“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
Read moreCertified good
Take that, doubters.
Read moreBenchmarking 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
Read moreFree 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
Read morePrelapsarian 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
Read moreStill 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
Read moreEnterprise file systems
This discussion on file systems and this one on virtual memory are good starts. See also the extent-like UFS paper and this.
Read moreLow wage programming
Greenspan did put forward a proposal on how to reduce the growing inequality of incomes in the United States — admit more skilled immigrants into
Read moreMoving on
FSMLabs is about to make a major change in direction – with a focus on “enterprise” computing. Some of what we plan to do is
Read moreJim Gray and the existence of working software
Jim Gray disappeared and I hope he will reappear unharmed. I met him once at a Supercomputing show when Cort Dougan and had just been
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