As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be traveling to Cambridge next month. I haven’t been to the UK in nearly […]
Cambridge… England, that is
My tutorial Writing RDMA applications on Linux has been accepted at LinuxConf Europe 2007. I’ll try to give practical introduction to writing […]
Do you feel lucky, punk?
Sun just introduced their Constellation supercomputer at ISC Dresden. They’ve managed to get a lot of hype out of this, including mentions […]
Soon I will be invincible
I just read Aaron Grossman’s novel Soon I Will Be Invincible, and I heartily recommend it as an amusing summer read. It […]
Enterprise distro kernels
Greg K-H wrote recently about kernels for “Enterprise Linux” distributions. I’m not sure I get the premise of the article; after all, […]
Are we having, like, a conversation?
Pete replied to my earlier reply and argued that mb() should never be used: NOOOOOOOOOOO! In theory, it’s possible to program in […]
If I’m a crusader, where’s my cape?
Pete Zaitcev replied to my earlier post about misuse of atomic variables. I never really thought of myself as a crusader or […]
Bike to work day
This past Thursday was Bike to Work Day here in Silicon Valley, and while biking to work I thought about why I […]
Atomic cargo cults
Cargo cult programming refers to “ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.” One annoying example of this […]