Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
It is not always works, but at least give you an idea. Perl6 regex syntax is really different from normal perl and it is not [yet] well documented. Or you can prefix each regex in perl6 with :p5 to make it perl5-compatible
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”
A subjective code quality …
Posted in comparison, freebsd, kernel, Linux, programming, quality, research, software-engineering, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, April 4th, 2011
[also see LWN's write-up https://lwn.net/Articles/435214/ .] Curios message [allegedly] from a person who hacked into Comodo CA. Makes you wonder … Basically the whole SSL trust is just a piece of crap and cannot be trusted at all — major CA …
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
standard redhat-way (i.e. network-scripts) to configure IPv6 networking on RHEL/CentOS systems
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
explanation on why `-m state –state ‘ does not work for IPv6 in older kernels
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Guest Operating system support chat for XEN
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf
Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…
Posted in 100GB, gpgpu, gpu, kernel, Linux, network, networking, performance, programming, router, routing, software | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Overview of how network driver work in linux kernel
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
sendnder-score IP lookup tool
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