Archive for June, 2004

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

SETI@home and BOINC

SETI@home is transitioning to BOINC. Last month I mentioned BOINC and how you could run several projects with one client. SETI’s client was getting a little long in the tooth, and BOINC lets new calculations be done on the data without totally rewriting the client. I think part of the reason they switched is that [...]

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Saturday, June 26th, 2004

Link Soup

Here are lots of mostly unrelated things I have found recently that I thought were interesting. A site explaining the history of Moof the Dogcow, a little image used by some programs to show page orientation for printers. This is a site about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, (H20). Next, a group of [...]

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Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Internet Explorer development restarted

Slashdot is reporting, from various sources, that work on Internet Explorer has been restarted. I think Windows Longhorn is going to take longer than expected and Microsoft realized they can’t let their web browser stagnate that long.

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Friday, June 18th, 2004

You’ve got Gmail

Well actually, I’ve got Gmail. librarymonk@gmail.com to exact. Gmail is Google’s new webmail service, currently in a closed beta test. What makes Gmail special is spam filtering, a fast interface, and oh yeah 1 gigabyte of storage space. Feel free to sent me email at this address, it’s not like I’m in danger of maxing [...]

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Thursday, June 17th, 2004

Movable Type and Opera

New licences have been announced for Movable Type. The biggest change is a new Unlimited Personal Edition for $99.95. It allows “for an unlimited number of authors and weblogs for personal use”. This is really what people wanted, and why there where huge complaints about the new licence. The cheaper Personal Edition, $69.95, now [...]

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