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Thursday, January 29, 2004
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XGrid or the future of computing: "[Y]ou could install this on anyone's computer without changing this person's workflow in any way - the only difference is that the regular screen saver is replaced by a program that displays the cluster's power on the screen (in a very cool way, might I add) and tells the cluster controller that the computer it is running on is free to do some calculation."
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Videoconferencing with Marratech Pro -- Comment()
Today I tested videoconferencing and collaboration with Marratech Pro between Windows and Mac OS X. I had an Apple iSight camera and a Plantronics headset, which worked fine with Marratech Pro. The sound quality was excellent, and the video came trough a bit slow, but acceptably. The best feature of the software are the collaboration functions, where you can share the contents of a Window, or edit a document together with another party. The program crashed once on my Mac, but started up again. The crash was probably due to my sending a massive screen capture to be shared over the net.
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25,415 spam messages -- Comment()
Visakopu.net commented my entry on the number of spam messages: "Heh, that's nothing! Thanks to Mydoom I've received the whopping number of 18,517 spam messages since the reset of SpamSieve which happened 43 hours ago. I have to admit that it wasn't that bad before this virus. I used to receive 300-400 spam messages a day." The most recent entry at Visakopu.net updates the count to 25,415 spam messages. That is really bad. For me the situation is not getting worse. I now have 348 spam messages in my inbox. Double filtering of e-mail seems to spare me from most of the deluge.
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When Windows leaks, bullshit flows -- Comment()
Today I wrote a short piece on Windows security. Have to see if the piece gets published. I took a rather sceptical position towards the recent Microsoft statements.
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