Monthly Archives: October 2009

It’s amazing what a bit of publicity can do. Theo Valich of http://www.brightsideofnews.com asked me if he could republish my blog on his site. I didn’t see why not. I knew it would generate hits, discussion, flamewars and all that. … Continue reading →

That’s what I’ve been wondering… Sometimes you hear rumours where you think “Okay, that’s obviously not very plausible, why do people repeat it blindly?” Where do those rumours come from anyway? For example, here’s one I’ve been hearing quite often: … Continue reading →

Today I found the final release of the Vista Platform Update waiting for me on Windows Update. That means that DirectX 11 is now available for every Vista user as well as every Windows 7 user. I’ve done a bit … Continue reading →

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bhmfileformat/ The BHM file format was created by Scali and Samuel Rødal in 2003. At the time they were both involved in the demoscene group Bohemiq, which is where the BHM file format got its name from.The goal was to … Continue reading →

A few days ago I recorded a jam to try out my new Line6 Pod X3 Live some more, and I posted it on YouTube: I also posted it on some guitar forums, as I usually do, to get some … Continue reading →

After some rather extensive rewriting and extending of the code, I managed to get the library to compile in gcc. I’ve compiled it and ran it on my FreeBSD box, which has a Pentium II at 350 MHz. Here are … Continue reading →

AMD’s beta4 SDK has fixed the decorated naming problem. They now have clean naming and stdcall functions, analogous to OpenGL. So I think the AMD SDK in its current form is ‘correct’.nVidia has conceded that they didn’t use stdcall, however, … Continue reading →

A while ago, I started on my CPUInfo project at http://cpuinfo.sourceforge.net/. The goal is to provide developers with an easy way to determine (at runtime) what kind of CPU their code is running on. By knowing about things like cache … Continue reading →

After reading this blog on Anandtech: The State of OpenCL & the First End-User OpenCL Drivers, I decided to try out the CPU-based OpenCL implementation… And what a surprise… the OpenCL applications I compiled with nVidia’s SDK wouldn’t run, because … Continue reading →