The Friday "Dirty" Post >;-)

It's an almost decade long tradition (some of you know exactly what I mean
;-) ).
Only that this time it comes from someone else, reporter Regina Lynn from
The Register

Put Smut in Its Place.

Have a nice weekend

A.

Distributed Computing

Imagine math calculations with so many iterations not a super-computer could
deal with them in under 50 or more years' time. How to solve this? Break the
problem into little pieces... And scatter them around to millions of little
processors to work on them. It will take long but it be a lot more faster.

That's the basic idea behind of a number of research projects that have a "zillion calculations" to explore.

Folding @ Home - distributed computing is one of these projects, this on under development at Standford University. It's goal is "to understand protein folding, protein
aggregation, and related diseases". There are a number of sites related to this projects, in a number of languages, maintained by volunteers that what to help out, lending their iddle processors to a greater good.

Check it out :-)

05/05/05, 5ª feira

As every 5 years, it was bank holiday in the Netherlands. And it Portugal it
was "5ª feira da Espiga" :-)

Sacanas...

Deputados islamistas abstiveram-se:
Parlamento do Kuwait falha aprovação do direito de voto para as mulheres
02.05.2005 - 15h01 AFP, AP

fonte: www.Publico.clix.pt

The World according to the U.S....

Switzerland in Russia and the "Brave New World". >;-)

Um Português no Parlamento Europeu

O deputado Carlos Coelho esforça-se paa dar ao cidadãos Portugueses o apoio para que se tornem Cidadãos Europeus activos, incluindo indicar os melhores caminhos a seguir para ter oportunidades iguais. Um esforço de louvar.

www.carloscoelho.org

Techy stuff ;-)

"Pigeon Wireless Internet actually faster than ADSL"

I think I'll install a "pigeon" at home ;)))