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I’ve started playing around with assembly once again and trying out AVX extensions on my 2month old Laptop’s Intel CPU.. ( I had forgotten it had a new CPU ) AVX instructions support 256bit payloads and that is fantastic , the newest versions of gcc automatically utilize the new instructions ( when gcc is configured [...]

Steam for linux launched today with some very low prices on a “games special offer” for the next week.. Although I already have many of the games that are featured on steam ( and I have them DRM free from humble bundle ) , counter strike source priced at 3.6 euro was really a bargain [...]

A great documentary about money , banks , loans , securities and a retrospect for the financial situation today See it @ Youtube IMDB Wikipedia

The Pirate Bay AFK , Torrent The Pirate Bay AFK @ Youtube

If you are running Ubuntu 12.10 and want to intall CUDA as mentioned in one of my earlier posts by default you can’t due to gcc 4.7 beeing incompatible with every availiable ( up to the time of writing this ) CUDA SDK The good news is that you can work around this by installing [...]

While compiling OpenCV 2.4.3 on my LUbuntu 12.10 machine today I came across a weird error , undefined reference to `cuDeviceGetAttribute’ .. Looking at the CUDA api this call hasn’t changed so that meant that something was going wrong linking the opencv binaries with the cuda libraries.. Taking a look using cmake-gui it turns out [...]

A very interesting book and film http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?page_id=407 http://www.indiegogo.com/SoftwareWars

Yesterday I bought a new laptop to have it around on my new job ( more details on my new job on another blog post I guess.. ) ! It is assembled in Greece by a Greek Company called Plaisio although it is made in china and just rebranded here.. One of the main reasons [...]

I have added a page on my webserver that extracts depth maps from an input of two images.. The images must be aligned in a way so that all the axis of the camera are parallel and the only difference is in the horizontal or “X” axis ( a translation to the right or left [...]

Today I heard a loud noise from the “UPS surgery room” .. When I went to check a bad smell and burn marks on the side of the battery further indicated that something was wrong The failure ( I think that ) was caused by overflowing battery fluids which touched the metal part of the [...]