Cs

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and-protection An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html A talk or sort of open letter complaining about decline of quality of CS education in USA, and in particular “java school” approaches

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp0730.html thread pools and how to design server applications

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ home page of Ulrich Drepper, libc maintainer and kernel developer. Interesting materials about POSIX, glibc , SElinux and more …

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~jrblack/papers/cbh.html#henson 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

http://dammit.lt/2007/01/26/mysql-covering-index-performance/ mysql index performance tech internals (interesting)

http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/11/databases-for-big-science.html nice article and comments

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ this shouldn’t need any notes

http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/perl/lecture5/index.html