ArchitectNotes – Varnish [what's wrong with caching things in memory]
http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/ArchitectNotes excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management
OS
Behind Pwn2Own: Exclusive Interview With Charlie Miller : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254.html Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.
Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info
[x86 booting] How Computers Boot Up
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up 2nd article, the 1st is at http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map
pre-build VMware images of CentOS
http://dev.centos.org/~tru/ pre-build images for CentOS im minimal,LAMP and GNOME-desktop config (saves your time). Images are with modified kernels
Thread Pooling (Windows)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686756.aspx thread pooling win32 API
Something like a home page [of Ulrich Drepper, libc maintainer ]
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ home page of Ulrich Drepper, libc maintainer and kernel developer. Interesting materials about POSIX, glibc , SElinux and more …