Thermal Noise

UPDATE: To get compiz fusion for Solaris go here http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/

How is this for a kickass cool desktop ? Presenting to you my Solaris Express Desktop running Compiz …

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Computing is interesting because it is fraught with problems. The argument that those problems are not interesting because they are man-made, is fallacious because problems of living and day-to-day life aren’t created by god either and they are usually more pointless. But that is besides the subject, which is actually something that sounds mundane but is frighteningly complicated to implement: “How to validate an Email Address ?”

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I recently came across an interesting hack in the linux kernel called “kexec”. exec() loads a userland program by overwriting the address space of the process calling the syscall. kexec is supposed to do the same with the kernel. Replace the running copy of a kernel with a newly specificed kernel.

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