| 2007/11/30-12/6 [Computer/SW/Compilers, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:48719 Activity:moderate | 11/29 From the CSUA minutes:
- Next Gen Console
-- If we have $1800 in our accounts, should we buy a console:
4 votes passes.
-- Console voting: 2 votes each, neither passes
* 360 = 600, more games
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| 2007/11/27-30 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:48701 Activity:high | 11/27 I'm using select to do a nonblocking check to see if a single socket
has anything to read off it. Problem is, I can have up to 12228
file descriptors, and Linux fd_set only supports up to 4096. Any idea
what I can do about this? (Or a better solution?) -jrleek
\- 1. who are you
2. i am busy this week and you didnt mention language
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| 2007/11/13-21 [Computer/Networking] UID:48628 Activity:low | 11/13 If I have a application on machine foo sending data really fast to
an application on machine bar via TCP, and the bar applications job
is write that to disk as fast as possible, what happens if the
network stream is faster than the disk writes?
\_ Look up the differences between TCP/IP flow control and
congestion control. The answer is in front of you.
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| 2007/4/30-5/4 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:46485 Activity:nil | 4/30 Technical question:
I have a threaded webserver, one thread waits around and calls
accept, then pulls threads out of a thread pool to handle the
requests. I want to be able to shut down the webserver cleanly, so
I have the main thread wait for a signal to shutdown. It then
joins on the accept thread while the accept thread cleans up the
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| 2007/3/23-27 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:46068 Activity:nil | 3/23 hey root can you turn 'PINGS' to soda.csua back on?
thanks
\_ Hey, root, can you disable this h0zer's motd-editing cron-job pls?
\_ and what's up with crippling traceroute? It needs setuid to
function.
> traceroute scotch
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| 2006/11/3-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45153 Activity:nil | 11/3 In my WinSock.h for v1.1 (dated 6/4/02), there is this line:
#define AF_FIREFOX 19 /* FireFox */
What is that??? FireFox socket address family?
\_ It is a hack MS put into the windows network stack back in '02 to
slow down FireFox network connections.
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| 2006/10/12-14 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:44789 Activity:nil | 10/12 On a dual-processor PC, the two CPUs can concurrently run one thread
and one interrupt handler, or two interrupt handlers. Can a dual-core
processor PC and a hyperthreading processor PC do the same things?
Thanks.
\_ Dual-core is basically dual processor sharing the same socket, so
I don't see why not. Hyperthreading is weird, I dunno.
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