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One of the most difficult data recovery tasks I’ve done in my career.

 Well that went pretty well. A good crowd of 30 of our engineers and a couple folks from management checking in.

The end result is here:

OpenMP Powerpoint Presentation

Reminder to self - prepare a 1 hour presentation on OpenMP. Compare OpenMP to other solutions.

Notes:
(from Intel Thread Building Blocks Book) “For instance, Intel’s Math Kernel Library
(MKL) and Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library are implemented
internally using OpenMP. You can freely link a program using Threading Building
Blocks with the Intel MKL or Intel IPP library.?

I am working on a site for Friends of Modern Architecture in Lincoln, which is expected to be low traffic but informational to those who need it. Who to have host it? This was a question I asked a few years ago for this very site. It has to be inexpensive, and I prefer Linux. Godaddy has some pretty nice Linux options at less than $8 per month.

Can I get secure FTP on my godaddy server? Hmmm, not that I can see.

IEEE Standard Z39-18-1995 was pointed out at work today as a good standard technical report format. I should consider using it for my own reports, as I think I would benefit from a standard look to my work. Using the outline should also make it easier to get to writing the report as I need spend less time worrying about the format.

I need to show some ASP.NET example work. Ok, I have a proxy from apache to my XP box. And I have IIS set up. I can serve index.htm “HELLO”, why can I not get an asp page showing. No doubt I need to configure to serve ASP. Ok, not sure but maybe it was the reboot? Nope - ISS won’t serve an empty file apparently. I needed the “Good Morning” text to be visible. Now I need a simple ASP example.
ASPX is the file extension for an ASP.NET page. This is in fact the successor to ASP.

I’ve been using my Elura 100 in wide screen mode. Now the video that I capture with iMovie is squashed. What to do?

Wide-screen fans will appreciate the Elura 100’s true wide-screen CCD sensor. Though it’s not high definition, it still provides a sharper 16:9 image than sensors that crop the top and bottom to achieve this wide aspect ratio. This native 16:9 support is reflected in the camcorder’s 2.7-inch, 123,000-pixel wide-screen LCD.

The movie is capture in 4:3 and I want 16:9, the conversion is 720×480 -> 720×405.

Looks like I might be able to use Final Cut Express in ‘anamorphic’ capture mode.
Yes, this works.

Now I am dropping frames during capture. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305284

I noticed while reading a Webkit blog that the page didn’t scan as well as a Huffpo page I had been reading earlier. The difference in clarity is the font. Now I notice that my site use a font on the less than easy to scan side. Time for an update.

I’m going over what I hope is a fool proof development install procedure for a large project. I need to include specific versions of gcc, and I think it might be nice to run the gcc tests, since all of this is automated anyway. Which brought me to expect. Sounds like I would do well to know this tool, and possibly it will be useful in the testing of the very project I’m working on.

While writing up the plan I have been assuming we would use svn. I really like svn, but it may be that git is better suited as one of the difficult constraints I have is supporting development on air gapped machines. One comparison note appears here. A long paper on Distributed (git) vs. Centralized (svn) development appears here.

It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but I will mention it here. Java needs const; and it should work just like it does in C++. Some people will tell you that final suffices, but it does not.

Look into where I should complain.

David Tribble has a complete exposition on what const should look like in Java here.

I keep thinking about Naur’s presentation, as well as Leonid Perlovsky’s course on neural networks and intellect. I may not be able to get a computer to think for itself, but I may be able to get a computer to help me focus on what I am thinking about. In some ways Google does something similar, but it is not very far beyond simple word association.