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Book Reviews

Thursday, March 18, 2004

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Rocks Cluster Register lists clusters build using the Rocks Linux distribution. We are currently evaluating Rocks as a platform for grid infrastructure. Seems that the number of Rocks clusters is growing rapidly.

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Living alone on a small island in the Turku archipelago: "She knits clothes out of wool that she gets from her own sheep. She sells some of the produce, and gives some to her grandchildren. She makes her living by translating texts from Finnish into Swedish, and nowadays she does her work easily over the Internet." [via Ming the Mechanic]

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Today I solved with Elmer the Helmholtz equation, which is used to model lossless acoustic waves. This is example number eight of the Elmer tutorial. The following picture shows a solution for the model:

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Lawrence Lessig says that IP protection is a business, not cultural, battleground: "Contrary to what many people see as a cultural war between conservative business types and liberal independents, this is not a 'commerce versus anything' conflict. It's about powerful (business) interests and if they can stop new innovators."

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HP deploys Linux desktops in Asia: "HP announced yesterday that it would the first top tier manufacturer to offer desktop PCs loaded with Linux across the world's biggest and most populous continent. The company will bundle the Turbolinux operating system on HP Compaq business desktop PCs for sale in 12 Asian countries." [The Register]

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Gadgets galore on show at Cebit: "[On] show will be the usual slew of nifty gadgets including a paper computer, a camera lens that works like the human eye and a Swiss army knife that doubles as a portable memory card." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]