well here is a news article on the apple g5 supercomputer project. it has no technical details, but should answer some people's questions. and the infoworld article: here and the press release: http://www.vt.edu/news/showitem.php?id=1062601746

Today i made my hotel reservation, paid my registration, and submitted my travel approval form to the university to go to Internet Research 4.0, there are a bunch of great papers this year and it looks like it will be a great conference, as it always is.

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Several types of social structures. Schools back and Rob Adams has brought us a great outline of what he's up to in one of his classes.  I sure wished they taught this stuff when I was in college!  All we had was Byte magazine! Analyzing Communities. The fall semester has begun here at CMU, and […]

Shifting IT Jobs. Robin Miller takes a closer look at the “problem” of IT jobs shifting away from the US to other countries like India and concludes: There is a digital divide between the developed markets and the emerging markets. The opportunity lies in crossing this chasm and creating disruptive innovation for technology's next markets. […]

got books?. A few years ago I realized something strange and was just recently reminded of it (thanks, K). My parents don't really own any books. Neither does my sister (and brother in-law). I guess I was just used to that growing up. But it's odd. (That's not entirely true, my Dad buys a lot […]

Back to Plain Text for Multi-recipient Email? I think that one solution to spam would be to revert to plain text as the standard email format.  No HTML, no attachments.  Spam filters would be much harder to fool in such a world, and of course plain text email will not have viruses and worms in […]

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Do you know why we 'are supposed to' work 8 hour days? Do you know why we no longer put children to work? Do you know why you have workplace protections? no? well maybe you should. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/september96/labor_day_9-2a.html history of laborday http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/ -labor history http://www.ilo.org/public/english/ international labor organizations http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm women's labor history —— for me in […]

this is handy, you can try the cms and the admin features before installing.