It’s not a bug, it’s a defect, stupid!
Looking into contemporary definitions of a software defect you can find a load of nonsensical definitions. At least in my opinion they are. Here is my definitio...
Category: computers and software
Some relief
playing with the inferno
operating system
Well, that’s sad: No better picture is available today. This picture is the original that has been printed on the inferno distribution box. It came in a b...
Some relief
playing with plan9 and 8½
In the recent days halfheartedly I messed around with an oracle database, why asking myself, why the heck did they have to make it that complicated?!? Well, tha...
Brillen als Ramschware
Vorneweg: Ich hatte mich als Augenoptikerin beworben – nicht als Verkäuferin Ich selbst habe keine Mühe mir neue Unterhosen am Tchibo-Regal oder bei C&...
C-Programming
Addresses, Pointers, Structures, Type-casts
Part 1
My son is studying some energy stuff and the students get a lot of knowledge base with some emphasis of their professors. Among others they also have lessons in...
Building my development environment – Part 3
In this post I am describing how I install operating systems on virtual machines. Whenever I get a new release of an operating system, I sometimes encounter a f...
Building my development environment – Part 1
I am a bit old fashioned, so I am looking somehow disparaging at the Docker approach. Whenever the real world is your intended crash site, you soon realize, tha...
Building my development environment – Part 2
In this article I am discussing the why and how of a disk-layout for UNIX-/Linux-systems.
Avoiding fundamental mistakes when programming
Dear Moritz, I am writing this for you, as you are developing your first C-programs. No matter what programming language you are using in the context of ...
The handling of numbers and the continuous advancements in software engineering
When I started programming in 1986, storage wasn’t a problem for me. I had a computer with a huge amount of memory – 1MB and two 720KB floopy...