These photographs, text and web page designs are © Copyright 1997 - 2024
Emmanuele Sordini, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
Contents may not be reproduced, published, copied or transmitted in any form, including electronically, without written permission of the author.

Tutti i contenuti (fotografie, testi e design del sito) © Copyright 1997 - 2023
Emmanuele Sordini, se non diversamente specificato. Tutti i diritti riservati.
I contenuti non possono essere riprodotti, pubblicati, copiati o trasmessi sotto alcuna forma, incluso per via elettronica, senza il permesso scritto dell\'autore.

Computing

Bluetooth Blues

While native serial ports have almost disappeared from modern laptops, COM port-mapped devices are very popular: USB ports, USB-to-serial adapters, Bluetooth devices, virtual devices, and so on… all of them are viewed as serial ports under Windows. Every time a new driver is installed, one or more COM devices are added and remapped to the first COM number available: this quickly causes the COM port number to shoot through the roof. As for my laptop, there have been quite a […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Computing 15 January 2007 0

Just back from JavaPolis

This is the first time ever I take part in a conference abroad (i.e. outside Italy). Although I stayed there only for one day and a half, I must really congratulate the BeJUG on the top-notch organization of this event. Here are the main strengths of this JavaPolis edition: Impeccable organization, capable of standing a 2800-person horde with virtually no glitch; High-quality agenda, with a lot of interesting speeches and hands-on sessions; Terrific all-u-can-eat and all-u-can-drink buffet with some real […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Computing 15 December 2006 0

Bound for JavaPolis

On the 13th of december, Fabrizio Giudici and I will be giving a short talk (as a BOF session) on a Java-based parallel computing project of ours. This very application describes an application of parallel computing to image processing, with a view also to astronomy-oriented tasks. You can find the full description of our BOF session at this link. Many of you may know that parallel computing applications have recently come of age. The so-called “Moore’s Law” of computing power […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Computing / Senza categoria 11 December 2006 0

These photographs, text and web page designs are © Copyright 1997 - 2024
Emmanuele Sordini, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
Contents may not be reproduced, published, copied or transmitted in any form, including electronically, without written permission of the author.
Tutti i contenuti (fotografie, testi e design del sito) © Copyright 1997 - 2023
Emmanuele Sordini, se non diversamente specificato. Tutti i diritti riservati.
I contenuti non possono essere riprodotti, pubblicati, copiati o trasmessi sotto alcuna forma, incluso per via elettronica, senza il permesso scritto dell'autore.