June 2006 Entries
I have enjoyed my time here at geekswithblogs (even the green monster) but I will be moving my blog to codebetter.com. Topics the same, URL different. This blog will be moving to http://codebetter.com/blogs...
Some you have probably seen a post from last Tuesday entitled Floating Point Fun. If you have not read this I would recommend going back and reading it before continuing. In this post I discuss some of the interesting things that can happen when dealing with floating point math in C#, it is important to note that these items did not happen in version 1.x of the framework. The root of these problems is that when in a register the floating point is treated with a different precision than when it is...
slick! http://www.granthinkson.com... This is looking useful
I knew there was a reason I kept Junfeng Zhang's Blog on my list (even during the slow months). I hadn’t checked the blog in a few weeks but reading it now just made my day. There are two new items listed on the blog. The first is that someone fixed a huge security hole, I have actually run into this particular security hole. Junfeng calls it kernel object name squatting. I have never heard it called by this name but it is a pretty simple problem. Shared objects between process are shared the...