From correspondent AY: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. <10 Percentage of
Read moreToyota’s problem: hardware weenies and poor accounting practices [updated]
Jamie Kitman’s look at the twisted path Toyota followed to it’s current difficulties inspired me to think about software and money – two topics I
Read moreLinux semaphores
Re: Schedule idle MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu) Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:09:32 +0100 (CET) […] > _please_ We can do better than this. Only semaphores (not
Read moreSecurity for dummies – a lesson for smart grid
WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they
Read moremulticore and multiprocessor performance
Here’s two interesting tables Percentage of lock acquisitions for global TCP/IP locks that do not succeed immediately. OS Type 6 conns 192 conns 16384 conns
Read moreThe ridiculous GPL-only tagging of Linux
Imagine that you release software under a license that is primarily concerned with making sure that modifiable source code is available to all and that
Read more10th anniversary of the RTLinux Manifesto paper
The RTLinux* Manifesto was published a little over 10 years ago at the 5th Linux Expo in Raleigh North Carolina which was really the first
Read moreMore petty
The ALMA team has released ACS 8.0 on Red Hat 4.4, downgrading the Linux version from the foreseen 5.2 version. This choice, with the consequent
Read moreParallelism and multicore
The goal of modern processor chip design has changed from optimizing various speed/price/heat tradeoffs for applications to finding excuses for dumping more transistors into the
Read moreDeterministic multithreading
An interesting paper appearing in ASPLOS proceedings provides a “deterministic” locking method Kendo enforces a deterministic interleaving of lock acquisitions and specially declared non-protected reads
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