We’re in process of moving to Austin Texas where the humidity should help ripen new ideas.
Operating system design and specification: Part 1.
[Note: This is the first in a series of “chapters”. I’ll be revising as I see errors and in response to comments. As usual, this material is copyright Victor Yodaiken and rights are given to make, but not sell, verbatim
Lots of great inventions seem obvious in retrospect….
“Lots of great inventions seem obvious in retrospect. About 30 years ago, one of our clients realized that if you attach a small pom-pom to the back of a short tennis sock, the sock won’t slip down into your tennis
Certified good
Take that, doubters.
Benchmarking real-time
We’ve got time to develop some comprehensive benchmarks of other proposed “real-time Linux” solutions and I’ve started reading up on published benchmarks. We had the advantage of a large number of customers with real applications to assist us in figuring
Free as in double espresso
Good news as coffee distribution giant Starbucks comes to an agreement with Ethiopia about coffee ip. The case for Ethiopia owning trademarks to its own famous brands is simple: the value line in coffee production is drawn near the cup,
Prelapsarian software
In the myth, back in the good old days of the MIT AI lab, programmers lived by the hacker ethos and were above such low things as trade and commerce. Scientifically, it’s clear that the AI Lab was the least
Still trying after all these years
Red Hat has apparently also understood the necessity of real-time in financial trading – FSMLabs main current focus. Unfortunately for them, they are using inappropriate technology as shown by the over 1.2 million lines of code that they boast has
Net neutrality and real-time
British Telecom breaks with the party line. This is the intersection of a business/political dispute about what business telecos should be in and a technical issue of QOS. Traffic shaping is a blunt instrument for QOS and part of the
Security cannot be improved by waving flags
Via Schneier comes a story about the US Navy and a disgruntled contractor who just plead guilty: He confessed to programming malicious software codes into computers that track Navy submarines in May 2006 while in Naples. He told Navy investigators