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| -rw-r--r-- | software/misc.page | 25 | ||||
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diff --git a/books/wanted-books.page b/books/wanted-books.page index 60ef1d8..3c6864c 100644 --- a/books/wanted-books.page +++ b/books/wanted-books.page @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ Technical * **Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics** by John von Neumann * **Real and Complex Analysis** by Walter Rudin * **Art of Computer Programming** by Donald E. Knuth - * **Gravitation** by MTW * **Euclid's Elements** - * **C Programming Language** by Brian W. Kernighan * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch * **The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing** by Steven Smith @@ -31,7 +29,6 @@ Math ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (I haven't really looked in to most of these, just sound interesting) - * **On formally undecidable propositions of Principa Mathematica and related systems**, by Kurt Godel. * **Computability and Unsolvability**, by Martin Davis. * **Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory**, by A.I. Khinchin. @@ -56,6 +53,8 @@ Novels * **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** by Heinlen * **Babel-17** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17) SciFi, a language is invented to be used as a weapon + * **The Mote in God's Eye** by Niven and Pournelle + * **The Windup Girl** by Paolo Bacigalupi Non-Fiction ----------- @@ -68,6 +67,7 @@ Other * **The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783** by A.T. Mahan * **A Perfect Vacuum** by Stanislaw Lem (fictional book reviews) * **Imaginary Magnitude** by Stanislaw Lem (fictional book introductions) + * **Doktor Sleepless** by Warren Ellis List of Lists --------------- diff --git a/software/debian.page b/software/debian.page index 16d456d..ba49a33 100644 --- a/software/debian.page +++ b/software/debian.page @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Some gotchas from installing debian a few times: * To install emacs without an X environment, use ``emacs23-nox`` (or a more recent version). + * To change time zone: ``sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata`` + Debian Package Tools ------------------------------ ``dkpg -S somefile`` shows what packages a given file were installed by. ``dpkg diff --git a/software/misc.page b/software/misc.page index 8152c92..ecedf85 100644 --- a/software/misc.page +++ b/software/misc.page @@ -123,3 +123,28 @@ are invisible within Inkscape but visible when exported. To remove this box, edit the raw XML using the XML Editor in Inkscape (Shift-Ctrl-X), look for an svg:flowRoot element within the first layer, and delete it. + +Latency Numbers +----------------- + +From https://gist.github.com/2841832:: + + L1 cache reference 0.5 ns + Branch mispredict 5 ns + L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache + Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns + Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache + Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns + Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms + Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 ms + Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns 0.25 ms + Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns 0.5 ms + Read 1 MB sequentially from SSD* 1,000,000 ns 1 ms 4X memory + Disk seek 10,000,000 ns 10 ms 20x datacenter roundtrip + Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 20,000,000 ns 20 ms 80x memory, 20X SSD + Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000 ns 150 ms + + Notes: + 1 ns = 10-9 seconds + 1 ms = 10-3 seconds + * Assuming ~1GB/sec SSD diff --git a/software/packages.page b/software/packages.page index 99aeeb1..639c056 100644 --- a/software/packages.page +++ b/software/packages.page @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Almost all machines get the following (decreasing minimalism): netcat ngrep tcpdump + mtr If debian-based, add ``build-essential``, ``openssh-server``, ``manpages-dev``, and it's ``git-core`` (not ``git``). See also [debian]. |