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An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
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ZeroMQ - Disconnects are Good for You
The hidden disconnects of ZeroMQ can be dangerous if you don’t write your application to work around them.
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If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot
XScreenSaver 5.15 is out now. Along with the usual set of minor improvements, this version runs as an iOS application. As all of the 3D modules in XScreenSaver are written against the OpenGL 1.3 specification, and as the iPhone only supports OpenGL ES 1.1 and newer, this was something of a big deal. I accomplished…
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Building a dependable hosting stack using Hetzner’s servers
SupportBee's support ticket system enables teams to organize, prioritize and collaborate on customer support emails.
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Linux 3.4 kernel released
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.4 development cycle
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We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Memory Reordering Caught in the Act
When writing lock-free code in C or C++, one must often take special care to enforce correct memory ordering. Otherwise, surprising things can happen. Intel lists several such …
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TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical
: While I'm suspicious of all JIT-compiled languages, C# has always had a much better IL than java, even since version 1.0, making it easy...
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Firefox finally plugs the leak
Leaky add-ons are a big problem, but there’s been lots of action relating to them recently. What follows is a summary of the situation and a request for help from currently Nightly testers who use add-ons.
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Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell
What’s better than programming a GPU with a high-level, Haskell-embedded DSL (domain-specific-language)? Well, perhaps writing portab...
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Xfce 4.10 released
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8.
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Line-by-line memory usage of a Python program
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The Treacherous Optimization
"I'm going to beat grep by thirty percent!" I confidently crow to anyone who would listen, those foolish enough to enter my office. And my girlfriend too, who's contractually obligated to pay attention to everything I say.
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This is the mail system
This is how we tell hundreds of millions of computer users that something has gone wrong:
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How a computer boots up
The previous post described [motherboards and the memory map] memory-map in Intel computers to set the scene for the initial phases of boot. Booting is an involved, hacky, multi-stage affair - fun st
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The byte order fallacy
Whenever I see code that asks what the native byte order is, it's almost certain the code is either wrong or misguided. And if the native b...
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Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores
Remember when I blogged about linear read scalability out to 32 cores ? Well, the awesome Nate Boley provided me with access to his brand n...
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Don’t Eat Too Much Three Bean Salad. The Server Will Crash.
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