Tomorrow morning we have a house inspection from the realtor, which is always fun – there’s a little flurry of activity right beforehand where Anton, Damien & Laura try to spruce the place up to a liveable standard. I did my part – I swept some cobwebs and spider-webs away. Now all the spiders in… Read more
Damnit, here I am thinking I’ll get a reasonable night’s rest, and be in bed by 2am… and then 2am disappears. Now it’s after 3am. #%$! daylight savings.
This is the first day I ran folding@home. Previously I’d been running distributed.net for years, even back to the 8100 I had I think – I remember thinking the speed boost up to the G4 was awesome. :) Plus, I berated any PC users who also used distributed.net, since it ran way faster on Mac’s… Read more
This one’s just a classic Dilbert – that quirky, original logic than is both funny and scarily true. Although it probably bodes very poorly for anyone in the professional killing business. Assuming their clients read Dilbert. From Dilbert, 22nd of October, 2005. It’s actually an interesting point, too. :)
It’s been a slow weekend. Always is.
I think I grossly overestimated the performance of this VIA EPIA-SP8000E mainboard. It gets a 3DMark03 score of 37. Yes, a whole 37. For comparison, a half-way decent score for a modern PC is at least 10000. Yes, all those zeros. This is going to be an interesting demo… Marker: “So, does it run Halo?”.Me:… Read more
For those who are interested, you can download pdf’s of by the thesis and literature review from the file sharing area of my site, here. They’re both rather big. Sorry. Originals (Pages) available on [bizarre] request. :) And yeah, I’ve skipped a day or two of these entries, I know. Had to focus on the… Read more