The Great Internet Fire
I haven’t posted in a long time. So if you’ve been here before, then welcome back. The recent throttling of the Santa Clara fire department is making this a critical issue. I feel compelled to talk about this because it’s […]
GCC was here
GNU did that part on the end. Kudos to Google Books Ngram Viewer – graph link
Yay!!! New Arduino RNG
Here are the results of the new random number generator I built yesterday. The old random number generator was not putting out an unbiased stream of bits. I tried using debiasing algorithms with the old generator but it was not […]
Bad NGEN, Bad
A few months back decided to try out Visual Studio 2010 which uses version 4 of the .NET Framework. So I proceeded to install everything and after a few reboots everything was done. However my boot process was no longer […]
HDD Performance
In recent months there has been some buzz about SSDs, otherwise known as Solid State Drives. Performance from some of these drives is better than their mechanical counterparts. With access times in the nanosecond range its no wonder they appeal […]
Adventures in Upgrading to Lucid Lynx
> Just upgraded my Ubuntu partition to Lucid Lynx today. Every thing installed fine but after every thing was done and I rebooted I noticed desktop effects in compiz were disabled. So I thought to myself I know they worked […]
Visual Studio 2010 Review
I recently downloaded Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft’s Dreamspark website. After a nearly 2 hour install completed, I promptly opened it up and started exploring. The first time opened it I noticed that the user interface is drawn with WPF. […]