since people keep hitting my blog looking for info on the g5 supercomputer, here is the link to the research computing site with the info you are looking for.

it appears some people some people are trying to bypass the encryption on some files and it requires a beowolf cluster, now, it seems to me that this is particularly problematic because it does not really matter what they find, it could have all been constructed to be found by someone else. In short there […]

The Simputer keeps stumbling. We'd be impressed if anyone remembered this, but the very first non-test post on Gizmodo was about the Simputer, a handheld computer designed to be used by the world's rural poor. At the time we reported that the Indian non-profit group which designed the Simputer had been having some trouble finding […]

A Daily Chronicle of the Bush Administration Distortion. From the fine folks at MoveOn.org, we have Misleader.org, A Daily Chronicle of the Bush Administration Distortion. In addition to the Bush lies, you also get the research behind the discovery of the lie. Click on the image of our… [Eat Your Vegetables]

Oi! *Nix admin, get patching. Sendmail, openSSH and DB2 vulns [The Register] ——- i patched my systems the last two days…. and people wonder what i do sometimes:) fixing prollems before they start i suppose.

Verisign: ICANN Raised No Objections. Hiawatha Bray quotes a Verisign spokesperson in the Boston Globe: “VeriSign began work on the system a year ago, spokesman Tom Galvin said. “We began to think of a service that would help improve Web navigation,” he said. Galvin said VeriSign informed a major Internet regulatory body, the Internet Corporation […]

Colleges Caught in a Vise. If there is a crisis in college costs, it is not due to by price-gouging by universities, as House Republicans John Boehner and Howard McKeon contend. By Stanley Fish. [New York Times: Opinion] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Sun Blade 1500. LOL. Poor Solaris users. [Hack the Planet]

New guestblogger: Jason of textfiles.com! [bOing bOing]

Yesterday, they informed Tim Luke and myself that our paper for the Australian egovernance conference was accepted, it looks like i'll be in Melbourne in the spring, their fall, april though.