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Qumranet was founded by XEN virtualization hypervisor guru Moshe Bar and former Cisco Engineering Director Rami Tamir. Two years after being acquired by RedHat, Qumranet’s members founded Cloudius Systems. Recently, the Israeli startup Cloudius System, led by Dor Laor and Avi Kivity …
VLC is a powerful, multi-functional media player packed with features and supports the vast majority of existing decoders and video formats, allowing users to fully experience its robust capabilities. VLC 2.1 "Rincewind" has been released, featuring extensive fixes, optimizations, and improvements, including: a rewritten audio core, improved…
SpringSource community today released the first milestone version of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0. The Spring for Apache Hadoop project focuses on bringing Spring features into application development based on Apache Hadoop technology, providing …
Recently, a post titled “Boost WiFi Signal with a Soda Can” went viral on Weibo. The post detailed the steps and principle involved: using the inner surface of an aluminum can to reflect radio waves, thereby enhancing the antenna’s ability to transmit and receive signals. The router antenna, which originally emitted a 360-degree wave, would be …
Square’s engineers use a wide variety of code editors: Sublime, IntelliJ, Xcode, and Vim. Among them, Vim is the most popular, and over time, the Vim fans at Square have compiled configurations, shortcuts, and plugins into a single repository, affectionately named Max …
One of Linux’s great strengths is the vast array of small applications available under open-source licenses for everyone to use free of charge. Of course, every system comes with its own clock, usually pinned to the taskbar or menu bar displaying the system time — functional, but nothing out of the ordinary. Today, however, we’d like to share …
Over the past two decades, Linux has grown from an obscure newcomer to a dominant force in the server and supercomputing arenas 鈥?not to mention the Android smartphones and tablets built on its foundation. On the other hand, the Apache Software Foundation now appears to be on somewhat shaky ground, its leadership facing ser …
Varnish is similar to typical server software in that it is divided into a master (management) process and a child (worker, primarily handling caching) process. The master process reads commands, performs some initialization, then forks and monitors the child process. The child process allocates several threads to work, primarily including some management …
