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Random long thoughts I had over the years...

Topics range from programming, math, to my views of school


Misconfigured hostname

February 25, 2021

Reminiscing another problem I encounter during my internship at IBM, I encountered an issue with some internal tools during a server migration.

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ct - Bad Phone Number

February 14, 2021

During my internship at IBM a while back, I recall encountering an error on some HP UNIX machine when I was trying to checkout a file using the CLI tool cleartool for the version control system Clearcase.

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My 2021 Reading List

January 29, 2021

Having no good topic to write for this month’s blog post, I decided to write about the books I plan on reading for the year and why I chose to read them. I never was an avid reader. The books I read in Highschool for fun were typically old computer books I could find in the library or get as gifts. Although there were better books to read from, I learned a lot from them. I started to read and explore books of varying genres during my internship, which led me to read on a somewhat regular schedule. Visit the...

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Debugging expr with ldd

December 31, 2020

TOC 1. expr failing to perform simple multiplication 2. Investigating expr 3. Looking at the libraries used by expr

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Dangers of Improper Macro Naming

November 1, 2020

TOC 1. A random promotion 2. Expected unqualified-id before string constant Error 2.1. Verifying the Error is not Environment Related 3. The Dangers of MACROS

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