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Minor Emacs Utility
I use Emacs quite a bit. It’s very common for me to be looking large dumps of data that are tabular in nature. Symbol table information, usually, but it could be lots of things. Usually it’s the output of one or another command line utility for dumping some file format. In any case, it’s also [...]
Posted by Eli Boling on October 25th, 2012 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Well, _that_ was painful: #1
The title of posts like this is intended to indicate events that were pretty painful, and where the fault was all mine.
So, shortening up the damage chain, on IA-32, if you do this:
FSTP [some location]
…
FILD [some location]
and the FPU stack was empty at the FSTP, you’ll die on the FILD instruction. The FSTP just sets [...]
Safari, Flash and _MEMORY_
This is a little bit of a dead horse beating, but it’s still relevant, so what the heck, why not. RAM is extremely important to me as a developer for the obvious reasons, so every once in a while, I look around at my processes, and see who’s being an oinker. I was a little [...]
Posted by Eli Boling on February 24th, 2011 under OS X, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Surrealism/Irony
So, I’m sitting in the Denver airport, on my way to Massachusetts, on a longer layover. I went to some crappy sports bar, and they had some very unpleasant food, and so I found a cantina upstairs that I thought might be able to wash away the sports bar. Corn Poblano soup, and a reasonable [...]
Posted by Eli Boling on October 23rd, 2010 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Mac Gripe: the CD/DVD drive
I love my Mac. I hate the CD drive in my Mac. I’ve hated all the CD drives in the Macs for a while. What I can’t stand about them is the lack of a physical manual eject capability. Others have had this complaint. I don’t know why Apple did this thing, but they did [...]
Posted by Eli Boling on February 19th, 2010 under OS X, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
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