Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2012

2012-05-21:	More on CISC (well, x86) versus RISC
2012-05-15:	Some stuff on 'time since boot' timestamps
2012-05-13:	A basic step in measuring and improving network performance
2012-04-25:	Models of providing computing access in a university department
2012-04-24:	Universities and their non-employees
2012-04-15:	My view on why CISC (well, x86) won over RISC in the end
2012-04-12:	Tanenbaum was wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate Hypervisors are not microkernels
2012-03-26:	Microkernels are quite attractive to academic computer science researchers
2012-03-24:	Garbage collection and modern virtual memory systems
2012-03-19:	A modest suggestion: increase your text size
2012-03-18:	The standard trajectory of a field
2012-02-29:	SSDs and understanding your bottlenecks The two sorts of display resolution improvements
2012-02-13:	The problem with long-term production support of things
2012-02-06:	The advantage of HDMI for dual displays
2012-02-05:	What five years of PC technology changed for me
2012-02-03:	Understanding a subtle Twitter feature
2012-01-10:	An insight on the purpose of comments: volume control
2012-01-07:	Why you might want multiple keys for disk encryption
2012-01-05:	Disk encryption, backups, and your threat model
2012-01-03:	How to lose your data with full disk encryption the easy way The drawback of full disk encryption

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