Coding Relic

There is no length field in the Ethernet header (*) . The MAC infers how long the frame is by noticing when the carrier goes away, and relie...

If you've looked at the spec sheets for 10 Gig server NICs, you may have noticed something interesting: the feature set supported when o...

Twitter client developers have come up with some awfully creative niches to target.

Don Knuth visited Google in March. He had no prepared notes, instead answering a series of questions from the audience. The video of the ta...

The IPv6 address is 128 bits, divided into a 64 bit network portion and a 64 bit host portion. The network portion is so large that organ...

Yesterday Blogger announced Dynamic Views , with several snappy new layout options. However a new option of far more import to Blogger users...

It is often stated that the productivity of individual programmers varies by an order of magnitude, and there is significant research suppor...

Priority Inversion When a source tree closes early for low priority bugs, resulting in developers working on those first and putting...

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Last ye...

Long, long ago I was an ASIC designer. I worked mostly on devices for ATM networks. Try not to judge too harshly, I was young and back then...

www.sun.com will be retired on June 1, 2011 . Some of the content will move to Oracle sites. The rest will be discarded. My recollection i...

Several decades ago Wall Street began to experiment with automated trading to respond to market moves more quickly than a human could react....

Yesterday Louis Gray posed a set of questions which seem like they should be easy to answer, but aren't. While reading it one of the q...

An IPv6 packet wants to walk into a bar, but can't cross the street to get there. An STP packet closes the bar so the bar next door c...

I wrote some thoughts for a colleague about home installation of a rack for computer equipment. Much of it is generally applicable for any...