Monthly Archives: November 2011
GDB: Logging Function Parameters, Part 1
Sometimes an application's release version crashes in particular scenarios, but the debug version does not -- and to make matters worse, the call-trace gets...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 6
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language -- but only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its...
Device Drivers, Part 12: USB Drivers in Linux Continued
The 12th part of the series on Linux device drivers takes you further along the path to writing your first USB driver in Linux...
Agile Software Development Made Faster, More Secure
While the value proposition that open source offers to agile software development teams is tremendous, the enterprises adopting these tools may still inadvertently get...
nexenta: Bringing Enterprise Storage to the Open Source World
This article discusses some of the challenges and technologies related to data storage, and introduces the Nexenta Core Platform, which is an OS based...
Storage Management using Openfiler, Part 4
In the previous article in the series on Openfiler, we discussed configuring RAID. Here, we will proceed with the installation and configuration of iSCSI....
The Socket API, Part 4: Datagrams
Let's try to develop server clients using UDP, the protocol behind some important services like DNS, NFS, etc.
UDP, the User Datagram Protocol, is a...
Cyber Attacks Explained: DoS and DDoS
With this article, we begin a new series on the major kinds of cyber attacks that weaken the IT security infrastructure within organisations. With...
Joy of Programming: The Legacy of C
Dennis Ritchie died on the 8th of October 2011, at the age of 70. His lasting contributions to computing include creating the C language,...
Exploring Software: The New-Look Plone 4
If this is the first time you are hearing of Plone, should you use it? If so, how would you start and get a...
