Jul 29

Playstation 3 I recently purchased a PlayStation 3. I made the purchase right after the release of the 1.9 Firmware. After updating to the latest version of the firmware, I was surprised and happy to discover that Sony had added a Folding@home client for the PS3.

This is a wonderful idea especially given the processing power of the PS3. I pulled this information from wikipedia

“The PS3 uses the Cell microprocessor, which is made up of a PowerPC-based “Power Processing Element” (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2 TFLOPS. PlayStation 3’s Cell CPU achieves 204 GFLOPS single precision float and 15 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 has 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.”

I decided to download the Folding@home client on my Desktop and Server to assist in this project. My PlayStation, when not in use is usually processing for Folding@home.

I started a team so that I can track all my systems independently of each other. If you would like to join my team feel free. My team number is 81229. I currently run the client on my Linux based desktop and my Windows Server 2003 based server. Becuase I have also discovered running the Linux client does not require root privileges, I run it at work in the background while I’m there.

I strongly suggest everyone download this client. I think its a wonderful thing to be assisting. Additional information can be found at the following links.

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Jul 25

I recently installed Ubuntu Linux at home. I’ve used Linux at work for about a year now. (I work for an ISP/Web Host in San Diego, CA) But this is my first time using it at home. I’ve run into several interesting problems. The first being that I’ve never really worked with the X Window System. The systems I usually work with are servers which are strictly command line. Granted my Desktop at work runs SuSE but I never get to play with the behind the screen stuff of my work computer, it just works. I have to say my favorite part of running Linux at home now is all the free software. Almost any software title you can name for Windows, theres a free equivalent in Linux.

The list goes on…

http://www.astralsin.com/archives/open-source-applications/top-20-linux-apps/

This article lists 20 great applications for the Linux OS. I can’t wait to try them all.

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Jul 25

I’ve come up with several projects I’ve started working on.

  • Rebuilding Dani (My CRX)
  • Regularly updating my Page
  • I’ve started working on several new web pages,
  • MyMagic (A web based Magic the Gathering Card Management system)
  • A Simple Content management system.

Unreal Tournament

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