brainstorms

Thursday January 06, 2005

deep: edge annual question 2005

what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?

phew.

here are the answers by likes of dawkins, dennett, esther dyson, bruce sterling, gregory benford, ned block, howard rheingold, steven pinker, john mccarthy, rudy rucker et al. 120 contributors, 60,000 words, great reading.

[thanks peter rr for pointing me to lee smolin's entry]

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performance comparison: NetBSD vs FreeBSD

gregory mcgarry did a performance comparison between NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3. the paper is here. the benchmarks test core os functionality, scalability and thread implementation. very impressive: looks like netbsd is going far and fast. [i actively use both, but netbsd has been running my core mail/web server and in my voyagers and aging vaio for a long time...]

(2005-01-05 21:22:47.0) Permalink Comments [2]