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Nvidia pitches OpenCL as ‘market builder’ • The Register
I used to participate pretty heavily in the old Byte Magazine online forums. One particular thread I was actively involved in was Reconfigurable Computing. The premise we followed was that of Field Programmable Gate Arrays becoming so powerful they could be used as CPUs on a desktop computer. Most people felt this was doable, but…
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Higher Education Board Administration: Board of Trustees SharePoint
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College Music Service Ruckus.com Shuts Down
Ruckus shutdown, Universities are scrambling to provide legal alternatives. But nobody has done a recent review of all the music services out there, or which ones are willing to write agreements with Universities. So here we go again, it’s evaluation time for the music services again.
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links for 2009-02-12
The Flying Nerd » Intel RAID problem under Windows Vista (tags: Intel iastor sata ahci)
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Strip search prank call scam – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Milgram Experiment, Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment, the Holocaust, Adolph Eichmann, Abu Ghraib prison and now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam What is most amazing is people thought over and over the caller could ‘see them’. They thought he was across the street watching with binoculars. They thought he was on another telephone line with the Corporate HQ or the…
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links for 2009-01-29
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090128/full/457517a.html I work near the where the Omega Laser operates, it seems now we have been eclipsed. (tags: research nuclear)
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The Bacon Explosion – Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog. – NYTimes.com
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Nostalgia and Social Networks
Up until about a year and a half ago I left my Facebook account unused. I made the account originally in 2005 as a response to the buzz generated in an email listserv surrounding social networking. Some were touting podcasts, some were touting photo sharing, some were touting virtual 3D worlds like Second Life. But…
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links for 2009-01-14
Basic tips for smoother home networking – O'Reilly Digital Media Blog (tags: mac tips networking)
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We’re in for a doozy snow wallop. And here I sit at work waiting to leave at the height of the storm. yeesh.