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adancalderon

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adancalderon··on Dell L502X BIOS Update installer patching
It would be funny to if the person finds out there are command line arguments that force the update.
adancalderon··on CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU
If it ran in the background it could be CuPyd
adancalderon··on Neo Geo Dev: Fixed Point Numbers
"If you wan't"
adancalderon··on Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users
They should have kept Terry. He would have been vigilant about the three letter agencies as well.
adancalderon··on Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source
"Hyper-V is undeniably a critical component of the Microsoft virtualization stack runs on it, but it's also used in Virtualization-Based Security, Windows Containers, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Subsystem for Android, and even the Xbox."

weird sentence

adancalderon··on Linkers and Loaders (1999) [pdf]
This is a fun book. I remember checking it out from the NC State University Library.
adancalderon··on Monte Carlo methods
We can do math integration and solve radiation transport problems with Monte Carlo.
adancalderon··on Can Fortran survive another 15 years?
Probably as long as most nuclear software (codes) are written in mostly Fortran. It is not that difficult to learn Fortran. Some "Codes" require a mixing C and Fortran during the object linking process. Most of the times the intel Fortran compiler is preferred.
adancalderon··on Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
Been ussing this script https://github.com/srvrco/getssl
adancalderon··on Networking FreeDOS
There is no good DOS client left to support modern implementations of SMB now that 1.0 has been removed from most modern servers. For a while I was using the MS-DOS Client with Samba, I think the new versin of Samba finally took out SMB 1.0
adancalderon··on Swap on HDD: Does placement matter?
I am an old time slackware user and I always put swap at the beginning on 3.5 inch drives. I belive for laptop drives the end of drive was better.