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"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-we-are-slower-than-other-oper/

about by technology and computers will benefit the business exclusively, with none of their benefits being shared with the employee. If productivity doubles, profit doubles, workl
I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous...

RFC 8700: Fifty Years of RFCs

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8700.html

community. All of the computers have changed, as have all of the transmission lines, but the RFCs march on. Maybe I'll write a few words for RFC 10,000. ¶ Quite obviously, the cir

Kevin Boone: More like Windows every day

https://kevinboone.me/morelikewindows.html

on desktop and laptop computers in the '90s, long before it became a relatively mainstream thing to do. My first Linux distribution took the form of a shoe-box-sized stack of flop
The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine

What Unix Gets Right

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s05.html

a heterogeneous mix of computers, vendors, and special-purpose hardware. It is the only operating system that can scale from embedded chips and handhelds, up through desktop machi

YAAC - Yet Another APRS Client

http://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html

Pi single-board computers). Mac OS X (x86 and ARM versions). FreeBSD (tested on 9.0). YAAC may also theoretically work on Solaris with SPARC processors, but has not been tested on
Yet Another APRS Client, software for accessing the Automatic Packet Reporting System

Statistics The Market ICI World Commercial Real Estate Network

http://www.iciworld.com/statisti.htm

laptops, notebooks, computers, TV Internet and on and on. ICIWorld databases deliver your content in the fastest and most economical way in the world today. Since basically July o

userland: a book about the command line for humans

https://p1k3.com/userland-book/

but in the meanwhile computers have become relatively cheap and free software is abundant. If you’re reading this on the web, you can probably get access to a shell. Some op

Michael Tsai - Blog

https://mjtsai.com/blog/

reasons I obsessed over computers in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Though I spent more of my time in QuarkXPress than PageMaker, I can trace my early creative and busi

Free as in Freedom: Chapter 1

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

knew plenty about computers, he was not an expert in translating binary files. As a hacker, however, he had other resources at his disposal. The notion of information sharing was

Project 2038 FAQ

http://maul.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html

in 2038 due to the way computers store and process time data. According to William Porquet's writings, the issue arises from the fact that many computer systems use a 32-bit repre

I Don't Care for Gnome - woltman.com

https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/

Perspective I have used computers for a very long time: I've used Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, all the >NT4 Windows, Apple's System 7, MacOS starting on 10.2 I think, and Linuxe
An exploration of Gnome's many failings and how to fix it.

The Power of Centralization

https://secushare.org/centralization

than that, almost all computers share the problem of "downstream abuse", so the only ultimate way to protect something from your friends is to not share it online. Top


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