Frontier Computing and Network Systems

CUDA error — unsupported GNU version! gcc 4.5 and up are not supported!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:27:01 PST

Hay guise, Just to spread this info, it is possible to run your nvidia CUDA SDK on systems with gcc >4.4 by editing the common.mk files in sdkpath/CUDALibraries/common and sdkpath/C/common. After wasting a lot of time finally found the source for the fix here and here CXX := g++-4.4 -fPIC CC := gcc-4.4 -fPIC LINK read more »

Multiprocess FOAF fetching with python and rdflib.

Andrei — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:09:20 PST

Today I’m going to share a little python script, mostly because I’ve been looking for examples on how to do this, and surprise surprise I have found none. What this script does is to first fetch all foaf:name relations from a list of FOAF cards, and then to display these relations in a friendly manner read more »

Rant about computer architecture future

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:37:55 PST

Greetings, I’m Z, and I will post some stuff with Andrei here. Main theme of my posts will be Computer Architecture (and the future of it / research directions) and random small things that can help people (things that you spend 3 hours searching for, for example). As starters, I’ll (mindlessly) rant a bit about read more »

Facebook vs Google+ vs Twitter vs LinkedIn

Andrei — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:44:57 PST

We use social media sites like Facebook and Google+ all the time, often without considering the risks involved. How much of our information is being collected? Privacy settings have been put in place, but that doesn’t mean that our information is completely protected. This survey intends to compare different privacy settings as well their common read more »

MyProfile Project

Andrei — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:23:52 PDT

I am proud to announce that today we have launched the project MyProfile, as part of my PhD thesis at TELECOM SudParis. MyProfile intends to provide a solution for managing the numerous accounts and profiles that users have on the Internet. Its main purpose is to provide a unified user account, or simply ‘user profile’, read more »

Releasing WebIDauth v0.1

Andrei — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:02:33 PDT

What is WebIDauth? WebIDauth is a PHP authentication service for WebID enabled FOAF profiles, aiming to provide a service similar to foafssl.org. It is this library that is powering https://auth.fcns.eu. Functionalities Right now, WebIDauth supports the following functionalities: checks if the SubjectAltName filed contains something else other than the webid uri, and only processeses the read more »

Exporting certificates from Firefox store using pk12util

Andrei — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:34:26 PDT

If you ever want to export a certificate (with it’s keys) from Firefox but you have no access to Firefox itself (the GUI), then I have a solution for you. It is based on “certutil” and “pk12util”, two command line utils. I am assuming that you are in your home directory (i.e. ~/). You can read more »

How to serve a WebID using Apache’s .htaccess file

Andrei — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:47:56 PDT

Having updated my FOAF profile lately to include my WebID, I had to set up a way to serve the foaf profile based on the type of HTTP request. Meaning that when a browser requests the document as text/html, it gets redirected to a php script which uses some libraries to print a user-friendly version read more »

WebID Test Suite

Andrei — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:20:13 PDT

Hello everyone! I am proud to announce that I have finally finished implementing several basic functionalities for a WebID test suite, as part of a personal project related to my PhD research. You can access it by going to this link: http://webid.fcns.eu/ (the link is temporary, as I am still deciding where to host it). read more »

Taming the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 mouse under Linux

Andrei — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:00:18 PDT

Finally it is here! My new and shiny gaming mouse is everything I ever hoped for…except if I try using it under Linux. Somehow it gets “stuck” in the first window, and I can’t use it without restarting X. At the moment of writing this post, there is still no official patch, even though the read more »