Friday, March 18, 2011

Charle sheen

I'm winning too Charle.

Learning all about Linux schedulers...

I've recently been looking in to the process scheduler linux uses. I found a good write up here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_scheduler which includes a list by kernel version. The process scheduler is different from the IO scheduler and much harder the change.

Here is the linux scheduler history from the wikipedia:

Linux pre-2.6 Multilevel feedback queue
Linux 2.6-2.6.23 O(1) scheduler
Linux post-2.6.23 Completely Fair Scheduler

I've also read that RedHat 6 has seen the Completely Fair Scheduler re-written from the version used in RedHat 5. So even though it's the same name, it's different.

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Great source for Amiga news

AmigaWorld.net is a great place to learn about the Amiga.

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

The devil is in the details

I often use that phase.  I use it cause it is a good phase, simple but powerful.  In gaming life I recently found my character dropped to 0 hit points.  It was looking like a TPK (Total Party Kill) as I was the healer and being down makes it really hard to heal folks.  So I was looking at my character sheet looking for a way out and noticed that my armor gave me resist 5 psychic.  Turned out I took 3 points of psychic before the blow that took me to 0.  Our DM was extremely kind and allowed me to negate the damage from the psychic attack, which in turn allowed me to stay in the combat and heal folks.  Found the devlish detail that time!