Looks like MS know about that issue. If your common buffer is > a page, you won't get a virtual address and logical address that match up. Oddly this is by design (because the virtual address isn't aligned), but there is no way to get a matching (unaligned) virtual address as far as I can see. Which is a pain. My workaround still stands, ( Read more... )

(Using my livejournal as a place to dump things other people might one day search for ( Read more... )

Today, for the second time in my life I have been imortalised by NTK, and this time it didn't involve the death of many many people in order for me to amuse a few geeks (see http://www.ntk.net/2001/09/14/dohsky.jpg). No today I got my name in lights and everything thanks toRead more... )

This isn't about me. I'm writing it because when I tried to find the words to this song on the web, they wern't there. Google only managed to keep up it's omniscience thanks to someone having posted the lyrics to uk.religion.christian in 1998 ( Read more... )

I have just had a reply to the personal ad I placed on personals.uber.nu and mentioned below. Which is one more than I expected. I shudder to think what sort of person would find the me I described there interesting enough to write to. Really. Would you reply to a personal that mentioned slashdot slash fiction ( Read more... )

It has happened ( Read more... )

Flying out today, not quite sure when I'm getting back (things like providing me with useful information don't bother those who have the power at work). The weird thing is my job isn't actually what I'm going out to do. So I'm going somewhere I've never been to do things I don't know anything about for an indeterminate amount of time ( Read more... )

I'm reaching out:

http://personals.uber.nu/view.pl?id=448

Yesterday evening I went to a pub to celebrate a friends birthday. We enjoiyed ourselves and managed to win a pub quiz in the process. It was only when I arrived home, a little worse for wear because of the alcoholic nature of our prize (and the Carlton Arms serving damn fine beer anyway) that I realised I had spent the entire evening enthusing ( Read more... )

Well, I was rooting for Spain (on account of Beth being the woman I will one day marry, and also because of the Gaudi architecture in the song's official video), but Turkey were my second choice. In any event the real purpose of Eurovision is drinking and listening to Terry Wogan, both of which I succeeded in. If El Tel is right and the voting ( Read more... )