This is the fourth installment of our Turning to Slackware 13.0 series.
By now all the Slackware packages have been installed, changes have been made to the /etc directory and to /usr/local. We have a boot logo for Slackware plus any other operating system (Windows for example) which would be controlled by LILO
We have turned from [...]
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Turning to Slackware – Turn 4
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Turning to Slackware – Turn 3
January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, thinkpad
This is installment three of my series on Slackware version 13.0. In chapter one I described how I installed Slackware 13.0 on a computer whose primary mission is to run Climate Prediction work units.
In chapter two network setup and changes to /etc were covered along with my reason for preferring the additional step [...]
Turning to Slackware – Turn 2
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, thinkpad
This is installment two of my series on Slackware version 13.0. In chapter one I described how I installed Slackware 13.0 on a computer whose primary mission is to run Climate Prediction work units. At this point all of the Slackware packages are in place, I have added slackupdate and I have added [...]
Turning to Slackware – Turn 1
December 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · boinc, linux, thinkpad
Installing Slackware Linux is a pretty straightforward proposition – I’ve done it on numerous computers, but preserving my data during a distribution change required some additional steps. The purpose of this series is to describe those steps. I switched from OpenSUSE 10.3 to Slackware 13.0, the latest version. First, some background on the computer and [...]
People’s Astronomy
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · boinc
In E&T’s second International Year of Astronomy feature, we discover that destinations for future space missions may be decided not by agencies like NASA, but by groups of ordinary people engaged in citizen computing.
Question: what kind of person does it require to detect gravity waves in the universe, or calculate the 46th prime number? If [...]
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Old 770Zs Never Die They Just BOINC Away
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux, old computers, thinkpad
Recently we published Introduction to BOINC which said that older computers could be useful for processing Berkeley Open Infrastructure For Network Computing, BOINC, work units. These computers, retrofitted with Linux instead of Windows can contribute to the public good by looking for pulsars in outer space, searching for life on other planets, studying protein folding, [...]
Lynx Update
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · links
Astronomy Picture of The Day was added in honor of my sister. See Sis You’re No Valley Girl on this blog. Our links are divided into Blogroll, Public Interest, and Science and Stuff which includes computer science, BOINC, climate science, wind, and other things. Notice the link for Junk Science Judo. This material was produced [...]
Introduction to BOINC
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, and easy:
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well yes downloading and installing the BOINC client software is simple. There is more to this than you might [...]
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