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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Decades of madness.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. As well as helping customers in South Africa, and across the continent with technology, we also have a number of programs to help foster startups and to support the development of technology skills in the education sector.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. Conclusion I could say that times have changed and now the original 2004 reasons for omitting frame pointers are no longer valid in 2024.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later.

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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work. 67-9, June 1949). [3] Meredith, N.

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