Miscellaneous – Page 9 – Kerry D. Wong

Q9450 – The LINPACK Test

Earlier today, I decided to see how fast my quad-core PC really is in terms of the raw floating point […]

Since I built my new PC roughly two months ago, I have been running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit) as […]

Since I started using Ubuntu 8.04 as my main operating system, I have been trying to obtain some benchmark information […]

After building my new quad-core computer (1, 2, 3), it was time for me to choose an operating system.

I have read speculations before its launch time that the new 45nm processors are going to be easy over clocking. […]

In yesterday’s post, I listed all the components I used in my new rig. Here are some of the pictures […]

My Q9450 finally arrived yesterday.

Last week, all the news source speculated the imminent launch of three 45nm Quad Core Processors from Intel.

Over the years, I have formed the habit of keeping an up-to-date backup copy of all my critical data on […]

I thought it was going to be a non-eventful evening when I decided to install Windows XP on a second […]

A few weeks ago, one of my co-worker showed me how he monitors his home internet connection remotely using DynDNS.

I always use Global.asax for centralized error handling in my ASP.Net applications and typically it works great.

A while ago, I discussed some interesting behavior of File.Exist function in .Net. Recently I found out that File.Copy is […]

My home workstation has a Plextor PX-708A DVD-RW drive, and it has been working perfectly until quite recently.

When I tried WINE many years ago, there were not that many large applications that could actually run smoothly without […]