As I mentioned previously, one of the reasons I built another quad-core PC was that I wanted to do some experiments with high performance computing. Even though the idea of a two-node mini cluster does not sound like much, the…
I built a quad core machine about six months ago. The goal back then was to build a performance PC. Recently, I decided to build another PC so that I could have my mini-cluster.
It seems that the Toyota site does not render correctly with Firefox under Linux (with Flash plugin enabled). It definitely has something to do with the Linux version of Flash and how the site was constructed.
Flash 10 just came out a few days ago, and I just installed it using the information provided on Ubuntu Forum (I used the script from here to install on my 64bit Ubuntu).
I have an old webcam (Creative PD1001) which is not officially supported on Linux. Fortunately, Endpoints EPCAM USB Camera Driver is known to work with PD1001 on many Linux distros.
Once a while, I would comb through my server logs to see i there is any unusual activities. Among all types of "attacks" that I could identify within my server logs, It seems that SQL injection attacks are still the…
I upgraded my P5E BIOS to 0903 and it seems that this BIOS has some improvements on over-clocking.
My old Dell Dimension 4100 (Pentium III, 1GHz, 512MB) has been running faithfully for around eight years now. And after I switched my blog engine from dasBlog to WordPress, I have been using it as my web server.
A While ago, I created a TIFF Merge and Split Utility that can be used to merge multiple TIFF files into a single file or split a multi-frame TIFF file into multiple single-frame TIFF files.
In an earlier post, I created a simple prime finding program using Intel’s TBB (Thread Building Block). The main benefit of using TBB is that threading and thread synchronization mechanism are abstracted away within the TBB library so we do…
Today I encountered a rather obscure error while maintaining some old ASP.Net code (Framework 1.1).
During the weekend, I decided to upgrade the server running my blog from Ubuntu Server 7.04 to 8.04 since version 8.04 is an LTS and is supported through 2013.
Processes tend to benefit greatly from multi-core processors if they are CPU bound (i.e. computational intensive tasks). The actual speedup depends on the portion of the code that must remain sequential.
I have to admit, not being able to watch Olympics on Linux is truly disappointing (I,II).