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Posts from 2005
PCI express tutorial
If you are looking to learn more about PCI express, you will definitely benefit from looking at hardware secret's PCI Express tutorial! They provide a good introduction to PCI express theory, and provide numerous charts to show bandwidth and available configurations! Good stuff!
$ read more →Xen article
While surfing for material on virtualization, I came across the following Dell Xen whitepaper. The article provides an introduction to server virtualization concepts, and is a good read if you are looking for an introduction to virtualization and Xen.
$ read more →Modern day pirates
If you thought pirates were a thing of the past, think again. This article describes an attack from several Somalian boats on a cruise liner. The article mentions that the captain invoked the "emergency response system," which leads me to wonder if the captain used this response system as a reference when trying to run the attackers boats over? I would have enjoyed being part of those policy meetings…
$ read more →Writing PCI device drivers
While researching PCI and MOESI this week, I came across the Sun developer connection article Writing Solaris PCI Device Drivers for Sun SPARC Platforms. While I am only 25% done reading it, the material is top notch, and is helping me understand the counters printed by busstat(1m).
$ read more →Firefox HTTP header plugin
If you are periodically tasked with debugging web applications, you may have heard of the Firefox HTTP Live Headers plug-in. This plug-in is useful for displaying HTTP request and response headers, and allows regular expressions to be used to control which pages and content are retrieved. I can't figure out if I like this plug-in or the greasemonkey plug-in better. Choices Choices!
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