Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.
South Koreans launch cyber attack on US over schoolgirls’ deaths
ABC:
South Koreans launch cyber attack on US over schoolgirls’ deaths
“South Korean activists have attacked the White House computer server with electronic mail bombs to protest the acquittal of two US soldiers accused of killing two schoolgirls in a road accident… The activist says a second attack will be launched.”
Got paper? Beth Israel Deaconess copes with a massive computer crash
Boston Globe:
Got paper? Beth Israel Deaconess copes with a massive computer crash
Network World: Hospital sounds alarm after 3-day struggle
Slashdot: Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch
See also an earlier Boston Globe article:
Hospital computer crash a lesson to the industry
An Overview of the Boa Web Server
OS News: An Overview of the Boa Web Server:
Boa is a single-tasking HTTP server. Boa does not fork a copy of itself or spawn a thread to handle each incoming connection, but rather internally multiplexes the connections. Boa only forks for CGI programs, automatic directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping, each of which must be a separate process.
IBM to build fastest supercomputers
IBM to build fastest supercomputers. CNET Nov 19 2002 7:28AM ET [Moreover – Tech latest]
A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls
A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls. Wired News Nov 19 2002 7:32AM ET [Moreover – Tech latest]
Threads Considered Harmful
Threads Considered Harmful. A little known anecdote is that after Dijkstra’s famous paper in “Communications of the ACM” titled “Goto Considered Harmful”, and after the reactions, the ACM has adopted a policy of not allowing papers with “… Considered Harmful” in the title. It seems it decided such papers are inherently inciting. Thus, Goto has a position of sole infamy in the history of the ACM. Nonetheless, if ever a feature has been easy to compare to Goto in its destructiveness, threads would be that feature. Threads are, in a sense, “the goto that keeps on giving”: once you have spawned a thread, there is no way to know anymore which line is being executed in parallel with yours — at least not with a lot of careful locking that a moment’s neglectfulness proves useless. When deciding to spawn a thread, you are conciously giving up any and all protection your language gives you from making stupid mistakes. The rest of the paper will try to convince you that while there is a limited class of problems for which threads are a good solution, your problem is almost certainly not among them — no matter what your problem is. [kuro5hin.org]
See also: links to similarly-provocative
presentation by John Ousterhout
and
message by Tom Christiansen.
