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Special Number: 1119
Republished. Previous date March 2010.
Much as we like to purchase new computers because the one purchased last week is already running slow, things can be done to (honestly) speed things up quite a bit.
Besides having a good, updated, and of course free antivirus program installed on your computer, a few basic things can be done to keep your computer running almost like new. Today, I am going to talk about three main ways I keep my Windows computer up-to-speed and introduce a free program that I tend to use to assist with this.
One interesting thing that has changed with buying a computer in the last five years is the lack of a recovery CD. A lack of a recovery disc with a computer leaving the manufacturer has led to many problems for … Continue reading
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On the lighter side of the Internet:
A friend of mine showed me a very funny website that featured Garfield comics, with Garfield removed from them.
It is much like a cartoon about a schizophrenic crazy person. Though kind of sad, it is very amusing. Check it out:
May 5: Upgraded WordPress to version 3.1.2
Also, the server was upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 at around 6PM and remained offline until ~7:53pm.
Little to no outages other than that. A few router restarts occurred during the month, but these tool less than a minute downtime.
Stats:
Visits are up by 120.86% for the last 30 days.
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This is a rant.
Outrage has spread across frequent U.S. Google Users regarding the absence of a “doodle” for Memorial Day on Google’s homepage.
Look closely, and you will see a doodle. Small, it is a flag and a ribbon. 
Why is there no doodle? A press-release from 2008 offers an explanation:
(I found this here)
“Thank you for your note. We understand your interest in seeing a Memorial Day Google logo. If we were to commemorate this holiday, we’d want to express reverence; however, as Google’s special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature, this would be a particularly challenging design.
We wouldn’t want to create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful in any way.
We have a long list of holidays that we’d like to celebrate in the future. We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage. We really appreciate your feedback regarding the Google logo, and please be assured that we’re actively pursuing ways in which we can acknowledge Memorial Day and other such occasions in the future.”
So, people still willing to complain about this. Answer a few questions for me:
1) Without looking at Wikipedia or Googling it, can you tell me what Memorial Day is all about?
1.1: Can you tell me how you are supposed to “celebrate” memorial day?
2) Would you really rather Google intertwine their cooperate logo into Memorial Day? (Which, really, is more disrespectful than not having a doodle).
3) What are/were you doing for Memorial Day? — Ah, a vacation! Right, because Memorial Day is, after all, a three day weekend vacation holiday for that very purpose.
On a side note before I start this article: The website usage has nearly doubled in the last two weeks for the overall monthly totals. (Interesting enough, so has the spam). Despite this, we get very few legitimate comments. Please comment and tell us what you think!
Folding at Home (F@H) is an interesting project at Stanford University that anyone can be a part of. F@H is a distributed computing project which helps find the answers to curing diseases that are caused by misfolded proteins, such as Mad Cow Disease, Parkinsons, cancers, and Alzheimers. Why distributed? A super computer is very expensive — so is renting time on one. A university such as Stanford simply can not afford to build or use one for the purpose of research. So, as an alternative, they’ve come up with a clever way to allow people all over the world to help.
From their website:
“Folding@home is a distributed computing project — people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.” Continue reading
Happenings:
April 5th, 2:09a-5:40a: A router failure caused the site and IRCD network to become inaccessible, as well as the website. IRCD resumed operations at 5:49a, and HTTP services at 5:40a. The amount of time the site was down was significant, but not during peak hours of traffic.
April 8, upgraded to WordPress 3.1.1
April 10, changed the header image to a new updated image. All images inside said header are from OpenClipArt.org.
April 18, from 11:39a-12:01p the site was likely inaccessible from the outside. The server was performing automatic maintenance which caused various services including Apache, MySQL, and FTP to go down multiple times. (Even if it were accessible, the page load would have been very slow.) Our name servers most likely took over the page requests during this time period.
April 25, a town-wide power outage occurred and the servers were down for all networks from about 6:25PM to 7:15PM. ClourFlare (our nameservers) probably took over during this time, leaving the site static but visible.
Statistics:
Motion Control (an April Fools report about Gmail’s prank) jumped to post No. 1 on the blog, and a search result for “motion control” on Google lists us as result no. 14.
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Image via Wikipedia
Article No. 200!
You may have noticed a change to the website home page, the header image has been completely updated. This was something I put off for far too long, and I am glad to have changed it.
I am in no way a graphics designer, and I put the image together using various other images — all from www.openclipart.org. OpenClipArt is a resource that provides completely 100% free images (mainly svg vector graphics images) for use in any way you want to use them. The professional quality of images varies quite a bit from image to image, but it is not hard to find images that may suit your needs — whether it be for a business, organization, or a simple poster.
Vector Graphics certainly make this a special website because of how “cool” these graphics can be. Vector graphics van be zoomed in as much as you want as true vector graphics never get blurry. They are stored as (and this is an oversimplification) math on a grid, indicating where each line or shape is and what color it is, ect. As Wikipedia puts it:
“Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.” Continue reading
