Harald Welte’s blog — Paper: Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphones
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation
Archive for the 'reference' Category
Checkpoints and the Background Writer: PostgreSQL 8.3 Improvements and Migration
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010improvements to PostgreSQL that could be made by tuning wal/background writer processes
Default Password List
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010default passwords list for various hardware devices
[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
Friday, December 18th, 2009Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
LXR / The Linux Cross Reference
Friday, November 20th, 2009linux kernel code cross-reference: you can quickly look up a piece of code,, find out in what version it appeared first, and so on.
Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009famous and somewhat forgotten so called “minority report” by Richard Feynman on the aftermath of Challenger Shuttle disaster in 1986 that determent that management culture of NASA to responsible for the disaster, and not some particular technical fa…
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
Monday, August 11th, 2008exellent explanation for the much-hyped Dan Kaminsky DNS vuln. This is for people for whom word “DNS” sounds like it’s in elvish
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Monday, June 30th, 2008guide introduces various specific topics like arrays, variable scopes, etc.
google C++ Style Guide
Monday, June 30th, 2008google’s internal C++ code guidance
Unix Toolbox
Monday, March 24th, 2008awseme reference, any *nix sysadmin must bookmark it