Category: Daily Reviews
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OS Structure Overview
In the context of an operating system, what does structure even mean and why is it important? Structure determines how the operating system serves application in regards to the underlying hardware and how it balances the following qualities: protection, performance, flexibility, scalability, agility, and responsiveness. To obtain the above qualities, several designs exist including monolithic…
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Advanced Operating System Notes (File Systems)
Although I’ve covered file systems in previous courses, including graduate introduction of operating systems, I really enjoy learning more about this concept in a little depth. The file system’s module is packed with great material, the material introducing a high level introduction of file system and then jumps into the deep end unveils what an…
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Daily Review – 2020/08/20
This post reviews yesterday, Wednesday August 19th 2020. Should I change the title to yesterday’s date or keep today’s date? Not sure, but I should probably stay consistent in my posts moving forward. Although I’m physically exhausted and tired than usual from waking up early (around 04:30 to 05:00) every day to crank out studying…
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Advanced Operating Systems – Day 3 Recap
The below write up consists of notes that I took while watching Multi-Threaded programming module from the Advanced Operating system’s refresher course1. I watched this third module before the second module (on File Systems, the next lecture series I’ll watch) because I started tackling the homework assignment that has us students debug a buggy multi-threaded…
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Advanced OS – Study Notes Reflection (from day 1)
I divided studying into two sessions: one in the morning (around 04:30 am) and one in the evening after work and after my daughter has gone to bed. In the morning, I completed the administrative tasks and watched lectures that cover new material and in the evening I refreshed my memory by taking the operating…