From: @book{Peter:1982:RFC:539249, author = {Peter, Roezsa}, title = {Recursive Functions in Computer Theory}, year = {1982}, isbn = {0470271957}, publisher = {Halsted Press}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, }
Smart and dumb clients and the “so-called” Best Master Clock Algorithm in PTP IEEE 1588
The Best Master Clock (BMC) algorithm is a key part and key weakness of the PTP standard. The proposed enterprise profile for PTP calls it “the so-called ‘best master clock’” algorithm because it doesn’t actually pick the best master clock
Update of UNIX filesystem paper
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German banking
Germany has a complex banking system that provides a lot of support for SME manufacturing. The main strength of German economy is the so-called ‘Mittelstand’, a dense fabric of SMEs that manage to export high-quality manufactured products. In France, policymakers
Right to private jet ski use while collecting disability
New York authorities said the warrants led to the indictments of firefighters, police officers, and civil servants on disability fraud charges. The Facebook data, which included user photos and videos, showed employees who claimed they were disabled performing a variety
The OPM break-in was super-horrific
Hackers likely stole EVERY SINGLE background investigation form completed by OPM since 2000. Every single one. — Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) July 9, 2015
Ikea and RedHat
This is state of the art for systems software now – which is not all that impressive. Glantz explained that Ikea has more than 3,500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers deployed in Sweden and around the world. With Shellshock, every
Gilbert and Sullivan’s innovative business model
From the Financial Times: (and you should buy a subscription) Piracy is a problem as old as the music industry itself. In Victorian times, it was illicitly copied sheet music that was the avowed enemy of the artist, and the
Space-X patents
Anderson: So what have all your creative people come up with, then? What’s different in your basic technology versus 50 years ago? Musk: I can’t tell you much. We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is
Einstein and Peer Review
From Time. Although when I posted this on twitter, I got a good response. @vyodaiken @vassalos the problem being that we all think that we are Einstein, where in reality we are the "erroneous" anonymous expert — Lefteris Sidirourgos (@lsidir) March