Recently I noticed some calls I was making to a certain C API were returning
pointers that I thought were invalid. A quick inspection with gdb confirmed
my fears. A particular interaction showed:
(gdb) print *job->someMember Cannot access memory at address 0xec00000005
Unfortunately I don’t have access to ...
Python lacks a lock type that supports multiple readers and a single
writer across multiple processes. Here we investigate how one can be
implemented using only default python features: ctypes and mmap,
and the POSIX reader-writer locks.
A (shallow) review of my experience of taking Udacity’s Machine Learning Engineer nanodegree in a one-week trial period.
There are various OpenVPN configuration tutorials around the Internet, this post aims to fill in the gaps on how to configure the OpenVPN server, and OpenVPN for Android clients, while managing a simple firewall configured with UFW running an Arch Linux system.
Tivoli Access Manager versions prior to 7.0 reject requests with the Transfer-Encoding header set to anything different from “identity”. This post describes why this happens.
I’m the proud owner of a PlayStation® Move system and also a proud user of the Arch Linux distribution. As much as pride is concerned, it’s not very “proudful” when you decide to give your PlayStation® Eye (PS3 Eye) a try as a webcam, and you realize ...
DISCLAIMER: There are lots of code that use the very function call I’m going to criticize in this post, so take my opinion with a grain of salt (even though I believe I’m right.)
In the past two weeks I saw a few cases where programmers were ...