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Exploiting Windows 10 in a Local Network with WPAD/PAC and JScript
by Ivan Fratric, Thomas Dullien, James Forshaw and Steven VittitoeIntroMany widely-deployed techn...
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Kernel debugging for newbies
This week, I’ve been working on an application that sets up IPsec connections. PF_KEYv2 is the standard interface for configuring IPsec. PF_KEYv2 is widely-available; even systems with more advanced IPsec stacks (like XFRM on Linux) provide a PF_KEYv2-compatible wrapper. I want my application to work on OS X and…
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Hybridizer: High-Performance C# on GPUs
Hybridizer is a compiler from Altimesh that lets you program GPUs and other accelerators from C# code or .NET Assembly. Using decorated symbols to express parallelism, Hybridizer generates source code…
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On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling
While I was writing the post comparing the new Qualcomm server chip, Centriq, to our current stock of Intel Skylake-based Xeons, I noticed a disturbing phenomena.
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High Performance Z80 Emulation
…wherein I talk about my latest Z80 emulation adventures.
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Apple's CVDisplayLink Doesn't Link to Your Display
Edit 2017/12/10: So I screwed up, I thought I was safe confirming it in two different ways but I was using an external monitor and all of the below is accurate only for a specific multi-monitor case. Skip to the bottom to read about my new results.
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What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?
This post is a slightly edited version of my November presentation to the San Francisco chapter of Papers We Love.
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PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem
Discover our incident review with our API and dashboard after the outage on 10th October.
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ReactOS 0.4.7 released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Introduction to Hierarchical State Machines
The formalism of Hierarchical State Machines (aka statecharts) makes the state machine approach truly applicable to real-life embedded systems. Read more.
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Sysdig Inspect: A GUI for System Call Analysis
Sysdig Inspect is a powerful interface for container troubleshooting and security investigation that uses sysdig capture files for local analysis
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Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
From heat guns to kernel compiler flags
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Reducing Chrome crashes caused by third-party software
Update (04/26/2019): Third-party developers can now use this document to evaluate the impact of third-party blocking on their software. R...
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The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM
Yes, that familiar little PC peripheral. The one that toggles a single keyboard/mouse/display ensemble between two or more connected machines.
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Spanner: TrueTime and external consistency
Understand Spanner's TrueTime and external consistency, ensuring globally consistent reads and writes across the distributed database.
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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Including Nitro
AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: explaining the different virtualization types, from emulation and binary substitution, paravirtualization and Xen, PV, HVM, and PVHVM modes, and the new Nitro hypervisor
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Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
Today we’re launching Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock. This service is provided at no additional charge and is…
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AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
Containers are a powerful way for developers to develop, package, and deploy their applications. At AWS we have over a hundred thousand active ECS clusters and hundreds of millions of new containers started each week. That’s 400+% customer growth since 2016. Container orchestration solutions, like Amazon Elastic…
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How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox
Two weeks ago, we released Firefox Quantum to the world. It’s been a big moment for Mozilla, shaping up to be a blockbuster release that’s changing how peopl...
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Disable transparent hugepages
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications a small performance improvement (~ 10%…
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Linux Runs All of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Linux runs all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers
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There's a mini RTOS in my language
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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Designing a Lock-free, Wait-free Hash Map
Wait-free algorithms attract vast interest and are an area of intense research, the motivation being that true lock-free algorithms and data structures provide great …
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Run the First Edition of Unix with Docker
In this article you'll see how to run a PDP-11 simulator through Docker to interact with Unix as it was back in 1972.
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