Git makes website maintenance easy too!

We’re gearing up to release our first program for the general public in quite some time, so we’re going to need a real website again, rather than the one-page placeholder that I put up several years ago. The last time I had to design a website was before the turn of the century. I started …

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Linux compiles and massive IOWait delays, Part III

Remember the last IOWait delay entry, a couple days ago? If you took a look recently, you’ll have noticed a big WARNING! label on the top. There’s a good reason for that. Everything was going along fine, but I started noticing some little problems (such as, the restart button on the shutdown dialog wouldn’t actually …

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Linux compiles and massive IOWait delays, Part II

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The changes below are NOT RECOMMENDED! See part III for details! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! It’s been several weeks since I touched on this subject last, and I’m sorry to say that the solution I came up with in the earlier article just wasn’t good enough. It was forcing the system to swap, …

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Linux compiles and massive IOWait delays

As mentioned previously, I use a 13″ mid-2009 MacBook Pro as my development machine, with virtual Linux and Windows machines running under Parallels. All was mostly well, except that I’m doing a lot more compiling in the last few months than I had been previously, and the IOWait problem on the Linux VM — always …

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“New York City gets a Software Engineering High School”

This sounds like an awesome idea. It’s a “limited, unscreened” school. […] It means that any student who is interested can apply–their grades and attendence record are not taken into account in deciding whether or not to admit them, only their interest. I think this is the best thing about the school. A lot of …

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“A Very Portal Christmas Tree”

For those of you who don’t know, there’s a rather famous game called Portal. From the Wikipedia entry: […] The game primarily comprises a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects using “the handheld portal device”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes. …

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“Technology confuse lizard! Lizard no like!”

I can’t figure out whether this is EPIC LIZARD-BRAIN FAIL or simply hilarious. Maybe I’ll settle for both. I especially find it amusing when, between rounds, the lizard looks up at the guy behind the camera, as if he really wants to convey his disgust at the proceedings. Here is a short clip of a …

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