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Tag Archives: Linux
Linux x86_64 and Javascript
The competition between browsers in the area of Javascript performance has led to some pretty dramatic performance increases in the last couple of years. A lot of this has been accomplished through Javascript just in time (JIT) compilers. What JITs … Continue reading
Linux SFQ experimentation
I’ve been doing some more experimentation with Linux QoS configurations using my ping-exp utility. Today I noticed that whenever I add a SFQ to the configuration there are large latency spikes. After a bit of digging it appears that these … Continue reading
ping-exp: Ping experiment utility
Recently I’ve been playing with Linux’s QoS features in order to make my home Internet service a little better. Since I’m primarily interested in latency I used ping to benchmark the various configurations. This works reasonably well but it quickly … Continue reading
Linux/Fedora PPPoE problems and solutions
This weekend I’ve been doing some network experimentation on my little DSL connection. I’ve learned a couple of things the hard way so I figured a quick blog post is in order in the hopes that it will save someone … Continue reading
Magazine titles and operating systems
I little while ago I was standing in front of the computer magazine section at my local Chapters when I noticed something interesting. There were three magazines with “Windows” in the title, three with “Mac” in the title, and four … Continue reading
End-to-end in standards and software
Two things. Both relate to Microsoft but that is just by coincidence. The first Apparently IE8 will allow the HTML author to specify the name and version number of the browser that the page was designed for. For example, the … Continue reading
scponly, rsync and Fedora
A few years ago I wrote about the backup script that I use to do daily and weekly backups of my computers. Since this script must run unattended it makes use of a passphrase-less SSH key. The SSH key in … Continue reading
Downloading source RPMs in Fedora
The main yum executable doesn’t have an option for downloading source RPMs. Fortunately, this task is made easy by yumdownloader which can be found in the yum-utils package. yum install yum-utils yumdownloader –source scponly This will leave a copy of … Continue reading
Ontario Linux Fest
This past Saturday I spent the day at the Ontario Linux Fest which was held at the Toronto Congress Centre. Despite this being the inaugural year for the event it was very well organized and I think, well attended. The … Continue reading
Torvalds interview
Q&A: Torvalds on Linux, Microsoft, software’s future CW: Lots of researchers made millions with new computer technologies, but you preferred to keep developing Linux. Don’t you feel you missed the chance of a lifetime by not creating a proprietary Linux? … Continue reading