Fooman’s Fandango

fandango on core - (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have “done a fandango on core”. On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted.

Oh kay… Even I don’t understand what that means. Lossage is a real word?

Hmm, its 3:18am and I can’t sleep. Sounds like an excuse to blog.

Better get to bed. Yawn. Shooting 2nd Sabah Life Saving competition tomorrow morning. At least this year I have a Panny DVX102A to shoot it with. Last year I was using a borrowed Hi8 camcorder that only had teeny tiny a B+W viewfinder and actually crashed on me. Ever wonder why some electronic gadgets had a reset button? Took me forever to get it converted to MiniDV.