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I recently purchases an Intel dual band AC-7260 pcie card to replace the existing wireless adapter in my desktop machine. Here’s the amzon link http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Wireless-Bluetooth-Desktops-7260HMWDTX1h-R/dp/B00X68U0SU. I installed the updated drivers from Intel using their driver udpate utility and all seemed to work fine, until I checked for speed. It was too low. After...

Affinity of a process can be retrieved and set within a C program using sched_getaffinity (man page) and sched_setaffinity (man page) routines available in the sched.h. The following are two examples showing these two methods in action. Get Process Affinity #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char* argvi[]) { ...

‘පොෂ්’ වීම ජීවිතය කරගත් මල් සිරි අප්පුහාමිලාගේ සෝමසිරි  තමාගේ නම ‘මෙල් සිරප් සෝම්’ ලෙස වෙනස් කර ගත්තේ ද වෙනකක් නිසා නො ව තම ගමට නිරන්තරයෙන් සිදු වන වල් අලි කරදර වාර්තා කිරීමට එන ඉංග්‍රීසි ජන මාද්‍ය හමුවේ පහසුවෙන් උච්චාරණය කිරීමට ය. එමෙන් ම හේනේ වැවෙන කැකිරිවලට ‘කෙකරි’ කීමටත් වම්බටු, මුරුංගා, බණ්ඩක්කා ආදි මෙකී නො කී සෑම දෙයක් ම පාහේ ‘වැදගත්’ ලෙස උච්චාරණය කිරීමටත් ඔහු වග බල ගත්තේ...

Photo credit goes to http://www.youdontknowjersey.com/2011/11/rare-october-snow-in-new-jersey-trees-that-didnt-need-to-fall/ ...

If you encounter an error similar to the following, which complains that GLIBCXX_3.4.9 could not be found, while running an application with Apache Spark you can avoid this by switching Spark's compression method from snappy to something such aslzf. ... Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: .../snappy-1.0.5.3-1e2f59f6-8ea3-4c03-87fe-dcf4fa75ba6c-libsnappyjava.so:...

The ability to refer (pass) methods in Java 8 is a convenient feature, however, as a programmer you might face the situtaion where some code that seemingly follow the correct syntax to refer a method that throws an exception gives a compilation error of anUnhandled Exception, which doesn't go away by wrapping the call in a try/catch or adding a throws clause to...

tl;dr - Use Dillinger and paste the formatted content directly to blogger Recently, I tried many techinques, which will allow me to write blogs in markdown. The available choice in broad categories are, Use makrdown aware static blog generator such as Jekyll or something based on it like Octopress Use a blogging solution based on markdown such...

My 10 month old son is pioneering his crawling skills and has just begun to cruise. It's been hard to keep him out of the shoe rack with these mobile skills, so I decided to make this little fence. Download Sketchup file Download PDF file Here's a video of the sliding lock mechanism I made. ...

I wrote an earlier post on the same subject, but just realized it's not detailed enough even for me to retry, hence the reason for this post. I've tested this in FutreGrid with Infiniband to run our C# based pairwise clustering program on real data up to 32 nodes (I didn't find any restriction to go above this many nodes - it was just the maximum I...