I noticed last week that my BOINC client wasn't connecting to the Rosetta @ Home server to report completed Work Units. I emailed David Baker, manager of the R@H project and this evening received a reply: Very unfortunately, we had to move the servers from one location to another, and it is taking much longer than [...]
Posts under ‘Miscellaneous Whatnots’
A note to other Christophers -- this email address is MINE!
For the past few years, I've sporadically received email destined for other Christopher Woods around the globe. I have the GMail address christopherwoods@gmail.com (which incorporates all variants like christopher.woods@gmail.com... In fact, any permutation with any number of full stops in the name; see this article for why that works and can be quite useful). If [...]
Bought an LG BH10LS30 10x Blu-Ray rewriter - now, what about blank media? (Part 1)
After shopping around (and having the Lite-On, LG, Samsung and Having recently purchased an LG BH10LS30.AUAR internal SATA 10x BD-RE drive, I decided to go shopping for some writeable media. I was almost preparing to buy some bargain basement BD-Rs before reconsidering (and reading some less than glowing reviews of data become progressively corrupted after [...]
Experimenting with some ads...
For the longest time I've run no ads on this site, however I'm trialling a combination of a few plugins to selectively run ads on the site at certain times of the day. If you notice any jankiness, please let me know via the contact form or message me on Twitter @christopherw
Tiplet: one-click Lock Screen for OS X
It must be in the name... Chris Cook devised an excellent little (Automator-based) scriptlet, self-contained as an .app Obviously (obviously, natch) if you hit Command-Option-Q for Quick User Switch - which is one HELL of a difficult keyboard combo if you can't get your thumb to do the double keypress - plus it will close [...]
