schedutils

Released schedutils 1.2.0. Mostly minor bugfixes and cleanups, although also the demise of irqset(1) (what did that have to do with scheduling?) and lsrt(1) (all of the same features, and more, are now in procps).

So, what is in schedutils? taskset(1), a utility for manipulating task CPU affinity (setting it, retrieving it, and launching a new task with an initial given affinity mask) and chrt(1), a utility for manipulating both scheduling priority and policy (also setting them, retrieving them, and launching a new task with a given priority and policy).

Source tarball as well as source and i386 RPM packages built against Red Hat 9 are available.

Java

Man, Java.HasQuality(Quality.Taste.Gross). 'Nuff said.
Gimme c->quality = TASTEFUL anyday.

OLS

Ack! OLS paper is due soonish.

Centrino

I like the design of the chip. More specifically, I like the IBM X31. Maybe some day soon?