Folding@Home, PS3 and Energy Consumption
PS3 owners can run a Folding@Home client on the game console. (As on March 23rd, PS3s were contributing 338 teraflops.)
According to the PS3 frequently asked questions page, the power consumption of the PS3 running the Folding@Home client, is 200 Watts.
This is the main reason that I don’t run these clients, even though I would love to participate. We are trying to reduce our energy consumption, so I wouldn’t want to leave a 200 watt device running all of the time.
I do wonder how efficient the PS3 (flops/watt) is compared to other types of hardware.
Twitter plugin
I am interested in integrating LIfeType into various services for sending notifications. I just whipped up a plugin to post “tweets” to Twitter when a new post is added.
Here is the wiki page for the Twitter plugin. The plugin uses the class provided by David Billingham.
This is the type of thing that I think Twitter is perfect for: automatic notification of various processes.
links for 2007-04-28
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Twitter developer access
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Complete code library for twitter using PHP
Memory problem with securityd
For the past couple of days, my computer has been having problems when trying to update access to my Keychain when an application has been updated. If I approve the update, the securityd process starts eating up memory. I have seen this process using as much as 1.7GB.
This post has a description of this problem, and the solution. The problem is that the CodeEquivalenceDatabase was corrupt.
links for 2007-04-25
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Project Honey Pot has started to track comment spammers
links for 2007-04-23
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sendMsg is a class which allows you to send a message to a contact from a specified account.
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Event-driven Jabber client class implementation in php
links for 2007-04-19
links for 2007-04-18
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A 17 minutes video how to use Google Apps in a company or organization
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A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat – because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.
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This are some pretty cool audio illusions
links for 2007-04-17
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differences between .bash_profile and .bashrc
Better Gmail
Better Gmail is a Firefox Add-on that adds several features to Gmail. Some of these include:
- Icons for emails that have attachments
- Reminders when sending a message that refers to an attachment, but doesn’t include one
- Label colors
- Saved searches
