Mad Man with a Compiler

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Lessons from Ancient File Systems

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In my previous post , I mentioned that I found a number of oddities when digging through the details of various Atari 8-bit file systems.  I...

A User-Space File System for Fun and History

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I got my start with computers as a kid with an Atari 800 way back when.  When I'm feeling nostalgic, I still enjoy pulling it out and pl...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Apache as a Proxy

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I have a number of different devices and services running on my home network with web interfaces, and I would like to be able to access them...

Transparent Mode Proxies

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 I have a fairly complicated home network setup, which should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody.  I recently dealt with an issue that ...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Don't Use Modular Arithmetic With Negative Numbers

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Most programmers are familiar with the "modulus" operator, which is the percent symbol in the language C and many other programmin...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Merge Conflicts for Non-Coders

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I was discussing my day at work with my family, and I had spent much of the day resolving conflicts after doing a merge of two divergent bra...
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Monday, February 25, 2019

Linux With a 4K Laptop Display

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I have a new laptop with a 4K display.  This is double the resolution in each direction of a typical laptop, but with the same physical dime...
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Preston Crow
I've been a professional software engineer for over 25 years, much of that time working at EMC in the Symmetrix microcode development team, now a part of Dell. I have a Masters degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, where I almost completed a Ph.D.
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