So you need performance data on windows and you need it quickly. A pragmatic solution is daunting, you can read some registry keys and parse through the block of data it provides, there is the Performance Data Helper API, the WinSNMP library, or there is a COM interface through WPI...
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October 12, 2005
Free Intel C++ Compiler for Linux
Free compiler for Non-Commercial Use, find the link to "Free Non-Commercial Download" on the right hand side of this page . Supposedly has much better floating point optimization for ix86 platforms than GCC...
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October 16, 2005
CppSQLite3Statement + GCC 4.0.0 + /O2
I woke up about 2am this morning with a hankering to fix a memory leak... strange.Sqlite 3.2.7 had been leaking memory like a sieve. I guessed (correctly) that there was no problem with the library, and that the problem was with the C++ wrapper that I am using: CppSQLite3. Actually...
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October 26, 2005
Wrist pains
Starting on Sunday or Monday, my wrist began aching severely. Every time I grabbed the mouse, my ring finger and pinky went into spasms. It hurt to type, the base of my thumb was tender, and the top of my hand hurt along each bone...
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October 27, 2005
Fink versus Darwin Ports
I've found the Darwin Ports interface far more intuitive than Fink's dselect interface or finks apt-get interface. The 'port' command is very similar to apt-get, but easier because you don't need to specify the exact package name. My two cents.
October 31, 2005
ROCKS Cluster Software
Tried working on the Linux cluster today. ROCKS is a super good environment for working with MPI. Every command you type as a user is automatically run on all available nodes. File changes are synched instantly. I highly recommend ROCKS for MPI users.Unfortunately...
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