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by Hoff 14y ago
The copy at Microsoft Research is offline. Here's another copy of the paper: http://eurosys2011.cs.uni-salzburg.at/pdf/eurosys2011-nighti...
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by Hoff 14y ago
Increased integration has been the goal of most everybody involved in designing and building computers, since before transistors were formed into integrated circuits. At the same time, a goal of less necessary maintenance, too. Vacuum tubes
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by Hoff 14y ago
Some DEC code for OpenVMS had been converting variables containing times using the Unix epoch date to and from the OpenVMS-format dates* using the LIB$ LIBRTL calls, and the LIBRTL calls had a documented format limit of 9,999 days. When 19-
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by Hoff 14y ago
Or... echo -n "password" | openssl dgst -sha1
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by Hoff 14y ago
Please take a moment to reflect on the current situation before launching the "corporate overlord" and related snark. Many existing customers effectively do not own what they already have; their systems have been infested with malware and c
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by Hoff 14y ago
This is the Internet. It's filled with pedants. Some of us are even RFC-compliant.
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by Hoff 14y ago
RFC1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) - recommends use of angle brackets in its "Recommendations for URLs in Context" appendix; when URLs are embedded in text. < http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt&#62 ;
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by Hoff 14y ago
The original source for this LLVM article is a chapter in the Architecture of Open Source Applications (AOSA), and the LLVM chapter is available at: < http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html&#62 ; AOSA is now a two-volume book < http:/
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by Hoff 14y ago
iTunes first supported an Apple iPod and also first supported OS X in October of 2001. A version of iTunes arrived on Windows 2000 and Windows XP in October of 2003; two years. (October 2003 also saw the announcement of Panther, 10.3.) Pri
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by Hoff 14y ago
Raise the price of the current solution sufficiently, and the migration then makes a whole lot of sense. This even if the target product is less capable, less desirable or otherwise inferior, given a sufficiently large price delta (or hassl
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Details of the dslreports.com outage(docs.google.com)
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by Hoff 14y ago
The parent was commenting on a broken framework, something that should be an anathema in any shipping product, and around spending (wasting) time determining that the API itself was faulty. Replacing the faulty API call took two hours. But
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by Hoff 14y ago
Any thoughts on this HP research paper http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.html "Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library"? That paper states that library-based threading implementations that don't also involve the compi
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by Hoff 14y ago
HP has (and has had) various operating systems certified on ProLiant servers over the years, including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), VMware, Canonical
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by Hoff 14y ago
Am I missing something here? All the pontifications around threats to Internet Freedom and the oft-referenced perils of walled gardens aside, where is Google going here? Where's the revenue? How is Google going to compete going forward, a
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by Hoff 15y ago
In one box I'm working with, a switch (whether mechanical, or an outboard management processor, a received network packet with a "smart" NIC, or otherwise) triggers a pin or signal on the processor. This signal causes the processor to then
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by Hoff 15y ago
Analyst firms and analyst publications are a related business area where some folks might be surprised at the processes and procedures that are used to construct the papers and recommendations. The analyst data collection process can involv
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by Hoff 15y ago
For those old grey-hairs around and reading that remember RSX-11M/M+, there was a tool known as TKB. The task builder. TKB allowed (much) larger applications to run in the address space of a 16-bit DEC PDP-11, using what were called overlay
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by Hoff 15y ago
This is an approach reminiscent of some of the most brilliant professors that I've encountered. And of senior software and hardware folks that already understand the whole stack. And of the Unix man pages. Technical education (much like a
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by Hoff 15y ago
"Biomass fuel" for commercial jet aircraft is seeing some interest: http://atwonline.com/eco-aviation/news/ten-airlines-agree-pu... http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/01/virgin-airlines-p...
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by Hoff 15y ago
Seems quite similar to the classic magneto-optical (MO) disk drive technology that was (at least briefly) popular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive The MO drives use a laser to heat the recording substrate to the Curie t
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by Hoff 15y ago
It's the implementation of UEFI/EFI/TianoCore that I find most problematic, and not the idea of having a console operating system. I work regularly with servers that provide most or all of what EFI does, and within the console, though these
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by Hoff 15y ago
Fred Being Fred aside... Yahoo! could be aiming to be acquired by Facebook or Google. Assuming the patents involved are tenable, this looks rather like a viable reverse-acquisition strategy.
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by Hoff 15y ago
The guys that toggled the machine code in the console, or soldered commands into the boards sneered at the assembler programmers. The assembler folks once sneered at those using higher-level languages. The higher-level language folks sneere
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by Hoff 15y ago
What's your goal with that? Eliminating regulatory agencies and regulations? The repeal of Glass-Stengal had some repercussions, after all. Or are you looking to lodge blame with one or the other of the political parties? (There's more th
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by Hoff 15y ago
Because it makes the Apple stuff look better, particularly in comparison to the latest of the Microsoft browser products?
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by Hoff 15y ago
I know a user that has treated his computer keyboard as a keyboard on a musical instrument, and "played a tune" with the keys as his password.
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by Hoff 15y ago
The downside being a "drive-by" comment, user posting, legitimate download (and one that later turns out to have some subtly questionable copyright parentage) or other detail that triggers a take-down your primary domain. This matter is a m
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by Hoff 15y ago
Correction: thinking about it as a way to attract product.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Consider what can be done with a punycode'd URL here, too. Mix a QR with a little punycode and you easily can end up anywhere, even if you do (quickly) review the URL before the jump.

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