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Community Building Pays Off
Take a look at our new featured community member on the Manageability Community main page. Javier has been an avid user of the forum for a long time, not only asking great questions but posting answers as well. He is also becoming a regular blog author with contributions that are very informative an …
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The Fudge Factor, Spring 2009
An online Wired interview with Dan Ariely delves into Dan’s corpus of research analyzing the basic questions of cheating who what where how and why a little more intensely than the average study. Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and MIT is also the author of the book …
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Microsoft MVP Award
I just learned today that I have been awarded a Microsoft MVP award for 2009 which, like the Intel Black Belt Developer award, recognizes those who contribute to the developer communities both online and offline. Doug Holland's MVP Profile I am honored to be recognized as a Microsoft MVP and an In …
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Your "pat on the back" opportunity for the day
Want to do some good for the day to get some personal satisfaction? Whether you've had a bad day and need to make it better or are cruising along in the clouds and want to stay on top, here's a REALLY cool way to help someone in need. And did I mention this is at no cost to you? Intel does a lot of …
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Repeat Coolness: Emotiv Systems @ GDC
Adjusting the headset contacts Getting the headset calibrated Discussing the Emotiv interface Gina with Emotiv co-founder, Tan Le After making big news at the GDC 2008 show, Emotiv Systems made GDC 2009 a repeat performance with a big splash in our Intel Lounge area! Emotiv Systems is p …
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The future of Visual Computing - one possibility.
How will the average person benefit from the advances in visual computing in the near future? Imagine these possibilities in the life of a typical business user. Given the recent advances, and those on the near horizon, I would love to hear your predictions for when a scenario like this might become …
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Doctor Fortran in "I've Come Here For An Argument"
One of the most fundamental aspects of Fortran programming is passing arguments to procedures. It is also one of the most misunderstood aspects. In this space today I'll try to make things clearer. First, some terminology. In Fortran, there are "actual arguments" and "dummy arguments". An actual …
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Visual Studio Team Test 2008 Quick Reference
An 88 page quick reference guide for Visual Studio Team Test 2008 can now be found on CodePlex here.
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Parallel Programming Talk - John West on deploying parallel applications on super computers
On today's Parallel Programming talk Clay and Aaron talked with Super Computing center expert John West about issues and opportunities for improving how parallel applications are scaled and deployed onto 5000+ node super computers. First the news: Intel Threading Challenge 2009 After the success of …
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Parallel Programming Talk - The Art of Concurrency by Dr. Clay Breshears & Gergana Slavova talking …
March 17th Show Notes Aaron talked with Dr. Clay Breshears, Intel's Concurrency Content Concierge, Parallel Programming Community Technical Guru and Intel Software Network Black Belt about his new book The Art Of Concurrency. First The News: Parallel Studio Webinar every Tuesday at 9:00AM PST until …
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Code your Future...and win a prize!
It's here!! The Intel Threading Challenge 2009 contest has been announced. Visit the official contest web page to get the details and sign up for participation. This year, we'll be running things a little quicker than we did for the previous contest. There will be two separate contests held this y …
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Installing VMware Tools on your VM Created Using ESXi
Have you ever seen the dreaded message while installing tools on a VM created on ESXi? “Unable to install VMware tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file quick solution to this problem is: • Copy the .ISO file /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso from the same or a similar versio …
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The C# Programming Language Version 4.0
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 will soon be in beta and there are some excellent new features that we can all get excited about with this new release. Along with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 we will see version 4.0 of the C# programming language. In this blog post I t …
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Web References on Intel Virtualization Technology
Every so often people ask me for references on Intel virtualization technology. Below are a few helpful links that have served me well, whether it's getting broadly clued in on a technology like VT-d or looking up the particulars of MSR bit semantics. A good starting point for all things virtual at …
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Learning from the Mobile Internet Pros at SXSW (Pt 2 of 2)
In Part1, I wrote about some of the devices we took to SXSW. Basically, some of the smallest computers in the world! In Part 2 I want to talk about the interaction we had with the attendees and to highlight some of the feedback we got. Who was at SXSW? Simply, some of the brightest, most creative an …
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Game Developers Conference® 2009 Impressions
I’ve attended every GDC since 1996 and must say that I was actually pleasantly surprised by this one. For starters I expected the economic climate would have had much more of an impact but thankfully not as much as I predicted. Attendance seemed to be down; however spirits were high. The GDC snapsh …
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What is your blogging personality?
A new website analyzes text through word choices and usage, and then makes a determination of the personality type of the person who wrote the text. One interesting application of this technology is to send the website a link to your blogs and see how it responds. Here’s the link to the Typealyzer …
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Sharing Virtual Disks Among VMs using VMware* ESX Server
As I was playing around in the VMware* VI Client, I noticed that I could create a virtual drive that can be shared between my VMs on different systems. This comes in handy in saving some disk space. It’s also a nifty trick and an excuse to play with another feature. Since the backup files are rea …
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Task Parallel Library Beta 1
It has been six months since the last CTP build of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) was released within the .NET Framework 4.0 build distributed at Microsoft PDC in October last year. On the team blog today a post detailing some of the changes that have been made to the library since the Visual Studi …
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Accelerate! - Highlighting Development Resources and Opportunity to Win a Marketing Campaign
In these competitive and challenging times, accelerating your software development to get to market sooner can be key to success. The Intel® Software Partner Program launched our Accelerate! campaign to highlight valuable development tools and resources to help our members to complete their softwar …
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