Tag: linux

Who wrote 2.6.20?

at least 65% of the code which went into 2.6.20 was created by people working for companies.

ColorDiff

ColorDiff this ought to be the default

Yahoo is in the stone age

Slowly port all Yahoo! software to linux and phase out FreeBSD. Start supporting and encouraging multi-threading programming.

A New Approach To Debugging

I have built a system, which I’m calling Amber, to record the complete execution history of arbitrary Linux processes. The history is recorded using binary instrumentation based on Valgrind. The history is indexed to support efficient queries that debuggers need, and then compressed and written to disk in a format optimized for later query and retrieval.

roc’s magic new debugging framework in more detail

UDP Lite

less aggressive checksums means less data loss on checksum failure

Thread-Caching Malloc

very interesting. this looks so good it should be the default malloc, no?

Perl/Linux

The only compiled code in this Perl/Linux system is: Linux Kernel (not currently built with this project), perl, and uClibc.

Choices = Headaches

I’m sure there’s a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?

Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between 9, count them, 9 options: 2 icons and 7 menu items. The 2 icons, I think, are shortcuts to menu items. I’m guessing the lock icon does the same thing as the lock menu item, but I’m not sure which menu item the on/off icon corresponds to. On many laptops, there are also 4 FN+Key combinations to power off, hibernate, sleep, etc. That brings us up to 13 choices, and, oh, yeah, there’s an on-off button, 14, and you can close the lid, 15. A total of 15 different ways to shut down a laptop that you’re expected to choose from.

joel nails it. both linux on the desktop and windows try to make things “configurable” to cater to everyone. blech.

reiser4 benchmarks

reiser4 can do 50% more req/s than reiser3, and 33% more than ext3

Wasting time with compiles

what i long suspected, that you’d never be able to reclaim all that lost time spent compiling a whole linux distro “optimized” for your computer, seems to have been confirmed by some tests. hilarious.