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Why running sushi is the best fast-food?
I just realized that running sushi is the best fast-food ever. (Yes, I have strong opinions weakly held): You get you food in small chunks, so you can stop at any time and still don’t feel like you’ve wasted food You have a great variety of food and you can look at it before taking…
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Microbenchmarking and you
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Microbenchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance characteristics (like CPU, memory or I/O) of a small piece of code to determine which would be better suited for a particular scenario. If I could offer but one advice on this, it would be this: don’t. It is too easy…
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Doing some estimations
This is again one of those topics which I like to rant about, so I give you the short version: when you see a number, question it! Most of the numbers thrown at us in different media can be disproven quite easily and it is our responsibility as people not to just repeat whatever we’ve…
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Audio quality
This is just one of those topics which comes up from time to time in my life (probably because I consume a lot of media). I was recently watching the Jim Zemlin interviewed by Jeremy Allison (Jim Zemlin is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation) on the Google Open Source YouTube channel and was…
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Sorry for the malware warning!
If you have tried to visit my blog recently, you might have to a warning like this from your webbrowser: Warning: Something’s Not Right Here! hype-free.blogspot.com contains content from randaclay.com , a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site. … The source of the warning is…
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mytrendyphone.co.uk review
My assignment – which I choose to accept 🙂 – was to review a mobile accessories site, namely mytrendyphone.co.uk. All the signs for this site check out: It was registered a couple of years ago and didn’t move around much It has several real seals (real meaning that they are linked to the originating site,…
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Setting up IMAP with Yahoo! Mail
I’m a long time Yahoo Mail user. Just to illustrate how long I’ve been with them: when I joined the space available was a couple of MBs! I staid with them because I was mostly satisfied (never really caught the GMail bug), however recently I started looking for options to consolidate the different email accounts…
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Manually enabling IP routing in Windows XP
While Internet Connection Sharing is a nifty tool, there are some cases where you would like to do the steps manually. One such case would be if the “primary” network is already using the 192.168.0.1/24 address space, since ICS is hardcoded (as far as I can tell) to use the same network. One concrete case…
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Is hand-writing assembly still necessary these days?
Some time ago I came over the following article: Fast CRC32 in Assembly. It claimed that the assembly implementation was faster than the one implemented in C. Performance was always something I’m interested in, so I repeated and extended the experiment. Here are the numbers I got. This is on a Core 2 Duo T5500…
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How to quickly start up a webserver with Python
Sometimes you need to quickly start up a webserver that serves up static files (I will describe such a case in the next post). Python to the rescue (works on both Linux and Windows if you have Python installed): For Python 2.x (this is what most sites show you): python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9914 For Python…