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I have been trying out different desktop layouts using GeekTool 3.0 Desktop picture courtesy of calmingbedlam at deviantART. Current desktop: Next update I will reduce what’s displayed. Date, Time, Calendar, Top 20 %CPU, and Weather should me enough. Although I do like Network, Uptime, Computer Info. I will remove Sunrise, standard calendar, This day [...] Facebook game addiction? Is there such a thing? YES. Doing a quick search in Google I get 9 of the top 10 responses deal with Facebook game addiction. This can be considered just a form of net addiction. Facebook games are major time wasters. Many of the games are identical in form it is just [...] A new Snow Leopard update came out today. I usually wait a day or two until I do major updates, but since I have everything backed-up in multiple formats and places, I decided to just do it. Downloaded via Software Update. 517.3 MB took about 5 minutes. After a quick check of my more critical [...] I have switched to Google’s Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev as my main web browser of choice from Apple’s Safari 5.0 (6533.16). Safari has been acting up more often recently. It will hang or freeze at seemingly random times. Facebook games do not work well with Safari any more. Getting the spinning beach ball too often with [...] As the title states, I reached over 2,000,000 credits using BOINC. I am currently only participating in 9 projects. 2 have been inactive since the end of 2009 and another only gets very few sporadic jobs. More details under my About tab. I had my first real talk with an Apple Genius today about my failing 20” iMac. It went very well compared to my last drop-in visit. I described my problem and got the answers I expected. I was told that Apple will only replace the internal hard drive with the same size it already has. [...] Well, I finally got around to replacing my old 20” iMac 2.4 GHz (mid 2007). I have been living on borrowed time since the internal 320 GB hard drive in my 20” iMac is failing SMART. It could totally fail anytime. I do have multiple backups, so I am not worried when the time comes. [...] When trying to update my system software through Software Update to Mac OS X 10.5.6 I ran into a small snag. After downloading the update (190 MB) I did the required restart. During the install my Mac stalled on “Configuring Installation”. After about 15 minutes I gave up. After a hard restart I checked MacFixIt [...] Finally, got my original 3 projects that I have been running for a while above 95% ranking. SETI@home Rosetta@home Einstein@home I added 3 more projects a few weeks ago. Mainly due to a lot of down time on my other projects from maintenance issues. I added: Malariacontrol.net ABC@home SZTAKI Desktop Grid These projects are running [...] Yesterday I finally achieved 100,000 credit on my 3 combined BOINC projects. If you have available computing time and power download the BOINC client and support a project that could find extraterrestrials with SETI@home or cure some human disease with Rosetta@home. |
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