Did you know that the majority of the business world uses Windows for its desktop operating systems? Of course you did. Did you also know that by doing so, the user is guaranteed to get a greatly varying experience when using different machines? Maybe. Okay, here comes the really tough question. Do you think this [...]
Archive for the 'Ideas' Category
Wandering Desktops
September 3, 2008The Next 5000 Days of the Web
August 27, 2008Last year Kevin Kelly gave a presentation about the next 5000 days of the web. His views are based on what happened in the first 5000 days (roughly 13 1/2 years). The profile for Kevin reveals a very thoughtful man. He is in a good position to imagine what the future will bring.
Instead of talking [...]
Recovery
January 16, 2008My main development machine is recovering. I had an exception in Winlogon which is always fatal. I had tried to fix the machine but things were not looking good until today. After many different attempts, it turned out that doing a full Windows repair was the trick to solve the trap.
I had already proven that [...]
Aggregate Computing
August 3, 2007Aggregate computing has existed in various forms over the last 50 years. It usually lives within the realm of the bigger systems and is focused on high power jobs.
IBM built a model around its mainframes that made everything virtual (VM 360) that basically meant that the software had no idea how the hardware was actually [...]
Tradition versus Simplicity
June 19, 2007If you work in the computer industry long enough, you realize that certain things are done more from tradition than from keeping things simple. Recently I helped one of my wife’s friends install an ADSL Broadband Internet connection. In theory this should be a simple thing to do. Not only have I installed these before [...]
Nothing for Money
April 12, 2007How can something be valuable and yet so plentiful. That’s the question I’m faced with related to computing power. I’ve been thinking about distributed computing and how any kind of economy can be derived from it. It becomes clear quickly that no one is going to get rich from this kind of [...]
Buy and Sell Jolt Power (Distributed Computing)
April 3, 2007Yesterday I wrote about Folding@Home and how spare computer cycles can potentially make a big difference in research. I’ve be running the client on my home PC for a little while and have already come up with some other ideas.
If computer clusters (distributed computing) can figure out the dynamics of folding proteins, what else [...]
