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Monthly Archives May 2007

Second Life

На AskMefi сегодня попросили рассказать про то как плохо работает Second Life (это такая виртуальная среда/игра, фиг его знает). Самый последний пост:
I tried SL a year ago and didn’t get it, but I read about NOAA creating an island with all sorts of weather related exhibits the other day, so installed it again.
I logged on [...]

Posted 31 May 2007 † Dmitry § books § geek § randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

The art is gone.

I found a fascinating article by Rob Pike (of Unix/Plan9 fame), “System Software Research is Irrelevant“. He claims that there has been very little innovation in software (OS and computer languages specifically) since the 70s and that most of the stuff that we have today is simply a repackaged/copied/ripped off version from yesteryear. The following [...]

Posted 18 May 2007 † Dmitry § coding § geek § software development ‡ Comments (1) °

Crazy haxors: DNS Tunneling

So apparently some crazy german hax0rs came up with an idea to tunnel network data through DNS traffic. That’s intense. Basically, arbitrary data is stuffed into the haxored DNS packet. The DNS packet travels through the legitimate channels to a DNS server under your control where the haxored packet is dealt with accordingly. Brilliant. This [...]

Posted 14 May 2007 † Dmitry § geek ‡ Comments (0) °

New toy: Nokia N800?

Well, my birthday has come and gone and I haven’t bought myself anything nice. Choices abound but I just can’t make up my mind.. Lately, I’ve been thinking about getting another electronic bookreader.
I have a miniscule attention span - unless I’m coding or doing something similarly attention grabbing - so I tend to read 10 [...]

Posted 09 May 2007 † Dmitry § books § geek § randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

GNU make has a -j switch, to parallelize compilation. In other words, if you have two CPUs you should run “make -j 2″ so that two jobs are launched at the same time. I have a P4 2.8 with hyperthreading (I guess this box is quite old now). Hyperthreading shows up as two CPUs so [...]

Posted 01 May 2007 † Dmitry § coding § software development ‡ Comments (2) °