Days 3 and 4 of IEEE Visualization

Posted by cpbotha on October 31st, 2007 in · 3 Comments

On Day 3 (Tuesday) the actual Visualization conference kicked off with awards and a keynote by Rick Stevens of the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Prof…

Second day of IEEE Visualization 2007

Posted by cpbotha on October 29th, 2007 in · 2 Comments

What an imaginative title!..

First day of IEEE Visualization 2007

Posted by cpbotha on October 29th, 2007 in · 2 Comments

Hi there gang!
I’m spending the week in the Hyatt Regency Sacramento (that’s in California, US and A!) at the IEEE Visualization 2007 conference…

Running mxit in mpowerplayer on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04)

Posted by cpbotha on October 21st, 2007 in · 4 Comments

I’m peppering this with enough keywords so that other idiots will be able to find this easily…

Parallel Python

Posted by cpbotha on October 13th, 2007 in · 4 Comments

Somehow I missed this when searching for something like it the previous time, but Parallel Python (now found via Bruce Eckel’s blog) is exactly what I’ve been looking for.  A simple process pool that can run on multiple cores or on a cluster of machines!..

Even more GMail (also for domains) storage for free!

Posted by cpbotha on October 12th, 2007 in · 0 Comments

This official GMail blog post announces that the GMail storage counter will be increased even faster… let’s have a look at my gmail.com account:
You are currently using 1541 MB (52%) of your 2911 MB…

My PalmOS-based GTD setup

Posted by cpbotha on October 7th, 2007 in · 0 Comments

HI THERE GANG! If you don’t like long-winded introductions, skip to the bit starting with “THE NITTY GRITTY”…