An observation by Dijkstra software engineering Dijkstra on receiving the ACM Turing Award in 1972
What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each
other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be
improved considerably, because there is a crisis. But there are a few
boundary conditions which apparently have to be satisfied:delphij.net disclosed in smth.org
It appears that someone has posted some sort of (advertisment? :-P ) on smth.org, FreeBSD board before I can have the whole www.delphij.net project done…
阅读全文…Helped someone to upgrade FreeBSD installation
Someone (name not disclosed as this is potentially to generate trouble for him) has asked me to help upgrade his FreeBSD 4.3 deployment to a “workable” state.
阅读全文…Oppugn on limitations on forums
It appears that there are more and more limitations applied to forums because the election happening in Taiwan. Recently, one of my friend (Sarah Lau) has been deprived board management privilege at the NetEase Beijing Community because she has some saying which is considered to be harmful.
阅读全文…Different ideas on implementation of GD's distribution set
The “Distribution Set” is an important idea on GridDistribute’s vendor distribution. Here comes different ideas on implementing it, which will influence the search approach we will choose. Personally, I think we must have a final decision before next Wednesday.
阅读全文…FreeBSD: amd64 -O2 clean!!
David O’Brien has announced the -O2 clean for AMD64 platform. Meanwhile, it seems that alpha has a -O2 clean build now!
参与评论gcc 3.4 listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list
It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.
阅读全文…MT 3.0-alpha testing starts
Had signed a keep secret agreement with SixParts, I finally became a member in the alpha testing group and have access to the early access bits. I will test the new version on a private installation.
阅读全文…Why choosing a prime number is common practise in the size of a hash table?
It’s a common practise to choose a prime number as the hast table size. This article has analyzed Java’s implementation.
阅读全文…mail.FreeBSDChina.org removed from DUL at mail-abuse.org
Dong CHE has told me that mail from mail.freebsdchina.org has been bounced back because it was listed in rblplus.mail-abuse.org. From the query page I found mail.freebsdchina.org were listed in mail-abuse.org’s DUL by mistake (I believe so because the mail.freebsdchina.org block is not owned by dial up user).
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