catblade

I finally upgraded to 9.10 on Ubuntu. The "latest" version of the version before had started crashing, both at home and at work, with a variety of applications. I put up with it until a simulation I absolutely need started crashing, and now I've had enough.

The simulation works smoothly now. I'll update on other things as they happen.

Too bad I work during this time, but maybe someone else with a coding interest can play.

nvidia webinars for playing with the GPU

Why oh why do you have to sprinkle might_sleep() all over the code? You are making things really difficult and if I have to rewrite all the userspace copy code because of this (highly likely) and have a version in my own module, I'm going to be highly grumpy.

I have this horrible weakness for butter, particularly fresh butter.

I've been eating corn chips with butter on them for lunches. Sinful? Yes, but then again I can't seem to be able to keep pounds on since I had to stop eating wheat, so I can vaguely justify it.

As long as I eat avocados to counteract the cholesterol, right? ;)

The reason this happy thought is so late in the day is because I've been debugging my work module thing. I think it might finally be working right (think being the operative word) or at least it hasn't locked up yet (yet being the operative word). Now, to test it on a compute-node-linux cluster.

I just had my machine run 2^20 different processes and it didn't go down. It might have had to wait until there was room for another process, but it took it.

*pets the machine*

I like my tests-they are mean.

I'm using the gdb source code as my current reference. Hot chocolate is my comfort food for the moment. A very angry person wrote some of it.

"/* If somebody calls any byte-swapping routines, shoot them. */"

I am quite certain that Erlang was written by drunk, high, or mean people.

Pretty good. I recommend it. Sent to me by J.

The scary thing? I think I've used all but 2 of those languages (I need to look up the LOL Language and see if it is a real language and COBOL is very very old)...

Hexcurse works great in linux.

It does what I want.

There were a lot of packages that, well, didn't, and my requirements were not that stringent.

In every other language I have used, if the string is null and I am concatenating them together, the null string comes out as nothing.

Do you know what java does? IT PRINTS THE WORD "null"!!!

Whose stupid idea was that???

Those guys are seriously smoking crack laced with jimson weed while drinking dilute teas of nightshade. None of these were quite concentrated enough to kill them, just to inflict torture on me.

Also, the comparison class I believe was written by the same morons. I finally gave up and wrote my own sort because that took less time than figuring out how to use their class.