…but about everyone that hates it. i can highly recommend you two Scott Berkun essays: on substantive discussions without attacking people personally on choice - wise one - of president; it needs to be of course aligned to polish political model, but it has wider applicability :)
Google sponsored a interesting project some time ago and shared the open font project with community. it’s not a news per se, but today while looking at one of the blogs I’ve browsed through sources and found out about it :D the concept is pretty simple and I recommend you to have a look at it (I’m using them already as you can see).
good people at RIPE did some testing and it turns out it’s pretty quick!
…hit me again (in a positive way). i was experimenting in my lab and wanted to define a lot of queues (and i mean a lot of them) in ALTQ. unfortunately, very quickly during parsing of pf.conf pfctl barked out following information: pfctl: DIOCADDALTQ: Cannot allocate memory to overcome the problem, you only need to modify those three files: /usr/include/altq/altq_hfsc.h /usr/src/sbin/pfctl/missing/altq/altq_hfsc.h /usr/src/sys/contrib/altq/altq/altq_hfsc.h where #define HFSC_MAX_CLASSES 64 is defined - to requested value. then rebuild the kernel and everything should work as expected. ...
it started in a innocent way - my company W510 started to work slower and slower. as it is very busy usually and i need full performance and every bit of power for daily work, obviously i decided to investigate. Windows 7 x64 installed in a clean and very controller manner, 8GB of RAM available and usually not used in more than 50%. so what’s going on? Lenovo is using SSD drives of a different size. i have 128GB model. this is Samsung device - and specifically MMCRE28G8MXP-OVBL1. it would be all fine and great, but due to the way Lenovo distributes those drives, they land in your laptop somehow stripped from TRIM feature. ...
while the experiment was a success, effects were rather modest :) during the entire 9th, if we dismiss connections from bots connecting from University of Pennsylvania (greetings!) and China (really interesting URL mangling techniques), we’ve had 20 unique users and 1145 sessions. late evening, after grand finale additional 80 users visited us, and session counter increased to over 4500. i definitely didn’t do good job of marketing IPv6 availability for WOŚP, or IPv6 geeks were far away from IPv6-enabled internet that day. ...
I wrote about such ideas over two years ago. it seems the concept of offloading packet forwarding from CPU to GPU may have some merits, and if you’re interested in that - take a look at packetshader. still however, hardware config needed to achieve that kind of performance feat is quite expensive. it demonstrates however that GPU, next to FPGA experiments, can also be viable way of forwarding in high-performance packet forwarding/routing based on PCs. ...
very interesting article, that led to writing this even more interesting article, describing how computer viruses compare to human.
there’s a very interesting page that shows what’s upcoming in FreeBSD 8 release.
delivering good and interesting presentation is usually challenge people talk about a lot. and that doesn’t even account for sessions in your native or foreign language. presentation, or put in other way - communication between you and other people (one, two, thousand) can trigger sleepless nights and fear often balooning to irrational size (USA surveys show that fear of public speaking is put on the first place, before insects and - watch this - death itself!). ...