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by kijiki 13y ago
All the major OSes evolved through different paths, but eventually ended up with very similar schemes. Windows (ignoring the 9x series): In NT 3.x, GDI was just a thin DLL that RPC'd over to CSRSS.EXE. CSRSS did the actual drawing dir
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by kijiki 13y ago
CINT: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
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by kijiki 13y ago
They used merchant silicon in their custom switches. Modern switch ASICs are 2+ billion transistor devices with lots of fancy custom logic for SRAMs and TCAMs and analog magic for PHYs. Even Google can't afford to do that by itself.
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by kijiki 13y ago
There used to be Moxie's "googlesharing" Firefox extension, but it is totally busted these days.
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by kijiki 13y ago
ASIC is the 2nd to last step. The next (final) step is a full custom design, co-developed with the fab process. This is how Intel & AMD design CPUs.
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by kijiki 14y ago
I recently went DO for a VM because they use KVM, not Xen paravirt, so 64bit VMs have decent performance. I needed to run a software package that was 64bit only.
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by kijiki 14y ago
This hack is specific to ancient versions of Android, and is not used on current or future versions. So there is no need to deal with it in any codebase that isn't completely dead.
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by kijiki 14y ago
Of course, if the folks who are smart enough to be scared of making mistakes won't write the software, that means it'll be written by folks who are too dumb to be scared or just plain apathetic...
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by kijiki 14y ago
See also: CLOB: Character Large OBject. Most (traditional) relational database servers do not support arbitrary sized (often >255 bytes) fields in a single row. The solution was to have a separate Large OBject heap, and store reference
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by kijiki 14y ago
Binary Large OBject.
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by kijiki 14y ago
Looks like it (like the j-20) still has traditional nozzles in back. Not so stealthy from behind. Good way to sneak up on an AWACS over the strait though. Who cares if you get whacked by escorts on the way back?
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by kijiki 14y ago
576 bytes is the minimum datagram size that must be accepted by all nodes in an IPv4 internet. In practice, on the modern Internet, you'll see tons of packets larger. So who knows; perhaps some massively outdated optimization in an ASIC so
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by kijiki 14y ago
The Arduino community did not invent the Kalman filter or sensor fusion.
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by kijiki 14y ago
1/833 of having the bleeding, _not_ fatal bleeding. Compared to 1/83 lifetime risk of dying in a car accident. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/how-scared-should-w... People (all of us, I'm not picking on you) are terrible at re
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by kijiki 15y ago
The wheel of reincarnation spins. We distributed the intelligence from the mainframe to minis/workstations and then later PCs. Then we re-centralized it to the datacenter/cluster with the web browser 1.0. Now we're redistributing it to the
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by kijiki 15y ago
If you want to do this right, you do it the way Compaq did with the IBM PC BIOS. One group of engineers analyzes the code, and writes a english text specification. A 2nd group (100% disjoint) took that spec and then wrote a compatible BIO
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by kijiki 15y ago
I would explain why "so just don't use it" isn't the whole story, but Moxie already did a much better job: http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084
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by kijiki 15y ago
This was true of pretty much every CPU generation before the P4. Deeper pipelines result in lower FO4 (and thus higher attainable clock frequency), but a higher penalty for branch misprediction, among other things. Historically (pre-P4) th
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by kijiki 15y ago
The P-III has 8 general purpose registers, just like all pre-64bit x86 CPUs, all the way back to the 8086. x86-64 (aka amd64) CPUs have 16. But it gets a bit more complicated. I'm talking about (and your references to compilers suggests t
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by kijiki 15y ago
"Radio Shack: You've got questions, we've got batteries."
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by kijiki 15y ago
All the EC2 instance types mentioned in the article are 64 bit PV.
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by kijiki 15y ago
Real hardware (and 32bit paravirtualized Xen) don't require any MMU changes during a syscall. This is because on real hardware, there is no VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) to protect, and on 32bit paravirt, Xen can use x86 segments to protec
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by kijiki 16y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/ua_bankruptcy_farce/ Suggests that this sort of automated text mining happens. Of course, it is from The Register...
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by kijiki 16y ago
The 512Mb is just a typo. Both the ordering of the list and the price make it pretty clear that they meant 512Kb.
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by kijiki 16y ago
Any insight into this long dead link? Did you know a S. Herrod? It was a scan of a diary found IIRC, on Market Street in SF. A sad tale of drug abuse and street life from the perspective of a young woman: http://www.thematrix.com/~sherr
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by kijiki 16y ago
a) netlink socket. b) multicast.
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by kijiki 16y ago
There is no Fry's in Mountain View. You probably mean the one in Sunnyvale. Which has a freaking original Varian Magnetron.
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by kijiki 17y ago
Verizon is getting better. They crippled the HTC Touch Pro horribly (including cutting its RAM in half for no good reason), just like most of their phones. But the HTC Touch Pro 2 came out completely unmolested. Hopefully this represents a
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by kijiki 17y ago
Corbet (lwn editor) posts them here from time to time. And he posted in this thread as well, so he knows about it, and presumably would have said something if he was annoyed. I bet they get way more exposure (and thus subscriptions) from p
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by kijiki 17y ago
VMware Workstation can do this for entire VMs. They call it "replay" IIRC.

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