Posted on Monday, 30th June 2008 by admin
I can only assume that religious bigotry and prejudice is driving their activity, as there is no altruistic value in posting our copyrighted scriptures, despite Wikileaks’ self-serving statements to the contrary. -[Source] Emphasis is mine
Copyrighting your scriptures as a means to suppress speaks volumes about an organization, especially a religious one. Poor Guttenberg would have [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 15th November 2007 by admin
Author side note: I was originally going to sit down tonight and write part two of my “distractionless browsing” article. In short, I’ve had little to no success with the systems I outlined in my previous article. They are as different and quirky as the mainstream browsers they intend to co-exist with. Instead I’m [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 20th September 2007 by admin
I ran the precursor to Folding@Home, SETI@Home, for a number of years. I was excited to see that Folding@Home today passed a milestone and is continuing on strong. One of the comments on Digg though was just to good not to share.
I ran F@H nearly 24/7 on my Pentium 4 for 3.5 years. After I [...]
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Posted on Friday, 3rd August 2007 by admin
I’ve worked in the IT field for some time now. I haven’t had this happen to me, but I can totally relate.
<Macko>helping out another customer with pc problems on the phone again today
<Macko> after he gave me his specs i told him “hold on for a second”
<Macko> three seconds later he’s like, “ok, that turned [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 1st August 2007 by admin
I hate when things go wrong. Working in IT, people remember when you screw up instead of all the times that things worked fine. This quote represents that ideal better then I can explain it.
If you really think about it, the fact that anything on a computer works is amazing. At a low level, magnets [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 20th June 2007 by admin
You wouldn’t believe some of the things one can see on Slashdot.
A colleague of mine was a submariner who had this story. They were down for an extended dive, and when they surfaced, they would send a short, dense burst of communications and data on a very powerful microwave uplink - get up, send fast, [...]
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Posted on Friday, 1st June 2007 by admin
One must share funny quotes when found…
I think a church with a lightning rod shows a decided lack of confidence.
Source: Bash.org
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