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The Blind Geek Zonehttp://blind-geek-zone.blogspot.com/2008/03/geeky-blinks-search-for-et-and-other.html [The Blind Geek Zone] Interestingly enough I thought I was the only blind person in the world to have an interest in SETI and the other distributed computing projects. I too am using my pc to search for ET and as of today I have contributed over 135,000 units for the folks over at Berkley.

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Tribute Mediahttp://www.tributemedia.com/newsfeeds/technology/?p=1774 [Tribute Media] 14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time: What it is: Run by the Olson Laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute, this is the first biomedical and the first humanitarian distributed-computing project.

LEMNISCATEhttp://delontin1.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/complete-history-of-hacking/ [LEMNISCATE] COMPLETE HISTORY OF HACKING: [1969] The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) originates ARPANET, a service designed to provide efficient ways to communicate for scientists. A Cambridge, Massachusetts consulting firm, Bolt Beranek and Newman, who won a ARPA contract to design and build a network of Interface Message Processors (IMPS) the year prior, ships (Sept) the first unit to UCLA and ships (Oct) the second unit to Stanford Research Institute.

Random thoughts of a random hacker[Random thoughts of a random hacker] Way too long rant: This was also the era that I did infact work more with BSD than anything else, and no BSD at that time, no free one atleast, had real threads implemented in the pthreads posix library, it was a mockup implementation of green threads that context switched through SIGALRM. This was just as good as it gets, because I really didn’t have the time to ponder about multithreading, knowing that such a devour would more or less certainly end in a big disaster, no in the BSD landscape at that time, but real Unices that I also tested the server software on, there were for example a lot of IRIX hosts at the lab, and they seemed to have a proper implementation of pthreads, likewise Linux had at that time.

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