The US Government just unveiled the fastest computer ever created (the human brain excluded). This computer is twice the speed of the previous IBM Blue Genie and cost over $100 Million dollars. To put the processing power in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino of the National Nuclear Security Administration said that if all 6 billion people on Earth entered calculations on a calculator for 24 hours a day, seven days per week it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner can do in one day. Article On CNN
- Jun 09,
On Wednesday June 4, Brian Becker appeared on the Rick Carl & Company radio show on KWOC. Rick affectionately refers to Brian as KWOC's Computer Guru. Following are the Father's Day Gift Ideas that were talked about on the show: Digital Slot Cars Hobby World, Poplar Bluff Carrera Digital Slot Cars Touch-screen, Hand-held Sudoku Virtual Laser Keyboard - Mac/PC/Blackberry Plasma Mug Swiss Army USB Knife DiskGo Dress Watch All-In-One Dock - iPod, iPhone, Multi-card Reader Harmony Remote - Logitech OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Carbonite.com Online Backup Service - $49.95/year - use promo code "RADIO" Gates: Windows 7 Maybe Coming Next Year - when asked about Vista, Gates says he's excited about the new version of Windows coming out
Jun 04,RESULTS: 9U Division 1st - NEA Crush 2nd - Paragould Renegades 10U Division 1st - Orient Miners 2nd - Dexter Heat 12U Division 1st - PB Redbirds 2nd - SEMO Wildcats ========================================= With 12 teams competing from 3 states, you will see some of the next generation of baseball stars competing in the 9, 10 and 12 year old divisions. Come down and support your local area teams! 9U DIVISION: Scheduled games on Saturday, May 31 9am - PB Crushers vs PB Muddogs 11am - Crush (Arkansas) vs Muddogs 1pm - Crushers vs Renegade (Arkansas) 3pm - Crush vs Crushers 5pm - Muddogs vs Renegade 7pm - Crush vs Renegade 10U DIVISION: Scheduled games on Saturday, May 31 9am -
May 29,THiS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED ON May 23. semo.net is looking for a graphic artist and web site designer to begin full time. Applicants must be able to operate in Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver and produce code in HTML & CSS as well as produce animated graphics for banner advertisements. Ability to debug or write code in PHP, ASP, Java and other languages is beneficial. Send your resume plus links to web sites you've created to brian@semo.net
May 21,We are sorry about the 30+ hour outage with Windstream DSL service. Here's the long story: Windstream had a major equipment failure yesterday (5/7) at their central office. All DSL users (Windstream and ours) went down for over an hour. Windstream's equipment was swapped out and all customers except for ours were restored at some point yesterday. We continued to work with them to track down the problem. Late this afternoon (5/8), it was discovered that the new Windstream replacement equipment we were connected to was configured differently than the original equipment. One simple command on our Cisco router corrected the errors our DS3 line was taking in Little Rock. Windstream then bounced the circuit up and down (on/off) and
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