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Adventures in entropy, part 2

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Recap
Back in part 1 I discussed what entropy is as far as Linux is concerned, why I’ve started to look in to entropy as it relates to a Linux/Xen-based virtual hosting platform, how much entropy I have available, and how this might be improved.
If you didn’t read that part yet then you might want to [...]

Adventures in entropy, part 1

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

A while back, a couple of BitFolk customers mentioned to me that they were having problems running out of entropy.
A brief explanation of entropy as it relates to computing
Where we say entropy, we could in layman’s terms say “randomness”. Computers need entropy for a lot of things, particularly cryptographic operations. You may not think that [...]

Business proposition

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

I’m wondering if you could take all the “fun” manual jobs like smashing things with hammers, and contract them out to normally-desk-bound people, who do it for minimum wage (for the task at hand). So then you have a large work force who individually only do the manual work for a small part of [...]