Friday, February 21, 2003

Understanding Moore's Law. S. Blocher writes "Ars Technica has a great article up, 'Understanding Moore’s Law', that I think most geeks should read. The misrepresentation of Moore’s Law ... [Slashdot] 5:31:47 PM

PC in a toaster [jwz] 5:11:46 PM

stay on target... stay on target... [jwz] 52525, not bad... Go directly to the game. 5:11:35 PM

US to resume North Korea aid. Secretary of State Colin Powell indicates that the US will restart food aid to North Korea, as he embarks on a tour of South East Asia. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 5:01:34 PM

stevolution [jwz] Project Steve is list of scientists that state that "Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry." 10:39:37 AM

Kevin Werbach explains what the FCC was thinking. [Scripting News] 10:31:57 AM

Hungry Malawi sells grain. Malawi's Government is to sell of 20% of its grain reserves despite being in the grip of a major food crisis. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 10:28:15 AM

Dogfooding and Showstoppers. Figuring out what has happened in situations like this is both an art and a science. Since the server farm is located somewhere other than Redmond, you have to investigate everything remotely. All you have to figure out what went wrong are the perfmon logs and a raw memory process dump before it terminated (since these production servers had no debuggers attached). Analyzing them is a bit like a TV episode of CSI -- involving forensic science (what perfmon counter showed what and when) and a bit of detective work (trying to figure out what happened over the course of a day's run -- in particular in the last few minutes and seconds before things started going bad). [ScottGu's blog] 9:52:44 AM