Come back after a trip to see Marc Andreessen’s team of twitter posters complaining wryly about how government is so gosh durn big and citing experts like Milton Friedman. A difficulty of modern economics: I have yet to talk to
The Enterprise Profile for PTP and TimeKeeper
One of the most interesting things we saw in the proposed IEEE 1588 enterprise profile was a bold suggestion on fault tolerance that looked familiar. Here’s FSMLabs press release from September 2011 TimeKeeper 5.0 offers the ability to monitor multiple
What does the UNIX file system do?
Unix, Linux, Windows and other operating systems and the world wide web all support file systems with the familiar path file names like “/home/snowden/travel/boardingpass.pdf” or “/system/passwords/secret/dontread.txt” although sometimes with different separator characters between the individual “flat” file names. For example,
Primitive recursion over words
From: @book{Peter:1982:RFC:539249, author = {Peter, Roezsa}, title = {Recursive Functions in Computer Theory}, year = {1982}, isbn = {0470271957}, publisher = {Halsted Press}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, }
Smart and dumb clients and the “so-called” Best Master Clock Algorithm in PTP IEEE 1588
The Best Master Clock (BMC) algorithm is a key part and key weakness of the PTP standard. The proposed enterprise profile for PTP calls it “the so-called ‘best master clock’” algorithm because it doesn’t actually pick the best master clock
Update of UNIX filesystem paper
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German banking
Germany has a complex banking system that provides a lot of support for SME manufacturing. The main strength of German economy is the so-called ‘Mittelstand’, a dense fabric of SMEs that manage to export high-quality manufactured products. In France, policymakers
Right to private jet ski use while collecting disability
New York authorities said the warrants led to the indictments of firefighters, police officers, and civil servants on disability fraud charges. The Facebook data, which included user photos and videos, showed employees who claimed they were disabled performing a variety
The OPM break-in was super-horrific
Hackers likely stole EVERY SINGLE background investigation form completed by OPM since 2000. Every single one. — Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) July 9, 2015
Ikea and RedHat
This is state of the art for systems software now – which is not all that impressive. Glantz explained that Ikea has more than 3,500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers deployed in Sweden and around the world. With Shellshock, every