I have recently started running the distributed.net client on my computer. For those of you who don’t know, Distributed.net is a non-profit organisation that allows normal people to lend their computer’s processing time to some worthy pursuit. This happens by downloading a small program which in turn downloads some data, processes it in the background, and then sends the results back to the main server. It basically forms a huge supercomputer, AND there are cash prizes too for whoever finds the answer to whatever problem.
I’ve started running it to give the folks at Team Ubuntu a bit of a boost. With Distributed.net, you can form and join teams of people who are trying to win the prize and give themselves a bit of exposure. I’ve just got one and a half packets to process, and then I’ll be able to join the team.
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I’m suddenly having trouble with Epiphany and Firefox. They crash whenever I try to go to my locker on mp3tunes.com. It must be that plugin I installed. Also, I tried to webload a song from my local computer using Apache, and apparantly the data rate is too slow. I tried uploading the song to my ISP’s web space, but apparantly that was too slow too.
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As part of my neverending quest to find a good lightweight browser, I installed Dillo (one of the standard web browsers in the Damn Small Linux distro). Only a couple of hundred kbs, and it’s very fast. The only problem is, pretty much any site which requires a login is incompatible with Dillo. I suspect pretty much everything is incompatible. Still, considering that my previous lightweight browser was w3m (text-based), it’s a bit of a step up.
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I’m working 6 days this week, so that’s why I haven’t had much of a chance to play around with Ubuntu again. Also, my father wants me to finish his podcast, so that’s going to take up some more time on the 1 day I’m free. Oh well. I’m looking forward to going on some kind of walk tomorrow after work.
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