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Fwd: Quake 3 Source Code Review: Architecture
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From: "William Wallace"
Date: Jun 30, 2012 10:05 PM
Subject: Quake 3 Source Code Review: Architecture
To: "John Sokol" <john.sokol@gmail.com>
This is an operating system .....
Friday, June 29, 2012
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Monday, June 25, 2012
A New C Standard Is On the Way - Slashdot
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/06/25/1944244/a-new-c-standard-is-on-the-way
"Last year, Danny Kalev —a former member of the C++ standards committed —explained the new features in C++. Now, in C11: A New C Standard Aiming at Safer Programming, he shares an overview of the changes in C —13 years after the ratification of the C99 standard. Kalev describes the goodies in C11, including multi-threading support, safer standard libraries, and better compliance with other industry standards."
Saturday, June 23, 2012
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Crockford on JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
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What is xip.io?
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS
for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1.
Using xip.io,
10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
...and so on. You can use these domains to access virtual
hosts on your development web server from devices on your
local network, like iPads, iPhones, and other computers.
No configuration required!
How does it work? xip.io runs a custom DNS server on the public Internet. When your computer looks up a xip.io domain, the xip.io DNS server extracts the IP address from the domain and sends it back in the response.
Does xip.io cost anything? Nope! xip.io is a free service from 37signals, the creators of Pow. We were tired of jumping through hoops to test our apps on other devices and decided to solve the problem once and for all.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
NaCL - Google Native Client - Chrome OS
Google Native Client (NaCl) is a sandboxing technology for running a subset of Intel x86 or ARM native code using software-based fault isolation. It is proposed for safely running native code from a web browser, allowing web-based applications to run at near-native speeds, which aligns well with Google's plans with Chrome OS. It may also be used for securing browser plugins, and in the future parts of other applications or full applications.
To demonstrate the readiness of the technology, on 9 December 2011, Google announced the availability of several new Chrome-only versions of games known for their rich and processor-intensive graphics, including Bastion. NaCl runs hardware-accelerated 3D graphics (via OpenGL ES 2.0), sandboxed local file storage, dynamic loading, full screen mode, and mouse capture. There are also plans to make NaCl available on handheld devices
Monday, June 04, 2012
Google Sandbox (Native Client)
Google Native Client (NaCl) is a sandboxing technology for running a subset of Intel x86 or ARM native code using software-based fault isolation.[1] It is proposed for safely running native code from a web browser, allowing web-based applications to run at near-native speeds,[2] which aligns well with Google's plans with Chrome OS. It may also be used for securing browser plugins, and in the future parts of other applications or full applications.[3]
To demonstrate the readiness of the technology, on 9 December 2011, Google announced the availability of several new Chrome-only versions of games known for their rich and processor-intensive graphics, including Bastion. NaCl runs hardware-accelerated 3D graphics (via OpenGL ES 2.0), sandboxed local file storage, dynamic loading, full screen mode, and mouse capture. There are also plans to make NaCl available on handheld devices.[4][5]
Internet powers flip the IPv6 switch (FAQ) - CNET Mobile
One of the original authors of IPv6 is a BSDer.
http://m.cnet.com/news/internet-powers-flip-the-ipv6-switch-faq/57445316
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
Reverse Engineering Compiler
REC Studio is an interactive decompiler.
Fwd: Embedded Systems Technical News
From: "Embedded News" <embedded_news@mentor.com>
Date: May 31, 2012 6:56 PM
Subject: Embedded Systems Technical News
To: "John Sokol" <john.sokol@gmail.com>
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Cloud Computing is OSSM
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones
Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones
from the like-y'-do dept.
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC
from the squash-it-like-a-figurative-bug dept.
Purpose vs discovery and the Internet as a dynamic
http://frankston.com/public/?n=PurposeVsDiscovery
By Bob Frankston
How to make sure that the Internet continues to "work" despite P2P or whatever the current threat seems to be.
Yesterday we feared modems, today we fear P2P.
Meeting the demand for "web bits" had a side-effect of giving us copious capacity and the low latency, low jitter application started to "just work". But we mustn't forget that this is a process of discovery not one of promise. We might argue against the asymmetric "broadband" connections but we also discovered that they are indeed useful for video, especially since that was the original purpose of the underlying architecture.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
SVLUG 5/2/2012 Discussion on Operating Systems
SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel
Moderator: Rick Moen.
FreeBSD: Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc.
Inferno: Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for Plan 9
Illumos: Bryan Cantrill will be talking about the successor to OpenSolaris, illumos, and Joyent's own distro, SmartOS
Linux: Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing
Thursday, May 10, 2012
CCNx content-centric networking.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking
CCNx project, which is led by Van Jacobson, a research fellow at PARC. On September 21, 2009, PARC published the specifications for interoperability and released an initial open source implementation (under GPL) of the Content Centric Networking research project on the Project CCNx site.
Van Jacobson
Van's algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion and are used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, Van helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing.
From : http://www.ccnx.org/
Project CCNx exists to develop, promote, and evaluate a new approach to communication architecture we call content-centric networking. We seek to carry out this mission by creating and publishing open protocol specifications and an open source software reference implementation of those protocols. We provide support for a community of people interested in experimentation, research, and building applications with this technology, all contributing to its evolution.
Project CCNx is sponsored by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and is based upon the PARC Content-Centric Networking (CCN) architecture, which is the focus of a major, long-term research and development program.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Cloud Computing anagram is UPCOMING, OLD CUT
Cloud Computing anagram is UPCOMING, OLD CUT
Old Cut usually refers to Diamonds. This an old style of faceting a diamond in a round shape, hand worked, in a less than perfect fashion.
Sunday, May 06, 2012
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Fwd: [svlug-announce] SVLUG May 2nd Meeting: Panel of Speakers on Comparitive Operating Systems
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From: "mark weisler"
Date: Apr 29, 2012 9:47 AM
Subject: [svlug-announce] SVLUG May 2nd Meeting: Panel of Speakers on Comparitive Operating Systems
To: <svlug-announce@lists.svlug.org>
WHEN:
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
MAIN PRESENTATION
TOPIC: Comparing Current Open Source Unix Systems
Snacks and beverages at this meeting will be provided by ValueHost.
PRESENTED BY:
A Distinguished Panel of Speakers
TOPIC SUMMARY:
The panel will discuss the main current open source Unix systems including Linux, BSD, illumos, SmartOS, Plan 9,
and possibly others. Attendees will learn more about the energy and ideas behind these operating systems
as well as their future direction.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Our panel includes Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing representing Linux; Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc.
for FreeBSD; Bryan Cantrill will be talking about the successor to OpenSolaris, illumos, and Joyent's own distro, SmartOS;
Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for Plan 9; and possibly others.
Check out our flyer (340 KB PDF).
Rick Moen, long-time volunteer to SVLUG and veteran system administrator, will be our moderator.
LOCATION:
Symantec
VCAFE Facility
350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
Mountain View, CA 94043
Directions on how to get there are listed at:
http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.php
We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
webmaster at svlug.org
POST-MEETING GATHERING:
If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
restaurant/diner after the meeting: Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too,
939 West El Camino Real between Shoreline and Castro, Mountain View.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Instagram used Twitter to make Facebook pay more (rumor) | ZDNet
Some real numbers include, like $300m in cash.
http://m.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/instagram-used-twitter-to-make-facebook-pay-more-rumor/12190
Creators have to be able to see what they are doing.
Something that I hope one day can be in the Amorphous OS I wish to build.
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Guiding Principal
Ideas are very important to me. Bringing ideas to the world are one of the most important thing for people do.
and I think that great ideas in the form of great art, stories, inventions,
scientific theories these thing take on lives of their own which give meaning to our lives as people.
So, I think a lot about how people create ideas and how ideas grow and in particular, what sorts of tools create a healthy environment for ideas to grow.
I've spent a lot of time over the years making creative tools, using creative tools, thinking about this a lot and here's something I've come to believe,
creators need an immediate connection to what they create.
When you making something you need to see the effect of that immediately.
Creators need an immediate connection to what they are creating.
Creators have to be able to see what they are doing.
Friday, April 27, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
UPDATE: Nokia's US Re-entry Marred By Software Glitch - WSJ.com
Nokia is struggling big time. More losses, more layoffs, new product glitches, lower sales, it goes on.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
Friday, April 06, 2012
Re: Microsoft still handing out checks for Windows Phone apps - CSMonitor.com
Quoting JM:
> Interesting. I wonder how much is that everyone is tired of M$ market
> dominance?
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0406/Microsoft-still-handing-out-checks-for-Windows-Phone-apps
They've subsidised Windows preloads for decades, using co-op marketing
subsidies without which most PC models would lose money. That's a key
part of how they control the OEMs.
Microsoft still handing out checks for Windows Phone apps - CSMonitor.com
Interesting. I wonder how much is that everyone is tired of M$ market dominance?