Posts by martyvis

Linus Torvalds's faulty memory (RAM, not wetware) slows kernel development

Re: I worry about the longevity of Emperor Penguins

Lennart certainly has a lot of the same similar personality attributes that Linus has - which people either love or hate. When he was in Sydney 2007 for linux.conf.au my son and I sat down with him for a lunchtime meat pie if I recall correctly.

AT&T: Sorry vendors, SDN is eating your lunch

Re: Yes and No

Marhinal Openstack network performance is why some vendor's approach to NFV is to use a carrier-grade solution. In HP's case, they are using a Wind River Linux kernel, as well as the Intel DPDK libraries. Shifts throughput from 2Gbps per VM to 20Gbps.

Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA

Re: Not a computer programmer

Wasn't a "computer" back then someone who "just" did the maths by hand, or maybe on a mechanical tabulator? I can certainly understand engineers that built bridges or the like needing a human "computer" to offload the preparation of load tables, etc. However, the author is pretty clear his Aunt translated formulas into instructions to run on the IBM, that could take input, probably process through multiple iterations, and generate some set of outputs. Sounds like programming to me. (My first program was to solve the General Quadratic Equation on a Canola programmable calculator - allowing you to rerun the same program but with different inputs. This was quite different from the preceding couple of years at school of just using calculator to "compute" maths answers).