A realtime preemption overview, by Paul McKenney on lwn.net. Subscribers only for the next week, but everyone should buy an lwn.net subscription anyway, to support articles like these and the weekly kernel summaries.
August 10, 2005
August 9, 2005
Signal Processing Methods for the Automatic Transcription of Music, Anssi Klapuri.
(via bi)
Too bad I decided an hour ago to postpone reading anything that is not directly relevant to the things I’m working on indefinitely for the forseeable future…
August 8, 2005
VMWare taking its first baby step toward open source. I don’t really care about the effect on Microsoft; I do wonder what effect it will have on Xen.
August 3, 2005
July 31, 2005
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman
I stayed up late last night reading “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman”, which I’ve picked in the recent Canada trip. I highly recommended it, it’s an inside view of what made one of the greatest minds of the last century. His letters to his first wife, which died of tuberculosis (and which he married after she was already sick) are heart-wrenching. His recollection of the first atomic bomb experiment is fascinating.
From a letter written to his first wife, after her death:
P.S. Please forgive me for not mailing this; I do not have your current mailing address.
July 26, 2005
July 21, 2005
The OLS Effect
One of the nicer things about going to OLS is that it makes me want to hack between the talks.
OLS day 1
I always have the best of intentions to blog furiously from OLS. Then I get swept up in the talks (especially the corridor ones) and by the time I am back in the room at night, I am too tired to string two sentences together. Thankfully, other people are doing a much better job: David ‘cdlu‘ Graham reporting on OLS day 1.
Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal 