• rosie
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• Jan, 30, 2013
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Stanford Engineering’s Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem—the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-million-core-supercomputer-barrier.html Someday my cell phone will have this type […]

• admin
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• Jan, 29, 2013
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I’m a huge fan of delicious.com. It’s a website for saving your internet links to. For example, these are my links: https://delicious.com/biffsocko. It’s just a great way to access your links from any computer, AND to share links with friends.

• admin
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• Jan, 28, 2013
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I’m lucky enough to get to work on these systems every day .. now check out the power7 in action:

• admin
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• Dec, 19, 2012
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The official press release from the Perl community: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/12/the-first-twenty-five-years.html

• admin
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• Dec, 19, 2012
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xsnow is a program that runs on Linux. You can download it here (Windows and MAC versions are also available on this page at the bottom) The snow falls and Santa and his reindeer fly across your screen. It runs on my desktop computer every year for the month of December. It really puts me […]

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• Dec, 13, 2012
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I’m attending an IBM Webex meeting today for work. We’re discussing new and upcoming IBM Technologies. I’ll update this throughout today 11:02AM – Currently in IBM DB2 v. 10. DB2 is an IBM database product. It comes with a time travel function. It is expensive and technically complex for businesses to develop their own infrastructure […]

• admin
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• Dec, 07, 2012
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$ uptime 07:47AM up 37 days, 17:02, 2 users, load average: 253.42, 194.94, 189.34 I love working on IBM Power 7’s , It’s what runs Watson

• admin
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• Oct, 07, 2012
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I am leaving the hedge fund (the fund) I’ve been working at and heading to “Goliath National Bank”. The fund was a great opportunity at the time, but it was time to go. I was becoming stagnant and wanted to find an opportunity that would allow a little more growth. Out of the blue, Goliath […]

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• Sep, 16, 2012
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As a long time Perl developer, I’ve decided to give the Python language a shot. A lot of people are using it these days, so I figured I’d learn it over the next few weeks and see what all the hub-bub is all about. I use Eclipse as an IDE on Linux, so I downloaded […]

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• Aug, 27, 2012
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It’s with great sadness that I wish Neil Armstrong farewell. He accomplished what I consider the greatest achievement of all time. Even when we finally get to Mars and beyond, it will be Neil Armstrong that took those first steps off of Earth. He was the ultimate explorer. On NASA’s Google+ page, Administrator Charles Bolden […]