL once more - part 1
  36. Bitlbee encrypted storage patch
  37. Dubious coding styles
  38. Xen: The platform for OS research
  39. Performance scaling of sorting algorithms
  40. Python lacks sparse arrays
  41. I/O revisited
  42. A hidden gem: Ocaml
  43. The case for binary I/O
  44. Published in Phrack!
  45. A GSM routing experiment
  46. Strange NetBSD behaviour, C++ allocators and containers
  47. Note to self: lexicographic ordering
  48. GNU - The Microsoft of the UN*X world
  49. GnuPG and PKCS#11 and GNU extremism
  50. Proven again
  51. On kids and programming
  52. STL debugger
  53. Doing actual work...
  54. On programming languages
  55. PostgreSQL experience and how it made me use BerkeleyDB