http://www.yodaiken.com Operating systems real-time and systems software Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:07:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [0018]For incoming network packets, the following is done during the logging mode. When a packet is received, an event-request is posted for the VMM, at Block 210. When the VMM processes the event, it stops the VM, ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2009/01/fault-tolerant-patent-application-for-virtual-machine/ So I don't understand the novelty in the methods here over the Glazer patent. The replica supervisors provide interfaces to the replicas that are the same as the interface provided by the operating system. Thus, when one of the replicas makes a call to the operating system, the corresponding replica supervisor ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2009/01/fault-tolerant-patent/ A parallel computer system which has a primary task processor, a second primary task processor, a secondary task processor acting as a backup for the second primary task processor transfers messages by: sending messages from the primary task processor to ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2009/01/great-software-patents-fault-tolerance/ According to Forbes (thanks to Trevor Loy for the link) The venture capital industry is staring at the most vicious shakeout in its history. Returns are pathetic for most funds, the public offering pipeline on which venture depends for its exit strategy is clamped shut, and with the shares of many ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/12/the-coming-bust-in-venture-cap/ The UNIX idea that the OS treated files as sequences of uninterpreted bytes was a brilliant technical simplification - so successful that the previously dominant approach essentially disappeared. Apple seems to want to revist the issue with its spotlight product.  Maybe it is time time integrate a database view into ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/12/apples-spotlight-and-future-databases/ ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/12/the-continued-male-weirdness-of-computer-science/ This is part of the story and this is interesting, but as both an employer of technical workers and a technical worker myself it doesn't seem so simple to me. I have certainly seen large numbers of entitled technical workers who simply refuse to learn anything new and are neither ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/11/undervalued-technical-worker/ See below. http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/11/updated-dijkstra-vs-perlis-really-demillo/ No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader's page) http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/11/costs-of-not-building-security-into-the-system/ The last time I went to a "Supercomputing" conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly sneered at by IBMs Operating System Gurus and were walking ... http://www.yodaiken.com/2008/11/supercomputing-and-mathematica/