on September 3rd, 2010 by adminThe GPU is easily the most expensive component in one’s PC. If you are a gamer, it is essential to render the virtual world in high resolution, brilliant colors and flawless animation – whatever the price is.
But what about it’s idle hours, days? Can the price/performance ratio be improved on this investment?
Absolutely.
CUDA stands for Compute [...]
Being new to Mac OS, I share a couple first impressions.
After the first few days I was wondering why is that I rather open a web browser in the Mac OS rather than on Windows, when I was browsing Flickr photos with my Deep Dive application. Then I did a side by side comparison on [...]
You are reading this post because you want to see your Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – retail – running under VMWare.
Can be done. Not my wisdom, but this post probably gives you a good compilation of the necessary steps – and saves a day of your precious life
Prerequisites: You have the [...]
With Windows 7 offering a Virtual PC for XP Mode, one wonders whether that Virtual PC could run Linux also.
Yes, it can run Linux, and I tested it with Centos 5.
To start with the conclusion of the exercise, you can make it work, but if you are serious about virtualization, you better use VMWare. And [...]
I do. I really do.
Windows 7 brings back the same feeling as Windows 3.1 when I installed that in the early 90s.
I was a hardcore XP fan for years, completely skipped Vista – did not even spend a single minute with that. Windows 7 completely surprised me with it’s beauty, ease of use, and lots [...]
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When you are using a dynamic IP address and want to remotely login to your computer using VNC or Remote Deskttop it can be very annoying to discover that your IP address has just changed. The IP can change based on a timer, or it can change when the power goes out for a minute [...]
There are days when one loses a lot of time, and I mean a lot, troubleshooting a problem on his computer. I had to reinstall various software packages following a hardware malfunction last week. I got to the point where I was ready to reinstall my video capture device, drivers, software, and give it a [...]
Deep Dive appeared on the Flickr blog today. This is great news, unfortunately my server was not able to handle the immediate flood of new users and new requests. Currently working with my web hosting provider to increase memory.
A few hours later… awesome news. My web host, Webkeepers.com announced new hosting plans. Talk about lucky [...]
After months of pondering, analyzing, theorizing, researching, calculating, designing, programming, testing, fixing, improving, polishing, hosting, optimizing and not the least learning … here we are: Deep Dive, the coolest Flickr navigator app.
My cloud app, running on Ruby on Rails. Enjoy!
Feedbacks welcome!
Oh, did I mention that I had and having fun with it too?
A milestone in my life of software engineering, today I entered the magical world of Cloud Computing. I own my Virtual Private Server, leaving behind the cumbersome limitations of the usual web-hosting services. Day one impressions are very positive, although it is too early to see a full picture – still in the middle of [...]