The C++11 standard finally introduced mechanisms for platform independent multithreading and thread synchronisation. Unfortunately, the new language standard lacks a popular synchronisation primitive called semaphore (see The Little Book of Semaphores for an introduction). Fortunately, the built-in mutexes and condition_variables can be used to build fully-fledged semaphore objects:

Just a short note about configuring Linux for using Apple’s nice Aluminium Keyboard: Linux uses the kernel module hid_apple to support this USB device. However, there are two problems:

Maybe the most elegant (obfuscated) way to generate a Sierpinski triangle :-)

main(){int k=1<<(6<<1);
while(k--){putchar((k>>
6)&~(k&((1<<6)-1))?(1<<
6-1):(1<<6));if(!(k&((1
<<6)-1)))putchar('\n');
}}

Maybe a good thing to start a personal blog with – my PhD thesis (published already in 2010) entitled High Performance Algorithms for Metabolic Flux Analysis.

You may download the PDF here.