Comment Re:There are plenty of file formats to choose from (Score 1) 273
OS/2?? Really?
Comment Re:Easy... (Score 2, Interesting) 823
I too got my mom a Mac Mini. Along with it, I paid the $100 for the Apple 1 to 1 training service. It works for her, since she has an apple store near her home. She can go in every week, and get one on one instruction on how to do pretty much anything she wants to learn how to do, and they're very helpful when she has questions outside of those training sessions. I realize it's not exactly what the OP was asking to do, but it's worked out very well for her, and she's been much happier/productive with the mac than she ever was with her old PC. The amount of questions I've had to field since I did this has been almost non-existent.
Submission + - Blizzard officially files against WoW Glider
Marcus Eikenberry writes: "Blizzard and Vivendi ( www.blizzard.com ) today filed against MDY
Industries ( www.wowglider.com ) and Michael Donnelly in the state of
Arizona USA. Blizzard is seeking injunctive relief and money damages
against MDY. What that means is they want him to stop the production of
WoW Glider and they want him to pay them damages. Blizzard believes that
Glider infringes on their intellectual property. They believe Glider
allows players to cheat, giving them an unfair advantage and that they
believe Glider encourages Blizzard customers to breach their contracts for
playing the game. Last they claim that Glider is designed to circumvent
copyright protections.
Blizzard officially files against WoW Glider
(Previous Story):WoW
Glider vs. World of Warcraft in United States District Court"
Grid Computes 420 Years Worth of Data in 4 Months 166
Da Massive writes with a ComputerWorld article about a grid computing approach to the malaria disease. By running the problem across 5,000 computer for a total of four months, the WISDOM project analyzed some 80,000 drug compounds every hour. The search for new drug compounds is normally a time-intensive process, but the grid approach did the work of 420 years of computation in just 16 weeks. Individuals in over 25 countries participated. " All computers ran open source grid software, gLite, which allowed them to access central grid storage elements which were installed on Linux machines located in several countries worldwide. Besides being collected and saved in storage elements, data was also analyzed separately with meaningful results stored in a relational database. The database was installed on a separate Linux machine, to allow scientists to more easily analyze and select useful compounds." Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
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