Archive for September, 2007

Two Big HD-DVD Wins

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

I was really surprised to see that both DreamWorks and Paramount have exclusively picked HD-DVD as the format for their movies. The reason cited is because of the cheaper players that are available. The XBox360 player can be purchased for $180 and standalone players are less than $299.
Personally, I think it […]

Apache hangs on Digest Secret generation

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I kept running into a problem where I would try to restart apache and in error_log I would get a message stating:
[notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
Apache would just appear to hang for minutes. Stopping and restarting would result in the same thing. I looked around on google and others had […]

West Nile Distributed Computing Project

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

IBM’s World Community Grid has teamed up with scientists at UTMB in Galveston, Texas to help search for drugs that can cure a family of diseases such as dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and yellow fever. The project is called “Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together”. The fact that this project is […]