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2-14-03 Bryan William Jones – Product: Sonnet Encore/ST G4 1GHz and Tempo ATA133 Host Adapter – OS X: Yes – Company: Sonnet – Website: http://www.sonnettech.com/ – Category: CPU Accelerator and ATA133 Host Adapter – Cost: $599.00 U.S. for 1GHz CPU and $99.95 for ATA133 card – Compatable Models: – Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) – …

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1-10-03 Bryan William Jones So, a quick roundup of MWSF for the science market had a few notable announcements. Initially, for the teachers who read this site, the OS X for teachers program has been extended until March 31st 2003. And briefly, because scientists and engineers are also consumers, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had …

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12-20-02 Bryan William Jones I am sure that you are familiar at some level (perhaps very familiar) with distributed computing and some of the applications that it has been utilized in recently. The most recent popular efforts have been the SETI distributed project, and before that, the distributed.net effort to crack encryption keys. Other examples …

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12-06-02 Bryan William Jones O.K. folks, the latest update in the science and engineering markets begins with the announcement of new Powerbooks and iBooks. Briefly, the Powerbook has received faster G4 chips starting at 867 MHz and going to 1 GHz and we also have the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics chips resulting in impressive …

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10-18-02 Bryan William Jones Those of us that have not thought about the process of seeing might be surprised at how complicated vision is. Most of the time we take vision for granted but when we when we look at a computer screen, indeed anything, each of our eyes is invoking a total of ten …

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8-30-02 Bryan William Jones Since our last update, there are a number of Scientia market updates to be announced. But first I wanted to attest to the durability of the iBook and preach a little bit about bicycle safety. The other day riding my bike back from the lab, I was struck by an automobile …

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