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, [...]
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Old 770Zs Never Die They Just BOINC Away
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux, old computers, thinkpad
Hunter Hancock Apr 21, 1916 – Aug 4, 2004
March 1st, 2009 · No Comments · best of California, van nuys high
A legendary R&B disk jockey who played rythm and blues before rock and roll came along. At one time this was called ‘race music’. Hunter had a wide following among the students at Van Nuys High. The white kids at VNHS would race out to their cars the minute school was out so they could [...]
Sis You’re No Valley Girl
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · van nuys high
My sister went to Van Nuys High School. Natalie Wood, see photo, was a classmate. We remember Natalie as she played opposite James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause My sister went on to acquire not one but two masters degrees and to achieve success in a traditionaly male dominated field teaching science and astronomy [...]
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