2007-10-22

RE Anthonys “some fun” post

Posted in Personal, PlanetDebian at 13:56 UTC (+0000) by sven

I really dislike posts like (sorry AJ, you are just one example) AJ Towns blog post
“Some fun”. What I dislike? Well, the post lacks critical information: Which slashdot post inspired him? What data is he talking about? How did he turn the data into those graphics?

Sorry AJ, your post is just the latest example of this style of post, and I really got frustrated over such posts, this is not meant as a personal attack.

Edit:
So to make my wish clear: Please, fellow bloggers, don’t assume that your readers are following your favourite web resources as closely as you do (and with the same specific interests). Explicitly say what you are writing about, reference resources needed to understand what you are doing, at least give readers a chance to find out what you did.

In AJs case, it would probably have been enough to reference the /. article or comment which inspired him.

2007-10-17

CPU feature flags and their meanings

Posted in Computers, Personal, PlanetDebian at 15:03 UTC (+0000) by sven

Since I never really found a nice overview of which CPU flags (see /proc/cpuinfo) mean what, so I gathered some information using the web, with the most notable sources being the BOINC FAQ entry on CPU Register Acronyms at [1] and the output of the nice little (though seemingly mostly unmaintained) cpuid utility. See my results at [2]. Any suggestions for enhancements and completions are highly welcome, just leave a comment to this post.

[1]: href=”http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=176
[2]: http://blog.incase.de/index.php/cpu-feature-flags-and-their-meanings/