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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
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Brian Eno's Music for Airports: "It's rare that I recommend music, but I've recently decided that Brian Eno's Music For Airports is some of the best background music for writing." [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
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First integer patented: "The recent surprise announcement by the US Patent Office to grant patents on integer numbers has meant that industry-watchers, Wall Street and the Association of Primary School Maths Teachers have been on eleventerhooks as to which company would be the first to exploit the iniquitous new law." [The Register]
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Enterprises are hotspots for WLAN: "Wireless LANs deployed within enterprise locations could lead to significant improvements in productivity, according to new research from Datamonitor." [The Register]
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The future of internet -- Comment()
Today I submitted a three-page article about the future of internet to a Finnish magazine. The article will appear in the 20th anniversary issue of the magazine. It was revealing to think about internet in the years 2009 and 2019. I selected these years based on 40 and 50 years from the first developments of Arpanet in 1969. In addition to these future scenarios I was able to touch grid computing, insecurity of networks and computers, and the .Mac service by Apple. I also presented a list of questions to those who will shape the future of internet. And finally I made a timeline of internet from 1969 to 2003. In addition, I was fortunate to get new photographs of working with computer models in a cave environment. In all, I'm satisfied with the process of discovery which this writing assignment presented. I hope the readers will be similarly pleased.
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High Performance Computing for Mac OS X: "If you want to use your G4/G5 with Mac OS X for some good numerical work .. this could be useful to you. I have here, binaries, source, documentation and instructions to install Fortran, MPI, OpenMP, Octave, Cactus, Globus, RNPL, GIMPS, Computing Libraries, GRAVSIM, FEYNMAN, etc. on Darwin."
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Grid computing community -- Comment()
IBM developerWorks discusses grid computing and provides a nice listing of grid projects.
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Nikon Warns of Imitation Rechargeable Batteries: "Nikon has today issued a warning to their customers about the use of imitation Nikon Li-Ion batteries for their digital cameras. The products are branded as Nikon products but are not genuine Nikon products and therefore are counterfeit. Some of the imitation batteries are not equipped with a safety feature required for rechargeable batteries." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Things in the Past Week That Have Brought Me to Uncontrollable, Blubbering Tears: "The finely orchestrated piece of crap otherwise known as the finale to “Joe Millionaire.” The look on my dog’s face when I took away his bone last night." [dooce]
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Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Continue To Be Denied Due Process: "The Guantanamo Bay prison camp [...] was meant to be a temporary detention centre, somewhere to hold the "worst of the worst". Almost two years later, the camp has been transformed into a de facto permanent facility where 660 adults and three children are kept in a legal black hole..." [On Lisa Rein's Radar]
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Pentagon Hawk Richard Perle Admits That Shrub War Was Illegal Under International Law: "International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal." [On Lisa Rein's Radar]
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