Mario Jauvin's blog

I have always been fascinated, as many of you have been, by the unbelievable qualities demonstrated by true child prodigy.  One such person I have been especially fascinated by is the internationally acclaimed violinist Sarah Chang ( home page ,  @sarahchang ). There was no internet in 1986 when Sarah Chang auditioned at the tender age of 5 for Juillard playing Bruch's violin concerto.  However fortunately we can have a glimpse of what an unbelievable talent she had at this age thanks to a video of her playing around that age .  The sound and video quality is not great but it is such a fantastic historic artifact. When she had just turned 9 (I know lots say 8 but she turned 9 on December 10, 1989), Zubin Mehta then conductor of the New York Philharmonic called her up on Thursday January 11, 1990 to ask her if she would audition the next day.  After the audition he called her back to ask her if she could play the next day to replace then Concert master Gl...

This article is still very good even 8 years after its publications: Effective Java

The following document describes the methodology used at MFJ Associates for running a disk I/O benchmark.  This document assumes that the IOMETER software has been downloaded from www.iometer.org . IOMETER runs on Microsoft Windows as well as various flavors of Unix and Linux(referred to as *nix in this blog). It is made up of two components: iometer.exe a GUI program that only runs on Windows (which means you have to have at least 1 Windows desktop or server to run the GUI part) dynamo.exe or dynamo (on *nix) called the manager. In order to run a benchmark the Windows computer running iometer.exe must have TCP connectivity with the computer(s) where the benchmark will be performed.  Both must be able to connect to one another. How to run a benchmark Here is a high level view of running a benchmark. A detailed explanation will follow. You need to start the iometer.exe program on the Windows computer.  This will start the dynamo.exe program on that same compu...