Slideshow of my travel to New York. Five days in the Big Apple. You can see the complete set of pictures here.
Archive for August, 2007
New iMac
08Aug07No surprises. Aluminum and glass. The new iMac is even nicer than previous one.
And I love this comparison with a Dell…
Media Center Solutions (2)
05Aug07I’m beginning to fall in love with Shuttle barebones. This is the SG33G5, available for 325 EUR,
It is quite nice looking machine, with a very small form factor. With a very low noise level, it is also a suitable machine for a media center, where it could be connected to a HDTV though the HDMI [...]
The Problem with select()
04Aug07select() is a relatively expensive operation. Well, it is never described as such in operating system courses, but it is in fact, specially when you design programs that handle a lot of file descriptors. Let’s see why.
Most servers work in the following way. When a new client connects and a session starts, the server establishes [...]
Brainstorming
01Aug07From Frans Johansson’s book The Medici Effect:
Brainstorming [is] used in nearly all of the world’s largeset companies, nonprofits, and government organizations. And the reasons seem obvious… “The average person can think of twice as many ideas when working with a group than when working alone.”… But is it true?
In 1958… psychologists let groups of four [...]
