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by kev009 10y ago
I heard a rumor that something very similar was detected on upcoming Xeon SKUs, but they will be implementing the board level workaround.
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Cromemco Cyclops, first commercial digital camera(youtube.com)
1 points by kev009 10y ago|0 comments
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by kev009 10y ago
Errr.. the linked article means no, it is not safe to just cron an apt-get upgrade. In theory Debian is maintaining ABI/API. In practice there are issues. Rolling releases in practice have better tradeoffs, but require continuous de
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by kev009 10y ago
This is cool from a philosophy of the internet angle. It's also one of the worst workloads to try with P2P so it will be interesting to watch as a business. There are a number of fundamentally half-duplex technologies in widespread us
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by kev009 10y ago
In the follow on procurement or the contract competition? The M9 is pretty old school and should be replaced. The p320 is a pretty nice side arm at a reasonable price on the civilian market.
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by kev009 10y ago
I would consider Scala a far better language from a safety, syntax and design perspective. Go is compelling due to the low GC pause times, and to some extent the community for some types of software. I would imagine switching between thes
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by kev009 10y ago
I'm on vanilla FreeBSD now. Ports is about equally as cool as Portage, but Poudriere and quarterly branches edges out for commercial use IMO. And I get a neat kernel and community that are both approachable and fun to work with.
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by kev009 10y ago
From a sustaining Sun's business perspective, it would have been a very poor fit. Sun had hardware product development as a principle effort, a variety of support channels and organizations for hardware and software, professional serv
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by kev009 10y ago
What does libraries team entail? I run a FreeBSD kernel team, and am interested in speaking with any Solaris kernel people you may know to fill some additional roles.
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by kev009 10y ago
I can't help but wonder what would have been different had IBM been successful in the Sun acquisition. It would have been a strange marriage, and there were a lot more staffing and product redundancies that would have still hurt custo
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by kev009 10y ago
As a long time user of OpenRC, I was pretty sad when Debian jumped into systemd by default instead of sticking to something like OpenRC as the default. It's light weight, easy to use, embraces POSIX, and a good modular building block
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by kev009 10y ago
There are a lot of issues here that should eventually be lower hanging fruit, but required some infrastructure. EARLY_AP_STARTUP which gets SMP in order a lot sooner should allow for drivers to attach earlier. I vaguely recall some idea o
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by kev009 10y ago
The /370 vision of a single chip mainframe was realized, I think the article ends prematurely. The first card I've actually seen as such is the P/370 and that may have been a productized version of this chip. There were som
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WebScaleSQL Moving Forward(webscalesql.org)
2 points by kev009 10y ago|0 comments
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by kev009 10y ago
I would recommend David R. Hanson's "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1997, ISBN 0-201-49841-3). https://github.com/kev009&#
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by kev009 10y ago
I was hoping someone else would comment about the opera playing out as it were. IBM has tooled POWER8 and POWER9 to where the industry is heading.. all flash, post-NAND, accelerators, it's geared for buzzwords like big data, machine l
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by kev009 10y ago
The Optane details seem like a false start, at least for consumers. It may have use in enterprise just due to the endurance for WALs and ZIL etc. Performance of the NVMe Samsung 960 Pro is to the point where enterprise HHHL cards were not
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by kev009 10y ago
You should be able to do this by just expanding some sysctl limits on FreeBSD 10+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TneLO5TdW_M
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by kev009 10y ago
This looks pretty nice, it reminds me of Play! framework for Scala. I am curious to see if Rust or Swift will prevail for this kind of thing. Both have the opportunity to reach fairly deep into systems programming all the way up to UI and
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by kev009 10y ago
In the BSD community this awareness of other operating systems is seen as a strength and pride. It's telling that Linux fans see it as weakness. Subsystems are now done with up front design and some degree of consensus in the BSDs, cl
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by kev009 10y ago
Mellanox is now one of the role model vendors in the FreeBSD ecosystem. They have a handful of BSD developers as well as sales and support staff that are in tune with the needs of high scalability FreeBSD users.
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by kev009 10y ago
Other vendors throwing in the towel interestingly mean AIX will continue on much longer. The UNIX(r) market is shrinking, but high margin. HP-UX and AIX are the only UNIX(r) choices, and IBM is a much more stable entity. IBM has a pretty
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by kev009 10y ago
That sounds very believable and would have slowed commercial SPARC users from switching to whitebox x86, likely intentionally, but would have had no relevance to startups and the rapid onslaught of hyperscalers. A video that amuses me with
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by kev009 10y ago
This is an adolescent evaluation. FreeBSD will have a new TCP stack with BBR made public in a couple months. It will be easier to correctly deploy and more cohesive than Linux. The entire packet path is more cohesive and easier to debug
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by kev009 10y ago
What's WIP about FreeBSD's RSS?
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by kev009 10y ago
https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf
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by kev009 10y ago
Sun responded swiftly and justly with OpenSolaris for x86. It's a lot easier to go evaluate this in hindsight and see that cheap x86 was not really a barrier, OpenSolaris could have become another Java level of ubiquity save politics
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by kev009 10y ago
It's a humble bundle so it would have been unusual for print books. The manufacturing cost is quite high for print on demand vs essentially free for digital download. But I am with you on the print books. I've spend many thousan
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by kev009 10y ago
I would speculate about it more in terms how under developed countries went straight to 3G/4G cellular, perhaps skipping earlier radio tech and maybe even some degree of wireline tech (this part is grossly oversimplified in journalism,
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by kev009 10y ago
That is IBM i, aka OS/400, a completely different beast than s390. It's one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood examples of systems software in the industry. It's survived four distinct CPU changes of the same ma

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