White Rabbits - Part 3
In White Rabbits – part 2, and on the last chart, we ran test 10 to see what happens when we run the test 9 environment (other threads running as part of application thread pool). Test 10 added the use of parallel_invoke to run the 2nd loop and 3rd loop as separate tasks. We saw some improvement in performance. Let’s see what happens when we extend to r

Alan Cox Elected to Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
The Linux Foundation recently announced the results of the 2009 election for the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). According to the Linux Foundation, "The TAB consists of ten members of the Linux kernel community who are annually elected by their peers to serve staggered, two-year terms. The TAB collaborates with the Linux Foundation on programs and issues that affect the Linux community. The TAB Chair also sits on

A Story about Black Friday, a Playstation 3, High-Definition, and my Home Theater!
Nearly five years ago I shelled out a few thousand dollars of my “allowance money” on a Sanyo PLV Z3 Projector and an 82” Stewart Screen for a DIY Home Theater Project I started. My reasoning for going the Projector route really came down to total cost. After all it would have been significantly more spendy to get a plasma screen of that size at the time. I’m running a 2004 vintage Pioneer DVD player, and a good enough Pioneer AMP (THX, DTS, etc). The package is completed with some college era JBL speakers, and a 5.1 Logitech sound system. While I may not win any awards for the most elegant setup in the world I’m still pretty happy with what I’ve been able to ‘piece-meal

White Rabbits - part 2
This is a continuation of my White Rabbits blog. Let’s go looking for some White Rabbits. The above represents a series of 10 test runs, with average, of a program running 5 different tests per run. Run on a quad core Intel Q6600. Test 1 is single threaded //

Howto: javascript objects with public and private data and functions
I've been coding like mad lately - pulling together code in Javascript, HTML and C++ for the web APIs that we're working on. See my other posts: here and here for more context. One thing that had been nagging me about my own practice coding in javascript is that I still hadn't started implementing javascript objects with private data and functions. I knew it was possible but since the actual code layout was not obvious (at least as obv