Archive for the 'cs' Category

CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection : Gustavo Duarte

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

STSC CrossTalk – Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? – Jan 2008

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

A talk or sort of open letter complaining about decline of quality of CS education in USA, and in particular “java school” approaches

Java theory and practice: Thread pools and work queues

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

thread pools and how to design server applications

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Something like a home page [of Ulrich Drepper, libc maintainer ]

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

home page of Ulrich Drepper, libc maintainer and kernel developer. Interesting materials about POSIX, glibc , SElinux and more …

Compare-by-Hash: A Reasoned Analysis (Apr-2006)

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

a paper by J. Black (U of Colorado) addressing some concerns about compare/address-by-hash methods. Those concerns are frequently razed by Val Henson

domas mituzas: vaporware, inc. » Blog Archive » Where covering indexes rock

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

mysql index performance tech internals (interesting)

Database management for "big science" applications – The Database Column

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

nice article and comments

Don Knuth’s Home Page

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

this shouldn’t need any notes

Sorting and Perl — Lecture index Shlomo Yona <[email protected]> http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007