Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later.

Programming 145

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Pull-the-plug ​​ power ​​ outage testing ​​ Power outage testing ​​ is ​​ a fundamental and critical part of the administrator’s data safety and integrity requirements. ​​ Incorrect configurations lead to data loss.

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