Friday, July 26, 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

EFI Shells and Scripting | Intel® Developer Zone

 Hopefully you'll never have to work directly with this!

EFI Shells and Scripting | Intel® Developer Zone


Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Why Lisp uses so many parentheses M-expression

See:
M-expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Exceptions to this include Logo, which could be considered (loosely) to be an M-expression Lisp.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Gamasutra - News - In-depth: Functional programming in C++

Some notes on Functional programming in C++ by game programming guru John Carmack.
 
Gamasutra - News - In-depth: Functional programming in C++

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Permission denied executing any gcc-compiled c program on OS X (10.8.2) Mountain Lion | Verious

Permission denied executing any gcc-compiled c program on OS X (10.8.2) Mountain Lion | Verious

Got this error myself using Clang from terminal. Turns out there is clang for c files and clang++ for c++ files DOH!

Sunday, May 26, 2013

"S1023" error when you install the DirectX SDK (June 2010)

If you need to install the DirectX SDK and it fails this is most likely why:

"S1023" error when you install the DirectX SDK (June 2010)

Even though I'm using Visual Studio 2012 now, which comes with DirectX SDK built-in and thus supposedly I don't need the DirectX SDK anymore I still did.
This was for some C++ AMP implementation of n-body gravity computation.

And of course on Windows 8 you are going to have newer versions of Visual C++ 2010 Redistributables which conflict!


Thursday, May 23, 2013

Question: can Hyper-V and VirtualBox coexist on the same machine?

Question: can Hyper-V and VirtualBox coexist on the same machine i.e. be installed at same time? NO.

 But it seems there is a registry hack in Windows that will let you do it anyways.

This is basically due to the fact that Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor and VirtualBox is a Type 2 hypervisor.

Desktop Virtualization: Care and Feeding of Virtual Environments | TechNet Magazine

Very interesting article that talks about analog hole using virtualization.
 DRM-controlled content can be easily be captured.

Desktop Virtualization: Care and Feeding of Virtual Environments | TechNet Magazine

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Remoting Your Debug Crash Cart With KDNET - Ntdebugging Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

 Windows 8 now lets you use a network cable, instead of having to use serial or firewire, to remotely debug a machine:

Remoting Your Debug Crash Cart With KDNET - Ntdebugging Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Friday, April 26, 2013

System requirements for OS X Mountain Lion

The great thing about this list is the Feature-specific requirements which is basically the list of things that don't work on all Macs and Apple doesn't like to point out. Airplay, Airdrop, and Powernap nap are some major new features that don't work across all Macs.

Learn the system requirements for OS X Mountain Lion.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

free computer science degree possible now

With the availability of coursera and udacity it is now possible to cover most of the computer related material you would get going to a real 4 year school for a computer science degree. Take advantage while it's still free! You Say You Want An Education?

Monday, January 21, 2013

Alex Slesarenko's blog: CUDA programming in F#: Part 2, Accelerating Mande...

Alex Slesarenko's blog: CUDA programming in F#: Part 2, Accelerating Mande...: In the previous post (CUDA programming in F#: Part 1) , we talked about how to setup dev environment to get started with CUDA programming i...
 
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