December 2008
6 posts
Linux Kernel Internals from Process Birth to Death →
The creation and management of user-space processes in Linux have many principles in common with UNIX but also include several unique optimizations specific to Linux. Here, review the life cycle of…
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Python 3 primer, Part 1: What's new →
Python 3 is the latest version of Guido van Rossum’s powerful general-purpose programming language. It breaks backwards compatibility with the 2.x line but has cleaned up some syntax issues. This…
Raphael Pinson: Follow-up on screen profiles →
After reading Justin’s proposal on screen profiles and Nicolas’ answer on automatic screen launch, I’ve worked a bit on a profile for my company. I added a few things to it:
“hostname -f”…
Distributed computing with Linux and Hadoop →
Every day people rely on search engines to find specific content in the many terabytes of data that exist on the Internet, but have you ever wondered how this search is actually performed? One…
Everything you always wanted to know about Google… →
…But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of…