The best SPAM email title, ever
Short one: This is the best SPAM e-mail title ever: Vandals leave beating animals heart in cemetery. It was promptly deleted .. but funny.
A better approach to distributed IPC
There are two golden rules to follow when packaging your own OS distribution: Don’t mangle upstream code Make it work while observing rule #1 When your making a grid OS, its hard not to break those rules. Lets take for instance a scenario where you have two computers and need to live migrate a virtual [...]
Too bad about the LHC
This one will be short. Fried transformers, magnets and scientists .. what a shame. Hopefully we’ll see it work in 2009. However, the LHC did create a black hole .. the one where all of the money went. All kidding aside, best of luck to everyone at CERN. Man, I was really hoping to see [...]
A year of Echoreply
Today, Echoreply turns 1 year old. The first post was a year ago today. Hurray! I managed to avoid hosing the blog database for 365 days and kept up with hosting arrangements. To the 200 some folks who have posted comments – thanks for making my hobby more enjoyable. The first year yielded 220 articles [...]
Digesting the Open Virtual Format
After a rather tedious day of digesting specifications, I have concluded that I love the Open Virtual Format and hope to see it adopted widely. Incidentally, if you work with virtualization and have not browsed the standard, I’d recommend doing so. Native support for it is on the road map for the next Xen release. [...]
Crazy signal stuff
I recently wrote a program that set up signal handlers as the first order of business. Not just SIGHUP and SIGINT, but also floating point exceptions, segmentation faults, double frees, etc. Then I started logging (after establishing the handlers via sigaction()). In my logging routine, there is a shared static buffer s, which gets allocated [...]
What the hell, humanitarian dating?
This is going to be a very short rant. Please, anyone, describe any and all events that led to a dating site just for humanitarians. I can see some potential misconceptions, since we have vegetarians. Some people may therefore confuse humanitarians with cannibals. Has it gotten that hard to meet people who just want to [...]
Interesting internationalization
I’ve been having a rather enjoyable discussion with Lorenzo Bettini, the author of GNU Gengetopt and Gengen. If you are not familiar with Gengetopt, its a tool that simplifies generating the code required for programs to accept options. I talked about gengetopt a while back on this blog. The discussion surrounds support for internationalization, which [...]
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