Monthly Archives: June 2012

First Fedora, now Canonical

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Scali

Following the move made by Fedora to support UEFI secure boot, Canonical has announced that they are going to support it as well. Canonical is taking a slightly different route however. They are dropping Grub completely (as they explain, Grub’s … Continue reading →

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Voice of reason, quite…

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Scali

For those who didn’t quite get the irony of the previous blog title… I generally find Linus Torvalds to be quite unreasonable. So I was rather surprised by his sensible response. But trust Linus to generate some positively outrageous outbursts only … Continue reading →

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Linux and UEFI secure boot, or: Linus Torvalds as the voice of reason

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Scali

As you may recall, I wrote a blog about linux and the problems with UEFI secure boot a while ago. Since there have been some changes regarding secure boot in the linux world recently, this calls for an update. My … Continue reading →

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Remember caveman-jim?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Scali

I wrote a blog addressing a forum post by caveman-jim a while ago… It seems that he recently edited the post to include the following: edit – if you’re reading this from a link on ‘scalis blog‘ then I think … Continue reading →

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Never program in your native language!

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Scali

One thing that has always annoyed me, is when people program in their own language (as in: non-English). They will use variable and function names in their own language, and write comments in their own language, and whatnot. What’s worse, … Continue reading →

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Multi-core and multi-threading performance (the multi-core myth?)

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Scali

Today I read a new article on Anandtech, discussing the Bulldozer architecture in detail, focusing on where it performs well, and more importantly, where it does not, and why. There weren’t too many surprises in the article, as I mentioned … Continue reading →

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