Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggghhhh

Posted on Tue 12 September 2006 in geek

It took me far too long to figure this out:
-  u32int pfMxcsr = shadowMcxsr & MXCSR_MASK_BITS;  +  // reset any exception bits so we can work out whats new  +  u32int pfMxcsr = shadowMcxsr & ~MXCSR_EXCEPTION_BITS;

Computers have ESP?

Posted on Fri 01 September 2006 in geek

Today's linkage a little ESP experiment. It fair bit of head scratching to figure it out. Still it proved an interesting diversion from SSE FP bugs.


Intrigued

Posted on Mon 28 August 2006 in geek

This really caught my attention. I wonder if the "Don't be Evil" corporate mantra of Google is good enough for people to entrust all their data to a company that's also a excellent at searching, indexing and analysing huge amounts of data. Having said that what's security anyway. Do companies …


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Bring me the Head of a GCC Hacker

Posted on Thu 24 August 2006 in geek

Anyone who doesn't grok floating point, assembler and gcc should probably look away now. This may fry your brain, it certainly hasn't been healthy for mine.

So I've been trying to debug a natty little problem with why my little assembler stub didn't generate a SIGFPE/FPE_FLTINV when it tried …


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The Startup Life

Posted on Wed 23 August 2006 in geek

Just watched Riot On!, the story of a Finnish mobile start-up, on BBC Four. It was quite illuminating although my place certainly hasn't reached their levels of bacchanalian excess. On reflection this is probably a good thing.

I'm trying to sort out tickets for 2 Many DJ's and Sasha at …


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