Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank in 'Million Dollar Baby'
Cast: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman Plot: Clint is a boxing instructor – and a very good one at that. He works on creation of perfect boxers and avoids the flashy grand fights. Hillary is a waitress who wants to make a mark in her life by being a boxer. The movie is about how Hillary convinces Clint to train her ad how she reaches the highs of boxing fame. The movie is about the vicissitudes of life -- the highs and the lows. Rating: A very touching movie with brilliant performances.
Affinity (of process) – set of processors the thread can run on. It will run on the subset of this affinity
Ready (subdivisions):
Ready in: the resources are in memory , thread in dispatcher queue
Ready out: process selected as not being in the balanced set. Go to process ready queue.
Free pages list
Quantum end event
Boost and decay
Active Matrix – scanned after preemption (affinity – priority matrix)
Ready queue – ready summary (bits)
(wait OR timeout) can be set
Thread object has memory allocated for up to three wait blocks for efficiency.
Express Wait: when the client thread is running the server thread waits; when the server threads runs, the client thread waits.
APC: run procedure in the context of a thread (kernel mode)
In user mode APCs happen only when the thread is alert-able (not exported)
Chained interrupts
Balance set manager
Calculates balance set
Schedules in and out swapping of kernel stacks
Boosts thread priority to avoid inversion (every second 1 quantum)
Priority inversion: system is idle. Low priority thread gains access. It takes a critical section. High priority thread enters and is compute bound. A higher priority thread enters and seeks critical section.
I think having a shower in the evening is one of the best pleasures of life. It relaxes the body after a hectic day, it makes the muscles ‘let go’. The whole body feels so light. The shower washes away the weight of the day and makes me feel so light in the mind. And it’s such a great precursor to the sound sleep that inevitably follows. The mornings are brighter after a night of deep blissful sleep. I feel the skin glows more the day after. We spend a third of our lives in the evenings and having a shower is such a great way to enjoy it.
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Cate Blanchet Plot: Leo is a young man who just inherited a huge wealth. Although his family was into drilling oil, he goes on to produce a movie. This brilliant man pumps a lot of money in making movie with an eye for immaculate detail. The movie is a huge success. Leo then meets Cate and we see a romantic part of him. He is passionate about planes and soon becomes the fastest man on the planet. Leo has portrayed many colors in his character – ambitious, brash, brilliant and eccentric, among others. My rating: Nice, theater/play kind of appeal.
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger Plot: Cage’s family is the protector of a secret that has been passed down since the days of American independence. Cage goes ahead to unearth the secret – a treasure bigger than anything known to man. The story revolves around the many clues which lead to more clues to the treasure. As one can imagine, a roller coaster treasure hunt ride. At one point I also felt parallels between this movie and Da Vinci Code. My rating: Good action packed and fast paced.
Loading Uniprocessor image on HyperThreading system
If you've ghosted an image of a uniprocessor system on a HT machine, then your system will boot as a uniprocessor system. So, one of your logical processor is not being detected. The work-around to this problem is to edit the c:\boot.ini file to add the following entry
Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams and James Marsden in 'The Notebook'.
One of the most touching movies I’ve seen since a long tome. A very good love story.
The Plot: An old man regularly reads a book to an old woman. She is suffering from dementia and is under treatment. The book is about Noah, a countryside young man, and Allie, a city girl. These people meet during Allie’s summer visit to Seabrook. And they fall in love and they grow in love. But even before the summer holidays could end Allie is taken back to the city. There she completes her school and goes to college. Meanwhile Noah leaves his lumber business and joins the army. When Noah comes back to his hometown, he buys his dream home and rebuilds it to the exact specifications as he had promised to Allie. Meanwhile Allie falls in love with a rich army man and gets engaged. When Allie sees the house Noah built, she comes to Seabrook to visit him. This is where Allie discovers herself and what she really wanted.
The old man reading the story is Noah and the old woman is Allie.
To love and be loved is one of the best joys of life. Love makes it complete.
There are some things we can learn from kids. And if the kid is Calvin there’s a lot to learn. The satire in some of the comic strips can really make us pause for a moment and introspect. There was one such moment I had when I read one in which Calvin goes about rumbling on the way people behave and are not self aware. The recursion in the irony depicted made the reading even more absorbing.
I am me and I have the many roles I play. The daily activities that I undergo/perform are not actually by me. It is the actor in me. The actor takes upon many roles and responsibilities and performs them lifelong. Then who am I? I am the observer. The observer monitors the actions that I perform. The path to cognitive thinking and self consciousness is by discovering this observer. Once discovered give it some time. Feel its presence. And know the real you. If you want to transform the actors then you must start from the source, the observer.
At McGill University in Canada, one of its practitioners, a student named Alan Emtage, was busy developing a program that would enable people to find documents on the embryonic computer network known as the internet. He wanted to call it Archives, but the system he was using didn't allow names that long, so the first-ever search engine had to be called Archie instead.
Google. The California-based company, founded in 1998 by the Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, revolutionized the concept of searching.
A9, the search facility attached to the website of the bookseller Amazon.com, allows visitors to search the text and footnotes of books - real books, made of paper - before committing to purchasing them.
Science, in fact, will come to be measured as the expansion of our ignorance, rather than an expansion of our knowledge.
Google continues to be the market leader, and now commands around 42% of all internet searches.
