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Category: computers and software

computers and software/literacy / technology/software engineering

It’s not a bug, it’s a defect, stupid!

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Yael Schlichting

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...

computers and software/literacy / technology/Operating Systems

Some relief
  playing with the inferno
  operating system

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Yael Schlichting

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...

computers and software/literacy / technology/Operating Systems

Some relief
  playing with plan9 and 8½

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Yael Schlichting

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...

literacy / technology/miscellaneous

Brillen als Ramschware

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Yael Schlichting

Vorneweg: Ich hatte mich als Augenoptikerin beworben – nicht als Verkäuferin Ich selbst habe keine Mühe mir neue Unterhosen am Tchibo-Regal oder bei C&...

computers and software/literacy / technology/software engineering

C-Programming
 Addresses, Pointers, Structures, Type-casts
  Part 1

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Yael Schlichting

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...

computers and software/literacy / technology/Operating Systems/Uncategorized

Building my development environment – Part 3

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Yael Schlichting

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...

computers and software/literacy / technology/Operating Systems/Uncategorized

Building my development environment – Part 1

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Yael Schlichting

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...

computers and software/literacy / technology/Operating Systems/Uncategorized

Building my development environment – Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Yael Schlichting

In this article I am discussing the why and how of a disk-layout for UNIX-/Linux-systems.

computers and software/software engineering/Uncategorized

Avoiding fundamental mistakes when programming

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Yael Schlichting

  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 ...

computers and software/literacy / technology/software engineering

The handling of numbers and the continuous advancements in software engineering

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Yael Schlichting

  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...

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