Leaving Sun

Starting Aug 17 I leave Sun Microsystems. My personal e-mail is igotti@gmail.com. Have fun!

PS: I have no other technical blog yet, you may look at my Livejournal blog, but it's in Russian and generally have not that much info yet

PPS: my last project - compressed object pointers is now of production quality, being reviewed and hopefully will be integrated into Hotspot workspace rather soon.

Posted at 03:15PM Aug 15, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[6]

FS neutral data recovery tool

Data recovery from ext3 FS success story.[Read More]

Posted at 11:18AM Aug 02, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[0]

C mini-contest

Mini-contest: "how well do you know C"?[Read More]

Posted at 04:32PM Jul 03, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[6]

Living in nirvana

Recently I've read rather interesting life story of math professor John Wren-Lewis, who unintentionally got (and keeps for several years) nirvana-like state of mind. He calls it "eternity consciousness".

Original paper is here http://www.nonduality.com/dazdark.htm

Posted at 09:17AM Jun 22, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[1]

Fixing FPU control word on Unix

Fixing x86 FPU control word from signal handler.[Read More]

Posted at 03:40PM Jun 18, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Influence of intention on reality

One interesting experiment describing influence of human intentions on physical reality.[Read More]

Posted at 03:28PM Jun 16, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[1]

Self printing program in assembly (part 2)

69 byte quine.[Read More]

Posted at 05:49PM Jun 15, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Reverse engineering in microbiology

Interesting phenomenon in microbiology is reverse transcription. If I understand correctly, it's kind of technology used by some virii, such as AIDS virus to do reverse engineering of the DNA of the cell by the RNA (processes in cell usually goes in another directions, RNA is an intermediate step in synthesis of proteins by the DNA). Then virus able to integrate its own code into the genome of cell and use it to reproduce itself.

Posted at 06:56PM Jun 14, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Genome decoding

According to this page genome isn't exactly a program, in traditional Turing machine sense, but "..contains very little unused sequences and, in fact, is a complex, interwoven network.". Another interesting fact is that "...ENCODE effort found about half of functional elements in the human genome do not appear to have been obviously constrained during evolution, at least when examined by current methods used by computational biologist.

Posted at 06:25PM Jun 14, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[0]

100 words

100 words, every high school graduate should know.[Read More]

Posted at 05:29PM Jun 05, 2007 by nike in Personal  |  Comments[2]