Recently I've been working with the transport synchronization capabilities of the JACK audio server. This article is a report on those capabilities as tested with a variety of Linux audio applications ...

The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

One would expect that doubling the processing power available to an application would double the application performance or cut the run time in half. Unfortunately, HPC users know this is far from ...

Once upon a time, computers were very expensive and you were lucky to have shared access to one computer. While that might seem to be a problem, it did have one big advantage: all of your files were ...

A few months ago, our own Jon Stokes bemoaned the frustration of managing and accessing data strewn across a multitude of personal computing devices. His description of the challenges of syncing and ...