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
 
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