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Michael on
8 March 2010, 11:37 pm
dDist week 7 is all about guest lectures and DNS cache poisoning. Here are my slides, this time lovingly edited in iMovie as the ustream video screwed up the slides; for you this means higher quality and less garbage in the beginning and end of the video.
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Posted by
Michael on
3 March 2010, 10:13 am
Lectures on fault tolerance in distributed systems:
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Posted by
Michael on
24 February 2010, 10:42 am
Unfortunately, I screwed up Monday, so the Monday lecture was not recorded. Instead, here is the Wednesday lecture on algorithms for ensuring consistency in distributed systems.
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Posted by
Michael on
23 February 2010, 3:46 pm
I’m multitasking like crazy: I’m writing code on my “emergency Mac” (which is the only one really set up for working), compiling the code on a virtual Windows XP machine and testing the code on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, which fails to run my code.
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Posted by
Michael on
22 February 2010, 11:23 pm
It seems that everytime I boot into Windows, I spend most of my time staring at the below screen:
In fact I have a suspicion, I spend more time updating Windows, anti virus, and other crap to get less malware that I do actually being productive in Windows. Unfortunately, I need to check an application under [...]