Arun Subbiah's Notes

Bret "The Hitman" Hart

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:35:00 -0700

At Wrestlefest, Newark Pavilion, Newark, CA:

The Excellence of Execution ... Bret "The Hitman" Hart ...

Bret says "Rock On!"...

Kamala and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart were also there at the event ...

Discrete event simulation

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:41:00 -0800

Source: http://www.arunsubbiah.com/projects/discrete_event_simulation/desim-src-1.1.tar.gz
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The init_priority() variable attribute

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:04:00 -0800

#include <cstdio>
class SampleClass
{
public:
      SampleClass(const char *announce_string) {
            printf("%s\n", announce_string);
      }
};

SampleClass X("X instantiated");
SampleClass __attribute__ ((init_priority(60000))) Y("Y instantiated");

int
main(void)
{
      return 0;
}

% ./a.out
Y instantiated
X instantiated

New York City

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:40:00 -0700

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Fresh air forecast

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:10:00 -0700

Yellowstone National Park

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:04:00 -0700

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MSAC racquetball

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:06:00 -0700

Bryce Canyon National Park

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:02:00 -0700

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Undo an svn checkin

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:02:00 -0800

To undo an svn commit: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.2.

The explicit keyword

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:56:00 -0800

class SampleClass
{
public:
explicit SampleClass(int x, int y = 0);
};

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2004/08/31/Explicit-Constructors.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/24/605974.aspx

The world's a small place in 4D

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:38:23 -0800

Standing in line to receive the PhD. The graduate just ahead of me in the queue and I were finalists at the Joy interschool Math quiz (organized by FAPS Bangalore) in 1992 -- over 15 years ago. St. Joseph's and FAPS fought it out to the last minute for a nail-biting finish...

Mystery Spot, Santa Cruz

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:50:00 -0800

Delete-on-close

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:42:00 -0700

fd = open(filename, flags, mode);
unlink(filename);
...
close(fd);

Templates and inheritance

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:31:00 -0700

template <typename T>
class BaseClass
{
protected:
      int x_;
};

template <typename T>
class DerivedClass : public BaseClass<T>
{
public:
      void print_x(void) {
            cout << "X = " << this->x_ << endl;
      }
};

Credit: http://ultrahigh.org/2007/05/05/mixing-inheritance-and-templates/

Golden Gate bridge

nospam@example.com (S. Arun) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:55:00 -0700