The Great Microkernel Debate
Its been some years since the great debate between Linus Torvalds (and friends) vs Andy Tanenbaum on usenet. I’ve only linked the debate itself with an encyclopedic reference, the links to the debaters more or less point to individuals as they were when the great debate happened. If you are a sci-fi fan, you’ll realize [...]
My list for 2009
I don’t see the point of having a single new year ‘resolution’. I’d rather list a bunch of stuff that I’d like to accomplish both professionally and personally .. so here’s my list broken down as such: Professional: C++ is here to stay, its not going to go away, I may as well get used [...]
Web pages as graphs
Have you ever wanted to get a great, easy to read visual of any HTML document? This is the tool for you. The applet will analyze the semantics of any HTML/XHTML document and ‘come to life’ as it represents the document’s structure as a graph. The graph starts out as a star burst and quickly [...]
Time for more hobbies
For the longest time, my favorite hobby has been to find some interesting program and pick it apart, or write one of my own. I’m probably one of the few GNU/Linux users who have actually obtained the source code for the core utilities and modified them to suit my needs. I’ve also hacked my kernel [...]
Simple bash toupper() and tolower() functions
Many people aren’t aware of several built in macros available in the ‘tr’ program. The program, ‘tr’ stands for “translate or replace” and is available on any standard GNU/Linux distribution. Using this simple utility, I wrote some simple shell functions to convert lower (or mixed) case strings to uppercase, or uppercase (or mixed) strings to [...]
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