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Authororiginal ↗
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Why you need a mutex to protect an intoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2016

2015

Cautionary tale about using threads and fork()original ↗
25 May 2015

2013

Bloom filtersoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2013

2012

printf() vs stream IO in C++original ↗
14 Aug 2012
gcc macro language extensionsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2012

2011

UML cheatsheetoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2011
Models for multithreaded applicationsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2011

2010

pthread_exit() in C++original ↗
9 Oct 2010
Call a constructor or allocate an object in-placeoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2010
How less processes its inputoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2010
What is direct I/O anyway?original ↗
15 Feb 2010
Direct IO in Pythonoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2010

2009

Rethinking linked list insertionoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2009
MSI-X – the right way to spread interrupt loadoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2009
Why interrupt affinity with multiple cores is not such a good thingoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2009
C/C++ reference counting with atomic variables and gccoriginal ↗
27 May 2009
pthread mutex vs pthread spinlockoriginal ↗
17 May 2009
A new kind of virtualizationoriginal ↗
6 May 2009
Python’s optparse for human beingsoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2009
Signal handling in Linuxoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2009
Backup and restore your Linux installationoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2009
Creating new application on top of SSHoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2009
SSH crash courseoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2009
How to handle SIGSEGV, but also generate a core dumporiginal ↗
8 Feb 2009

2008

Multithreaded simple data type access and atomic variablesoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2008
pthread spinlocksoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2008
Do you need a mutex to protect an int?original ↗
23 Oct 2008
How inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism work in C++original ↗
18 Sept 2008
32bit vs 64bit computers, the QAoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2008
Swap vs. no swaporiginal ↗
21 Aug 2008
Few problems that you may encounter when booting Linuxoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2008
sed – the missing manualoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2008
Aligned vs. unaligned memory accessoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2008
Opening and modifying the initrdoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2008
tcpdump for Dummiesoriginal ↗
18 May 2008
SMP affinity and proper interrupt handling in Linuxoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2008
How to obtain a unique thread identifier on Linuxoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2008
How debugger worksoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2008

2007

Useful Linux Networking Commandsoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2007