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wearehugh : LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds [LWN.net] - "They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync."
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5 month ago
wearehugh : Boxes and Glue: Integration: the filtering of source code revisions - "3,500 commits per month"
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nelson : Linux kernel root exploit - Ugly bug in the linux kernel
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15 month ago
nelson : Solaris 255 maxfiles - All Unices suck in some way. Solaris STDIO is limited to 255 files / process
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17 month ago
nelson : PowerTOP - Linux software to tell you what parts of your OS are using the most electricity
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17 month ago
nelson : ext3cow - versioning file system for Linux; cool!
Jeremy Zawodny : ext3cow filesystem - ext3cow filesystem: "Ext3cow is an open-source, versioning file system based on ext3. It provides a time-shifting interface that allows a real-time and continuous view of the past. This allows users to access their file system as it appeared at any
Rod Begbie : ext3cow - "Ext3cow is an open-source, versioning file system based on ext3. It provides a time-shifting interface that allows a real-time and continuous view of the past. This allows users to access their file system as it appeared at any point in time." [via] #
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18 month ago
nelson : New Linux scheduler - Ingo goes away for 60 hours, comes back with a new CPU allocation scheme
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Binary Firmware Inventory for the Debian Linux 2.6.17 kernel
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wearehugh : Enterprise Mac | InfoWorld | APPLE'S OS X X86 DARWIN KERNEL IS OPEN SOURCE | August 7, 2006 10:39 PM | By Tom Yager
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Linux 2.6.17 kernel: better WiFi, faster performance - now supports airport extreme
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Why Windows Vista will suck - Unfortunately, while Microsoft has worked hard on improving Vista's security, it's still pretty much the same old rickety kernel underneath it.
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Why Windows Vista Won't Suck - The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways. In Vista, it should be much more difficult for unauthorized programs (like Viruses and Trojans) to affect the core of the OS and secre
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38 month ago
kayodeok : The Old New Thing : When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers - "When I try to install any driver, I get a User Consent Dialog box which tells the user that this is an unsigned driver. Is it possible to author a driver installation package that by-passes this user consent dialog box?"
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Rootkits : Subverting the Windows Kernel - TOC: Understand the role of rootkits in remote command/control and software eavesdropping, Build kernel rootkits that can make processes, files, and directories invisible etc
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Linux Kernel Security, Again - It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released - "Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of the newest Linux kernel release, 2.6.11."
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