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Saturday, Oct 05, 2013 - 22:56 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Briefs Two

More short notes.

It seems as the administrators have cottoned onto it being next to impossible to board buses at times. I had a record of never paying for a ride in my undergraduate days, but it was a little too much when SBS Bus 95 began arriving completely packed at S17. I just hotfoot it nowadays.

The situation on the main road is better, with an unexpected sight one night, when an empty bus without route numbers pulled up, before the driver went about putting up the signboards reading "198" at the front and side. New strategy?

We've also gotten on the (white hat) hacking map, with several security flaws found for iOS. Then again, as the arrest of Silk Road's founder shows, governments are almost certainly the biggest snoopers of them all, sometimes with good reason. Slightly surprised that there aren't more Bitcoin copycats going around, though, what with the default global currency looking increasingly like a bad bar tab. Would have made great material for a Tom Clancy thriller - maybe titled Coin of the Realm, or Shadow Exchange? Oh well.

But as far as wrecks go, it's hard to top Cyrus, who's going all out to break the depth record, this time taking on Sinead O'Connor of all people. But hey, her song shot to the top of the charts; in entertainment, no attention is bad attention, which doesn't always hold in academia. No such concerns for the bright and glowy mainstream media, who managed to spin the S-League being ranked eighth out of nine leagues as "Fans rank 'familiar' S-League over MSL" (guess who's last?)

Computers do make me wish I had a sledgehammer at times, such as when a program I was working on began crashing out of the blue. There was no discernable reason for that with the debugger not being very helpful, and I went as far as to dig for obscure memory issues with pushing elements back onto C++ STL vectors, and rewriting the code to remove use of custom object vectors, spending an increasing aggravating few hours in the process.

Finally, I ran the executable directly... and it worked in the usual way.

It seems that the problem was from renaming the executable from console.exe to console2.exe, and then trying to run the latter. This was done so as to continue development (and compilation) while executing a stable copy at the same time, and I have never encountered any issues with this practice... up till now. Haven't figured out why, either.

Staff TGIF and Japanese curry on Friday did lift spirits. For some reason, curry takes root wherever it goes.



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