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First part of this blog post: Small Rants, that look more like something that came out of dreams...

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Rant #3 - This one is about the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Unfortunately I've never read the whole novel, but my mind crunched some numbers based on what I read on Wikipedia. You can see the summary here at Wikipedia. For more on the plot, see Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So,...

Well... I'm somewhat lazy, so instead of creating a personal blog elsewhere, I'll rant a bit more here at cfd-online.com/Forums, right here in my user blog


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Rant #1 - Technically, it seems that Google's name is explained here:

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#History

Nonetheless, today I noticed something interesting when I wrote somewhere [1]: ...

Finally finished writing a better page than this one at openfoamwiki.net: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell

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This blog post envisions to explain the advanced usages of OpenFOAM's shell environment. For now, only the most common ideas will be explained here, but the idea is to expand it to a size worthy for then moving to openfoamwiki.net.

1. New to Linux? Then Google "Linux tutorial" Although,

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This blog post is an effort to document the search for solutions for loading dynamically linked libraries and initializing their objects in the desired order. With me, it all started with this bug report: http://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=236

Basically, OpenFOAM initializes debug values right after loading all of the necessary libraries. These debug values are read from the global controlDict files (see $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/controlDict in your own OpenFOAM installation, or at the git repo)...

This post is gathers information about OpenFOAM 2.0.x build times, using the gcc version that comes with Ubuntu 10.10, namely 4.4.5.

_____________ This was initially posted here: http://www.openfoam.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=256 _____________

Since I was curious about using N+1 processes, I've built OpenFOAM 3 times on my machine that has 8GB of DDR2 800MHz and one AMD 1055T X6, using Ubuntu 10.10 with its original gcc version:

• 1st build with 6 processes;
• 2nd

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