Mon, June 23, 2008 - 7:55 PM PST
I was writing a small piece of code yesterday that made a call to utimes(). The UNIX programmers manual for that system call includes the function prototype: it returns an int, and takes a char pointer as well as a pointer to a timeval structure as arguments. Not really much to it, right? Imagine my frustration when my program was always setting the mtime to Dec 30, 1969 regardless of what value I provided!
Only after reading the whole manpage a few times did I catch that the second argument wa...
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Sat, June 14, 2008 - 10:36 AM PST
I don't troll eBay like I used to - and since the great purge, I've had a strict policy of not collecting cruft. But when I saw an auction for a teeny-tiny 1U Sun server for $15, I figured I had to put in a bid and see what happened. I could have used "buy it now" for $20, but I told myself that I didn't need it, and if it was really meant-to-be, then I'd win the auction at $15. And that's what I did.
I thought I was fairly familiar with most of Sun's server line since I've been a long-time fan...
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Mon, June 9, 2008 - 7:20 AM PST
So I'm sitting at my desk just now drinking a cup of coffee when out of nowhere the "NY" logo on my coffee cup just falls off. It had merely been glued on, and the emblem is solid pewter, so it isn't all that unbelievable. But still, it made me shudder. I'm not normally a superstitious man, but this thought struck me: what if Derek Jeter just died?
Wed, May 28, 2008 - 5:22 PM PST
Everybody stop saying "it is what it is". Just stop it.
Mon, May 26, 2008 - 4:40 PM PST
I haven't really watched all that much NBA basketball since, well, since Reggie Lewis died. But I usually watch a few playoff games, and this year the Celtics are supposed to win it all, so I've caught most of their games. These aren't my Celtics, but they're entertaining all the same.
Know what's not entertaining though? The starting lineup ceremony for the Detroit Pistons. What a waste of time. Is that really what today's basketball fans want?
Sun, May 18, 2008 - 6:12 PM PST
Linda likes to tell me what to do. I don't always do what she says, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't try. The following conversation took place yesterday when she told me to do something:
"Linda, you always tell me what to do."
"You always say that."
"Yeah, I usually say that after you tell me to do something."
She of course doesn't agree with any of this. That also doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. She also just threatened to beat me up.
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 11:37 AM PST
How is it that nobody told me about "Band of Horses" until now? I haven't listened to another band since last week.
Thu, February 7, 2008 - 9:08 PM PST
It's not uncommon for people in my line of work to be known by their initials even to the point that they sign correspondence that way. I considered closing an email with "-bwb" today but I just couldn't do it. It's just not me.
Thu, January 24, 2008 - 6:45 PM PST
So today at work I'm working on a fairly interesting problem. A customer is having a problem that we think is stemming from a shared library that we ship on one of our products. We cannot reproduce this problem, but the customer sees the issue several times a day, so we are rolling an instrumented binary that'll give us more information on what's happening so that we can address the issue.
This particular shared library is linked to by almost every custom daemon that we ship - and that's like, ...
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Sun, January 6, 2008 - 7:57 AM PST
I spent 3 hours yesterday playing my favorite old DOS game: Serf City. I used to play it back in high school but I haven't had an environment to run it in since then. I had tried a few times to get it running but always failed, until yesterday. My work-provided laptop runs it like a champ in dosbox, complete with midi emulation and SVGA graphics. It was great.
After that success, I decided that I'd rather play it at my desk with a real mouse so I decided to try my hand with compiling dosbox on ...
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