Kubuntu 9.04 Test Drive
I was traditionally a KDE user till KDE 4.0 came along. While many users are excited about many of the new features (e.g. Widgets) added in KDE 4, I am simply no big fan of fancy user interfaces. So I…
Author: kwong
The Jaunty Jackalope
Without much fanfare, Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) was released into the wild earlier today. But Ubuntu followers are wasting no time, overloading many of the official downloading sites.
C++ IDEs Under Linux
So far I have been mainly using KDevelop and Code::Blocks as my C++ development IDEs. Recently, I started using NetBeans IDE for C++ and I started to like it quite a bit.
How to Revert to a Specific SVN Version of Code::Blocks
I had set up my apt-get source to use latest SVN build of Code::Blocks. Everything has been running pretty smoothly until a couple of days ago when Code::Blocks was updated to SVN 5534.
On Default Linux IO Priority
If there is any thing I think Linux distributions can definitely improve upon is to reduce the default IO task priorities while running a Windows manager (e.g. GNOME or KDE).
An Image Class Based On IPP
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how to interface Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) with Magick++. While IPP offers excellent performance advantages, it does not come with the easiest programming model. Fortunately, it is easy enough to create a…
Changing SyntaxHighlighter Font Size
After I upgraded to the latest SyntaxHighliger (2.0.296) I noticed that the font size of the code section is a little bit too small to my taste. But there is not an UI option to change it.
The Obstacles to Linux Going Mainstream
It was almost one year ago when I switched my main home computer to Linux. Since then, I have been using my Ubuntu 8.04 installation daily and have not found the need to boot up Windows at all.
My Favorite Linus Quote
Linus is famous for making radical and controversial statements. While a lot of these quotes sound harsh, they are profoundly true nevertheless.
Interfacing IPP with Magick++
Intel’s Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) is a low level C++ library. It provides routines that are highly optimized on Intel processors. I recently started using it because its vast speed advantage in signal and image processing applications.
Matrix Multiplication Performance in C++
A few days ago, I ran across this article by Dmitri Nesteruk. In his article, he compared the performance between C# and C++ in matrix multiplication. From the data he provided, matrix multiplication using C# is two to three times…
Blog Theme Updated
I had been using a modified version of Kaushal Sheth‘s (it seems that his web site is currently being redesigned.) Indigo for a couple of years and really enjoyed the theme’s clean design.
Setting up WordPress on Ubuntu Server — Step by Step
I wrote a tutorial on how to setup WordPress on Ubuntu Server back in 2007. While the setup steps have largely remained the same from version 6.10 to 8.04 (both are long term support LTS versions), I decided to create…
On The Origin of Linux
I stumbled upon this Linus video about the origin of Linux on YouTube the other day. I think this is such an excellent video that you should definitely take a look, whether you are a Linux fan or not and…
Simple WordPress Standby Server
I mentioned in one previous post on how to do a physical to VM backup using simple Linux command. The method works pretty well as long as the kernel versions are kept in sync.