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Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC(dtrace.org)
1 points by nz 10y ago|0 comments
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by nz 11y ago
A strange article. Many of the things cited as proof that the theory has poor predictive power are really dependent on how narrow of a scope you're willing to ascribe to industries and sectors. For example Christensen stated that the i
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by nz 12y ago
Well if you're storing integers or other other small (8-byte) elements, then sure. But if you are storing pointers to objects, then you'll have the overhead of a load (in the comparison function). If you are embedding the objects,
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by nz 12y ago
If you're interested in this stuff, you might want to check out the draft paper linked below. It benchmarks performance and memory efficiency of various logarithmic time sorting data structures. It's a work in progress, and feedba
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Playing Games to Leave Games(ribbonfarm.com)
2 points by nz 12y ago|0 comments
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Geopolitics for Individuals(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by nz 12y ago|0 comments
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The Twin Insurgency(web.archive.org)
1 points by nz 12y ago|0 comments
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by nz 12y ago
Yes, the tone is a far cry from the cool-headed, neutral, sterile aesthetic one would expect from technical or academic writing. However, the article is very informative, and should probably be bookmarked for later reference --- in case one
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by nz 12y ago
Having read the paper, and taking the time to think about the whole 'signaling' explanation for open source, I'd say that in addition to ego and joy, signaling is a major motivator for contributing to open source software. Wh
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by nz 12y ago
For anyone interested, here is a direct link[1] to the scientific background to Tirole's 'Market Power and Regulation' ideas, which were kindly compiled by the committee. Open source is first mentioned on page 27 (out of 54).
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by nz 13y ago
Unless you are not using the host OS for anything _other_ than virtualization. If the host OS is used to host VMs[1], which are then used for specific tasks (casual browsing, banking, development, etc). Any exploit will be limited to the VM
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by nz 15y ago
The last sentence was cut off: "... a monopoly on the engineering talent."
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by nz 15y ago
They didn't re-implement KVM. They ported it (to the greatest extent possible), because it was already a suitable solution. I wasn't referring to the KVM port as a solution to an exciting new problem (it was, but a while ago, thus making th
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by nz 15y ago
You should be! As far as I can tell, Illumos is the only kernel project out there that is solving exciting new problems, instead of reimplementing solutions to old ones.
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by nz 15y ago
I already checked it out and the timer probes don't work at all. On one system, I couldn't even invoke kernel functions. On another system, the kernel panicked as soon as I executed `stap -e ...`. Basically unusable, at this point. I hope i
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by nz 15y ago
Similar experience here, except that I've solved similar issues (and far more complicated issues) with DTrace instead of strace. The range of information that DTrace can retrieve about a running application surpasses anything that strace ca
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by nz 16y ago
Or one can just use a tiling WM like dwm, xMonad, or stumpwm. It seems that Terminator fills the void where a user wants to have tiling terminals, but can't because Mac OS X, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't allow one to fiddle with the
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by nz 16y ago
In some respect, yes the Solaris system has fallen behind the likes of Linux and *BSD. Particularly in the availability of third party libraries and applications. In other areas (such as the kernel) Solaris is much more stable, reliable, an