new blog again

I had decided to start moving all my blogs to blogspot platform. So, i had created a new blog in Russian. It will mostly dedicated to IT-related things, so if you interested (and understand Russian), subscribe to it ;-)

Solaris & VirtualBox

I had downloaded yesterday a Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition, and decided to play with it in freshly installed VirtualBox, instead of usage of Qemu, as usual.
But Solaris doesn't work inside it - if ACPI enabled, than Solaris kernel panics, and when ACPI is disabled, then kernel boots, but doesn't see a hard disk :-((
So, i'll try to use a Qemu for testing, but this happens only at start of next week

fixing memory leaks

testing team had confirmed a fixing of several big memory leaks. main problem in fixing, was that they are in shared libraries, so i needed to hack code, to disable unloading of libraries at the shut down stage, so valgrind could collect all needed information about symbols in that shared libraries
But this work is not so interest, as a development of new features.

dig in memory leaks searching

Last 3 days i had dig into searching of memory leaks in proprietary code, written in C++. Testing team had found, that problem is in loadable module, and currently i try to find it. I had played with valgrind, but all is ok, when program finish normally. Other memory debuggers, either show no memory leaks (LeakTrace), or crash during run (duma/electric-fence).
I had also tried to use dmalloc/cmalloc, but their not so good working with loadable modules, and provide only information about allocation/deallocation, without reference to concrete code line :-(
If anybody of my readers, could provide me a tip about searching memory leaks in C++ program, please write in comments. Don't say me, that i need to ask Google - i already did this ;-)

Video lectures on SICP

Yesterday evening, i had remembered that I for a long time wanted to see SICP video-lectures. I put them in download queue, and hope, that this evening i connect my notebook to a new 32-inch LCD TV, and shall view these lectures.

Only today had readed, that Grady Booch's Turing award lecture is available online. I'm just need a free time to look on it (why day is only 24h long? i need at least 36!)