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Thursday, January 15, 2004

Scam? Wishful thinking? What? Robert the Hair Guy sent me a PayPal 'Bill Pay' request -- for $3,369.00. Service rendered? 'Computer Donation.' No response from Robert just yet, but I suspect this is some sort of weird scam. Maybe people just bomb PayPal accounts with requests for $$$, in the hopes someone is clueless enough to click 'Pay'. Just for fun, I narced Robert to PayPal security...
Comments 5:55:48 PM    

Xgrid: Grid computing for the rest of us? Apple's Xgrid software, announced at Macworld earlier this month, turns a group of Macintosh computers into a supercomputer that's "as easy as Macintosh" to manage, according to the computer maker. But even Apple's famously easy-to-use software can't get around one of the stickiest parts of parallel computing on commodity clusters. My latest offering on NewsForge...
Comments 11:14:01 AM    

Moon base: some NASA designs over the years. I like the inflatables... but then, I'm unlikely to have to live in one...
Comments 10:24:03 AM    

Seeds of destruction: agricultural epidemics may hold clues to Net viruses. FromCNET News.com. If you read George Dyson's Darwin among the Machines, this notion won't be a surprise...
Comments 10:11:58 AM    



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