Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28jan2008
Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers, very detailed post by Kragen Javier Sitaker.
A Principled Approach to Operating System Construction in Haskell, by Thomas Hallgren, Mark P. Jones, Rebekah Leslie, and Andrew Tolmach. “We describe a monadic interface to low-level hardware features that is a suitable basis for building operating systems in Haskell. The interface includes primitives for controlling memory management hardware, user-mode process execution, and low-level device I/O. The interface enforces memory safety in nearly all circumstances.”
Foolishness protected us from the world outside
They could never come between us but we knew they’d try
We remembered living as if there were a way to forever be younger than today
— Ben Harper, Younger Than Today
The Rise and Fall of the Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee, by Peter R. Samson. Find the quickest way to ride all the NY lines.
A nearly one page summary of design rules, by Jef Raskin.
Restoring From Time Machine, it worked well for James Duncan Davidson.
Mungi is an operating system designed to simplify distribution in cluster and grid systems. It does this with a single address space, shared by all nodes in the system. “In addition, we are trying to build Mungi as a very pure SASOS, that is all data (even the systems’) is in the single address space, and no other IPC mechanisms are supported by the OS.”
You can’t just say ‘I love you’
You have to live ‘I love you’
I will forgive every time but the last
— Ben Harper, Heart Of Matters
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits – to You, neat visualization.
Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof, by Jeffrey Kegler. That’s really to bad.
Nokia Acquires Trolltech, soon they’ll fire everyone!