Whoops! From Aviation Week According to a bulletin issued by the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), an electrical fault led to a series of
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Interesting discussion here. But many FOSS-based transactions are not commercial in the foregoing sense. Instead, software subject to a FOSS license may come into a product
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Big companies that want to use our software but don’t want to use our standard EULA keep sending proposed sales contracts that include a really
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New Consultant: “Cort assured me there was a slide deck we could do a deep dive from. Then we can birdcage the low hanging fruit.” Deep
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You can almost just see it from this diagram of connected boxes. I want to think of the whole system as a series of connected
Read moreShocking advances in Operating Systems
And here I was complaining about the lack of progress in OS development “This will blow away any RTOS,” said Cauchy. “We speed up execution
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Two lawsuits provide the frame for The Social Network. One was brought by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twins at Harvard who thought they had hired
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int cpu_features[4]; for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { cpu_features[get_cur_cpu_number()] = cpuid_get_features(); usleep(100); } for (int j = 0; j < 4;
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The other crazy thing about the mobile phone market is that it’s not the only one. Windell said he found another market just as big
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The summary of this error. According to a report, the problem occurs because the 32-bit call emulation layer does not check whether the call is truly
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