This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.

Install, configure, and extend open source Ganglia to effectively monitor a data center

For years, I've been getting my weather from Firefox plug-ins, usually ForecastFox. The trouble with these is they have to update every few minutes, causing a brief lag in bandwidth and even a small blip in performance if you're using some other program while Firefox is running. Recently, my ForecastFox started misbehaving for no particular reason. It would blank out and freeze up and so on.

"As expected, GNU Emacs 23 enters the so-called pretest stage. This means, defined numbered snapshots of the current development head are made, 23.0.90 being the first one ..."

What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash.

"After providing a Lisp-like facility for interactive development to Firefox, it was only fair for the cute panda to return the favor and lend some rendering power to Emacs..."

Git is a free distributed revision control, was initially created by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It is primarily developed on Linux, but can be used on other Unix operating systems including BSD, Solaris and Darwin. Git is extremely fast on POSIX-based systems such as Linux. It differs from svn and creates a private repository on a remote server too.

Some months back I developed some pyuno code for converting spreadsheets into CSV files from the command line. Pyuno being the Python interface to the OpenOffice runtime. One of the enhancement suggestions I got was to add the ability to extract all the sheets and/or a specific sheet rather than always extracting the first sheet. The following update to the code does just that.