Big and Little endianness quest

Posted on 01 August 2009 in Articles • Tagged with programming, G.729, C, VAD • 3 min read

Sometimes the bugs in programs do not depend on a programmer. For example, when a programmer expects a certain result from a built-in function, that would be the last place to check for bugs. But sometimes weird stuff happens, and it also happened to me.


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Emacs, LaTeX and pdf viewer

Posted on 14 April 2009 in Articles • Tagged with Elisp, Emacs, LaTeX • 1 min read

A short note on how-to set a pdf-viewer for LaTeX-generated documents in Emacs.


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Byte-compiled ChangeLog

Posted on 03 April 2009 in Articles • Tagged with programming, Emacs, Elisp, regex • 2 min read

My favourite all-purpose, extensible and customizable editor is Emacs. Mastering Emacs takes months, even years, and there is always a lot to discover. For example, I've just seen how Emacs tried to byte-compile a simple ChangeLog text document. How could that happen?


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Beginner's guide to creating a GNOME 2 applet with Python (Part I)

Posted on 25 February 2009 in Articles • Tagged with Gnome, programming, Python • 5 min read

A bootstrap guide on creating Gnome2 panel applets with Python.


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The legacy of the initramfs optimization

Posted on 11 January 2009 in Articles • Tagged with initramfs, Linux • 3 min read

An adventure of dealing with Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init


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