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 'engineering' Category
[Flash Player P2P Propriotary P2P Media Delivery Protocol called ] RTMFP Overview
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010“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 th…
The Twitter Engineering Blog
Friday, February 19th, 2010all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource
www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx
Thursday, October 15th, 2009myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues
Механический соединитель оптических волокон + Полевой скалыватель + Полировальные диски = LAN? – Конференция iXBT.com
Monday, August 3rd, 2009list of equipment required for building fiber-optic network, mainly field tech tools
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…
Permissive Action Links
Saturday, November 24th, 2007>>> A PAL — a “Permissive Action Link” — is the box that is supposed to prevent unauthorized use of a nuclear weapon
Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout() [LWN.net]
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Ingo’s note about MM (memory management) development problems and feedback from users
General Skype Analysis
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Info about Skype internals