Author: eric


Posted on: 30th September 2008

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Category: Linux

You know how when someone accidentally deletes their files or their hard drive crashes or some other apocalyptic event occurs, the first thing people ask is “where is your backup”? Of course, we’ve all seen it (*ahem* been there :/ ). It’s a bit unintuitive, because backups have no equivalent in the real world. If [...]

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Author: eric


Posted on: 30th September 2008

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Category: Development

XAMPP is an easy-to-install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
AMPstart is a launcher that helps XAMPP web server run on CD/DVD, USB flash and HDD.
Link: AMPstart

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Author: eric


Posted on: 29th September 2008

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Category: Linux

Folding@home is a distributed computing project — people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging [...]

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Author: eric


Posted on: 29th September 2008

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Category: Education

Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.
TBR’s mission is to drive the adoption of free textbooks by teachers and professors. We want to get these books into classrooms. Their approach [...]

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