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Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part II. Desirable Improvements

posted April 24, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)”
Another Quote:	“last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.”
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Experience with development server 7x cheaper than Linode/DO

posted January 30, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Preamble As I wrote a few weeks ago, I am currently developing an open-souce ithare::obf library. And apparently, to make sure it works more or less consistently, a Damn Lot(tm) of randomized testing (and preferably under different compilers) is necessary. As a result, last week I found myself in a search for a cheap Linux box […]

Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part III. Results and Conclusions

posted November 9, 2017 by "Soldering Iron" Hare

Quote:	“There is no such thing as ‘the best router’; strictly speaking – you need to test each specific pair of (router,adapter) to get anywhere-reliable results.”
Another Quote:	“with that limited data we have now, I’d rather stay away from Realtek-based adapters.”
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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part II. Adapters

posted November 8, 2017 by "Soldering Iron" Hare

Quote:	“We’re continuing our series of posts on real-world testing of “how different Wi-Fi adapters work with different Wi-Fi routers”
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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part I. Routers.

posted November 7, 2017 by "Soldering Iron" Hare

Quote:	“Whatever throughput numbers are promised by router manufacturers, in real world should be divided by the factor of 2.5x-5x”
Another Quote:	“Each router was tested with each of the cards/adapters, which gives us 42 tests on 2.4GHz band and 42 tests on 5GHz”
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Journaled Flash Storage – Emulating EEPROM over Flash, ACID Transactions, and More. Part III – JoFS Itself

posted October 12, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	JoFS provides faithful EEPROM emulation and ACID-compliant Flash-based storage
Quote:	“The first working version of JoFS is expected approximately by the end of 2015”
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Journaled Flash Storage – Emulating EEPROM over Flash, ACID Transactions, and More. Part II – Existing Implementations by Atmel, SiLabs, TI, STM, and Microchip

posted October 5, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Whenever a developer is using something named ‘X Emulation over Y’, she may expect that a faithful emulation exhibits the same properties as original (non-emulated) X.”
Another Quote:	“Unfortunately, as discussed in detail above, none of five implementations is a really faithful EEPROM emulation.”
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