Archive for October, 2006

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Dogfight

I have no reason to post this entry. These dogs are cute. Enough reason, yes?
Autumn is awesome. The weather is gradually cooling off. I love fall especially when color of the leaves on the trees starts changing. Soon it will be winter; another mile stone of season change is rain.
Winter makes some people sad. I […]

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Friday, October 20th, 2006

Cats

A long time ago in ancient Egypt, cats were honored and enthroned in sacrilegious worship. The Egyptians spoiled them. And cats never have quite forgotten that.
These Felis silvestris catus creatures are cute. They purr, hiss, growl, and grunt. They’re really intelligent and capable of being trained, but most of the time they rather ignore us […]

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Thursday, October 19th, 2006

TCP/IP SOCKET_LIST[FD_SETSIZE] = 200

TCP/IP socket programming is a forgotten art. Thanks to simplified APIs, any Dumb and Dumber character can code something that works like a chimp.
If you’ve written TCP/IP socket server in C language on iSeries before, you would have encountered that FD_SETSIZE == 200. You would also realized that you’d typically declare socket_list[FD_SETSIZE], thus limiting the […]

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