Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
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.…
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).…
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.…
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 out my storage quota anytime soon.…
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.…
Firefox 0.9 has been released. I liked the theme for 0.8 much better, but Firefox is my favorite brower, especially since Internet Explorer 6 is probably the last new version of IE for a while, and IE 6 has been around since October 2001.…
Well, I stopped running SETI@home on the PC and switched the iMac from the graphical version to the command line version. I really don’t care about watching the fancy graphics or crunching lots of numbers. Running SETI@home is just something for the iMac to do when I’m not using iTunes to listen to my music collection.…
I updated the site design, I had had enough of the bland MT 3 defaults. This design is again based off one of Neil Turner’s designs, this time Bluefade II. Still tweaking a bit, but it’s mostly there.…