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Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup 44

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11, 2009 @05:59AM from the always-best-to-face-zombies-on-familiar-turf dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "If you're a fan of Left 4 Dead and you've ever wanted to build a zombie-filled map of your hometown, office or grocery store, Maximum PC just posted a how-to that shows you how to convert photos of real-world locations into ready-to-play L4D 1 or 2 maps. It's everything you need to know in order to kill zombies with your friends — in the comfort of your own backyard."

Comment Re:Easy to avoid (Score 2, Informative) 394

by kghougaard on Monday August 03, 2009 @05:49AM (#28924647) Attached to: Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17

The problem is that now - for obvious reasons - the card now has to stay in the reader during the transaction. This means that stupid idiots like me constantly forget their cards in the reader.

Comment Re:I can think of a few (Score 1) 603

by kghougaard on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @11:06AM (#22488032) Attached to: Obsolete Technical Skills

It is sad how - almost lifesaving - skills become obsolete...

I miss all the great fun with config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Making the CD ROM drive work after booting into DOS from a floppy. Or the art of memory optimization. Fiddling with programs and upper, extended, and expanded memory, so you could free 620kB out of 640kB conventional memory to run your new game. Games which by the way had a completely superior gameplay, compared to the games of today :-)

Comment Re:$100,000 (Score 1) 323

by tph on Wednesday May 04, 2005 @05:07AM (#12429885) Attached to: First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships

If you've ever had to work with MATLAB, you'd know that it depends heavily on HOW you write your code. Sure, for-loops and such are slow, but vector and matrix operations are fast!

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