September 2005

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Vanderbilt Blocks Three P2P Programs

Vanderbilt University announced yesterday that three peer-to-peer file sharing programs, namely, Gnutella, E-Donkey, and Direct Connect on Monday Oct 3, at 8 a.m.

The university says they were monitoring the traffic from file sharing programs and they use up more than third of…

Firefox Sucking Memory

I am used to seeing memory usage of Firefox climbing upto hundreds of megs. I am used to it but I was never happy with it. When I just saw 218 megs of memory being sucked up by Firefox by just…

Pandora Trial Expires

I wrote about Pandora in this blog before. My fun relationship with Pandora came to an end yesterday since it was the last day of my free period as a beta user. Pandora is now completely out of beta and available as a…

Vanderbilt Encourages Google Personalize Homepage

It just came to my attention that Vanderbilt library’s wiki, which I did not know existed, is giving guidelines to add their feeds to the Google’s personalized homepage.

[Via InsideGoogle]

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Backpack Brings Recurring Reminders

Backpack recently announced the availability of recurring reminders. I think this is one important feature that is going to make Backpack even more useful.

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Linux in Supercomputers

There is an interesting article at Newsforge about the future status of Linux on next generation supercomputers.

There is a big race in the supercomputer arena. I am a bit involved with this through the Darpa HPCS project whose goal is “to provide a…