Archives for May 2008
Back to the, uh, seventies…
Two musical flashbacks in one week:
Bertrand posted an innocent blog entry that send me reeling back through time to a date when I actually bought my very first vinyl 45″ (yes, I am that old).
And later, Ortwin ranted about the Eurovision 2008 song content. And while everyone knows, that the cold war block (aka […]
My personal heroine…
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=18830+may+st,+illinois&sll=41.73411,-87.65205&sspn=0.211366,0.43705&ie=UTF8&ll=41.550731999999996,-87.642016&spn=0.006624,0.017177&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.547412,-87.642495&panoid=6WQU2RGVaPYdF6ai7m-Jpw&cbp=2,347.0794414881108,,1,14.340101064892934
Congrats. That is cool.
…why you should never, never, *never* patch code that you do not understand fully…
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&view=diff&r1=141&r2=140&p1=openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c
And that is why you report bugs to upstream and let those that know what they are doing, sort them out. Not someone with a half-wit for a brain.
Random patching and “improvement” of code is evil. End of story.
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, my ass. Look at all the debian, and debian related […]
Eclipse and Java 1.6
Ever since Sun ‘refreshed’ Java 1.6. with the _04 version, Eclipse became unstable for me. After some googleing, it seems that this is actually a known problem with some changes in the JIT compiler that surfaced in _04 and beyond.
Adding
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>
to the eclipse command (or .eclipserc, depending on your installation) made it stable again. So […]
Take that, California…
According to weather.com:
May 10th, Palo Alto, California: 21°C, fair
May 10th, Erlangen, Germany: 23°C, sunny
… and I got sunburned this week while driving around.
Summer rulz.