Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, November 26, 2003

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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]


[Item Permalink] 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."