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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. Hyrax has developed an AWS based technology called Exatype, which rapidly and accurately tests HIV drug resistance. Traditionally, it cost $300 to $500 to do a single resistance test. We have a long history in South Africa.

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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%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

Java 137
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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Besides overriding X-frame-options , you can delete headers to minimize online tracking, override content-security-policy header, test sites in production, and so on. It was developed in 2004.

Testing 103
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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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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.

C++ 80
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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. eBPF does more.

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