Linux: VM Documentation and Book. Mel Gorman announced that his 2.4 VM documentation [story] has been made intoa book. Published under the GPL, the entire book will also be downloadable for free in 90 days. [LXer]
Excellent reading for those interested in memory management in Linux.
Goldberger vs. Pleas. Seymour Hersh's The Gray Zone was this week's blockbuster New Yorker article. Hardly anybody commented on Paul Goldberger's High-Tech Bibliophilia, a review of Seattle's new library. I wouldn't either, were it not for the contrast with an earlier review entitled Brutal Architecture and written by Keith Pleas, a software architect, author, and trainer who now works in the area of patterns and practices at Microsoft.
... [Jon's Radio]
Another great one by Jon Udel. This time it is about the physical architecture of the new Seattle public library. Maybe they were inspired by the Royal Bank of Canada building on Sparks Street in Ottawa or by the Across Building in Fukuoka. It is nice seeing quoted two reviews of the building looking at it from two different points of view and arriving at two opposite conclusions.
I bookmark and save a lot of page while surfing and the eternal problem is how do I find my stuff back. Based on this review, it seems this product could help me find my way back into these bookmarks/saved pages and also share my findings with others through RSS. Just too bad they don't have a Linux version...
So are all those mega cooler CPU deep freeze modules really needed?. I was finally forced to pay attention to the cooling of my main computer running Linux on Athlon 2400+. I was astonished at the range and sophistication of CPU and case cooling devices out there, and perplexed at the need for all this sophistication when I thought about the problem from the point of view of basic fluid mechanics. [O'Reilly Weblogs]
Good article about the importance of keeping electronics cool. It is a lesson I learned first hand during my graduate studies.
What is also great is it points out the very common situation of sales clerk not knowing their stuff nor the simple physics principles that go with them (or knowing very well the margin on each of the products they store and sell). They wanted to sell a cryogenic unit while a simple redirection of the air flow will give the same benefits but on the cheap. Oh well...
