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Category Archives: computers

Performance Monitoring with OProfile

oprofile is a low overhead, open-source tool that hooks into Linux and can keep track of CPU event monitoring information. This is a fairly general statement and for this post I’ll be using the Intel Penryn microarchitecture, which should have similar event counters to most recent Intel processors. You can get the canonical [...]

./configure –enable-study-mode

Well, I’m currently running under the assumption that I have a math test tomorrow. Therefore I should be studying, correct? I assure you I’ll get to the point of studying soon. First, however, I want to explain to you how I went from reading notes about birth-and-death processes to updating the ports [...]

Taking Math Notes on Mac OS X

I’ll begin with a story. Last week I was taking notes in my mathematics class when the graphite in my mechanical pencil broke. No big deal. Well, not quite, it turns out that the pencil had no more graphite left. So I fall back to my emergency pen with plans to [...]