ISA interrupt sharing
ISA interrupt sharing Arbitrary ISA boards cannot share interrupt lines safely (though several ISA devices integrated onto a single board can). There are several reasons for this. First of all, the...
View ArticleDebian archive GPG keys
You might notice in new versions of apt: W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY...
View ArticleAutomatic security updates with Debian
The following /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg settings are useful when you have scripted apt-get to do automatic security updates: # Choose the default action regarding conffiles force-confdef # If no default, keep...
View ArticleThe Schwag on Google Video/YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA7RjTo6nw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNv45lrKZuc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ueh9RNxSuM
View ArticlePC stability and performance issues
These issues are related to: – CPU bugs – Motherboard electrical bugs – AGP/PCI Chipset hardware bugs – Video hardware bugs – Device driver bugs...
View ArticleOpenGL profiling
– Find software paths by comparing performance of some commands and extensions to the equivalent done through the software driver. Allow the application to query whether a software path will be used or...
View ArticlePCI logic analyzer
This would be cool: http://www.fpga4fun.com/PCI3.html Debug misbehaving PCI bridges and unfriendly cards Aid in reverse engineering of proprietary programming interfaces
View ArticleOpenAFS and NAT
The OpenAFS 1.4.2 client should be fairly NAT friendly. AFS only has UDP callback traffic unless you are using something experimental like Rx/TCP. Two ways to accomplish this: 1) Set UDP timeouts to a...
View ArticleA resilient filesystem
– Stable filesystem bookkeeping information should be replicated throughout the disk (such as ext’s backup superblocks). – File UUID is updated for each file chunk whenever a new block is written. –...
View ArticleHow to do an end run around the GPL with retail software
1. Include a GPL-based program in your retail software version 1.0. 2. 3 months after 1.0 is released, release version 1.1 and cease distributing 1.0. 3. Delete the sources to 1.0. 4. Repeat ad...
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