Monday, August 31, 2009

12 cool ways to donate your PC's processing power; Developer denies software to beat Chinese censors is malicious

Developer denies software to beat Chinese censors is malicious; Lawmakers strike new tone with proposed bill giving Obama power to shut down Internet
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12 cool ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

So you'd like to do more volunteering but can't find the time? Here's an easy way to do it: Donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing projects, many based on open source software called BOINC. You know, like SETI@home, the well-documented project that uses otherwise idle computing cycles to help "search for extraterrestrial intelligence." Here's a look at 12 cool projects. Read full story

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Hard drive encryption on a server is nothing more than useless!
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The Importance of Reading RFC's
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August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31.

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