There’s a great tool to master control over your harddrives, and it’s called hdparm. It has many options but this article will only cover those relevant to power saving. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a great tool to master control over your harddrives, and it’s called hdparm. It has many options but this article will only cover those relevant to power saving. Read the rest of this entry »
Some time ago I wrote about building a NAS with Ubuntu Server on the Intel Atom platform. This nifty little processor, when combined with NVIDIA ION, can easily be used to build a full-fledged HTPC. Read the rest of this entry »
Compiler optimisation flags can be quite helpful in bringing the (sometimes huge) duration of your OMNeT++ simulations to an acceptable level. Using a compute cluster can help, but even then the execution of a single process can take many hours for large networks. So let’s look at how you compile your code; I got a speed-up of approximately 10 times on some of my simulations. Read the rest of this entry »
OMNeT++ simulations can export an eventlog. Though the manual is pretty complete about it, I’ll summarise it here. Read the rest of this entry »
After an update of GCC (on Kubuntu 11.10) this error shows up when running simulations after recompilation.
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