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I’m such a sucker for this stuff… Viva la 64-bit revolution! Yes, even more on the G5. Yes, even more on Apple. Yes, this graphic design stuff is my business and so I can’t help but get excited even if I’m fully aware of how crassly commercial it can so easily be…

The Power Mac G5’s high bandwidth architecture and 64-bit processor provide a huge boost … [the] processor architecture features massively parallel computation, full symmetric multi-processing, two double precision floating point units and an optimized Velocity Engine. And since 64-bit processing technology gives you access to an unprecedented 8GB of memory expansion, you can work on massive files, process very high resolution images, and keep all of the applications in the Adobe Creative Suite running at the same [time] … both Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS are optimized to take advantage of … 64-bit computation … Illustrator CS now boasts G5 optimized features like its new 3D effects engine. PhotoShop CS integrates the software from the G5 Processor Plug-in to modify many Photoshop operations such as the new RAW format support… deliver up to twice the performance of previous Power Mac models.

Where’s my winning lottery ticket?

No, wait! Why isn’t this the platform-of-choice at my job!?

At least 1,000 automobile shoppers who submitted online credit applications to any of 150 different automotive dealerships around the U.S. had their personal and financial details exposed on a publicly-accessible website, according to a computer security consultant who stumbled across the privacy gaffe.

Dumb arses.

http://detonator-3.dnsalias.net:8080

How about that?

Hit it from work today. But only on port 8080. Curiously, not on port 8000 or 2600, which should also have been available options. I half-expected port 80 to not work — be blocked at the gateway level or some other ISP shenanigans… (This doesn’t bode well for the next project of hosting my own mail…)

Yeah, but I hit D-3 from work on port 8080. But then when I get home… Nothing. Fr/ w/in the local network, it’s as good as invisible…

still no end of irritation with this apache/dynamic-dns experiment. got the server visible for a few minutes today when i bypassed the router. so it works. but that doesn’t do me a whole lot of good considering that the router is (well) necessary for the setup here. so we still can’t see detonator-3 from behind the router. annoying.

can you hit it? try: http://detonator-3.dnsalias.net

yes? no? how ’bout now?

more on this later…

I mean, I guess we’re not an endangered species yet but somehow this doesn’t seem surprising given that the Y-chromosome and male-ism is essentially a mutation anyway. For what it’s worth: Long Live The Mutants!

Dan Kaminsky, a packet-obsessed crypto guy, has been monkeying with volumetric ways of visualizing the randomness — the entropy — in sets, and along the way, he’s started visualizing other kinds of information. Neat stuff, this “time as third dimension” stuff.

“…we’re going to abuse the technology a bit in the name of art…”

A little late on this meme, but what the hell… Woo-woo!

At least postdoc is only #10 on the list, one above metric system advocate…

Maybe I’m following this story too closely … but it does intrigue me. Especially: Varadarajan said all the code he wrote for Virginia Tech’s Linux-based clusters was moved over to the Mac OS X computers with relative ease. Which makes me raise an eyebrow because porting the terminal apps shouldn’t be that rough and w/ the X11 layer for OS X … well, there is clearly some subtlety I’m missing … but still.

There’s also: It will be used for research into nanoscale electronics, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, aerodynamics, molecular statics, computational acoustics and the molecular modeling of proteins. Which brings us right back around…

AMD joins the 64 bit race not too long after Apple. Pervasive 64-bit computing is the engine of that innovation. Or something along those lines.