Tomalak Geret'kal

Is the Thunderbird-Firefox relationship getting you down? Does clicking links occasionally result in Thunderbird totally locking up for over a minute, before Firefox bursts into life with the requested page? Apparently this started around Thunderbird v3, and here's how to fix it all the way up to v12.

Alex Darby writes about "the Stack", referring to both the ISO standard and Bjarne's C++ book and complains that they both evade the concept of a stack or a heap as used for laying-out objects in memory.

Struggling to get variable substitution to affect targets and dependencies in GNU Make? Here's why, and how to fix it (if you don't mind a good hack).

Stuck with a nasty memory leak somewhere in a large AJAX-driven application that only shows up in Firefox, and no native tools with which to diagnose it, I decided to give DynaTrace AJAX Edition a go. Unfortunately, Mozilla's ridiculous high-speed release process means I was stuck on an unsupported bleeding-edge browser version… or so I thought.

While writing my previous post, a question came to mind regarding the use of static members for bounding arrays that are members of the same type.

A piece of supposedly well-written multi-threaded code was giving me a headache the other day. I briefly explore a common(?) pitfall in the use of RAII-driven locking mechanisms.

Somehow I'd missed this unofficial teaser trailer for the BSG prequel "Blood & Chrome". It looks fantastic in most places (with slightly dodgy CGI sets in only a handful), although there's no way to gauge the quality of the plot, acting or writing at this stage. The bad news, though, is that SyFy — who [...]

I've pretty much made a home of Stack Overflow — the modern age's answer to Experts Exchange — over the last year and a bit. From arriving in January 2011, I swiftly began answering C++, PHP and jQuery questions and asked a few of my own.

And another bollocks post.

I don't think I'll be answering this one.