Thoughts on Flash Device Reliability

June 29th, 2008 by kwong

The other day, my 512MB SD card died all of a sudden. A minute before it seized functioning, I was transferring a few files onto it.
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A Simple TBB Program: TBB Prime

June 22nd, 2008 by kwong

I have been playing around with Intel’s Threading Building Block for a while and have started to really appreciate its simplicity and elegance: Instead of thinking in threads and thread synchronizations, one can just simply concentrate on the problem on the hand.
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Linux Only, Two Months Later

June 14th, 2008 by kwong

Since I built my new PC roughly two months ago, I have been running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit) as my primary operating system, and I have not looked back.
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A Line of Code Could Bring Visual Studio .Net Down to Its Knees

June 6th, 2008 by kwong

It seems at least to me that as more bells and whistles were added to each new release of Microsoft’s products, the qualities of which have been deteriorating.
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Develop TBB Using KDevelop and Code::Blocks

June 1st, 2008 by kwong

I have been playing around with Intel’s open source TBB (Threading Building Block) recently.
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