CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2009

2009

December

2009-12-31

• Problems with Hash Tables;

2009-12-19

• Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones;

2009-12-18

• Recursive Make Considered Harmful;

• Inside the Linux 2.6 Completely Fair Scheduler;

2009-12-15

• Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea;

2009-12-14

• First look at FreeBSD 8.0;

2009-12-12

• A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux;

2009-12-06

• GoboLinux: An Interview with Lucas Villa Real;

2009-12-02

• The Antidesktop;

November

2009-11-25

• S.F. cops may have gone too far in seizing DJ gear at underground parties;

2009-11-24

• Just Say No To Proprietary Cryptographic Algorithms;

2009-11-20

• How to protect yourself from RAID-related Unrecoverable Read Errors (UREs);

• Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009;

October

2009-10-27

• bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce;

2009-10-24

• Europe backs down on piracy plans;

2009-10-18

• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES);

September

2009-09-23

• File Deletion;

2009-09-18

• Reduce Linux power consumption, Part 1: The CPUfreq subsystem;

August

2009-08-23

• Tech giants unite against Google;

2009-08-22

• A fresh look at OOP with concurrent objects;

• scripting daemons through pipes; e.g.: newsreader in sh? (yes!);

• OO Scheme;

2009-08-21

• 10 ways to stay sane in your cubicle;

2009-08-20

• Lisping at JPL;

• Why? Language Archaeology... and Metaprogramming;

2009-08-19

• CRUD is bad for REST;

• I finally get REST. Wow.;

• Caring About Programming Languages;

• Microsoft is Dead;

2009-08-16

• Building in Surveillance;

• Privacy Salience and Social Networking Sites;

• Laptop Security while Crossing Borders;

• Self-Enforcing Protocols;

• When Security Gets in the Way;

• Secure Passwords Keep You Safer;

2009-08-15

• You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again;

2009-08-06

• Choosing the right Linux File System Layout using a Top-Bottom Process;

2009-08-04

• A smarter CLI -- Innovation by Simplicity;

2009-08-03

• Joel on Software -- Exceptions;

• Exceptions vs. status returns;

• Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security;

• Exceptional Situations In Lisp;

2009-08-02

• Exceptional Java;

• The Trouble with Checked Exceptions;

• Does Java need Checked Exceptions?;

• Java's checked exceptions were a mistake (and here's what I would like to do about it);

• How Exceptions Came to be Classes;

July

2009-07-31

• Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux;

2009-07-26

• Linux Boot Scripts;

2009-07-04

• The Diceware Passphrase Home Page;

• The Diceware Passphrase FAQ;

• KeyLength;

June

2009-06-23

• Erlang Doesn’t Fit The JVM;

2009-06-17

• Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming";

2009-06-16

• Schneier on Security -- Cloud Computing;

• Dear Mr. Schneier, If Cloud Is Nothing New, Why Are You Talking So Much About It?;

May

2009-05-31

• The speed, size and dependability of programming languages;

2009-05-29

• Linux: Lean, clean, and green;

April

2009-04-25

• The No. 1 Reason to Move to Open Source is to IMPROVE Security;

2009-04-20

• Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2';

2009-04-18

• Recreating the button;

• Court jails Pirate Bay founders;

2009-04-10

• ~tuomov/b/ -- Defection? Part 2: Linux;

• ~tuomov/b/ -- Unbelievable crap!;

2009-04-07

• Moldova's Twitter Revolution;

• Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter;

• Transaction strategies: Models and strategies overview;

2009-04-06

• Google is just an amoral menace;

2009-04-01

• The Open Company -- Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project;

March

2009-03-28

• 7 Myths of Service-Oriented Architecture;

• SOA is Dead; Long Live Services;

2009-03-25

• Tim Bray on the Future of the Web;

2009-03-21

• The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java;

2009-03-14

• 10 tech mistakes small businesses make;

2009-03-08

• Cloud computing versus grid computing;

2009-03-03

• Jaunty Jackalope: Where's the Beef? (PC World);

February

2009-02-26

• Write A Template Compiler For Erlang;

2009-02-24

• How not to sell Linux products;

2009-02-20

• Anatomy of ext4;

2009-02-15

• Is the Relational Database Doomed?;

• Probability lessons may teach children how to weigh life’s odds and be winners;

• Interview with an Adware Author;

• It’s Me, and Here’s My Proof: Why Identity and Authentication Must Remain Distinct;

January

2009-01-03

• Understanding Syntactic Macros;

2009-01-19

• Set up virtual machines with extra caution;

2009-01-16

• RESTful Web services: The basics;

2009-01-11

• "AXXo You Are a God" -- The secrets of BitTorrent's top movie pirate;