Thursday, June 14, 2007

Saladrex is bored

My server and network machine Saladrex is really bored. It barely reaches a CPU workload of 1%. Therefore I decided to help him out: I downloaded and installed BOINC via ports and it is now constantly calculating things for the FightAIDS@home project. It is really depressing though... I use BOINCView to monitor it's working and it tells me that Saladrex is able to make 538 MFLOPS. My Core 2 Duo machine Scylandara makes 766 MFLOPS but is only running on half work load. Here are some statistics:


BoxCPU(s)MemoryMFLOPS (at 50%)MFLOPS (at 100%)
ScylandaraCore 2 Duo @ 2,3 GHz1GB DDR27661632
SaladrexIntel Pentium 4 @ 1,8GHZ512MB DDR-SDRN/A538



And here we go:

Monday, June 11, 2007

TODO tags in Qt 3.8.x

I recently tried to rescale a QPixmap containing a PNG with alpha values via resize(). Do you think it worked? No it didn't:
QPixmap::resize: TODO: resize alpha data
I tried to overlay a battery icon with a fully transparent image just containing a blue bar which I tried to resize according to the percent of battery power left. Ha! Now I have to crop the image to the bar and place it directly in the image... damn.

Friday, June 1, 2007

I screwed with my MySQL

I have some problems with my MySQL client on my workstation though. Everytime I wish to connect to my MySQL server it wrongly assumes the IP of my workstation instead of the remote peer and connects to the wrong one. Though when I ping the server manually and through the error dialog of the MySQL Administrator the IP is correct. Is this normal?