I’m going with links to some old-school crazy-hard projects this week.  No simple hacks, these.

• Mysteries of the unix kind.
• Nerdy trivia about Unix time_t. (via)
• PDP-11/04 – Restoration.  (via)  Very nice pictures.
• Plan 9.  Plan 9.  Plan 9.  Plan 9.  (all via)
• Linux on Obsolete Displays Project Page.  (via)
• USB Power Issues.  That is definitely a hardware problem.
• Know Your UNIX System Administrator – A Field Guide.  (via)
• Fitness machines for big data.
• It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source.
• Historic Computer Images.  Hosted by the U.S. military.
• EDSAC, the (only?) computer from the 1940s, is being rebuilt.  No keyboard, no monitor.
• God’s Lonely Programmer.  (via)
• Some light reading on lock-free programming.
• A Rare Peek into the Massive Scale of AWS.  Their capitalization, not mine.  (via)
• Metastable failure state.  (also via)
• Stumbleupon’s Big Data Architecture Using Open Source Software.  (via)
• Remote work: an engineering leader’s perspective.  These articles never seem to note how open source developers fit this mold.   (via)