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This discussion on file systems and this one on virtual memory are good starts.  See also the extent-like UFS paper and this.

Greenspan did put forward a proposal on how to reduce the growing inequality of incomes in the United States — admit more skilled immigrants into the country. The former Fed chief said that increasing the number of immigrants with sought-after

See our announcement and press reports .

FSMLabs is about to make a major change in direction – with a focus on “enterprise” computing. Some of what we plan to do is brand new – for example, we have new ways of speeding up “black-box” trading in

Jim Gray disappeared and I hope he will reappear unharmed. I met him once at a Supercomputing show when Cort Dougan and had just been snubbed by the AIX developers at the PowerPC booth who explained that the Linux PowerPC

There is the classic by Vahalia on UNIX implementation (new edition supposedly coming out ) which, is in my always humble opinion the only worthwhile modern OS textbook although the original edition of Shaw’s book is good too. It’s depressing

From Outlaws of the Marsh, translated by Sidney Shapiro The second [bandit] was Jiang Jing, from Tanzhou in Hunan. Originally he had studied for the imperial examinations. But when he failed to pass, he abandoned the pen and took up

A correspondent back from a war somewhere writes: More to the point, we had a large amount of Civvy laptops, and military systems together. There were major problems with dust, heat etc. From what I read of the Tilt bits

Spolsky recently writes Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will find familiar. And I do find it drearily familiar: it is ignorantly dismissive and embraces

Here are four quotes. Quotes 1, 3, and 4 all make sense together, if you are sufficiently cynical, but quote #2 is remarkably odd when taken with the others. 1For ten years now, free software developers have tried various methods