Archive for May, 2010
Friday, May 21st, 2010
CPU Identifications in linux kernels (2.6.18 + rhel patches) , NOTE that this is not applicable when you are running linux kernel on top of virtual hardware (i.e. Dom0 and DomU kernels won’t show proper CPU info because they use “virtual CPU” as set …
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
right now ppl are using linux bridges as virtual switches for XEN/KVM VMs. Open vSwitch is an improvement over linux bridge that supports industry standard protocol and features and IOS-like CLI — [when project matures] ]you should be able trunk yo…
Posted in for:collidr, kvm, Linux, network, networking, opensource, switch, system, virtualization, xen | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, May 17th, 2010
a project from Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tests your web browser’s signature by checking user-agent string, browser plug-ins, HTT_ACCEPT, etc
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
What happens in a war (from the veteran of 1st and 2nd Chenen wars ) , also see Arkady’s book “One soldier’s War” http://www.amazon.com/One-Soldiers-War-Arkady-Babchenko/dp/0802118607
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
low power AMD cpu, a candidate for a new home server project
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Series of short articles on linux kernel [2.6.27] APIs by Tim Jones
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
[short] reference for linux boot process
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)
Posted in architecture, cache, cs, disk, flah, hardware, high_load, Linux, performance, storage | Comments Off | permalink
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Some comments on modeling friendlits user activity, for social media websites (or apps)
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid=32079936
Posted in ai, cs, for:collidr, for:Inulia, History, language, linguistics, programming, recognition, science, speech, technology | Comments Off | permalink