Archive for March, 2004

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

SETI@home – Mac vs. PC

I recently started running SETI@home again, first on my Pentium 4 3 GHz and then on my G4 800 MHz iMac. The SETI@ home website says that the the program uses about 16 MB of RAM while running and that above 64 MB will not affect how quickly data is processed. Since my iMac has [...]

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Friday, March 5th, 2004

Explanation of Library Monk and some real library monks

This site is called Library Monk, because yes I have been known to dress as a monk on occasion. Ask anyone who in the summer 2002 Genre Fiction class at UT’s School of Information Sciences. The reason I was dressed as a monk then was to talk about my favorite book, A Canticle for Leibowitz. [...]

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

New Report on Libraries and the Digital Divide

In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a number of other national civic organizations, The Pew Internet & American Life Project served as research advisors for a new report finding that public libraries have helped close the digital divide by providing free, public access to computers and the Internet, particularly for people [...]

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Monday, March 1st, 2004

It’s tax time again

April 15th is approaching and I decided to do my taxes early. I looked on the IRS site and found a list of places where you can electronically file your taxes for free. I picked H&R Block and the process was fairly quick and easy. In other news I was looking for low cost hosting [...]

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