Coding Relic

Mechanical Engineers need to worry about denial of service attacks too.

Current directives: Learn to dance. Kill all Humans. The ordering is important. (via @mattcutts )

In the last several days I've noticed a large increase in the rate of bots following me on twitter. It went from perhaps one a day to do...

I wrote a guest post today at The Programmer's Paradox , on open sourcing of personal coding projects . Paul Homer is a great observer...

I have it on good authority that an Android release in late 2011 will support 29 CPUs. Here is how I expect the Q&A after the announceme...

Were I working on software for self-driving cars, I'd name the steering wheel device as /dev/student. That way the car would be controll...

I recently had to work on functionality to look through /proc/<pid> for information about processes, which would have entailed an anno...

Noting the impact of date corrections in stoking interest, Astrologers have announced further changes to the Zodiac for 2012. Instead of ju...

I always mess up the initialization of plain old data fields in C++. Always. Maybe by writing it up, I'll finally get it right. Plain...

Automotive software has some great opportunities for easter eggs. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → OFF ON CAN Richen fuel mixtur...

According to both ipv4depletion.com and potaroo.net , the IANA is within days of allocating its last block of IPv4 addresses to the regiona...

So long, Pluto. Gone, but not forgotten.

In July 2010 Microsoft signed an architecture license with ARM. In January 2011 Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will run on ARM CPUs . S...

In 2010 both Ian Lance Taylor and Dave Miller wrote about STT_GNU_IFUNC, an ELF symbol type supported by the GNU compiler and linker. Thes...