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 moreNet neutrality and real-time
British Telecom breaks with the party line. This is the intersection of a business/political dispute about what business telecos should be in and a technical
Read moreSecurity cannot be improved by waving flags
Via Schneier comes a story about the US Navy and a disgruntled contractor who just plead guilty: He confessed to programming malicious software codes into
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 moreTransaction costs are good: software patent debate continues
Don Marti is asking the wrong question when he writes: The question is where you draw the line of what is or isn’t patent infringement.
Read moreEnterprise operating systems
Can anyone name a single feature of “enterprise†operating systems available today that was not already working in VMS or Solaris or SGI’s system 10
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