Evan Teran's Blog

Time to update older UI toolkits?

My favorite editor of choice for the past 10 years has been nedit, it is a wonderfully simple yet complete GUI-based text editor with a focus on development. It has all of the basics that I need; syntax highlighting, relatively smart indenting, brace matching, the ability to highlight an include and open the file it refers to. All of the basics are there, so as an editor it suits my needs and development habits. There is only one thing, it's ugly. And this is no fault of the developers, it's the fault of how Motif looks.

Linux’s ptrace API sucks!

I love Linux, as a developer, I find the tools available suit my style of work perfectly. Sometimes the tool that I want isn't available. That's OK though, because whenever I can, I try to contribute.

I do a lot of reverse engineering work and thus the lack of anything like Ollydbg spawned off my EDB project. It's a debugger designed to focus on applications at a machine code level. This project is coming along nicely but there is one thing that I really wish I could change...ptrace sucks, and it sucks a lot.

Windows Vista doesn’t suck

First let me say that I wouldn't classify myself as a Microsoft advocate. I have a Linux box I use for my daily work and a Windows machine for both work and play. I am however, an early adopter. So pretty much as soon as I could get my hands on it, I installed Windows Vista.

Why do AMD and Intel insist on making virtualization complex?

OK, So I was reading up on the new virtualization architectures that both AMD and Intel introduced. My first reaction...why the heck did they make it so unnecessarily complex?

Windows on x86 and 4GB of RAM

A few months ago I decided to get a shiny new gaming system from Dell. I eventually decided to go with the XPS 720 with pretty much all the bells and whistles I thought were reasonable. One of which was going with 4GB of RAM. After all, just about everyone agrees that more RAM leads to better performance. This machine also came with Windows Vista Home Premium, I'm the early adopter type so I saw no issue in this.