O Blog do Pilingrin

2012-02-15T22:43:00.003+01:00

Should I worry?

Probably is paraoia but: should I worry about one of these slurpers that slurp twice as much as the usual suspects?

I mean, it feels lik somebody is trying to over impersonate us.

2012-02-05T05:34:00.002+01:00

FYI:

1) If you try to add yourself as a "contributor" to DevRiot, you will be blocked.

2) DevRiot has not had any contributor other than me. If somebody is telling you otherwise, it is not true.

Thanks and good night!

2012-02-02T21:54:00.003+01:00

Misconception...

Not even The Economist's forums are safe from the cheerleading/knucklehead PR crowd but that is not the point. The point is my misconception about capital gains.

I always thought that capital gains were rewarded in the US tax code because of the time and risk it takes to hold a company's stock while the company creates wealth, more tax income, and jobs. The type of behavior that deserves encouragement, I thought.

No apparently, the thing is holding a stock for a fraction of a second until your software finds the next sucker to hold the bag. Live and learn...

2012-01-27T17:53:00.003+01:00

Just Sayin':

I don't like working with undocumented features. It is like the final scene in The Third Man.

2012-01-23T18:19:00.003+01:00

Caution: read before use

For those downloading DevRiot for .Net: you need a live internet connection. The add-in installer just has the glue code needed to download the Riot engine.

For those interested in the eclipse feature: it will work the same way. This will allow us to provide on the fly the appropriate engine: java, c/c++ for Mac/.../...

Thanks!

2012-01-16T22:32:00.003+01:00

Integrating

We started adding the work on Criot to the main DevRiot plugin/feature in Eclipse. It is cool how seamlessly the thing is working: creating tests without writing code in C or Java. Just point, right-click and go...

2012-01-10T18:36:00.004+01:00

Xchooling

Xcode is not as cool as it looks. Eclipse style bookmarks wouldn't hurt :-}

So according to a comment poster the Austrian School is not about "free banking" (apparently malinterpretation by the article) but about finding a commodity that can not be created out of "thin air" to price other commodities/transactions.

What would that be? Would every major economy have access or agree to it? Would other countries have access to it? Is it natural? Is it artificial? Is there enough of it? How would we prevent another cartel?

The only commodity that complies with this is air. I wonder if the t-bond holders would accept the trade.

2012-01-10T05:43:00.002+01:00

Austrich...

There is this article about heterodox economics. One of the camps is the Austrian School. Their tennets: get rid of the Fed, the dollar and let banks issue their own currency.

So how could joe doe in Bangor Maine pay for his kindle in Seattle, Wa? Should Amazon have as many mini Amazon as currencies exist? Or the other way around?

What about foreign treasury bond holders? What would they do if the greenback is taken off-line? Take gold, diamonds?

So how come the issuing banks will support their own currency? No wonder they do not get published. Good grief....

2011-12-30T19:24:00.001+01:00

Coyote Democracy...

Oh, the beauty of shared memory! Allowing us the smuggle across borders and keep the separation of powers.

We will kext what needs to be kexted and keep in userland the bits of kriot that can be consumed by Linux/Mac/Windows (all of these within the realm of x86 processor)

2011-12-29T07:51:00.003+01:00

64bit only...

Naïve approaches take their toll :-} No hard task switching, now does it live closer to the OS or to the processor? That is the question.

2011-12-28T07:10:00.003+01:00

Not wp...

Would please stop "hacking" the server? If after 3 days you have not realized that exploiting the wordpress weaknesses does not work you should take a breather.

LDT, yes, ldt, no. So go figure it out yourself because in this neighbourhood the streets are empty.

2011-12-24T15:11:00.002+01:00

It turns out...

It is clunky to use TSS, things one finds out on kernel-land! Well, soft task switch it is!!! Ho Ho Ho!!

2011-12-16T23:09:00.001+01:00

Pie in the sand

Let's see if the cpu likes and runs a TSS stored in an LDT. Hopefully it will not break and will help us stay in userland and keeps things simpler :-}

2011-12-13T05:01:00.002+01:00

The ring of Fire...

I have to admit that creating the same execution machine for C/C++ is looking really fun. We are getting pretty to close lay out some assembly code provide a reliable sandbox to run higher level code on demand.

2011-12-12T06:56:00.001+01:00

Protection, Tasks, both?

Looking at how to package the execution engine so the code under test does not mess up the stack or something else. Some enforcement will need to occur at the IDE level (eclipse) so Kriot only processes C/C++ source code.

But more protection will be needed probably at the processor level.

2011-12-11T01:11:00.002+01:00

First watch the game then..

Enjoy the worldwide acclamation of Barcelona. And probably I will try sneak in some work on kriot :-}

2011-12-09T00:42:00.003+01:00

Stack Walking...

Kriot's execution engine will probably have an independent call stack and an independent code segment, so it doesn't trip over the rest of the goings-on.

Hopefully this will not blow up in my face...

2011-12-07T17:32:00.002+01:00

Autumn Leaves

The slag brothers continue playing Austin Powers. Raked!

But the symbol handler for mach-o continues coming along, pruning out extra logic that was plainly useless and enjoying Keith Jarret Trio.

It is amazing how they can make the same tune sound so different from one concert to next(in my naive musical knowledge)

2011-12-02T17:35:00.003+01:00

Clear picture

Not a fan of his novels but his weekly articles need to be framed. This one (in spanish) sheds some light about the european mess.

2011-11-23T19:53:00.002+01:00

Fratelli....

You show a remarkable lack of imagination.

2011-11-07T18:26:00.001+01:00

The slag brothers on the attack!!!

The slag brothers of the wiki-world are attacking again. Blockin' them all!

After a naive attempt at setting up a VM in mach-o and attending others business duties, a new, more informed branch of criot will start today...

2011-10-20T23:27:00.002+02:00

Set Sail...

To minimize the resources used by criot, we will be using the sailboat approach: setting sails on a need-to-use basis.

Pretty close to fire up this puppy for the first time.

2011-10-07T22:29:00.003+02:00

Memming

Currently adding some memory handling logic to riot for C/C++. This should simplify removing the sugar coat for new types...

2011-09-30T11:53:00.003+02:00

Neutron Dance...

Getting close to start working on the sugar coating, symbol table is almost laid out.

2011-09-20T23:15:00.003+02:00

Moonshining....

It is late summer/early fall in Galicia. It is time to help in the farm harvest the grapes make bad house wine and the galician equivalent of moonshining. It is a centuries old tradition with barbecue-sauce secrecy. Everybody has their own recipe and it's legal :-}