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YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM
The world of online video is incredibly complex and dynamic. Yet, our goal is to ensure that nothing stands between you and the great content you’ve always enjoyed. We’ll continue to invest in new video technology that improves the experiences for all users, builds a better infrastructure for online video, leads to…
A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
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Why Reddit was down for 6 hours
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FreeBSD 8.2 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points
I thought as a break form the normal prose some of our readers might enjoy a short overview of the Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User) from a technical view:
Realtime encoding - over 150x faster
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
Down the 'ls' Rabbit Hole
By: Adam Fletcher ( @adamfblahblah ) From ls(1) to the kernel and back again. Too often sysadmins are afraid to dive into the sou...
How to write cross-platform code
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Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k
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C500k in Action at Urban Airship
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FreeBSD 8.1 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: