Friday, 21 September 2001
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Devices Unite to Find Drugs The project has 556,000 participants, who are putting 935,000 PCs to work. It is the second most popular distributed computing project behind Seti@Home.
Thanks to the volunteers, the project has gotten 50,000 years of CPU time. It hopes to finish testing six more cancer proteins by the end of the year.
Another way the internet has made the world a better place.
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Nick Denton: "The online news sites are useful for a quick check of breaking news, but I am looking for something more. And that I have been finding on weblogs. Some, such as Kottke.org and Dave Winer's Scripting.com, are well-established technology weblogs which have interrupted normal service to bring their take on the crisis." [Scripting News]
Yup. It's Scipring News I've been following.
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PC Magazine: Power Mac G4 on cover [MacNN]
Rumours that hell is freezing over given some credance.
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CBC News: Bush promises 'We will not fail' A defiant George. W. Bush faced a joint session of Congress, the American people, and the world on Thursday night and declared "Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."
This is getting scarey. It ain't that simple George. You may be simple, but the issue isn't.
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LA Times: Firms Turn to Meetings Without the Traveling To keep things going, many companies are turning to videoconferencing, the technology touted years ago as the movement that would end corporate travel. It never did and it never will. But videoconferencing is on the rise, and experts said last week's events will further accelerate its use. [Tomalak's Realm]
Wow. The travel industry is really going to be hurting if this keeps up.
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The Register According to reports from beta-testers Mac OS X 10.1, codenamed Puma, delivers Apple's pledge to improve the OS' speed and functionality.
Hey, this could be fun. The first release was not truly useable. Far too slow. Can't wait to get my hands on the new one. Then I'll have to start buying apps I guess.
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