What is the defference between 64-bit and 32-bit machine?

Is 64-bit better? More accurate? More faster? Or just can hold large files or RAM?

Force delete VMWare manually!

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1308

It bothered me much.

OMG. RAW time series used in CORR.

What had I done!

How to become a successful man.

To succeed depends on two things: opportunity and ability. The later is a prerequisite, and it contains many aspects. So, you should get everything you could lay hands on. No waiting, no delay, and no stop.

BERN42 seems has a serious problem.

A program call ADDCAMP eat up all CPU. Wow! ...?%$@

VMWare Workstation 6 is out!

There is a great improvement in VMWare Workstation for FreeBSD: the mouse can automatically get out of VMWare machine when moved out and get grapped when moved into the guest OS windows.

Great!

Cannot connect remote SUN workstation using XManager.

It nearly freaked me out that my laptop cannot establish connection with a Sun SPARC workstation with XManager (xstart) at home. However, I can connect to it when in the same sub-network. I tried allow the port in WinXP's network firewall settings, but with no success.
What happened! I remembered I could do so previously.

How to use XSLT in FreeBSD?

I cannot find a suitable port for XSLT?

What is the right commands?

No News & BBS from now.

Sometimes I think it's a little waste of time.

However, I am a bit net-addicted. ^_^

So, please have the courage to say No to internet.

IDL 6.4 is out.

The PDF version of Analyst document is included in the IDL Help HTML documents now. A good improvement.

Raining

No rain for a long time.
There are many ways to success. Just do what you think is right. And don't look back. Get the best out of yourself. Haha...

Secretes of ENVI_READ_COLS

I have been wandering why ENVI_READ_COLS read things so fate since I use IDL function txt_readall. I figured out the reason this evening.

The method used by ENVI_READ_COLS is:
1). Get the number of lines of the ASCII matrix;
2). Get the number of columns of the ASCII data matrix;
3). Read in the data by using "readf" procedure.

That's it.

Thus, the key to the speed lies in--How to get the number of lines fastly? This is the task of ENVI_NUM_ASCII_LINES. Its syntax is:
num_lines = ENVI_NUM_ASCII_LINES(file)

It seems that ENVI_NUM_ASCII_LINES use BYTE mode to search for Return and Carriage It read 10 lines each time.. I still didn't knnow a way to achieve this.

The target of mine is to write an IDL procedure to do those things.

GAMIT in FreeBSD runs faster now. ^_^

After upgrade to 512M + Kingston 1G DDR-II 667 RAM, the VMWare guest OS FreeBSD was assigned 512M RAM. And now it runs faster now. Haha...

By the way, many thanks to Kingston for dropping the price sharply in the past few weeks. :)

GAMIT runs much slower in notebook than in desktop PC.

The desktop PC configuration:
AMD Athon 2500+ CPU (1.8GHz)
512M DDR-333
Maxtor Harddisk 7200RPM 40G
Windows XP Pro SP2
VMWare Workstation 5.0
Guest OS: FreeBSD 6.2 (256M RAM)
GAMIT/GLOBK V10.30

The notebook configuration:
Duro Core 1.66GHz*2
T5500
Toshiba 5400 RPM 80G
1G DDR-II 667
Windows XP Pro SP2
VMWare Workstation:
Guest OS: FreeBSD 6.2 (308M RAM)

It seems that it took more time for GAMIT to get a solution in notebook than in desktop PC. Should notebook be only used for word processing and entertainment? I had thought that notebook was a good choice for running GAMIT.

Sharp drop in memory price. Bought two pieces.

The price of Kingston's 1G DDR-II 667 momory (for notebook) has dropped nearly 50% in the past several week. As a person who is short of memory storage, I bought two pieces today with a price I thought was reasonable (250Yuan each), although some guys warned that the price will be further down in the near future. Ha.. Who knows?

So strong wind in Beijing.

The wind is so strong that sometimes I cannot walk again the wind in the street. Dust were blowed into the sky, which often blurs my eyes. This kind of wind is seldom seen in Beijing in the past few years. Fortunately, there is no heavy dust cloud. And the sky is just as blue as that at the countryside.

Vista freaked me out.

Vista run slowly on my new HP NX6330 box (with 1G RAM). And it keeps crashing (blue-screen) since installed. Maybe it is because of shortage of appropriate drivers for vista. But DO NOT try it again. It's only a waste of time.