going to Montana: ICMRM

In a few hours, I am leaving to visit the ICMRM, a conference about physics (magnetic resonance and stuff like this) in Montana. It will be my first time in America, but a very short time: just a week.

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Google Summer of Code end: code upload and acknowledgement

The Google Summer of Code 2009 final evaluation deadline is today; 19 UTC. I don’t have time to summarize my summer here now, but there are two things I want to say to the world. First, I want to thank many people for enriching my summer. Second, I would like to announce the Clobi project [...]

Mouse sensitivity issue in Source based games with wide screen setting

Some years ago, I liked playing Counterstrike (at last 1.6) professionally. The people who know what I’m talking about, also know that mouse/sensitivity/resolution configuration is crucial for success. These days, friends and me from time to time play Day of Defeat: Source and Team Fortress 2. In these games, I’ve lost a huge amount of [...]

Who writes Linux?

I’ve just read a very very interesting document called “Linux Kernel Development — How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It: An August 2009 Update” by The Linux Foundation.

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Small page update

Today I slightly changed the page style, to make it better readable.

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new system successfully tested:

Hello you out there!

I just started running the first serious test of the system I’ve developed during this year’s Google Summer of Code. If I wanted to put it in sensational words, the test could be called “Distribution of Particle Physics High Performance Computing Jobs among Multiple Computing Clouds”; just to get some readers [...]

Wordpress vulnerability: Remote admin password reset

Today, a way was presented how to reset an admin’s password of a WordPress installation, by just calling http://domain.dom/wp-login.php?action=rp&key[]=

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Measuring Z boson's mass at LEP:

How tides, lakes and trains influenced measured particle masses in the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN, is described in a very impressive and colorful way in a citation in this wikipedia article:

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“What’s faster–a supercomputer or EC2?” A reconsideration…

In his blog, Ian Foster recently presented What’s faster — a supercomputer or EC2?.

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Counting stuff in Python and assembling a histogram: analyze thread communication via os.pipe()

These days I built up an inter-thread communication via os.pipe(). While one thread is only writing to the “write end” of the pipe, the other thread is only reading from the “read end”.

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