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  • Update on room upgrade

    Ok. my workstation is back online, so is the router, but the servers are now officially off line for a while. Ill hopefully get them back tomorrow some time. My room is still in a state! there will be photos! I have a few. this room now has 26 soc...

  • Update for the week

    Ok. its been a busy week for me, and a unbusy week for posting on the site. So, here are a few updates. 1: i got confirmation about telling you where i work: Microsoft. Im back in Microsoft, after being away for a little over 5 months (actually it...

  • Unit testing for performance

    Jeremy Jarrell has a post talking about using Unit Testing to test performance. There is no point building a really cool application if the performance sucks.

  • Unit testing business logic without tripping over the DB

    Interesting article over at CodeBetter talking about Unit Testing Business Logic layers. Slow tests directly impact the velocity of a development team in a negative manner. When I was first out of college I was doing large engineering calculation...

  • Unicode Optical Character Recognition

     Link to Unicode Optical Character Recognition – The Code Project – C# Algorithmsextreamly interesting article over at the Code Project about Neural Networks and OCR. Very cool, and complicated, stuff!

  • Ultimate guide to Windows XP on the EEE

    A few weeks back i bought an [EEE][1], and i have been running [Ubuntu][2] on it since. Problem is i cant get it to talk to my wireless network in Work. So, i decided to build an nLite copy of XP and its currently up and running (minus one or 2 dr...

  • UK online to offer 8Mb/s broadband

    Uk online are offering 8mb/s broadband! 8mb/s! there is a 400k/s upload connection and you have a download cap of 500gb! thats cool. Slashdot are saying its going to cost 40 UK pounds a month (with is about 57EUR or 75USD). that is pretty cool.

  • Tyan's 40 CPU/Core personal supercomputer shipping now

    Now, this is cool! i want one of these! a personal super computer, with 40 cores, upto 60Gb of ram and 7 hard drives. I reckon it could be noisy though…

  • Tyan brings super computing to under your desk

    Tyan now have a new super computer for under your desk. Actually, they have 2. one takes dual core Opterons, and can take 8 of them, the other takes Pentium D processors, and can cope with 4 of them. The opterons max out at 64Gb of RAM, whilst the...

  • Twitter

    Interesting service, Twitter. Allows you to tell others, easly i my add, what your up to. You can update via Mobile phone (SMS messages), Instant messages (MSN is not included though..), via the Web or via their API. The API is extreamly simple. i...

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