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Friday, April 25, 2008 10:54 AM

A History of Filesystems

Ars Technica has a very interesting article about the history of filesystems . They cover all the major systems including FAT (MS-DOS), HFS (Mac), NTFS (NT), Ext2/3 (Linux), and many others like the Amiga. They also cover upcoming systems like ZFS. If
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:48 AM

An Explanation for the "Music Slows Down Networking" Issue

Last week there was a small storm on the internet when it was discovered that playing music on Windows Vista caused networking to slow down. Mind you, the slowdown had little practical effect for most users. It was most pronounced on gigabit ethernet
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:44 PM

Why Windows Can't See 4GB of Memory

Interesting post by Hilton Locke about why installing 4 GB of RAM on a 32-bit box doesn't actually give you 4 GB of RAM. Instead it gives you something like 3 GB of RAM. A 32-bit operating system should be able to access 4GB. Worse, a 64-bit operating
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Monday, December 18, 2006 3:28 PM

None of Us Is as Dumb as All of Us

That's the subtext on the "Meetings" inspirational poster from Despair.com . What it means to me is that you'll never get a great design out of a committee. When designing a piece of software, you want to get input from many people but how do you keep
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:42 PM

Understanding Networking

In my recent foray into podcasting , I ran across a gem. It is a 4-part series which explains most of the basics of networking in easy-to-understand terms. The series is part of what is called Security Now from the guys who do This Week In Tech . It covers
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Friday, April 15, 2005 1:26 PM

Unix vs Windows

Over the past few months I have had the opportunity to take an Operating Systems class at a leading University. During that time, I have been once again confronted with the whole Unix (*nix, Linux, Mac OSX) versus Windows argument. It became quite apparent
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:46 PM

Sony's Cell Microprocessor

Things have been too busy for me to write any more articles lately. To tide you over, here is something I found interesting: The Cell Processor is going to be the heart and soul of the next Playstation. It is a joint effort between Sony, Toshiba, and
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