Upgrading 37,376 chips of a Super Computer: Jaguar

Jaguar has been named the top supercomputer. 

Well, Jaguar [ AMD six-core chips 2.6 gigahertz] (http://www.nccs.gov/computing-resources/jaguar/) has 255,584 processing cores. Think of replacing all the chips on it after watching the video.
:)

 



http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/17/top500.aspx

Trying g-Chrome in Ubuntu with Flash enabled

What makes Chrome attractive is its speed and sleek look.
The Chrome for Windows has picked up its grab of users (and counting...), the reason is very obvious.
Today, I was playing with the Google Chrome on Ubuntu , and eventually got the "beta" version installed (Named Chromium). Even though it is named as "unstable-Chrome", It is pretty much stable for me, for now.
I added
--enable-plugins

to the command line and Bingo! it is youtube playable.
Oh well, the bing search just crashed! 

... the youtube too!
hitting F5 key reloaded it and is now OK. (Ha ha what a live reporting!)

Few crashes are OK ;)  that is what beta is supposed to do!

Now I am going to have some fun...
See the screenshots below:

 

 

Using Chrome for general purpose is still not recommended since it has privacy issues...
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

  

Warnings of Conflicts: Spybot and Ad Aware

I know, they work that way. One anti virus sees another one as potential threat. I had read that the windows defender scans firefox as potential risk. The world is like that.

The current discussion is about the conflict between the Spybot Search and Destroy and the Lavasoft Ad Aware softwares. I have them in my computer for more than year by now.

I have been using Ubuntu, so coming back to windows makes me crazy. Because, the updates and everything line up and makes me feel that the computer no longer belongs to me. They just want to make me wait for few hours so that they will be protecting me. Oh, ya!

I was trying to scan/update the spybotS&D, just in case. I came across the following message:

(you can click on the picture to see the larger view )

"Ignore to now longer ..."???
Moreover, the message is just intended to create a sense of panic for average users. When I visited the site, it just said:

...Spybot-S&D does not contain any spyware, but it creates backups of everything you fix (until you remove those backups from the Recovery list), and AdAware complains about these backups. You can safely ignore these backups found by AdAware.

Fine!
I like Spybot S&D, but these kind of mistakes ???

Microsoft: Did you install this as update to my Firefox3?

I did not install this add on....

Microsoft .NET framework assistant 1.0

I remember recent 10 automatic updates being done by the system.


Microsoft: Did you install this as update to my Firefox3?

So, You have UBUNTU ... huh?

In a conference hall, everyone is enjoying the talk.
There is a small click click sound pertaining in the hall.
After some talks, there is a break. Everyone rushes for the tea/coffee break.
I started my laptop and started connecting to the internet. The wifi was unsecured as provided by the hotel. I got it. I was connected and was browsing.
In the mean-time, I got the attention of few people. One of them asked: "So, you have Ubuntu.... huh?... I was trying to connect...
How come your Ubuntu in Dell Inspiron 6400 supports wireless internet but not in mine?"


Guess the answer...




















My answer was...
"Well, I do have Ubuntu; but wireless internet is only available in vista. So, I run vista for it."
(I had tried to get the wireless straight in my system, but had to face a lot of trouble and is deprived of appropriate time and effort ... If you have links on drivers and all info, please leave a comment: My system is Dell Inspiron6400. The description of my notebook is here As you can see: Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps)// not supported in Ubunty 7.04)

UPDATE(July19th,2008):
After AD commented and suggested, I upgraded it to Ubuntu 8.x. So, it works fine now!
Thanks!!!