Patrick Volkerding has announced the release of Slackware Linux 13.1: “Yes, it’s that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.1. Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you’ll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce [...]
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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? [...]
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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, [...]
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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Fixing a ThinkPad T30
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · linux, thinkpad
I bought a used ThinkPad T30 on eBay. It did not have the maximum memory (1024MB) so I upgraded. Some months later the computer reported that it had 512MB of memory. What happened? One of the slots had stopped working. Turns out that this is a known problem in ThinkPad T30s and there is a [...]
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