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anderson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:05:42 +0000

The game is simple:

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Results for me:

“When a high vacuum had been reached, first the connecting tube, and then the bulbs, were sealed of; they are therefore of the same degree of exhaustion.”
- Nikola Tesla: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency.

Nikola Tesla is the most fascinating and probably one of the most forgotten inventors/physicists to walk the Earth. If you don’t know who he is, turn off your computer, your lights, etc, and throw away any fluorescent bulbs, and while you are at it, turn off your radio.

Sicko

anderson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:49:42 +0000

I just finished watching the movie ‘Sicko’. Makes me sad to see the United States in is such a poor position health care wise. Why does Cuba have a better health care system than USA? That makes no sense, and it pisses me off. Why are the healthcare companies destroying our nation? Is it worth the money? I guess it must be.

Now Hiring…

anderson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:35:10 +0000

The startup I work for is looking for a few good software people. Both locations are in Austin, TX (USA).Here’s our wish-list of experience for the positions:

Embedded

A BSCS degree and 5+ years of experience writing C language

Experience with x86 and MIPS assembly language

Experience with low level drivers for networking devices as Ethernet MAC/Phy and switches

Experience with Compact flashes programming algorithms

Experience with Manufacturing Diagnostics drivers

Experience with HDD/SSD low level drivers

Experience with OS like Linux

Experience with RTOS like VxWorks

Experience on multithread management and IPC

A BSCS degree and 5+ years of experience writing C language

Experience with x86 and MIPS assembly language

Experience with OS Linux environment

Experience with RTOS like VxWorks

Experience with IP/TCP stack like FreeBSD

Experience with Routing Protocols

Experience with Device Driver Programming

Experience with Routers, Switches, Proxies and Firewalls

Experience with Storage Protocols as NFS and CIFS and File Systems

Experience on storage related drivers in a Linux environment No relocation available..Contact me directly if interested.

PUFFS for FreeBSD?

anderson — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:18:29 +0000

I’ve been considering porting PUFFS (NetBSD’s kernel implementation of FUSE) along with reFUSE (the library that goes along with PUFFS) to FreeBSD.Â I wonder what the interest is in this?

FreeBSD Cross Reference Online

anderson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:38:54 +0000

After being a heavy user of Robert Watson’s FreeBSD cross reference site (here) which indexes many different OS kernels, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Darwin, OpenSolaris, and more. It’s quite impressive, however, I often found the need to see the entire OS, and I’m mostly interested in the BSD’s. I ended up building a local version on my laptop, so I could take it with me wherever I went (it’s handy when you are on a plane). After using it quite a bit, I realized that I also wanted a version available to me on the web, that I can also use as a reference for others. So, I built it, and made it available here:

FreeBSD Operating System Cross Reference

Feel free to use it as much as you like.

In a future entry, I may show the steps and changes I made to get it all running, if there’s enough interest.

Utility File Systems

anderson — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:04:45 +0000

What’s next? We all know about devfs and similar file systems, and many of us use unionfs or nullfs. However - what other utility file systems would be useful, that we haven’t built yet? I think tools like FUSE have given a lot of people some very creative ways of thinking about file systems, but how can that be extended into other areas?