Today I learned about the vDSO on the Linux man page: vdso(7) — Linux manual page. It’s a facility for replacing syscalls with normal user-space function calls for things like getting the time of day for better performance.
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Timeline of human evolution
I found myself over here today: Timeline of human evolution. It’s striking how recent most of the things we take for normal are, and how different things used to be. I wonder what our future is?
ATmega fuse bytes
A quick search for arduino fuses programming turned up a bunch of results:
Gameboy Rabbit Hole
This evening I fell into a gameboy rabbit hole:
Intel Processors and Chipsets by Code Name
Today I discovered Intel Processors and Chipsets by Code Name while I was reading about Cascade Lake which was released back in 2019.
Linux web sites
Just some notes about web pages I was reading today.
- Linux Journal
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation DokuWiki site
- Linux Standard Base (LSB)
- The Linux Kernel Archives
- LANs/ethernet-faq
- Ethernet Books by Charles Spurgeon and Joann Zimmerman
- IP Sysctl
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (for Hello, World Linux kernel; there’s also some good stuff on YouTube)
Moving interrupts to threads in the Linux kernel
Found an old LWN article: Moving interrupts to threads.
SolidusCode
Today I discovered SolidusCode on YouTube. Here is some of their stuff:
Linux Journal articles
I had a read of a few Linux Journal articles today. Easy reads that give you a high level view of what’s available:
- File Sharing on Linux Using NFS and Samba
- Combining Configurable Button Widgets With Kwin’s Shortcuts to Transform Your KDE Experience
- How to Monitor Your System with Zabbix
- Navigating the Linux Textscape using Vim and Emacs
- Locating Leviathan Files in Linux
- How to Configure Postfix Mail Server on Debian