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Stairways Software: History

http://www.stairways.com/main/history

grew up programming computers and started writing Macintosh software while working for Curtin University in the early 1990s after finishing a Computer Science and Mathematics degr

"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...

Participation in the information age

https://gotze.dk/phd/it.html

Democracy aided by computers, and in particular, computer networks (e.g., the internet) is the subject of many current debates and discussions locally and globally. There are also

Electronic Music and the NeXTcube - Running MAX on the IRCAM Musical Workstation - 0110.be

https://0110.be/posts/Electronic_Music_and_the_NeXTcube_-_Running_MAX_on_the_IRCAM_Musical_Workstation

of NeXT’s line of computers. Due to its high price, the NeXTcube was not a commercial success. It mainly ended up at companies or in the hands of researchers. Two of those researc
Electronic Music and the NeXTcube - Running MAX on the IRCAM Musical Workstation

Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks

https://vez.mrsk.me/linux-hardening

As the clocks on most computers have a tendency to drift over time, it's a good idea to run some kind of NTP client. There are a variety of options available. The base Arch instal
A collection of kernel and userland settings one can change to improve the security and usability of a Linux system. Targeted at Arch, but should work for other distros too.

Distributed Computing

http://distributedcomputing.info/

of the problem to many computers to solve and then combining the solutions for the parts into a solution for the problem. Recent distributed computing projects have been designed
Distributed computing projects on the Internet: current and upcoming project news, links and information.

Butler W. Lampson

http://bwl-website.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/

Toolkit Interconnecting Computers Understanding Network Connections Principles for Computer System Design (my Turing lecture) Formal Methods for Design: How To Understand Your Sys

Chrome is Bad

https://chromeisbad.com/

happening on people's computers. I hope you can track it down and give us an honest postmortem. Update 12/15/2020: Collected anecdotes: https://twitter.com/lorenb/timelines/133889
Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process),

Exploring the Internet!

https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/

(- they invented it) Computers and Internet Programming Languages: Perl - Yahoo's index Programming: Perl Scripts - yet another Yahoo index Free hit counter and statistics from Ne

The Published Data of Robert Munafo at MROB

http://www.mrob.com/

This QR does not loop. Computers, Videogames, etc. Items in this section are brand-specific, dated, and/or purely recreational. Apple II Colors : An exact calculation of the RGB v
The Published Data of Robert Munafo -- Explore topics from large numbers to sociology at mrob.com

Server Operating Systems Technical Comparison

http://www.osdata.com/

Text Book Programming computers using any programming language free book on UNIX/Linux System Administration Teach Yourself UNIX/Linux System Administration and Shell Programming
A technical answer to the question: how does Rhapsody stack up as a server operating system?

Jeff Duntemann's ContraPositive Diary

http://www.duntemann.com/october2008.htm

1980, I had discovered computers in a big way, and my trusty Kenwood mostly gathered dust. And of course, when the next peak rolled around in 1990, I was working myself to exhaust


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