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If you happen to be in SF, the Vallejo/Mare Island ferry should be a relatively convenient (and scenic) public transit option.

ARM architectural licensees develop their own microarchitectures that implement the ARM ISA spec, they do not license any particular microarchitecture from ARM (e.g. Cortex-A? IP c…

No. It has become significantly easier for Europeans to immigrate since 2005. Labor certification alone now takes less than a year rather than multiple years pre-PERM. EB2 and EB3 …

It doesn't make sense for speculatively executed code to throw architecturally visible exceptions. The appropriate behavior would be to not perform speculative loads across protect…

Hypervisor.framework itself only deals with CPU virtualization and is agnostic to whatever device model is implemented in userspace.

Nope, VMs are demand paged like any other process.

Well, it's not just the userland. The XNU kernel is a hybrid of Mach (tasks, threads, IPC, VM), BSD (processes, users, devices, networking, system calls, VFS) and IOKit (driver fra…

Did you have a VirtualBox VM running before xhyve?

Incidentally, someone is working on Go bindings for the OS X Hypervisor ( https://github.com/penberg/go-osxhv ).

Any KVM vs. Xen PV benchmarks? The Xen (PV)HVM case isn't that interesting.

> I'm not saying writing secure software in C is inherently impossible, but I'm not aware of it having ever been accomplished https://sel4.systems Possibly one of the most trustwor…

> You seem to be laboring under some serious misapprehensions here. QEMU is very much a virtualization solution. It calls itself an emulator because it's older than the name 'virtu…

They do that to some degree in Germany, which has a 3-tier secondary education system ought to group students based on their (perceived) academic aptitude. It has however been accu…

If you don't mind trailing whitespace block select might be an option (option + select on OS X / ctrl + alt + select on Linux). Or just use copy mode and yank the selection to the …

Another relatively painless way to set up a mail server on your own box is http://www.iredmail.org . ( + http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/ for ActiveSync push mail) So far I am …

> Ok so one of the coolest things in this game is that you can have multiple flights occurring at once. Has anyone been able to intercept another flight they have put into space? W…

> but my little X121e is the best laptop I've ever used. What do you compare it with? I have one too (but currently dead due to infamous reset loop bug) and I think it is the worst…

> Every time the operating system decides that it’s time to run a different process, all caches are invalidated (on account of the virtual memory system). Unless you have a virtual…

Has someone ever tried to compile/port the first web browser [1] on a modern OS X machine? [1] http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/

KOSMOS experimental sets are still somewhat popular in Germany. http://www.kosmos-shop.de/Experimentierkasten-640132/Kosmos-... I only had the electronic sets as a kid, so I don't …

Companies, at least those with an official internship program, will take care of your J1 visa. Don't worry about that.

I made some annotations for California. Thats a best guess and might be horribly wrong. http://i.imgur.com/4J5P1.jpg (0:12m)

Did they discontinue academic pricing? Anyway, Coupon: "FUSION20" gives you a 20% discount.

That looks more like an issue with your machine. Does your CPU support VT extensions? Or they might not be enabled in the firmware. You can also fall back to traditional trap-n-emu…

Always panics on boot in VMware. Sad :( Edit: Seems to work in Parallels. Edit 2: Boots in Parallels but is not very usable. Hangs very often, Parallels Tools do not work. Now tryi…