In the few discussions you can find on the web about shared-libraries and execute-permissions, you can find a range of various opinions but not a lot about what goes when you execute a library.
The first thing to consider is how the execute-permission interacts with the dynamic loader. When mapping ...
read moreA comment pointed out that the original article from 2008 made a few simplifications that were a bit misleading, so I have taken some time to update this. Thanks for the feedback.
If you've ever tried to link non-position independent code into a shared library on x86-64, you should ...
read moreIf you rip your DVD's with a unix-y name like longish-show-name-season-01-01.m4v then the iPad and iPhone video player only shows the prefix of the file-name to it's string limit, so you only ever see longish-show-na and can never tell what episode is what in the overview list ...
read moreHaving recently acquired a Samsung Series 9 laptop, I'd like to update the BIOS. This is proving rather difficult without Windows.
The first thing you download from the Samsung website isn't actually BIOS update at all; it's a Windows application which then goes and finds a BIOS ...
read more7 years, 8 months, 17 days, 22 hours and 25 minutes ago I wrote the first post for this blog, inspired by a talk by Andrew Tridgell at linux.conf.au 2004 on the value of a personal "junkcode" repository. I know this because I've recently gone through considerable ...
read moreYou work with Python for a while and you'll become familiar with printing a method and getting
<bound method Foo.function of <__main__.Foo instance at 0xb736960c>>
I think there is room for one more explanation on the internet, since I've never seen it diagrammed out (maybe for ...
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