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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
With the Gnu Assembler (also known as GAS) it is quite simple to write self modifying assembly code. The only issue is that you can't make the text section directly self modifiable you have to create a new section:
.section .text
.globl _start
_start:
jmp modifing # directly jump in the smc ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
As I was reading an article about a new kind of lifter for the space elevator, I started thinking about the energy you would need to bring anything to the geostationary orbit. I also remember thinking that over the geostationary orbit, moving still upward gives you energy. If you imagine ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
Alan Turing
In essence Turing was ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I'm moving away from eclipse and more and more into the wonderfull (and cold) world of the command line.
So I need to search for file that contain something in the current directory and its subdirectories all the time
grep -R "something I'm searching for" .
Grep is the way. And with some ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
That's it, the new ubuntu was coming and I was thinking, I'll get gimp 2.6 and tabs in nautilus ... But I should wait a few days before updating cause update is always buggy the first days ...
And fuck that I wanted to install archlinux anyway (it's just that I ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I'm using GIMP 2.4 at my job to make a website and I heard a lot of people bad-mouthing it so I expected having a bad time with it, but it's really usable. And I had no experience of it before, my previous experience of photo editing takes me back ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Dear blog, it's been long since I last talked to you, but I felt like doing it tonight. This is the unfaithful transcription and translation of a chat I had tonight.
me: Math sucks.
mister M: That's not what you told me 10 minutes ago when talking about the number theory described ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I found a cool schema that I hadn't seen before on reddit today: the linux distro timeline.
We notice three main roots Debian the community distro, Slackware the one man distro and Red Hat the company developed distro. I guess everyone know them, nothing to see move along.
What's interesting ? The ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Just one of the problems that I finished solving a few hours ago for google code jam. It's the first time I tried a programming competition, and it's a pretty interesting one. Problems are hard but solvable and you always get a few sample inputs and outputs, which is really ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Futurama: the beast with a billion backs is out in DVD in the US and Canada and illegally on the internet for others, may it lead to the end of civilisation. This is a must watch. Futurama is as witty and fun as ever. You will have the honor to ...
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