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The first-ever book aimed at introducing operating system development to absolute beginners. The topics begin with programming in C and programming in assembly, and progress toward practical OS development.The book uses only simple methods, so it covers only a few essential topics in C and assembly programming, making it suitable for beginners.

The history of M.2 SSDs traces back to the need for faster, smaller, and more efficient storage in modern computing. Originally known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), M.2 was introduced around 2012 by the SATA-IO and PCI-SIG groups to replace older interfaces like mSATA and mini-PCIe.

A 1986 text adventure game written inside the Cray I/O Subsystem turns out to be architecturally isomorphic to modern transformer design. This capstone volume uses the playable game and its assembly language source as a case study in constraint-based design, including the bare metal thinking we stopped teaching around 1995.

Stop renting visibility. Start owning the infrastructure. Learn the protocol that delivered 548k hits and 95% Edge efficiency on a 20-year-old "rottame".

Secure boot is what separates a trusted device from a compromised one — but the chain of trust from hardware fuses to a verified OS is rarely explained clearly. This illustrated guide walks you through every layer: root of trust, key provisioning, bootloader handoffs, certificate chains, and real-world attack vectors. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

If a humanoid robot carries about $28,000 a year in fixed cost, then at $60 contribution per billable hour it breaks even at roughly 467 billable hours per year, or just under 9 hours per week. But if supervision is heavier and contribution drops to $28 per hour, break-even jumps to 1,000 hours per year, or about 19.2 hours per week.

I am a programmer who knows clever tricksI convert integers to bases two to thirty sixBy using character arrays as stringsI can show you amazing math things While others talk about politics and sportsI read about computers of all sortsProgramming languages are all the sameWhen you see arithmetic as a game I don’t write code for a job to be paidBut to understand the video games I playedTo see what works and find out whyTo create, use, study, share, and modify

Ветеран Cray Research (Крей Рисёрч) рассказывает, как первопроходцы справлялись с подавляющей сложностью: распознавание закономерностей, предвосхитившее Мидуэй, системное мышление, изобретшее память на магнитных сердечниках. Опыт из одной области, применённый по-новому, сформировал суперкомпьютерную отрасль.

No es un libro sobre productos. Tampoco es un manual técnico.Es una historia sobre cómo la infraestructura llegó hasta acá.Sobre decisiones inevitables, modelos que dejaron de escalar y plataformas que surgieron cuando la complejidad ya no podía sostenerse. Sobre virtualización, cloud, negocio y personas. Sobre aciertos, errores y aprendizajes que marcaron una era.Este primer volumen no intenta explicar VMware Cloud Foundation. Intenta explicar por qué era inevitable que existiera.Porque antes de discutir arquitectura, conviene entender el camino.

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from the Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and the Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, and software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025.

A Cray Research veteran narrates how pioneers handled overwhelming complexity: pattern recognition anticipating Midway, systems thinking inventing magnetic core memory. Experience from one domain, applied in a new way, shaped supercomputing.

In un mondo dove ogni byte ha un impatto, Sustainable IT, the practical way è la guida per trasformare la sostenibilità digitale da slogan a pratica quotidiana. Niente teoria astratta: questo libro ti accompagna passo dopo passo nel processo di analisi dei numeri, monitoraggio dei risultati e definizione di OKR capaci di generare un vero piano d’azione. Imparerai a distinguere ciò che conta davvero da ciò che è solo rumore, a misurare l’efficienza energetica dei tuoi sistemi e a collegare i dati operativi alle decisioni strategiche. Attraverso esempi concreti, strumenti pronti all’uso e una metodologia testata in workshop reali, scoprirai come rendere sostenibile ogni fase del ciclo di vita digitale — dal codice all’infrastruttura, dal prodotto alle persone. Il libro integra e applica le best practice della Green Software Foundation, traducendole in un linguaggio accessibile e operativo per chi vuole fare la differenza, oggi.

Most embedded teams say they “avoid OOP” and “stick to C.” But look closely at real C codebases and you’ll find function-pointer tables, opaque handles, and generic device arrays—manual object models built the hard way. Beyond Blinky shows how to embrace that reality consciously, using modern C++ to design firmware that is readable, portable, and owned—without sacrificing performance or control. This book is about moving past the blinking LED mindset and designing embedded systems as living architectures, not scripts. To blinky and beyond—Let's make your IO sing!

This is a work of fiction that attempts to document what might happen if a fictional Wisc senior citizen named Lefty Insider attempts to seek justice against exploitation from a fictional monopolistic corporation, (identified as Charpectrum), through the Federal and State Consumer Protection systems.This fictional tale seeks to imagine what a realistic experience would be like if a well-informed, educated and technically competent persistently stubborn consumer, of German ancestry, sought the protection of government agencies against the financial and marketing exploitation from a rapacious and malevolent incumbent monopoly Internet service provider corporation.This is also a story about elected idiots, liars, fools, incompetents, bureaucrats, and of course is but a fictional story about imagined government run Consumer Protection systems.

Even if you're a total newbie to the world of GPUs, this book will take you from the basics of CPUs to the current world of GPU programming. All you need is some Python experience and a willingness to explore and try the techniques it offers.This book will walk you through the basics of GPU architectures, show you hands-on parallel programming techniques, and give you the know-how to confidently speed up real workloads in data processing, analytics, and engineering.