“Program the way, John does”

Carmack. id Software coding standards were basically “program the way John does” … I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion. Pure glory. [...]

China’s nVidia GPU supercomputer is world’s fastest

This is simply incredible – China’s Tianhe 1A is now the world’s fastest supercomputer.  Built using Xeons and nVidia Tesla systems, they churn out 2.5 petaflops. This is government funded – what I cant understand is, how come the Indian govt is so incompetent. ‘Though it will be a real-time system with Windows software…..’ Enough [...]

Clang builds working linux kernel

This is huge… very huge. It has the potential to take Linux to the next level – not just by creating a faster linux. No. I believe, like OSX, it can lead to the next generation app development infrastructure – by leveraging the VM,  true platform independence and freedom from glibc hell.

Swype is growing more and more painful – love SlideIT and ShapeWriter (more)

I’m a genuine beta customer for Swype – yet they are making it so painful to use it. Just lock it to an IMEI number and get it done with. My Swype stopped working after I upgraded to Froyo 2.2 Plus the problems with them using a non-standard installer means there are gazillions of users [...]

Installing a HP Officejet 4500 Network Printer in Ubuntu

Download the latest version of HPLIP from http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/ (forget the ubuntu standard repository) Preferably set the printer to a static IP (using the small display and some tiresome typing) Install the following packages: python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus libsnmp-dev libsane-dev libcups2-dev libusb-dev python-dev Run the hplip-x.xx.xx.run from the commandline. Choose the automatic install option. When the installation is [...]

Kde and xmonad’s love child

I see the dull looking xmonad’s out-of-this-world multi monitor setup and salivate. That is the way more and more people are working towards. But it doesn’t help that xmonad is esoteric to configure (by the grandma test). Enter kde. Overlooking kde’s questionable disco dance ui, what you have is one of the worlds best libraries [...]