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by rwg 15y ago
Unfortunately, the current OpenFlow specification (v1.1) doesn't support IPv6...
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by rwg 15y ago
All of the "if you're not happy and you know it, quit your job! clap clap " blog posts that make it onto Hacker News these days seem to whitewash or ignore some unpleasant realities. I gave notice at my job of ten years last week, and I'
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by rwg 15y ago
Are there Ivory Tower Anonymous meetings I can attend? I recently turned in my yearly activity report, and I finally (ten years) realized that it has become a list of things I absolutely hate doing. I think it's time to give this "industr
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by rwg 15y ago
At FUDCon last month, Chris Tyler from Seneca College gave a presentation about the Raspberry Pi. I don't remember his exact quote, but he said that the vast majority of the die space of the chip was devoted to the GPU and it was best to t
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by rwg 15y ago
Cogent de-peered Google about half a year ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/29238 If you're single-homed to Cogent and want global IPv6 connectivity, you should look for another provider.
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by rwg 15y ago
The maintainer of GNU ed is also the author of lzip. Though lzip predates xz, this GNU ed release is the first .lz file I've ever seen in the wild. Everyone else that distributes .tar.gz files (compatibility) along with .tar.something_else
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by rwg 15y ago
The Portland Group's Accelerator compilers already support pragma-based markup of code for offload to accelerators (GPGPUs). OpenMP is considering adding accelerator support in 4.0. In the meantime, NVIDIA and friends are having a go at sp
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by rwg 15y ago
Submitting a security bug report to the Chromium project was a delight compared to submitting one to Apple. It was obvious that the engineers working on Chromium cared about the problem and were competent. On the other hand, I mightaswell
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by rwg 15y ago
Or they could use C99's int32_t in the problem's code to make the size of the integer explicit... (Or just state that sizeof(int) == 4 on this hypothetical system.)
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by rwg 15y ago
The value is x86 compatibility. Our seismograph network is held together by DMP eBox 2300 computers. These things have 200 MHz 486DX compatible CPUs, 128 MB RAM, and a CompactFlash slot that we populate with a 4 GB SLC NAND card (that are
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by rwg 15y ago
Even considering they were never sold to the public, I doubt Dell sold many. They have the same fatal flaw as SeaMicro's "hundreds of Atom CPUs in a big box" servers: lack of ECC RAM support. Also, I doubt they were cost competitive with c
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by rwg 15y ago
Mozilla's Gervase Markham posted a more detailed (and, frankly, more damning) blog entry about the DigiNotar fiasco: http://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
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by rwg 15y ago
VIA's "Nehemiah" core C3 CPUs had hardware random number generation, as well as hardware AES assist, way back in 2003. (And, of course, VIA's "PadLock" instructions and Intel's RdRand instruction + AES-NI instructions are totally different
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by rwg 15y ago
All of the physical RAM in the world doesn't mean a damned thing if you're a Win32 process limited to 2 GiB of user address space. Heap fragmentation is a very real problem there.
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by rwg 15y ago
I'm not convinced that ratings from TopCoder's algorithm competitions are an accurate predictor of a participant's programming ability, except perhaps at the extremely low end. This was me nine years ago, fresh out of college with a B.Sc. i
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by rwg 15y ago
Later in the MetaFilter comments, Erik posted a link to video+slides of a session he co-presented at MIX 10. This session had technical content about the architecture of some of MySpace's stack: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX10/E
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by rwg 15y ago
Some food for thought regarding Amazon and sales tax: Amazon has plans to build and operate a distribution warehouse near Columbia, South Carolina. State and local leaders rolled out the red carpet for Amazon -- a free building site, prope
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by rwg 15y ago
Specifically, it doesn't work with Comcast's DNSSEC-enabled recursive nameservers, which Comcast will eventually move all of its customers to: % dig +noall +comments +stats pzxc.com. ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- o
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by rwg 16y ago
It's almost certainly this, and I would love to see them release lightweight grid software that uses NaCl on compute hosts. The footprints of existing grid software stacks, both in terms of volume of software and sysadmin time to setup/m
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by rwg 16y ago
Does that "3x to 4x more" figure take into account the associated costs of handling 10GigE drops versus having your stack on AWS? (Routing/switching gear, server hardware, rack space/power, network engineers, etc.)