Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler for Linux that uses a kernel module to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.

Just insert the kernel module and start sysprof.

This + oprofile and opannotate are possibly the neatest tools I've found to figure out what's going on w/ codey-McSlowy.

--timball

Sysprof - A System-wide Linux Profiler

Steven Tyler is a student at George Mason. He designed a kick ass slice of demo code for your eye candy goodness.

--timball

Plasma Pong

This is a flash game where you play an indiana jones type character and have to go thru a temple solving various coding puzzles. Yes I said "coding puzzles".

Okay so it's all an elaborate ruse to get you to register for sun studio 11. There's a prize of $5k if you win.

--timball

Temple of the Sun

John Backus, 82, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died March 17 in Ashland, Ore., according to IBM Corp., where he spent his career. No cause of death was reported.

Besides FORTRAN he also created the Backus normal form.

John Backus, 82; Created Programming Language - washingtonpost.com

What Sun is due to announce Monday is the open-sourcing of both its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and its Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

Woah!

Macworld: News: Sun open sources Java under GPL