Archive for January, 2008
Easily parallelisable algorithms
22 January 2008Currently putting together a little demonstration to show off the power of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and I’m looking for an algorithm to
demonstrate that benefits well from parallelization. The requirements are that:
* We can generate input data in a reasonable time (either randomly or systematically)
* Input and output are reasonably sized (ie Less […]
NFS and iptables
21 January 2008Trying to share a folder on my fedora box with my new ubuntu box, couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t able to connect, until I remember good ole iptables (sigh). And the issue is complicated by the fact that nfs seems to start its various services on random ports (sigh)… still I found a good […]
LVM and Windows XP
20 January 2008So I was building a machine for my mother for her medical practice… nothing fancy just a regular sit-out-back headless server that she can have chugging away co-ordinating her office while the prettier looking machines get stuck out front for patients to see. Well while building it I noticed that she didn’t really require 500Gb […]
Boost + STLport + Visual Studio 2005
15 January 2008Okay so here is the problem I’ve been having, I’m trying to use STLport (5.1.4), Boost (1.34.1) and Visual Studio 2005 and up to now they were not playing nice with one another. Specifically it was the boost::unit_test_framework that was causing the hassles as it has to be recompiled with STLport support. I’ve finally got […]
VMware Disk resize
10 January 2008Was looking through the GUI options for a virtual machine I have and could not for the life of me figure out how to resize the hard disk. I originally thought that 10Gb would be sufficient for my windows image but that notion was quickly disabused after I’d installed Visual Studio and pulled down some […]