Life of a programmer
I was stumbling, as usual, and this cartoon came up, and it made me laugh because it reminded me of when I was learning simple assembly code. I had to write a small app that could determine if an integer was a prime number or not. I did some coding, basically divide X with 2,3,4….X^0.5 and multiply again to see if it was X(integers would get floored).
I knew this was a stupid way to do it and a few optimizations were made, like not testing any numbers dividable by 2. But then an idea struck me and I coded it the way I saw it in my head, and it worked, however I wasn’t able to describe why. Fortunately my teacher was able to tell me, and this made me think; If I was able to code something “brilliant” but not really able to understand it, how would I ever know if I’m a good programmer or just another code monkey?
VirtualBox
I’ve been virtualizing my Windows XP installation for a few years now, started of with Virtual Box changed to VMWare and has recently changed back to VirtualBox. I changed in the first place because VMWare offered some features that VirtualBox didn’t, however today those advantages are gone, and actually VirtualBox has got a step ahead I think.
Both systems works fine, but VMWare uses /tmp to store the memory image, which in my case was(has been changed since) stored on the harddrive instead of in memory. This could in some cases result in bad performance and I almost installed Windows along with Gentoo because of this. However I decided to give VirtualBox a try first, and per default it uses a memory drive instead of /tmp which has given me a huge performance improvement, DUH some would say, but it really annoyed me that I had to do changes which only have improved VMWare’s performance.
Now I don’t want to headhunt VMWare, because they actually have guides how to get the better performance, but I think that they should consider making it an option when creating the machine where to put the memory, but until then, VIRTUALBOX ROX 
Eurovision – France
Yeah, yesterday I had a fun night writing with a friend about the Eurovision Song Contest, and heard the french song, and now I’ve heard it a couple of times and it is great, a catchy tune which I guess is going to be played a lot through the summer!
Here’s a video with it:
Politi-Kø
Jeg var ude og køre i dag, og det genopfriskede min ide til dette blogindlæg, jeg kom nemlig til at køre i en kø, skabt af en politibil forrest.
Det sker ikke så ofte at man kommer til at køre i længere køer herude på landet, men ind i mellem sker det, og de sidste par gange det er sket har været fordi folk kører 80, da der har lagt en politibil forrest. Det får mig til at tænke, enten så kører alle konsekvent lidt for hurtigt, en 85-90 stykker, og kommer derfor ikk til at indhente en “kø” eller også så kører folk meget blandet og derfor skal de kun overhale en enkelt bil, hvilket hurtigt er overstået og så er det videre.
Jeg ved godt at politiet skal være et forbillede og følge reglerne, men omvendt så sker det desværre også at der er en tumpe som har så travlt at han smutter ud i en totalt håbløs overhaling, politiet ville selvfølgelig stoppe ham og bøde og alt det der, men det sker altså også at folk bliver nødt til at panikbremse og køre ud i rabatten pga. tumpen og her mener jeg at politiet bør sætte farten lige lidt op så det ikke bliver nødvendigt for tumpen, og generelt for folk, at køre i kø!
Ja jeg beder politiet på landet køre lidt for hurtigt, men jeg kender mindst en betjent som gør det privat, så de kan altså godt!
MGP – Sjove kommentarer
Haha, så sidder man her og ser MGP og skriver med Martijn på MSN og det er nogle guldkorn han kommer med ind i mellem som jeg simpelthen mener skal deles med jer andre! Først så kom han med
Både Island og Grækenland er med i MGP i aften. Det må være et slags støtteshow for de fattige lande!
- Martijn
og så kom
Det er lidt komisk med Hviderusland. De har ikke skyggen af demokrati, men de får sgu angiveligt lov at stemme til MGP
- Martijn
Der kommer helt sikkert flere, og de vil blive opdateret herind som de kommer!
Haha tænk hvis Belgien vinder MGP. Et land, der ikke engang kan finde ud af at have en regering.
- Martijn