Below are the most recent 4 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
mjg59	10:53a	ACPI drivers The article I wrote for lwn on writing ACPI drivers is now available for free. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
izard	10:18a	Performance improvement is never enough, even for consumer. I normally work on performance improvement for server apps, and there is usually no such issue as "too fast hardware" in this business. For consumer, many ppl claim the opposite. Though this claim might make sense, our IT is watching the problem closely... When I was given a SSD disk upgrade to my work laptop, I was very happy - it became noticeably faster. E.g. waking up from hibernation took about 2x less time. But our IT always does a great job - after installing mandatory disk encryption update, the same process takes 1.5x more time than it took before all upgrades :) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
izard	6:32p	Adventscalender 2009 My wife had presented me a Playboy adventscalender. As any adventscalender, there are 24 hidden pictures, one for each day before Christmas. Opening those pictures was a routine, until the last one. It was apparent that it should contain something different from 23 half-naked women with names we've seen before. My guess was that the last woman will wear some clothes. Yulia's guess was that she would be in Weinahtsmann clothes. Reality was dull - it was a group of several half-naked women with caption "Studentinen". How boring... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
izard	5:09p	Christmas Just got back from Mannheim, where we've spent Christmas with our friends. Seen Avatar, really the greatest movie ever so far. I envy one of my LJ friends who's name I've seen in the final titles. That's who have really tangible and beautiful result from hard work! (2 Comments |Comment on this)