#sudo fdisk /dev/sda to get size dd if=/dev/sda | pv -s SIZE | gzip --fast > output.

Finally managed to make my Chrome OS work with OpenVPN. The process is a little hairy, as there were certain customised settings that the GUI did not provide, such as customized port numbers and encryption type.

The term ‘Code Reuse’ feels like a software developer’s cliche that had since fallen into the list with other unfashionable tech lexicons.

I used to remember that copying and pasting to the clipboard used to work a long while ago, but I just couldn’t remember what exactly did I do in order to get it to work.

The default RPM packaged version of ‘Ant’ that comes with Fedora/JPackage doesn’t doesn’t respect the $ANT_HOME environment variable the same way as if you have downloaded and installed it directly from Apache itself.

I solely use Google Docs, erm Drive, for working with documents these days.

I suppose I can consider myself an ‘old-school’ developer now; even though I have been reading the AMD64 ABI documentation, I still haven’t fully absorbed it into my head yet, which is evidenced by the recent two situations I had today where RTFM-ing would have had saved me hours of GDB debugging pain.

While going through some code emitted by a Just-In-Time compiler (JIT), I’ve encountered a curious piece of code which suggested that if access to the process' utilisable stack space isn’t done incrementally, it will cause an “access violation”.