http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/04/14/#20100414-anatomy_of_gsm_cellphone An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/slides/tsvarea-1.pdf “secret of ChatRoulette”. Describes details of RTMFP protocol, that Flash Player (from v.10.1 and above ) uses for media delivery. Protocol is closed/proprietary, encrypted, UDP-based, uses “forward” servers to establish direct session between the nodes. It is not clear if C&C; structure is distributed.
http://engineering.twitter.com/ all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource
http://www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues
http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=14:50205 list of equipment required for building fiber-optic network, mainly field tech tools
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt famous 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 failures. Starting quote:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html#GS94 A PAL – a “Permissive Action Link” – is the box that is supposed to prevent unauthorized use of a nuclear weapon «<
http://lwn.net/Articles/252887/ Ingo’s note about MM (memory management) development problems and feedback from users
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~salman/skype/index.html Info about Skype internals