Links February 2020Links February 2020
Truthout has an interesting summary of the US “Wars Without Victory and Weapons Without End” [1]. The Korean war seems mostly a win for the US though. The Golden Age[...]
Month: February 2020
DisplayPort and 4KDisplayPort and 4K
The Problem Video playback looks better with a higher scan rate. A lot of content that was designed for TV (EG almost all historical documentaries) is going to be 25Hz[...]
Self AssessmentSelf Assessment
Background Knowledge The Dunning Kruger Effect [1] is something everyone should read about. It’s the effect where people who are bad at something rate themselves higher than they deserve because[...]
Deleted Mapped FilesDeleted Mapped Files
On a Linux system if you upgrade a shared object that is in use any programs that have it mapped will list it as “(deleted)” in the /proc/PID/maps file for[...]
Social Media Sharing on BlogsSocial Media Sharing on Blogs
My last post was read directly (as opposed to reading through Planet feeds) a lot more than usual due to someone sharing it on lobste.rs. Presumably the people who read[...]
Load Average MonitoringLoad Average Monitoring
For my ETBE-Mon [1] monitoring system I recently added a monitor for the Linux load average. The Unix load average isn’t a very good metric for monitoring system load, but[...]