CS 372 Operating Systems Assorted Links
Description
I will put links here to subjects that we talk about in class.
Here (PDF) is the
story about the Therac-25, a cautionary tale of software development (This
is in HTML)
Lawrence Lessig has some interesting things to say about copyright law
here.
Just when you thought you were part of a society that knew it all, here
are 13 things that don't
make sense. Maybe they will to one of you.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that the professional-level IT
workforce will grow at more than twice
the rate of the overall workforce between 2004 and 2014, creating 1 in 19 new
jobs. In addition, many of these jobs will pay well.
Here is a story about thread scheduling in Windows Vista. It looks
like playing audio drops network throughput.
Intel has a
release of a C/C++ compiler that supports transactions. It contains a
flash animation of transactional memory that you might find instructive or at
least amusing.
A
story about an evil google.
This
kind of thing really bothers me. What about you?
Some insight into the operation of corporate America.