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  1. Re:I am still waiting... on Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire · · Score: 1

    Upgrading to Silverlight 3 improved the on-demand image quality and fixed the annoying screen lock issue (at least for me on 64-bit Vista). Now if they could just get some more good movies on there...

  2. canadian? on egcs to become gcc · · Score: 1

    What is a "canadian cross?"

  3. Program Parallelism? on Fermi's 2000 Node Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    One good choice is Cilk. It is freely available and easy to use: all you have to do is insert a few keywords into your C code, and function calls can be spawned onto another processor. The code itself is not dependent on the machine specifics (i.e. number of processors) because that is all handled by the Cilk runtime system. The main version is for SMPs and there is also a distributed version.