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Yearly Archives: 2005
Grid Discovers Huge Prime Number
The largest known prime number, a 9.1 million-digit figure, has been found using a grid of computers by researchers at Central Missouri State University. It took all 70,000 computers 10 months to make this find. I read the story at … Continue reading
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Google Store
I’ve just stumbled across Google Store — actually not so much stumbled — I followed a link from Blogger, another Google service. Some of the things on sale are quite amusing — anyone fancy Google Goo or Google Arm Warmers? … Continue reading
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Securing your Wireless Network
The Wi-Fi Alliance (www.wi-fi.org) is a global, non-profit industry trade association with more than 200 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks. If you’re new to wireless security then check out their pages on Securing … Continue reading
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High Security Password Generator
If you want to generate a random password I recommend you check out Steve Gibson’s Ultra High Security Password Generator. As with everything at GRC – Steve’s done it properly. The page automatically connects via SSL (i.e. it uses https, … Continue reading
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SiteVista & CSSVista at Salted.com
About a year ago I was introduced to Paul Farnell by one of the lecturers at MMU, the Business School where I studied BSc BIT. Paul was highly recommended for his web development skills. I met up again with him … Continue reading
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Grid computing for Mac users
Currently the World Community Grid doesn’t include a Mac version (see why is there not a Mac version). Hopefully, this will change in early 2006. However, a similar grid computing programme is running at Stanford. If you want to use … Continue reading
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Join the World Community Grid
If you have a Windows or Linux machine put its idle time to good use by joining The World Community Grid, a not-for-profit endeavor. Linking the unused processing power of many individual computers creates a large system with massive computational … Continue reading
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