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I wrote a small library for making raw system calls from Rust programs. It provides a macro that expands into in-line system call instructi...

One reason I'm excited about Rust is that I can compile Rust code to a simple native-code library, without heavy runtime dependencies, ...

In which x86 has too many registers after all. Introduction The fiendish complexity of the x86 instruction set means that even bizarrely r...

I wrote a shell script for a cron job that grabs backups of some remote files. It has a few nice features: Output from the backup command...

This is an old trick but a fun one. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has no built-in Ethernet port. Instead it comes with a USB to Ethernet adapter...

Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPUs support a security feature called Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP). It's supposed to thwart...

I was working on a Python project when I noticed a variable that was defined but never used. Does this indicate that some important code was...