Monthly Archives: April 2011

Surge

April 13, 2011 – 2:05 pm

Here’s a veteran systems administration move that not a lot of people know about. Though to be honest I haven’t really asked around to find out if people know about it or not; that’s not so much beside the point as it is back in the cheap seats on the point’s reunion tour, obviously. It’s [...]

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Assorted Nerdery

April 8, 2011 – 3:12 pm

First off, my colleague Donna wrote up a bit about the work we’ve been doing for the last few months. It’s been a pleasure to work with her, and I don’t really think of her as a crony but nobody tell her I said so. The second thing is a way to get all the [...]

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Where The Puck Is Going

April 7, 2011 – 3:11 pm

I alluded to some fictional future tech the other day, specifically ARM-powered Macbook Airs. My reasonings, let me show you them. With OSX 10.6, Apple announced Grand Central Dispatch, a framework for managing multithreaded programs across multiple cores, which they released, surprisingly, under the Apache open-source license. This gives programmers who take advantage of it [...]

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