No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader’s page)
Supercomputing and mathematica
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
Most influential software company in America – and maybe the world
Voter Activation Network.
FSMLabs move to New Zealand is postponed indefinitely
Thanks to Ohioans. (and Virginians, Floridians, Iowans, … ). phew.
Reliable broadcast algorithms: after 20 years
New paper with short description of the Chang/Maxmchuk algorithm I have been championing for 20 years or more.
more security databases
“I was pulled aside in a room … and you have to wait your turn to finally be released,” Labbé said. “An hour, an hour and a half, two hours, whatever it is after. Once I was caught in Miami
why databases are more interesting than operating systems
A discovery Cort Dougan and I made 10 years ago when we first got a glimpse at the mighty Oracle building on the Bay and realized that, commercially, operating systems are an afterthought. This article shows that things are just
Updated: meaning of concurrent programs
Updated rough draft available with thrilling descriptions of atomic compare and swap and some comments on “formal methods”. Bonus photo
More on common weakness
Dan Quist writes in to point at that writing software is hard and we should expect errors. No doubt. Perfect software is not on the near horizon and good programmers using good tools will make stupid mistakes. But the CWE
Common Weakness Enumeration
The common weakness enumeration is an amazing document. Imagine if there was such a document for architecture/construction. That document would contain admonitions like – “remember to put in structural supports for upper floors” and “don’t lay floors on dirt” or