2006-07-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

Individual, private offices

jol

I've just read Joel's latest blog, "Private Offices Redux". Basically his comments are always enlighting for those who work in this field, I guess. This is also worthy of taking a look at, especially for programmers. In this article, He wr…

SystemTap

lk

This is the simple and practical example, how nice systemtap is! My friend told me this, I always think he knows lots of things well(Thanks, TA-san). http://tabo.aurealsys.com/planet/gnome/tag/kernel/

BOOWY - B Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnF38_i5_AA&search=BOOWY I am probably behind the times. I returned from a one week business trip and had a chat with my wife after my son went to bed. We played with YouTube to find old J-POPs which were pop…

Final Event ~ Blackthorn Cafe

ols

It's the final day and we had a party at Blackthorn Cafe in the downtown of Ottawa. It was nice to talk with lots of people face to face, some of whom I just had known on-line and also some previously unknown to me. As time passed, they go…

Keynote

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=104

Problem Solving With Systemtap

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=17 I thought that kprobes is quite cool and imagined that systemtap was just a interface on the top of that. But it isn't. It provide the environment, including it's own scri…

Improving the Approach to Linux Performance Analysis

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=199 Unfortunately I missed it....this is also in the kprobes/SystemTAP family.

Dark Arts Revealed: How to read Kernel Oopses and More

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=16 It's highly suggestive. Some of them are what I've experienced, others are quite unfamilier. His talk is based on his practical daily work.

Practical Kernel Debugging with Kprobes

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=132 http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~boutcher/kprobes/ http://relayfs.sourceforge.net/examples.html#kleak_kprobes http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/

Debugging Linux kernel using Kdump

"Kdump" is one of the most attractive keywords in OLS 2006 for me, the others are "Kprobe" and "SystemTap" at the practical point. http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=159 http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/ http:…

Reverse Engineering USB Drivers for Compatibility

http://www.linuxmontreal.com/projects/usb/reveng/ It's fun. Finally he made ethereal can capture usb packets and analyze them. It's a sort of hacker's work literaly.

Why Userspace Sucks - (Or, 101 Really Dumb Things Your App Shouldn't Do)

First off, the title is really provocative;) and it gathered lots of hackers. For my implression, this is the most entertained session. Dave Jones is a really funny guy, he made the audience laugh several times and communicated with them v…

A Step by Step Introduction to Writing (or Undestanding) a Linux Filesystem

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=252 I don't think that I will implement the real filesystem by myself, but as for virtual filesystem, this tuturial can be useful for the starting point. http://pserver.samba…

kboot - A Boot Loader Based on Kexec

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=114 It is exactly a proof-of-concept as written in the abstruct and made me think about what the bootloader should be. http://kboot.sourceforge.net/

It's a small wonderful world!

Surprise!! Although I don't think I am anything special at all in this world, I've been spending most of my time here and I know some people who work like I do. So I met some old co-workers here!! One of them, whose nick name is..."minipan…

Cool guys!

Fortunately I had a dinner with some famous hackers here(thanks, Paul;), though my English was still bad. They seemed to really enjoy spending time here, at Ottawa. They talked and laughed much over various kind of kernel topics. They were…

In Ottawa!

Ottawa is a quite nice town, which has a little bit more degree of humidity. Comparing with Helsinki, though it is also nice, Helsinki is bit severer because of its climate. Anyway I will spend this week here under this good climate;)

Linux Block Device Architecture

http://www.geocities.com/ravikiran_uvs/articles/blkdevarch.html

kgdb

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.3/index.html#1769

Nokia 770 Tablet "OS 2006" arrives

It's not so bad to confirm some news though producing alway accompany ache to some extent;)http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9255811301.htmlhm..wait! At the previous news... Open source multimedia codec API supports x86, ARM http://www.li…

MacMini

http://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel

lock dependency correctness validator http://redhat.com/%7Emingo/lockdep-patches/