http://thecosmotron.com helping mankind one blog post at a time Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:45:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congrats to the authors of Running Xen for making it to the front page of Slashdot! http://thecosmotron.com/2008/06/09/running-xen/ the cosmotron is proud to announce the availability of The Konami Code on it's website. http://thecosmotron.com/2007/06/29/now-featuring/ According to an announcement on the info-member GNU mailing list, the GPL version 3 will be released on June 29th at noon (EDT). A live stream of the event will be broadcast on the Free Software Foundation's website. http://thecosmotron.com/2007/06/27/gplv3-release-date-announced/ In light of the recent AACS key controversies, Ed Felten over at Freedom to Tinker wrote an article poking fun at the whole situation. Anyway, I would like to let everyone know that I am the proud and sole owner of the following 128-bit int: 68 8E 72 BA D3 7F 58 ... http://thecosmotron.com/2007/05/09/my-very-own-integer/ I have had several interviews in the past year and something I always think about before one is, quite natually, "What questions are they going to ask me?" I then, like most people, go online to look at sample questions or go ask a friend what types of things ... http://thecosmotron.com/2007/03/15/interviews/ Saddam Hussein is dead. He was hanged Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign. Finally and good riddance... http://thecosmotron.com/2006/12/29/this-just-in/ According to an article at NASA, there seems to be evidence of water flowing "occasionally" over on the surface of the red planet. Finally, it seems that all this money being spent on Mars is starting to pay off! http://thecosmotron.com/2006/12/06/water-on-mars/ The interesting part is highlighted in yellow... http://thecosmotron.com/2006/11/20/what-do-we-have-here/ This past Friday we received our brand new rack from IBM. Since today was an open house, we figured it was time to tidy up our server room and to install out Blade Center. So, after about 8 hours, we finally got everything in order. Photos of this historic ... http://thecosmotron.com/2006/11/11/blade-center-photos/ Due to the request of some people that are aggregated at Planet COSI, a disclaimer has been added to the page. It can be found at the bottom of the right-side column. I just though that everyone should know. http://thecosmotron.com/2006/11/08/planet-cosi-disclaimer/