Monthly Archives: May 2007

A must-read for web developers

Wise words from Josiah Cole on 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website. Well worth reading whether you’re an occasional blogger or an experienced web developer.

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How it works – World Community Grid

IBM has a podcast series available to listen to/view from your browser. How it works – World Community Grid explains, well, how it works. Other podcasts are available at www.ibm.com/podcasts/howitworks

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Three great Apple experiences

Recently, my MacBook has been playing up a little. A few minutes after boot-up the fan revs up to 6500+ RPM and stays there regardless of the load on the CPU. I Googled it and found a few people reporting … Continue reading

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Who’d be a sysadmin?

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Extreme Makeover: Server Room Edition

I found this on You Tube. I’m still laughing out loud as I’m posting this … it’s just great.

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Learn Linux and help the world, virtually

Well, sort of. Any regular readers of my blog will know that I bang-on about World Community Grid. It’s so simple to install and it only runs when your computer is powered on but idle; I don’t know why everyone … Continue reading

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Domino PCs

Spotted on dvorak.org/blog.

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Yee-ha!

Spotted on dvorak.org/blog.

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WGC teams statistics

I wrote in the previous post that Easynet was ranked #1 in all-time points generated by a team. Strictly speaking, this is perfectly true. However, a keen eye will spot that although team IBM is ranked #4 (and rapidly closing … Continue reading

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Grid.org has completed its mission

Grid.org announced that on April 27, 2007, it had completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing. From 2000-2007 in excess of 1.3 million registered members collectively contributed over 210 years of (otherwise unused) … Continue reading

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