A lot of the software we use at work is provided by a software contractor (who shall remain nameless). Somewhere in their software there's a piece of code to reverse bytes in a byte buffer. It looked something like this:
static void swap(char *buf, int n)
{
char tmp ...We were talking at work the other day about the transition (any day now!) from IPv4 to IPv6. One colleague said that at least we would have plenty of addresses, and another said something like "Ha! That's what they said about IPv4!" Well, yes. But the jump from 32-bit ...
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It must have been around the year 2000 that I started to tire of playing flight simulators behind a desk. It never felt "right"; your stick and throttle sit too high on the desk and your rudder pedals sit too low. And it's a drag to set up your ...
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