Lilliputian Geek Humor
Its time for my geek humor corner. Technically this entire blog could be considered geek humor (sans the humor), but bear with me now. This is quite amusing, I assure you. Assuming, of course, you have a CS or EE degree and you are easily amused. I know for one that I fall into that catagory.
If you don't, I'm sure its ok. God probably still loves you anyway.
Anyway, I'm working on porting a Mac/PowerPC application to Mac/Intel. As any geek worth his weight in Cheetos knows, that means dealing with big endian vs little endian issues. The problem I was looking at had to deal with strings of text. I'm looking at the string in the debugger, and everything looks fine. So I decide to actually to view the string as raw memory.
Well now. That's funny. In a "that's going to ruin my entire day" sort of way.
Silly me, here I was on a little-endian machine thinking I'd see little-endian string. But that's where I'd be wrong. I was now staring at a big-endian string (a string literal built by the compiler, no less).
BUHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
I guess you had to be there.
If you don't, I'm sure its ok. God probably still loves you anyway.
Anyway, I'm working on porting a Mac/PowerPC application to Mac/Intel. As any geek worth his weight in Cheetos knows, that means dealing with big endian vs little endian issues. The problem I was looking at had to deal with strings of text. I'm looking at the string in the debugger, and everything looks fine. So I decide to actually to view the string as raw memory.
Well now. That's funny. In a "that's going to ruin my entire day" sort of way.
Silly me, here I was on a little-endian machine thinking I'd see little-endian string. But that's where I'd be wrong. I was now staring at a big-endian string (a string literal built by the compiler, no less).
BUHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
I guess you had to be there.
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You are -such- a geek.
Posted by
spitgirl |
10:16 AM
Hi Andy-
You really are a geek. But I like Geeks. They are my favorite. My hubby is a geek from Russia, and everyday he regales me with tales of PC platforms and such. I never understand what he says, begin a geek of a different breed, but its kind of cool anyways.
You have a cool blog. I will link to you.
Get a technorati link, and then people will visit you.
Posted by
spanarch |
8:12 PM