Archive for September, 2008

Google and your Electrical Bill

September 22, 2008

UPDATE: Google Gets Greener Last week or so I read Reuters’ City [San Antionio] plans to convert human waste to energy and I thought it was cool how someone was *doing something* about using existing resources that could be reused to our benefit, and promises to reduce our utility costs. Now I’m just waiting for [...]

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New Home for Gmail Chat and Labels

September 20, 2008

I like that Google continues to innovate and try to improve things, and today I read New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat where Emily Chang, a Gmail Engineer, unveils a cool new Gmail feature in Gmail Labs – Right-side Labels and Chat which lets you set your labels and/or your chat window to the [...]

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Cray + Windows HPC Server 2008 = Good Humor

September 18, 2008

Cray + Windows  = A Good Idea? Take one of the world’s foremost supercomputer makers and combine them with one of the most complained about operating system makers and what do you get? Cray and Microsoft seem to think you get an inexpensive supercomputer, and ZDnet wrote Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer [...]

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Forgetting your email attachments?

September 16, 2008

When attaching certain documents to emails I usually start out the email by saying “Attached is the report about….” or whatever and sometimes I dig around to get the file size and exact filename and include that, too. I think its good netiquette to tell people what I’ve sent them, along with the filename and [...]

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Gmail – Oops… a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#103)

September 15, 2008

GMAIL OOPS ERROR 103 UPDATED: Click link for more recent updated post. After doing some Googling I wonder if this Gmail error really means “Oh nothing happened, this error means that there was no error”. Humor aside here’s the error message I got twice, once while while trying to forward and once while trying to [...]

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