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some documents/articles that i think are interesting.

• open source and licensing – if (L)GPL really so free? i had few chances in my life to see it is not.
• the free lunch is over – interesting article written by Herb Sutter, dating back to 2005, explaining that multithread and multiprocessor software is an future for now on. releasing software that runs slow, thinking that CPUs will get fast enough in a year time, does not do the trick if your application won't scale well with a number of cores, that future CPUs will offer.
• writing robust shell scripts – short article giving many hints on shell programming, that in general is problematic, since i has many details one must know/remember about.
• cache usage effects on modern CPUs – short summary (with ready-to-go examples) of article by Ulrich Drepper.
• FOA state of art (PL) – semester report about artificial systems for focusing of attention (FOA) which i planned to do during my PhD.
• Economy of uncertainty (PL) – interesting article discussing common economics approach fails constantly, a specially during crisis when it's needed the most.
• When zombies attack! – article showing application of mathematical tools to show results of zombies epidemic on our civilization (original source).
• pharmacist's tincture – a recipe for good tincture! :)
• ustawa o szczegolnych warunkach sprzedarzy konsumenckiej (2002.07.27) (PL) – interesting piece of polish law – it shown to be usefull for me recently…
• Forbiding payment exposure at work (PL) – interesting article clamming that in Poland there is no law base for employer to forbid workers to talk about their individual payment, which is very common practice now days.
• Seven practices for healthier, faster software development – an interesting article from IBM giving a clue (on management level) how software development should and should not look like.
• WPA on linux – small set of pieces of information that helped me with configuration of WPA on my Debian box.
• http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html – article showing an alternative for CAPTCHA to prevent spaming submission forms.
• http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde (ENG/PL) – interesting piece of information on how do people read.
• Martian headsets – interesting article explaining main problems in IT, on real-life examples of webbrowsers. if you still think that being liberal about input of your programs is good thing, start from reading this article.
• otwarcie a.d. (PL) – story of love and enlightenment i wrote some time ago.
• Linux kernel userspace API – since 2.6.23 kernel there is possibility to write drivers in userspace. this is good starting point, though there is still lack of some functionality like DMA which makes it impossible to write efficient drivers for graphics, fs, etc.
• The perils of JavaSchools – interesting article about lowering requirements for degree in computer science which effects in CS-graduated students that do not understand pointers, recursion and other basics.
• job interviews in IT – a set of good-practise for job interviews in IT.
• cold boot attack – description of vulnerability of encrypted disks based on fact, that RAM memory conten can be read after up to few minutes after power-off (yes - DRAM too!).
• praca_dyplomowa.pdf (PL) – my master thesis. description of some aspects of using AI in mobile robotics. as part of project mobile robot has been created along with necessary software. more information about software-hardware part can be found on TIER mobile robot project page.