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Capsicum Implementation Status
I keep thinking "wouldn't it be nice if someone did capability-based security in Unix userspace" and then forgetting that this project already exists...
to capability capsicum security unix ... on 14 October 2016
Cache Directory Tagging Standard
It feels like I ought to have written some scripts that implement this...
to cache filesystem unix ... on 14 October 2016
simonyiszk/csdr: A simple DSP library and command-line tool for Software Defined Radio.
SDR pipeline tools for Unix. The author's done various neat stuff involving FM subcarriers with this.
"Welcome to the Unix Tree. Here you can browse the source code and manuals of various old versions of Unix." A lower-tech version of DDS's Git repo.
to digital history pdp11 retrocomputing unix ... on 11 October 2016
Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster
Nothing wrong with a bit of 1970s technology in the right context -- how to solve a not-very-big-data problem the right way.
to awk cloud cluster hadoop performance pipeline unix ... on 14 September 2016
George Coulouris: Bits of History
The author of em talks about it.
to ed editor em retrocomputing unix ... on 21 June 2016
em being the Editor for Mortals, which added one-line editing to ed. The story I was told by Bob Eager (?) was that they installed this at Kent, but found fairly quickly that people tended to typo the name as "rm"...
to ed editor em retrocomputing software unix ... on 21 June 2016
Floodgap Retrobits presents the Solbourne Solace: a shrine to the forgotten SPARC
High-performance Sun clones.
to retrocomputing solbourne sun sunos unix ... on 21 June 2016
Unix system programming in OCaml
"This document is an introductory course on Unix system programming, with an emphasis on communications between processes. The main novelty of this work is the use of the OCaml language". This is effectively APUE done in OCaml -- which is a really nice way (in my opinion!) to introduce the language.
to apue functional ocaml programming unix ... on 16 March 2016
"This wiki aims to collect the available historical documents and recollections of Unix into one central place so they can be studied by researchers and Unix enthusiasts alike."
to bell history os-design retrocomputing unix ... on 16 March 2016
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tasty by Adam Sampson.