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According to the omscentral reviews for the advanced operating systems course, the midterm exams are nearly identical to the previous semester’s exams and former students strongly suggest rote memorization as a the primary study method. In my opinion, these types of tests do not really serve as a great litmus test for evaluating a student’s…
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If you are an online masters of computer science student (OMSCS) at Georgia Tech and enrolled in advanced operating systems (AOS) course, you might want to check out the notes I’ve taken for the lectures by clicking on the advanced operating systems category on my blog. For each video lecture, I’ve written down a summary…
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Being fully present as a parent all the time seems like an impossible feat. Although I’d like to think that I’m always present with my daughter, I do find myself sometimes mentally checking out. For example, yesterday, Jess had reminded me during lunch I should be in the here and now instead of scrolling on…
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The key take away for scheduling is that as OS designers you want to follow this mantra: “keep the caches warm“. Following this principle will ensure that the scheduler performs well. There are many different scheduling algorithms including first come first serve (FCFS), fixed processor (focus on fairness), fixed processor (thread runs on the same…
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I’m (re) learning how to doodle! I’d like to incorporate art and sprinkle sketches into notes that I scribble down while studying for graduate school. Also, I just miss drawing, an activity I used to do a lot as little boy. But somewhere between then and becoming an adult I’ve lost my way, losing touch with…
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Remote procedure call (RPC) is a framework offered within operating systems (OS) to develop client/server systems and they promote good software engineering practices and promote logical protection domains . But without careful consideration, RPC calls (unlike simple procedure calls) can be cost prohibitive in terms over overhead incurred when marshaling data from client to server…
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Another installment of my weekly reviews. I think the practice of carving out around 30 minutes on Sunday to look back at the previous week and look forward for the next week helps me in several ways. First, the posts help me recognize my tiny little victories that I often neglect and they also help…
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Part 1 of barrier synchronization covers my notes on the first couple types of synchronization barriers including the naive centralized barrier and the slightly more advanced tree barrier. This post is a continuation and covers the three other barriers: MCS barrier, tournament barrier , dissemination barrier. Summary In the MCS tree barrier, there are two…
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My wife’s apple iPhone X saves images she captured with her camera as .heic format1 , a relatively new file format that compresses high quality images and I needed a way to convert these type of files to .jpeg (which apparently dates back to 1992) so that they can be uploaded to my blog and…
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Hooray! Today is the first day in a couple weeks that air quality is considered good, at least according to the EPA. I’m so pleased and so grateful for clean air because my wife and daughter have not left the house since the wild fires started a week ago (or was it two weeks —…
